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]

Wordle 1,459 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/pricy

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1240
9️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
🕚🔟
6️⃣8️⃣
Score: 60

Spoiler

A very lacklustre day I am afraid.

Even after 2 turns, there was nothing that I felt was a certainty. I could think of a couple of things at least for all of them. I was pretty sure though that #3 would turn out to be spite. I thought #4 could be hutch and #1, I thought not again, this one could be about a dozen things.
Anyway, it was with a sense of fatality that I went for pricy as next word and eventually got through the rest.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,459 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛

🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Unsatisfactory, a storm-tossed piece of flotsam from a wreck in a logic tempest … I did not feel happy about this.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,459 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ PINKS

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PRANK 🎯

This was horrible. The only reason that I solved this was the inclusion of P and K in the eliminator. (N as well, but not as pivotal.) If I’d used BLINK instead of pinks, I’d have a choice between drank, frank and prank. If I’d used dings, I’d be contemplating prawn and brawn as well as frank and prank.

None of these offer a logical outcome at row 3. It’s all just good luck or the lack of it.

I feel cheated by sheer chance giving this away to me.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1240

🕚6️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣8️⃣

Score: 53

Spoiler

TRACE

GUILD <- eliminator

DUTCH 🎯

GOUGE 🎯

DICEY 🎯

ICILY 🎯

BELIE 🎯

QUAKE 🎯🍀 could have been suave

SMITE 🎯🍀 could have been spite

SHAPE 💣 was 50/50 - shape or shave - luck ran out 

SHAVE 🎯

Too much in the way of could-be made this a dicey proposition.

Daily Octordle #1240

SHAVE 🕚6️⃣ ICILY

SMITE 9️⃣3️⃣ DUTCH

BELIE 7️⃣4️⃣ GOUGE

DICEY 5️⃣8️⃣ QUAKE

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1240

2️⃣🔟

7️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣9️⃣

4️⃣8️⃣

Score: 51

Oh, much more pleasing!

Spoiler

TRACE

CREAK 🎯🍀 could have been cream: worth the guess, though

SOILY <- eliminator

JOINT 🎯🍀 could have been point

ICING 🎯

JELLY 🎯

TWIXT 🎯

GOLLY 🎯

FORTH 🎯

REVUE 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1240

CREAK 2️⃣🔟 REVUE

TWIXT 7️⃣6️⃣ JELLY

ICING 5️⃣9️⃣ FORTH

JOINT 4️⃣8️⃣ GOLLY

Score: 51

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1240
🕚8️⃣
🕛6️⃣
4️⃣🔟
5️⃣7️⃣
Score: 63

Even worse. This game wasn't straight forward for me.

Spoiler

As you can see, I wasn't sure of anything again after turn 2. I sort of fancied worth for #6 and point for #7, which shows you how much my fancies can be relied upon.
Even right near the end, I was still wondering if #1 was crave, craze, creak or #6 was worth of forth. So I used another eliminator. Not the best but I felt as if all the most unlikely letters were coming into play.
It could have been worse, I was extremely lucky to at least get K for #1.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1240
🕚8️⃣
🕛6️⃣
4️⃣🔟
5️⃣7️⃣
Score: 63

Even worse. This game wasn't straight forward for me.

Spoiler

As you can see, I wasn't sure of anything again after turn 2. I sort of fancied worth for #6 and point for #7, which shows you how much my fancies can be relied upon.
Even right near the end, I was still wondering if #1 was crave, craze, creak or #6 was worth of forth. So I used another eliminator. Not the best but I felt as if all the most unlikely letters were coming into play.
It could have been worse, I was extremely lucky to at least get K for #1.

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It’s amazing how different the outcome can be, depending upon the starter and eliminator. You got through it in the end. 

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,460 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had an immediate gut feeling about the word. It didn’t blind me to other possibilities, but it was enough to make me focus on eliminating letters that would fit the pattern I had in mind.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,460 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ PLUMB <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MUNCH 🎯

I suspected that the C in 4th position would be followed by H. There was no logical reason to suppose it was ___CH rather than ___CK but there we are. I thought CY as the ending was unlikely on the circumstances.

It would therefore be _ULCH or _UNCH, _ILCH or _INCH, or _ONCH - or outliers like POOCH or MOOCH or POUCH or COUCH … if my gut feeling was correct.

The consonants I most wanted to rule in or out were P, L, B, F, M, N. I wanted to focus on U or O mostly in the verb department. So… I went with PLUMB.

It turned out to be perfect; it narrowed things down to just one word.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1241

2️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣🔟

8️⃣4️⃣

7️⃣5️⃣

Score: 51

Some guessing was necessary.

Spoiler

TRACE

SCARE 🎯

LINGO <- eliminator

ARENA 🎯

DINGY 🎯

DETOX 🎯🍀 could have been depot

FLYER 🎯

TEPEE 🎯

JOLLY 🎯🍀 could have been holly or molly

SILKY 🎯🍀 could have been silly

Obviously this could have been a disaster! One can never underestimate sheer luck.

Daily Octordle #1241

SCARE 2️⃣6️⃣ DETOX

JOLLY 9️⃣🔟 SILKY

TEPEE 8️⃣4️⃣ ARENA

FLYER 7️⃣5️⃣ DINGY

Score: 51 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1241

9️⃣3️⃣

4️⃣🔟

5️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

Not bad. It certainly felt more secure than the Classic, even though my score was better for that.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHINY <- eliminator

SHILL 🎯

TRYST 🎯

ANGST 🎯

FLAIR 🎯

SWIFT 🎯

LARGE 🎯

WAGER 🎯

BITER 🎯

When Y appeared in 2L but wasn’t at the end of the word, it had to be tryst.

Once I’d solved flair, I could solve swift. With swift solved, I could solve wager.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1241

WAGER 9️⃣3️⃣ SHILL

TRYST 4️⃣🔟 BITER

ANGST 5️⃣6️⃣ FLAIR

SWIFT 7️⃣8️⃣ LARGE

Score: 52