on โ27-01-2022 01:45 AM
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 ๐คฃ
Solved! Go to Solution.
on โ01-07-2025 08:53 AM
TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
PUPIL ๐ฏ
SCALD ๐ฏ
SLEET ๐ฏ again?!!
EJECT ๐ฏ
DEMUR ๐ฏ
DIRGE ๐ฏ
IONIC ๐ฏ
CRASH ๐ฃ
CRASS ๐ฏ
Daily Extreme Octordle #1254
PUPIL 3๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ IONIC
DEMUR 7๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ DIRGE
EJECT 6๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ SLEET
CRASS ๐4๏ธโฃ SCALD
Score: 53
on โ01-07-2025 08:57 AM
@springyzone wrote:Wordle 1,473 5/6
โฌ๐จโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐ฉ
๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
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.
Spoileralien/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.
Yesโฆ Had my eliminator not given me that yellow letter in 4th place, I wouldnโt have gone for that particular word. I played it grimly, clenching my teeth at the spelling.
on โ01-07-2025 09:01 AM
@springyzone wrote:Daily Octordle #1254
๐3๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ๐
5๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
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.
Both of those dilemmas were ruled out by my eliminatorโฆ Itโs amazing how many times that particular eliminator proves useful!
on โ02-07-2025 03:47 PM
on โ02-07-2025 03:51 PM
TRACE
CRAWL ๐ฏ๐ could have been cramp, crash, crass
BOING <- eliminator
SHOWN ๐ฏ
SAINT ๐ฏ
LEASH ๐ฏ
RAYON ๐ฏ
CHOSE ๐ฏ
TABBY ๐ฏ
DIMLY ๐ฃ
MILKY ๐ฏ
Thereโs been a steady stream of CRA__ words in the last few days. I think weโve gone through all of them by now.
Daily Octordle #1255
SAINT 5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ LEASH
SHOWN 4๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ RAYON
CHOSE 8๏ธโฃ๐ MILKY
CRAWL 2๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ TABBY
Score: 52
on โ02-07-2025 03:53 PM
TRACE
SOILY <- eliminator
LYRIC ๐ฏ
DISCO ๐ฏ
DEITY ๐ฏ
SLURP ๐ฏ
STUNG ๐ฏ could have been stunt
COMIC ๐ฏ
GNASH ๐ฏ
ABODE ๐ฃ
ADOBE ๐ฏ
Daily Extreme Octordle #1255
COMIC 8๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ DEITY
LYRIC 3๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ DISCO
STUNG 7๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ SLURP
ADOBE ๐9๏ธโฃ GNASH
Score: 53
on โ02-07-2025 08:30 PM
Wordle 1,474 3/6
โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐จ
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
I was almost going to play an extra eliminator (pricy), but having the green in place helped, although I did waste a bit of time trying the other vowel in 2nd palce, till I figured I wasn't getting anywhere fast.
on โ02-07-2025 08:35 PM
Daily Octordle #1255
3๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ๐
6๏ธโฃ๐
Score: 56
I had a bit of a devil may care attitude tonight, felt I needed to power through it, so probably took some risks I shouldn't have.
โ02-07-2025 08:39 PM - edited โ02-07-2025 08:40 PM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1255
9๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
๐8๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
๐4๏ธโฃ
Score: 59
on โ03-07-2025 08:08 AM
Wordle 1,475 4/6
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
๐ฉโฌโฌโฌ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
Ye gods and little fishes.
I had a horrible start.
I really wasn't sure what eliminator to go with after this, pricy or fudgy or something else.