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]

Cold sunlight slices through the window…

Wordle 1,446 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,446 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩 TRACE
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 CHASE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CEASE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1227
6️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
🕚9️⃣
Score: 53

When it came to the final word, there was a 3-way dilemma. Another eliminator seemed sensible.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator (it would have been better to use “lingo”; oh well)

SNORE 🎯

SIREN 🎯

TONAL 🎯

RELAY 🎯

WAIVE 🎯

HEAVY 🎯

VALVE 🎯
BUDGE <- eliminator

GRAIN 🎯

Daily Octordle #1227
RELAY 6️⃣3️⃣ SNORE
HEAVY 8️⃣7️⃣ WAIVE
TONAL 5️⃣4️⃣ SIREN
GRAIN 🕚9️⃣ VALVE
Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1227
3️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 52

This was twisty-turny, like a carelessly discarded length of unravelled sock.

Spoiler

TRACE

MOUND <- eliminator

GRANT 🎯

BRAID 🎯

GULAG 🎯

CABAL 🎯

ANTSY 🎯 🍀

PURER 🎯 🍀

REDUX 🎯

STAKE 🎯🍀 could have been state, stave, skate

Daily Extreme Octordle #1227
GRANT 3️⃣5️⃣ GULAG
PURER 8️⃣7️⃣ ANTSY
BRAID 4️⃣6️⃣ CABAL
REDUX 9️⃣🔟 STAKE
Score: 52

[springyzone]

I came on especially tonight to do the word games and really, I wish I hadn't. 

Let's just say I didn't exactly shine.😂

Wordle was okay.

Wordle 1,446 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After the first 2 turns, the answer was the only word I could think of. Perhaps there are dozens of other possibilities but I was oblivious in any case.

Classic octordle:

Daily Octordle #1227
8️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣🔟
3️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣🕚
Score: 57

Half way through, I felt I needed another eliminator.

Spoiler

I was stuck on #7, sure it was between drain and brain. Getting G surprised me, hadn't even thought of that!
And #1, I was tossing up relax or relay. #3, heady or heavy, or maybe beach or peach
By the end, I couldn't decide on calve or valve but went with valve & got lucky. I thought it was a 50/50 chance.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1227
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣🔟
🟥🕚
Score: 67

I don't know where my brains went begging with this one.

I don't mind for myself, but I know it would be more fun for you if you could see some decent results sometimes, into the 40s etc. Rarely happens with me.

Spoiler

My first hurdle was getting stuck after turn 3 and I decided purge would be a good eliminator. I forget exactly why, but I do recall #8 just had too many possibilities-stare/spate/stave/stage etc

My next move was the definition of stupidity, but I looked in glee at #3 and thought wowee, I have all the letters except 4th spot. I don't know why I thought that, I am not colour blind, but anyway I thought aha, I know what that is and quickly typed in puree.
So confident was I that I did not even look at the result and got a shock later to see #3 was still unsolved.
Then I saw what i had done, but too late, damage was done.

Final word: I did actually wonder about starting with re. But then thought-demur. Wrong.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,447 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I did this in the early hours of this morning but thought I should try to get some sleep so didn't post then.

Spoiler

alien/shout/fudgy/datum

[springyzone]

I am a bit worried about my brain this morning, I was up super late having fun, working on a photobook and then I didn't sleep well when I finally toddled off. I feel fine but I had trouble waking to the alarm & am wondering if I am a bit foggy. Anyway, it is a warning to take extra care driving today!

Or maybe I just rushed things in the classic octordle.

Daily Octordle #1228
🔟🕐
🕚6️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
🕛4️⃣
Score: 68

Okay, I got through but...

Spoiler

I felt like I needed a 3rd eliminator with either b/d & r in it, and thought birdy as y often pops up as well.
Would you believe birdy is not recognised as a word? but bardy is. I had been thinking broth/froth for #4 so it saved me there.
But in #1 I tried stare and I don't know why. I had no A and the answer above it showed e in 4th place.
Then I 'corrected' it with stear. A waste of 2 turns. You'd think I'd be alert after the first mistake but I wasn't.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1228
5️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
Score: 44

Now you're probably thinking.. well, she took a bit more care with this one at least, but this worries me too.

Spoiler

Obviously after the classic, it was my warning to slow down and pay a bit more attention. I took a risk on #5 because I thought, what have I got to lose, I have already wrecked things this morning. clean or glean-glean seems more of the unusual one so I'll go with that.
But what worries me is turn 4. By then I had run out of ideas so went for shout.
Here's the thing though. I had absolutely no idea it was actually an answer till the very end when I was looking at the score and glancing at the answers. I saw shout there and thought.. what?
My only excuse is I don't pay attention to the solved ones much, only the ones I still need to work on. All the same, I was going slowly so it worries me I didn't notice.
Normally I would be excited with a 44, but not today.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,447 4/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It’s been a while since my last 4. That’s simply how this cookie crumbled.

🍪

Spoiler

Wordle 1,447 4/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ LOINS <- eliminator
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛ DUMPY <- eliminator 
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DATUM 🎯

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1227
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣🔟
🟥🕚
Score: 67

I don't know where my brains went begging with this one.

I don't mind for myself, but I know it would be more fun for you if you could see some decent results sometimes, into the 40s etc. Rarely happens with me.

Spoiler

My first hurdle was getting stuck after turn 3 and I decided purge would be a good eliminator. I forget exactly why, but I do recall #8 just had too many possibilities-stare/spate/stave/stage etc

My next move was the definition of stupidity, but I looked in glee at #3 and thought wowee, I have all the letters except 4th spot. I don't know why I thought that, I am not colour blind, but anyway I thought aha, I know what that is and quickly typed in puree.
So confident was I that I did not even look at the result and got a shock later to see #3 was still unsolved.
Then I saw what i had done, but too late, damage was done.

Final word: I did actually wonder about starting with re. But then thought-demur. Wrong.

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Spoiler

Oh no! That sneaky “ made you think it was purée” manoeuvre… I did have a purée moment myself, for a nanosecond.

I knew “demur” was out of the running because of “mound”… otherwise, yes, it would have lured me into its clutches.