WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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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 🤣

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Wordle 1,472 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,472 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ LINGO <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BLINK🎯🍀

It could have been slink. 

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Daily Octordle #1253

6️⃣5️⃣

4️⃣7️⃣

2️⃣8️⃣

9️⃣🔟

Score: 51

No hiccups, no snags.

Spoiler

TRACE

FETCH 🎯

LIONS <- eliminator

CHUNK 🎯

BREAK 🎯

THIGH 🎯

WRING 🎯

SHIRK 🎯

BRISK 🎯

BOARD 🎯

Like smooth caramel…

Daily Octordle #1253

THIGH 6️⃣5️⃣ BREAK

CHUNK 4️⃣7️⃣ WRING

FETCH 2️⃣8️⃣ SHIRK

BRISK 9️⃣🔟 BOARD

Score: 51

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1253

3️⃣8️⃣

9️⃣🔟

6️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

There were two answers that were 50/50 each. Nothing but luck avoided a misstep.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

HASTE 🎯

SHIRE 🎯

BURNT 🎯

BRUNG 🎯

FLACK 🎯

YIELD 🎯🍀 could have been wield

STOMP 🎯🍀 could have been stoop

APNEA 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1253

HASTE 3️⃣8️⃣ YIELD

STOMP 9️⃣🔟 APNEA

BRUNG 6️⃣7️⃣ FLACK

BURNT 5️⃣4️⃣ SHIRE

Score: 52

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 1,472 2/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I jumped in with a guess with this. In hindsight, it wasn't a sensible move at all as there were several other possibilities but this word called to me.

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🏆 !!!

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1253
4️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🕚🔟
9️⃣3️⃣
Score: 56

My run of luck was starting to return to normal.

Spoiler

I took a risk on turn 5 with stomp (could have been stock).
Hated spelling of #4 but couldn't be anything else that I could think of.
Then I got too cocky and went for #2 when I should have used eliminator as I could think of 3 words (may have been more, I don't know) I did worry with #7 too-burnt or brunt.
Hate #5 word.

Forgot to say-what I liked about the classic was as I went along, it was using all the letters I would normally have in my extra eliminators. I was rapt.

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Yea, I agree re #5 word. It’s not the standard verb form. Pooh! Down with it!

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,473 5/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟨🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wasn't impressed with today's answer. American spelling alert. It is probably one of the last I would have considered had I not been forced to it.

Spoiler

alien/shout
I had L and O and concluded O was probably in second place.
So maybe jolly, dolly, golly, folly, oddly, godly-along those lines.
Tried fudgy next, got the D plus the expected Y.
4th word was dolly. I thought it an odd choice for wordle & hoped it wasn't something like dolby.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1254
🕚3️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣🕛
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

I started off okay but towards the end, I felt I needed another eliminator. I was stuck on #4, that old dilemma fully, dully, gully etc
#1 tricked me, I really thought I had it with prior.
#6 I had to work on but luckily not that many letters were left and I had a feeling K would be the most likely in the middle.

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1254
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

After typing in the usual alien/shout, I wondered if I was somehow back in the classic by accident (though once you've done it, you've done it for the day I know, but I thought something must be wrong because there on my screen was #6 identical word to what I had just solved minutes earlier.
I was lucky with #3 but suspected the 2/4 vowel pattern. Getting #3 saved me with #5 as I had been going to try erect next.
I had my fingers crossed #2 wasn't yonic. I've been caught with that one before.

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Wordle 1,473 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,473 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 SOILY <- eliminator 

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOLDY 🎯

The spelling, the spelling… The casual abuse of poor “u”!

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Daily Octordle #1254

6️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣9️⃣

7️⃣🔟

2️⃣3️⃣

Score: 50

Aha, a neat and satisfying congruence of word structures! 

Spoiler

TRACE

CHART 🎯

THREE 🎯

LINGO <- eliminator

COLON 🎯

PRIMO 🎯

PULSE 🎯

SLEET 🎯

GULLY 🎯

ASKEW 🎯

Primo was a possible answer just recently, where the answer was prior if I recall correctly. I’m glad I had that final “o” in place, as otherwise I probably would have tried prior again.

Pulse is having something of an “appearing everywhere” time lately.

Daily Octordle #1254

PRIMO 6️⃣8️⃣ SLEET

COLON 5️⃣9️⃣ GULLY

PULSE 7️⃣🔟 ASKEW

CHART 2️⃣3️⃣ THREE

Score: 50