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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Yesterday’s:

Wordle 1,495 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The yellow in the eliminator gave it away. It was a sunny side up clue. 😁🍳

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Wordle 1,495 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ SOUND <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 QUAKE 🎯

Whoops! I’m sorry! This is today’s, not yesterday’s.

But I know that I saved yesterday’s into my notes… Let me check.

[countessalmirena]

Grrrr. 

Wordle 1,495 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨

🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yesterday’s reconstructed from memory because it’s not in my notes. I must have pasted today’s over it and thoroughly confused myself.

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Wordle 1,495 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨 TRACE

🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ WELSH <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WATER 🎯

I strongly suspected that it was _ATER, but it could have been ASTER or AFTER or APTER, or SWEAT… I decided on an eliminator that would rule out those possibilities and also help with the likely first letters of the _ATER pattern.

[countessalmirena]

After that mess, I’d best repost today’s Wordle (with the correct Wordle number), and hopefully that will get rid of the confusion.

Wordle 1,496 3/6 (fixed)

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The yellow in the eliminator gave it away. It was a sunny side up clue. 😁🍳

Spoiler

Wordle 1,496 3/6 (fixed)

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ SOUND <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 QUAKE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Octordle Classic:

Daily Octordle #1277

🔟2️⃣

5️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

Score: 50

A good start, but I needed an eliminator at the 4th row.

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TRACE

CROAK 🎯

ORGAN 🎯

BUILD <- eliminator

LATCH 🎯

BERET 🎯

LADEN 🎯

LAPSE 🎯

WHELP 🎯

SLOOP 🎯

Daily Octordle #1277

SLOOP 🔟2️⃣ CROAK

LATCH 5️⃣3️⃣ ORGAN

WHELP 9️⃣6️⃣ BERET

LADEN 7️⃣8️⃣ LAPSE

Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1277

8️⃣7️⃣

🔟9️⃣

4️⃣6️⃣

3️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

Completely logical until I came to the final word, at which point I had to guess the first letter.

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TRACE

LINGO -> eliminator

TANGO 🎯

DRUNK 🎯

EBONY 🎯

HOTLY 🎯

HELIX 🎯

MIRTH 🎯

THEME 🎯

FIGHT 🎯 It could have been sight or wight

Daily Extreme Octordle #1277

MIRTH 8️⃣7️⃣ HELIX

FIGHT 🔟9️⃣ THEME

DRUNK 4️⃣6️⃣ HOTLY

TANGO 3️⃣5️⃣ EBONY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,497 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This went well.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,497 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 LINGO <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GOFER 🎯

It could have been gored, or roger, but gofer was the option that stood out to me.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1278

2️⃣4️⃣

7️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣🔟

6️⃣8️⃣

Score: 51

My satisfaction in this Octordle is high.

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TRACE

GRANT 🎯

SPOIL <- eliminator

PLAIN 🎯

SPEAR 🎯

CLOUD 🎯

BINGO 🎯 I now knew it must be either bingo or jingo, and once again I muttered the little “Don’t let it be jingo” prayer

LEFTY 🎯 Oh, how I dislike this word

WOOZY 🎯 It could have been hooky or kooky

MANGA 🎯 Y ruled out, so “mangy” is off the table

Daily Octordle #1278

GRANT 2️⃣4️⃣ PLAIN

BINGO 7️⃣9️⃣ WOOZY

SPEAR 5️⃣🔟 MANGA

CLOUD 6️⃣8️⃣ LEFTY

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1278

3️⃣9️⃣

🔟7️⃣

4️⃣5️⃣

6️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

Challenging.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL -> eliminator

SPINY 🎯

TOXIN 🎯

PARER 🎯🍀 could have been paper, pager, paver, pawer, gaper, japer. But I thought parer or paper were the most likely, given Octordle’s history. Risky guess

WOVEN 🎯🍀 could have been dozen, woken

DELTA 🎯

MANGO 🎯

FLUME 🎯

ABACK 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1278

SPINY 3️⃣9️⃣ FLUME

ABACK 🔟7️⃣ DELTA

TOXIN 4️⃣5️⃣ PARER

WOVEN 6️⃣8️⃣ MANGO

Score: 52

[springyzone]

I've been away at my daughter's and not able to post.

I did do wordle on my phone yesterday but can't remember what it was now. 

Wordle 1,498 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Easy one today, given my eliminators.

PS It would really help if I could type-would save a heap of editing.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1279
6️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
🔟5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

This was an easy & straightforward puzzle today though very annoying.

Even though I had 4 letters exposed on turn 1 (#2), I couldn't go ahead with 100% confidence so held back.

Just as well I did as I would definitely have gone with the wrong choice!!

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