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 #1273
5️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
🔟🕚
Score: 56

Spoiler

About half way down, I really felt I would be safer with another eliminator, rather than trying to wing it.
I used fudgy.
#3 could have been something like buddy or puppy and #6 gloom or bloom or blood etc
#8 could have been dingo/bingo

[countessalmirena]

Yesterday:

Wordle 1,492 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛

🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A no-problem Wordle.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,492 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ BLING <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BLANK 🎯

Bland was possible, but my gut said blank.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1273

3️⃣9️⃣

4️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣🔟

Score: 52

My eliminator gave the starting letter for 3 of the words, and stopped me from using the (wrong) anagram of the correct answer in 3R.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

OCTAL 🎯 

CLASS 🎯

PATCH 🎯

SNOOP🎯

SURLY 🎯

SURER 🎯

DWELL🎯

NEVER 🎯

Daily Octordle #1273

OCTAL 3️⃣9️⃣ DWELL

CLASS 4️⃣8️⃣ SURER

PATCH 5️⃣6️⃣ SNOOP

SURLY 7️⃣🔟 NEVER

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1273

7️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

8️⃣🔟

Score: 52

It was fine.

Spoiler

TRACE

MOUND -> eliminator

COLON 🎯

GLOOM 🎯

VALOR 🎯 Ugh, US spelling

CHAOS 🎯

QUASH 🎯

EMBER 🎯

BUGGY 🎯

JINGO 🎯 Holy hand-grenade in a custard… I’d not have played this were it not for already having ruled out L, D and B.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1273

QUASH 7️⃣6️⃣ CHAOS

BUGGY 9️⃣5️⃣ VALOR

COLON 3️⃣4️⃣ GLOOM

EMBER 8️⃣🔟 JINGO

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,493 5/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Nowhere fast today.

Spoiler

alien/shout
Then I had the idea to try dirty. I thought at least it would test the i position.
so.. couldn't be witty or ditty
Tried tiggy (system blocked it other wise I'd probably have taken 6 turns)
ticky. Weird, but what else? 
Finally a light dawned.

Will do octordles tonight

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,493 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A very rewarding eliminator gave me the result.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,493 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 SHINY <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TIZZY 🎯

I wanted to rule out H and W, and almost used whiny as the eliminator. However, I decided W could be dealt with in the absence of an H in 2nd position.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1274

6️⃣7️⃣

2️⃣5️⃣

4️⃣🕚

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

For my two last words, there were a bunch of letters which would fit, and no way to determine which would be correct unless I jumped in and tried them out.

Spoiler

TRACE

CASTE 🎯

DOILY <- eliminator

DRANK 🎯 

SPINY 🎯

SPOUT 🎯

RENAL🎯

PESKY 🎯 All smooth sailing up to this point

MERRY 🎯🍀 I had to take the risk: could have been berry or ferry

BATCH 💣 At this stage, it could have been batch, hatch, watch. Match ruled out by merry

WATCH 🎯🍀 could still have been hatch

Daily Octordle #1274

SPOUT 6️⃣7️⃣ RENAL

CASTE 2️⃣5️⃣ SPINY

DRANK 4️⃣🕚 WATCH

MERRY 9️⃣8️⃣ PESKY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1274

8️⃣🔟

9️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣3️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

There was rather too much luck involved.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL -> eliminator

SPOKE 🎯

TAPER 🎯

TWANG 🎯

GULAG 🎯

JEANS 🎯🍀 could have been means (noun)

CIVIC 🎯🍀 could have been mimic

BERRY 🎯🍀 again the ferry/berry/merry dilemma

EDIFY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1274

CIVIC 8️⃣🔟 EDIFY

BERRY 9️⃣7️⃣ JEANS

GULAG 6️⃣3️⃣ SPOKE

TWANG 5️⃣4️⃣ TAPER

Score: 52