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 1,487 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

You can probably guess my progress through this one.

Spoiler

alien/shout/moist/foist

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1268
7️⃣🕚
🔟5️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

This felt as if it had a few repeat words in it. I am sure giant has popped up somewhere not too long ago.

I felt I needed another eliminator half way through. I forget exactly what 'possibiles' I had in mind but I wanted to know if W or F were in or out. It is amazing the words they allow and don't allow. We had legit the other day, but the word flowy was not accepted as my eliminator. I used fawny instead.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1268
3️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
🕚🔟
6️⃣9️⃣
Score: 56

Similar sort of path for this one. No downright stupid errors, but another eliminator half way through.

Spoiler

#2 is probably the one I had the most choices for-chuck was first to mind, but chump second and chuff next. I thought #6 might be remit. Glad i used eliminator comfy, as it gave me the start to #5 and I had been stuck on that one.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1268

8️⃣🔟

6️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

It could have been a mess.

Spoiler

TRACE

GHOUL <- eliminator

GIANT 🎯

HINGE 🎯

GENIE 🎯

RESET 🎯

AWFUL 🎯 ___UL, with yellow A… It had to be awful

WAGER 🎯 If it hadn’t been for the W in awful, I’d have tried eager here.

PITHY 🎯

BILLY 🎯🍀 could have been dilly, jilly, milky

The final word was one of those couldabeen words.

Daily Octordle #1268

WAGER 8️⃣🔟 BILLY

RESET 6️⃣5️⃣ GENIE

PITHY 9️⃣3️⃣ GIANT

AWFUL 7️⃣4️⃣ HINGE

Score: 52

Daily Extreme Octordle #1268

5️⃣7️⃣

4️⃣🔟

3️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

Ohhh, full of traps.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO -> eliminator

CELLO 🎯

LUSTY 🎯

GHOST 🎯

DONOR 🎯 (I’d been contemplating US honour)

CHUMP 🎯

REMIX 🎯

REFIT 🎯

HOBBY 🎯

Merit had been a possibility for 3R, until chump blew that out of the water. It also gave me re_it, which could mean remit … or refit. But first I attended to 4R - remix - and that sorted it all out.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1268

GHOST 5️⃣7️⃣ CHUMP

LUSTY 4️⃣🔟 HOBBY

CELLO 3️⃣9️⃣ REFIT

DONOR 6️⃣8️⃣ REMIX

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,487 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my eliminator, the word possibilities were down to 4. I could have just made a guess; I decided to use another eliminator.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,487 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ SPOIL <- eliminator

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ FEHME <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOIST 🎯

It was foist, hoist, joist, or moist. Fehme was the only word I could see that would cut this down to one.

[springyzone]

I should write down fehme. I have never heard of that word, but great eliminator.

Wordle 1,488 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/pricy
Then first thing I thought of was nervy, but then.. what if it is nerdy?
So it was lucky I got it in 4 really.

[springyzone]

Quite pleased with this one but I'm aware it all came down to a bit of luck, rather than skill, and could easily have turned out differently.

Daily Octordle #1269
2️⃣6️⃣
🔟4️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 49

Spoiler

After my first turn, I thought clown for #1 and decided to go for it, though I had fears it might be flown or blown.
I eventually used short as eliminator as I didn't want to repeat O/U
This game was fairly straight forward.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1269
🔟3️⃣
6️⃣🕚
8️⃣7️⃣
🕛4️⃣
Score: 61

Spoiler

You win some, you lose some.
I felt a bit lost early on and used fudgy. 
I made a mistake on #7, but if I had looked at #1, I should have tried to solve that first as it was a sure thing. I'd been holding off on it (twirl or trill).