WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I recently stumbled across WORDLE online.  For the uninitiated, it is a daily word guessing game where you have to try to guess the word in 6 or less tries.

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

This, from Wikipedia, explains the game:

Every day, a five-letter word is chosen which players aim to guess within six tries. After every guess, each letter is marked as either green, yellow or gray: green indicates that letter is correct and in the correct position, yellow means it is in the answer but not in the right position, while gray indicates it is not in the answer at all. The game has a "hard mode" option, which requires players to include letters marked as green and yellow in subsequent guesses. The daily word is the same for everyone. The game also has a dark mode as well as a high-contrast theme for colourblind accessibility, which changes the color scheme from green and yellow to orange and blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle

This abc news story has some tips for playing:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-26/why-wordle-has-become-a-new-online-obsession/100782794

I have found that most that most days I can get the daily word in 5 tries or less (mostly 5 though).  Interestingly, there is a spinoff of WORDLE called LEWDLE, where the words are lewd, or naughty, words.  I have better success with LEWDLE than I do with WORDLE . . . getting the word in just 2 or 3 attempts.  Not sure what that says about my private school education 🤣

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1217
🔟6️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🕛
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 61

I know how bad this looks, but I feel they played a bit unfair with one of the words.

Spoiler

I made a mistake very early on (always fatal, score wise), as I played tango for #4. But really, Tonga? I could be mistaken but I have only ever seen that used as a proper noun & wasn't expecting that to be in the game.

Then at the end, I knew #6 was between plaid and flail (having ruled out flair) so I had a 50/50 chance with that and was just in the wrong 50.😁

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Spoiler

You were unlucky with “tonga”; I had “lingo” to stop me from the dance.

Tonga - well, it’s one of those light canopy-covered carriage things with a single horse, seen in Indian streets; it’s also another spelling of the tonka bean (vanilla alternative - they’re a bit cinnamony and almondy as well) from South America … I’ve used them in a Brazilian dessert if I recall correctly.

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Octordle - Classic

Daily Octordle #1218
8️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🔟
7️⃣2️⃣
Score: 51

Luck led me, although I did have an easy first word.

Spoiler

TRACE
CATER 🎯
LINGO <- eliminator
COWER 🎯🍀 could have been cover, coper, coder, corer
FROND 🎯
BROWN 🎯
FLEET 🎯
KNEED 🎯
DAIRY 🎯
GAMER 🎯 could have been gaper, gazer, pager, rager, sager

Daily Octordle #1218
KNEED 8️⃣9️⃣ DAIRY
BROWN 6️⃣5️⃣ FROND
COWER 4️⃣🔟 GAMER
FLEET 7️⃣2️⃣ CATER
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

This was much easier.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1218
5️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣2️⃣
🔟7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 51

Spoiler

TRACE
CRIED 🎯
GHOUL <- eliminator
DROVE 🎯🍀 could have been erode, drone
FLOUR 🎯
CURRY 🎯
ROUSE 🎯
BLING 🎯
SQUID 🎯
DWELT 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1218
FLOUR 5️⃣6️⃣ CURRY
DROVE 4️⃣2️⃣ CRIED
DWELT 🔟7️⃣ ROUSE
BLING 8️⃣9️⃣ SQUID
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,437 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,437 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 TRACE
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 LINGO <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DRONE 🎯

It could have been prone. 

[countessalmirena]

Another midnight has ticked over to the next day, with the precise beat of time filling the chamber of a pendulum clock with the sigh of each tock, tock, tock.

Wordle 1,438 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I knew which letters I wanted to eliminate or confirm.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,438 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ PSION <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPORT 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1219
5️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
🔟9️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

Even after my eliminator, the way forward wasn’t clear. Guesswork was needed.

Spoiler

TRACE
LIONS <- eliminator 
SLING 🎯🍀 could have been slink
ILIAC 🎯
SWINE 🎯🍀 could have been shine, spine
TARDY 🎯🍀 could have been tarry
ROYAL 🎯
BELLE 🎯
ABUSE 🎯
STEEP 🎯

Daily Octordle #1219
SWINE 5️⃣6️⃣ TARDY
ILIAC 4️⃣7️⃣ ROYAL
STEEP 🔟9️⃣ ABUSE
BELLE 8️⃣3️⃣ SLING
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1219
5️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
🔟3️⃣
Score: 52

Ah. I inchwormed my way through this, carefully.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
TURBO 🎯
BLIMP 🎯🍀 could have been bliss
VIRUS 🎯
TOTEM 🎯
PATTY 🎯
BIKER 🎯
FRIAR 🎯
RELAX 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1219
VIRUS 5️⃣8️⃣ BIKER
PATTY 7️⃣9️⃣ FRIAR
BLIMP 4️⃣6️⃣ TOTEM
RELAX 🔟3️⃣ TURBO
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,438 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

I actually did stray from the beaten path a little.
alien/scout
I debated scout or spout on the basis I thought I might need to go for another eliminator on my 3rd turn and if I used fudgy, at least a P or C would partially cover pricy.
I was immediately kicking myself straight after it though as I was left wondering-short or sport.
I only went with sport because I'd thought about using P earlier and I am stubborn.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1219
9️⃣🕚
2️⃣🔟
4️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 54

Spoiler

I was quite pleased with my start. I guessed #3, only because I could not think of anything else.
Then I used spout as eliminator.
Again I was immediately annoyed because I looked at #1 and thought-don't tell me this is shine and I should have gone shout. But at least I had eliminated spine I guess. I was on the point of entering it when I thought, wait a sec, could be swine, will leave it for now.
Towards the end, I used another eliminator (wormy) as I felt stuck between
#1 shine/swine
#4 moral/royal/loyal

I didn't even notice I had #2 to solve till the end and was left thinking, tardy or tarry, and should have used wordy as eliminator.
But got there in the end.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1219
3️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

Our good friend turbo made yet another appearance.