WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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 ๐Ÿคฃ

 

 

 

 

 

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1221
6๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ8๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

 

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TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
TULLE ๐ŸŽฏ
LATHE ๐ŸŽฏ
HOARD ๐ŸŽฏ
LAPSE ๐ŸŽฏ
KIOSK ๐ŸŽฏ
KARAT ๐ŸŽฏ
BAYOU ๐ŸŽฏ
PESKY ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Extreme Octordle #1221
LAPSE 6๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ KIOSK
HOARD 5๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ TULLE
BAYOU 9๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ LATHE
PESKY ๐Ÿ”Ÿ8๏ธโƒฃ KARAT
Score: 52

 

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I am finally feeling a bit better.


First food since Tuesday - a bowl of aรงai with strawberries and banana.

 

 

A Short Discourse on Ralph

 

Like you, I like the name Ralph. Its use as โ€œvomitโ€ annoys me, but it isnโ€™t used in this way except in North America as far as Iโ€™m aware.

 

Etymologically its source is unknown. There is some suggestion that it could be onomatopoeic (similar to barf, which also appeared in the US originally), but it may also derive from the name (so presumably there would have been a Ralph who was particularly known for his vomiting).

 

Coincidentally, both ralph and barf were first seen in the 1960s.

 

 

I refuse to let this use negate my liking of the name.

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Wordle 1,441 4/6

โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›
โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›
โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸฉ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

After my first 2 turns, I didn't have a clue.

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My mind was ticking over with opium, odium but with no U, I could see they were impossible. Droid or kiosk or idiot didn't work either.

My 3rd word was prism.

With the R out of the game, I or O became the main contenders for first spot. Got there.. eventually.

 

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Daily Octordle #1222
7๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
3๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ๐Ÿ•š
Score: 54

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30cl.jpgStraight after my first turn, I knew this was not going to be an award winning game as nothing jumped out of me, so shout it was for second go.
By the time I got near the end, I was stuck. Was #7 motel or towel? I'd been waiting all game for more clues but none came my way. Same with #8, was it wager/wader/gazer?
So, another eliminator-dogma. That solved the problem, but really-gazer again?
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Daily Extreme Octordle #1222
๐Ÿ”Ÿ3๏ธโƒฃ
7๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

I can't complain, 52 is about as good as it usually gets for me, but I knew straight after my first turn that this was indeed not a red letter day on any of them.

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30ex.jpgThe main surprise here was #6 nappy. I had been considering nanny for a while earlier on.
And #1 I was off track, thinking folly, dolly etc till later on when the Y came up yellow in spot 5.
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Wordle 1,441 3/6

โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›
โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

The blackness with two yellows looks discouraging in the second rowโ€ฆ but Iโ€™ve narrowed it down to 4, as far as I can see.

 

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Wordle 1,441 3/6

โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ› TRACE
โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ LINGO <- eliminator
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ IDIOM ๐ŸŽฏ


It could have been ovoid or opium or odium.

 

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Daily Octordle #1222
7๏ธโƒฃ2๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
6๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š
Score: 52

That last word โ€ฆ it still darted between a handful of words so that it required a guess.

 

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TRACE
CREEP ๐ŸŽฏ๐Ÿ€ could have been creek or creed or cried
LIONS <- eliminator
VIRUS ๐ŸŽฏ
PROSE ๐ŸŽฏ
TOWEL ๐ŸŽฏ
LEFTY ๐ŸŽฏ horrible word
BLANK ๐ŸŽฏ
CHOKE ๐ŸŽฏ
GAMER ๐Ÿ’ฃ could have been gamer, wager, gazer, rager โ€ฆ so needed a guess that would drill down on the possibilities
GAZER ๐ŸŽฏ


Lefty is dreadful; I would love to eliminate it from Octordleโ€™s database.

This was a curiously unsatisfying puzzle; it didnโ€™t feel as though things flowed well. If I hadnโ€™t taken a successful stab at โ€œcreepโ€, my score would have risen without a clear way forward.

Daily Octordle #1222
LEFTY 7๏ธโƒฃ2๏ธโƒฃ CREEP
VIRUS 4๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ BLANK
PROSE 5๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ CHOKE
TOWEL 6๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š GAZER
Score: 52

 

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1222
7๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
9๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
6๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

Final word - 50/50.

 

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TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
GREET ๐ŸŽฏ
AGREE ๐ŸŽฏ
BENCH ๐ŸŽฏ could have been wench
RUGBY ๐ŸŽฏ new to Octordle?
POLYP ๐ŸŽฏ
NAPPY ๐ŸŽฏ
EVOKE ๐ŸŽฏ
WORTH ๐ŸŽฏ ๐Ÿ€ could have been forth


Daily Extreme Octordle #1222
POLYP 7๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ WORTH
EVOKE 9๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ BENCH
RUGBY 6๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ NAPPY
AGREE 4๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ GREET
Score: 52

 

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Wordle 1,442 3/6

๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›
โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

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I wasn't sure whether to go with my usual shout for second turn, but then figured the answer could be something like stair or staid, so I used it. Must admit, the H surprised me.
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Daily Octordle #1223
4๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
3๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ7๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

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31cl.jpgI was lucky with this as I now realise #1 could have been livid, but didn't think of it at the time. And getting that C in place really set the scene for several other words.
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