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]

Yes, abuzz is a new one.

I would never have guessed it earlier on in my game.

I guess I always complain about words on repeat. Then I complain when I can't guess one. No pleasing me.😁

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,457 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien.
After which I thought of snail, but of course it couldn't be.
So onwards to shout. U was a surprise, wasn't expecting any other vowels but it solved it for me.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1238
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣🕚
Score: 53

Spoiler

By the time I got a little way in on this game, I could sense a theme. The theme of let's use one of the same letters again in this word. In fact, it made me wonder if #1 might be nanny, with 3 of them, but I thought dandy sounded more their sort of word, and still had the advantage of re-using a letter.

I often seem to fall on the last hurdle. Did it again today. It was a 50/50 choice. Missed out.
I didn't win in Tattslotto either this week.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1238
4️⃣🕚
5️⃣6️⃣
🔟7️⃣
2️⃣8️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

Things got off to a good start, but of course I had used the SH in shout already, so i went with grout.
Took me a while to figure out #1, I had to go through the alphabet to work out what could possibly be in front of the H as the normal culprits eg C/P weren't working.
Fell again at almost the last hurdle, choosing cover instead of rover. Then hoping it wasn't dover.
And #2, at least I got that guess right as I was tossing up whether it would be local. Win some/lose some, I guess.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,457 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,457 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ SLINK <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 QUAIL 🎯

With A in the middle, _LANK or _LAIN or _LASH were strong contenders, so I wanted an eliminator with L in 2nd place, and at least the I somewhere… and both S and L included.

After my eliminator, it had to be avail or quail. Bialy or ugali were possible but hugely unlikely.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1238

7️⃣3️⃣

8️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣🔟

Score: 52

Two lucky guesses moved this along without any additional eliminators or missteps.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

CONCH 🎯

TENTH 🎯

ANTIC 🎯

STASH 🎯🍀 could have been smash or perhaps swath (but I thought that unlikely)

DANDY 🎯🍀 could have been nanny or bandy or manky

ODDLY 🎯

AWARD 🎯

TIMER 🎯

Dandy sprang to mind immediately - probably because it’s popped up recently several times.

Daily Octordle #1238

DANDY 7️⃣3️⃣ CONCH

ODDLY 8️⃣4️⃣ TENTH

ANTIC 5️⃣9️⃣ AWARD

STASH 6️⃣🔟 TIMER

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1238

7️⃣9️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

🕚8️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

Score: 53

There were too many might-be-this-might-be-that words to make this comfortable.

Spoiler

TRACE

LOINS <- eliminator

TRUSS 🎯

THUMP 🎯 could have been thumb

PEONY 🎯

ASHEN 🎯

ABHOR 🎯

SOWER 🎯

FOCAL 🎯 could have been vocal

JOKER 💣

ROVER 🎯 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1238

ABHOR 7️⃣9️⃣ FOCAL

TRUSS 3️⃣4️⃣ THUMP

ROVER 🕚8️⃣ SOWER

ASHEN 6️⃣5️⃣ PEONY

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,458 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,458 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 SHINY <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PETTY 🎯

It could have been jetty, or empty, or even that abominable word lefty.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1239

9️⃣8️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣🔟

4️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

3L was almost there after my starter… almost, with 4 possibilities. I played safe and used an eliminator.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

BADGE 🎯

BUDGE 🎯

TRIPE 🎯

BIRCH 🎯

MARCH 🎯

PLANK 🎯

WOMAN 🎯

PRIZE 🎯

I was so tempted to take a guess on 3L immediately… but it could have been tribe or tripe or trope or trove. Better to use an eliminator to get the rest of the words moving, and work my way through.

It was the right technique. “I” was ruled in, and after badge and budge, it had to be tripe.

I already knew 2L was birch, and now I knew 2R was march, not parch.

The remaining words were already solved mentally by now.

Daily Octordle #1239

WOMAN 9️⃣8️⃣ PLANK

BIRCH 6️⃣7️⃣ MARCH

TRIPE 5️⃣🔟 PRIZE

BUDGE 4️⃣3️⃣ BADGE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1239

8️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣🔟

4️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

No surprises, no puddles.

Spoiler

TRACE

SOILY <- eliminator

SAUCY 🎯

GRUEL 🎯 I’m always reminded of Jane Eyre with this

CLUNG 🎯

CHIEF 🎯

POUCH 🎯

GRAIL 🎯

INANE 🎯

AVIAN 🎯 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1239

GRAIL 8️⃣7️⃣ POUCH

CHIEF 6️⃣5️⃣ CLUNG

INANE 9️⃣🔟 AVIAN

GRUEL 4️⃣3️⃣ SAUCY

Score: 52