on โ27-01-2022 01:45 AM
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 ๐คฃ
Solved! Go to Solution.
on โ29-05-2025 04:49 PM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1221
6๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
9๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
๐8๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
TULLE ๐ฏ
LATHE ๐ฏ
HOARD ๐ฏ
LAPSE ๐ฏ
KIOSK ๐ฏ
KARAT ๐ฏ
BAYOU ๐ฏ
PESKY ๐ฏ
Daily Extreme Octordle #1221
LAPSE 6๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ KIOSK
HOARD 5๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ TULLE
BAYOU 9๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ LATHE
PESKY ๐8๏ธโฃ KARAT
Score: 52
on โ29-05-2025 05:19 PM
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 โvomitโ annoys me, but it isnโt used in this way except in North America as far as Iโm 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.
on โ30-05-2025 06:49 AM
Wordle 1,441 4/6
โฌโฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
After my first 2 turns, I didn't have a clue.
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.
on โ30-05-2025 07:00 AM
Daily Octordle #1222
7๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
๐๐
Score: 54
on โ30-05-2025 07:05 AM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1222
๐3๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
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.
on โ30-05-2025 11:38 AM
Wordle 1,441 3/6
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
The blackness with two yellows looks discouraging in the second rowโฆ but Iโve narrowed it down to 4, as far as I can see.
Wordle 1,441 3/6
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ TRACE
โฌ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ LINGO <- eliminator
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ IDIOM ๐ฏ
It could have been ovoid or opium or odium.
โ30-05-2025 12:13 PM - edited โ30-05-2025 12:13 PM
Daily Octordle #1222
7๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ๐
Score: 52
That last word โฆ it still darted between a handful of words so that it required a guess.
TRACE
CREEP ๐ฏ๐ could have been creek or creed or cried
LIONS <- eliminator
VIRUS ๐ฏ
PROSE ๐ฏ
TOWEL ๐ฏ
LEFTY ๐ฏ horrible word
BLANK ๐ฏ
CHOKE ๐ฏ
GAMER ๐ฃ could have been gamer, wager, gazer, rager โฆ so needed a guess that would drill down on the possibilities
GAZER ๐ฏ
Lefty is dreadful; I would love to eliminate it from Octordleโs database.
This was a curiously unsatisfying puzzle; it didnโt feel as though things flowed well. If I hadnโt taken a successful stab at โcreepโ, my score would have risen without a clear way forward.
Daily Octordle #1222
LEFTY 7๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ CREEP
VIRUS 4๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ BLANK
PROSE 5๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ CHOKE
TOWEL 6๏ธโฃ๐ GAZER
Score: 52
on โ30-05-2025 12:28 PM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1222
7๏ธโฃ๐
9๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
Final word - 50/50.
TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
GREET ๐ฏ
AGREE ๐ฏ
BENCH ๐ฏ could have been wench
RUGBY ๐ฏ new to Octordle?
POLYP ๐ฏ
NAPPY ๐ฏ
EVOKE ๐ฏ
WORTH ๐ฏ ๐ could have been forth
Daily Extreme Octordle #1222
POLYP 7๏ธโฃ๐ WORTH
EVOKE 9๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ BENCH
RUGBY 6๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ NAPPY
AGREE 4๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ GREET
Score: 52
on โ31-05-2025 08:46 AM
on โ31-05-2025 08:51 AM