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 #1248
8️⃣🕚
🔟6️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
Score: 58

Spoiler

This took me a bit of time.
I had a big pause before solving #7 as at first, I wasn't prepared to try S in last spot at all. That just never happens, or rarely. But I couldn't work a Y onto the end and I suspected a C or W so in the end, that was all I could come up with.
I felt strangely drawn to built for #1 but it could have been guilt.
Can't believe I didn't get #2 earlier.
Made a mistake on #4, annoying, but couldn't afford to not solve a sure thing next turn

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,467 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛

🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,467 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ TRACE

🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛ FOCUS <- guess/eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COMFY 🎯

With “f” ruled out of first position, there was really only one possible answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1248

6️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣4️⃣

🔟7️⃣

Score: 52

This was no easy ride, but primarily that’s because I came late to a much-used consonant.

Spoiler

TRACE

LOGIN <- eliminator

AMONG 🎯

LUCKY 🎯

KARMA 🎯

FIRST 🎯

FROWN 🎯

BELLY 🎯🍀 could have been JELLY

BLESS 🎯

BAGGY 🎯

Look at the preponderance of B’s. B’s everywhere from frown onwards… If I’d played BINGO as my eliminator, this would certainly have felt more comfortable.

Daily Octordle #1248

FIRST 6️⃣5️⃣ KARMA

BELLY 8️⃣3️⃣ AMONG

BLESS 9️⃣4️⃣ LUCKY

BAGGY 🔟7️⃣ FROWN

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1248

7️⃣8️⃣

9️⃣6️⃣

🔟5️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

This was solvable, in slow inevitable steps.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

CHOPS 🎯

SALTY 🎯

MAYBE 🎯

PAYEE 🎯

BUILT 🎯

WORST 🎯

FORAY 🎯

NIECE 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1248

BUILT 7️⃣8️⃣ WORST

FORAY 9️⃣6️⃣ PAYEE

NIECE 🔟5️⃣ MAYBE

CHOPS 3️⃣4️⃣ SALTY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

---

@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 1,467 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This answer surprised me. It's a common enough word, I suppose, but what I think of as an abbreviation.

Spoiler

alien-that worked out well, didn't it!
shout-okay, a word with O, but the field was still fairly open
pricy
At this stage, all I could think of was maybe cocky, but went with fudgy because I thought just because I couldn't think of more, it didn't mean there weren't more & I didn't want to waste a guess.
But next move, if that didn't work out, was going to be cocky.

---

Even though it took 5 rows, you played this with logic.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,468 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Four rows … and it could have been worse.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,468 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ LOINS <- eliminator

🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 ODDER 💣

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OFFER 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1249

8️⃣3️⃣

🔟7️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

4️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

This had moments of unexpectedness.

Spoiler

TRACE

DOING <- eliminator

CHARD 🎯 <- unexpected

HORSE 🎯

WORRY 🎯🍀 could have been lorry

NOSEY 🎯

KNAVE 🎯 <- unexpected

SHOVE 🎯

COLOR 🎯 ugh, spelling…

COMMA 🎯

Daily Octordle #1249

SHOVE 8️⃣3️⃣ CHARD

COMMA 🔟7️⃣ KNAVE

NOSEY 6️⃣9️⃣ COLOR

HORSE 4️⃣5️⃣ WORRY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1249

3️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣4️⃣

🔟5️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

A little bit tricky.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

APTLY 🎯

ELATE 🎯

PLEAD 🎯

TENTH 🎯

FIFTH 🎯

AGING 🎯🍀 could have been axing

DOING 🎯

DALLY 🎯

Until I’d solved 4L (doing), 3L could have been madly or badly or dally. I left it until last in the hopes of further information, and thankfully the strategy worked.

2L … well, we know how Octordle loves “aging”! Axing was certainly possible, but not quite as likely.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1249

APTLY 3️⃣6️⃣ TENTH

AGING 8️⃣4️⃣ ELATE

DALLY 🔟5️⃣ PLEAD

DOING 9️⃣7️⃣ FIFTH

Score: 52

[springyzone]

I meant to get on to do it lst night but didn't feel 100% Niggling pain lower right side, hope not appendix.

Bit better this morning but not completely gone.

Had a reasonably good morning with the word games/

Wordle 1,469 2/6

🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my first turn, I felt it was 50/50 between a couple of words so I decided to just go for it. The answer was the one I thought slightly more likely. But really, who knows! Just got lucky if the truth be known.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1250
9️⃣7️⃣
🔟3️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

Bit of luck factored in here with turn 4 but I thought grunt more likely.
On the whole, it flowed word to word easily enough.