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 🤣

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1230
6️⃣🕚
5️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣🔟
7️⃣2️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

The word that held me up here was gooey. For a while, I was concentrating on a possible er ending and it wasn't going well. But once I got it, that solved #5. The eliminator drift was used as I could not decide between scold and scowl and I thought #2 might be podgy, porgy or dodgy.

[countessalmirena]

I forgot to post yesterday’s Octordles.

Daily Octordle #1229
5️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣🔟
4️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

LOOSE 🎯

BISON 🎯

FLOSS 🎯

BROOD 🎯🍀 Could have been brook or broom

ADMIT 🎯

IVORY 🎯

NATAL 🎯

SPORE 🎯🍀 could have been shore

Daily Octordle #1229

FLOSS 5️⃣7️⃣ ADMIT

IVORY 8️⃣3️⃣ LOOSE

NATAL 9️⃣🔟 SPORE

BISON 4️⃣6️⃣ BROOD

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1229
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
🔟8️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

SONIC 🎯
BRING 🎯🍀 could have been brink, drink, wring; luck!

BASIN 🎯

ABODE 🎯🍀 could have been adobe

WHINY 🎯

CURVE 🎯

PALER 🎯

ERROR 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1229
WHINY 7️⃣5️⃣ BASIN
BRING 4️⃣6️⃣ ABODE
ERROR 🔟8️⃣ CURVE
SONIC 3️⃣9️⃣ PALER
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

And now… today’s Wordle.

Wordle 1,449 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Luck and logic

Luck and logic

They work to solve the puzzle morphologic…

(Sung to the tune of “Love and marriage”)

Spoiler

Wordle 1,449 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 TRACE
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 LOUIS <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REUSE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1230
7️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣🔟
4️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

LOSER 🎯

LEMUR 🎯

COVET 🎯

MOULT 🎯

FRIED 🎯🍀 could have been brief, grief, dried

DROOP 🎯

TITAN 🎯

RABBI 🎯🍀

Daily Octordle #1230

FRIED 7️⃣8️⃣ DROOP

LOSER 3️⃣6️⃣ MOULT

TITAN 9️⃣🔟 RABBI

LEMUR 4️⃣5️⃣ COVET

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1230

🔟8️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

FLOBS <- eliminator

SCOLD 🎯

YEAST 🎯

LEANT 🎯

BUTTE 🎯

QUAKE 🎯

DODGY 🎯

GOOEY 🎯

MAGIC 🎯

I was immediately thinking that 2L and 4R might well be _EAST, so an eliminator that could rule out or confirm F, L, B and S would be useful. Aha! 2L couldn’t be beast, least, or feast; it must be yeast.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1230

MAGIC 🔟8️⃣ DODGY

QUAKE 7️⃣6️⃣ BUTTE

YEAST 4️⃣3️⃣ SCOLD

GOOEY 9️⃣5️⃣ LEANT

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1229
7️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣🕚
🔟8️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
Score: 58

Spoiler

By the time I got to turn 5, I didn't see any clear cut answers. I was almost going to go with **bleep** for #1 but decided on fudgy as eliminator. Just as well. I had also thought #3 might be brink.
After that, things went okay but at the very end, I still wasn't sure-abode or adobe.
The score got pushed out though for using another eliminator so early in the game, but at least-under 60. Can't complain.

PS My almost guess for #1 was c   hink. It has been bleeped out. I don't consider it to be a rude word. I started doubting my sanity and even just googled it to check and yes, a **bleep** of light, it has a normal meaning.
I know it can be used as derogatory slang but the real meaning is surely fine.

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That particular bleep makes little sense. I don’t know anyone who would use that word in the pejorative sense; isn’t that meaning a rather old-fashioned 19th century/early 20th century slur? There are at least two much more common definitions for the word. Ah well…

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1230
9️⃣🔟
3️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣🕚
4️⃣5️⃣
Score: 55

Spoiler

Spoiler

Am I imagining things, or has lemur been out not too long ago? And titan?
I often play wordle unlimited (fast and furious, popcorn style) so sometimes I forget where I have seen the words.
I felt in need of another eliminator towards the end (fudgy)
#6 took me a while to figure out, my mind wanted to go with rabid. I knew that was wrong but took me a while to move the i on.

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You’re not imagining it. There’s a glut of some words popping up too frequently at the moment.

[countessalmirena]

CORRECTION:

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1230

🔟8️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

FLOBS <- eliminator

SCOLD 🎯

YEAST 🎯

LEANT 🎯

BUTTE 🎯

QUAKE 🎯

DODGY 🎯

GOOEY 🎯

MAGIC 🎯

I was immediately thinking that 3L (not 2L) and 4R might well be _EAST, so an eliminator that could rule out or confirm F, L, B and S would be useful. Aha! 3L (not 2L) couldn’t be beast, least, or feast; it must be yeast.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1230

MAGIC 🔟8️⃣ DODGY

QUAKE 7️⃣6️⃣ BUTTE

YEAST 4️⃣3️⃣ SCOLD

GOOEY 9️⃣5️⃣ LEANT

Score: 52

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I mistyped 3L as 2L - twice!

[countessalmirena]

New Wordle Day

Wordle 1,450 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Only one possible answer…

Spoiler

Wordle 1,450 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 TRACE
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ SLING <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEASE 🎯