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 #1279
🔟6️⃣
4️⃣🕚
9️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 60

This was actually easy enough, it is just there was no clear cut answer for me after my first 2 turns so i went with another eliminator.

Actually, nothing felt fresh about this puzzle, there are far too many of the same old, same old and I am very annoyed.

Why keep recycling those tired ones when some perfectly acceptable fresh words which they recognise eg alien 😁, are just there for the taking.

Spoiler

I took a risk with #2 but they love shrub.
Just as well really, as up till then I had been tentatively thinking #7 might be that tired old standby, jolly.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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.

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Ah, it comes back to me now.

I can't reconstruct it on anything but I remember going

alien (must have been a green E)

shout (must have been a yellow O)

fudgy (which gave me yellow F &G)

I could guess a likely R ending but I remember now thinking, you have to be kidding me-gofer? GOFER?? But it was all that would fit, so I got it in four.

But I didn't like it.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,498 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛

⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

No hiccups.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,498 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨 SOUTH <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HAUNT 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1279

7️⃣8️⃣

🔟9️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

It marched on – by which I mean it wasn’t particularly inspiring but there was nothing actually wrong with this Octordle.

Spoiler

TRACE

GUILD <- eliminator

SUITE 🎯🍀 I started with a risk; could have been quite

SLANG 🎯

WRONG 🎯

CANAL 🎯

SOAPY 🎯

ANKLE 🎯

HARDY 🎯

POUTY 🎯 not a word that I like

Daily Octordle #1279

SOAPY 7️⃣8️⃣ ANKLE

POUTY 🔟9️⃣ HARDY

CANAL 6️⃣5️⃣ WRONG

SLANG 4️⃣3️⃣ SUITE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1279

5️⃣6️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

7️⃣🕚

9️⃣4️⃣

Score: 53

I found this more interesting, but I encountered three traps throughout (avoiding two).

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL -> eliminator

SPOUT 🎯

ROUGE 🎯

AGATE 🎯

SHRUB 🎯 (G was ruled out)

BELLE 🎯

BEEFY 🎯🍀 could have been bedew, but perhaps that’s a little too poetic for Octordle

LOBBY 🎯🍀 could have been nobly

STONE 💣

STOKE 🎯

It seems strange that there was no “n” in this Octordle. It fooled me with that final word in 3R.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1279

AGATE 5️⃣6️⃣ SHRUB

SPOUT 3️⃣8️⃣ BEEFY

BELLE 7️⃣🕚 STOKE

LOBBY 9️⃣4️⃣ ROUGE

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Yes, it does seem unfair that we don’t have an alien or two running around in Octordle!

What about a jolly alien doing the tango?

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,499 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Logic plus luck.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,499 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ LIONS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WHOLE 🎯🍀 could have been globe, glove, elope, dhole (unlikely), bloke

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1280

3️⃣7️⃣

4️⃣8️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

🕚9️⃣

Score: 53

It was all going so well, until I chose the wrong final word in a 1-in-3 choice.

Spoiler

TRACE

SOILY <- eliminator

BLAST 🎯

BASAL 🎯

TYING 🎯

INBOX 🎯

TROOP 🎯

SUPER 🎯

MINUS 🎯

DEIGN 💣

NEIGH 🎯

4L was down to deign, feign or neigh. Luck wasn’t with me.

springyzone, I think you’ll do better than I.

Daily Octordle #1280

BLAST 3️⃣7️⃣ TROOP

BASAL 4️⃣8️⃣ SUPER

INBOX 6️⃣5️⃣ TYING

NEIGH 🕚9️⃣ MINUS

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1280

9️⃣🔟

6️⃣8️⃣

4️⃣5️⃣

7️⃣2️⃣

Score: 51

4L was immediately a 1 in 2; I was lucky with my choice, and throughout the rest of it.

Spoiler

TRACE

BRACE 🎯🍀 could have been grace

LINGO -> eliminator

AGENT 🎯

GUIDE 🎯🍀 could have been guise

FORTE 🎯🍀 could have been store

DAILY 🎯

TYING 🎯

ALLOY 🎯

DROOP 🎯

After the eliminator, it was a strong temptation to play thing for 2R, but I knew it could be toing (as in toing and froing) or tying again as well. Part of me was saying “It can’t be tying because that’s just appeared in the Daily Classic”; another part was murmuring dryly, “Oh yes? Aren’t you forgetting just how depraved and twisted Octordle can be?” Better to hold off and play 3L first as it was a definite agent.

Now I was faced with 2L, 2R and 3L, which were narrowed down to within a guess or so. 2L was the toughest with forte, route, outré and store. 2R was down to guise or guide, and 3L was now down to thing or tying. I took a guess with guide - luckily correctly.

And still it was guess time! I had 2L down to forte or store, or it was the tying/thing choice. I played forte - luck was still on my side.

4L was now daily (or Iliad, but it’s a proper name so enormously unlikely). Daily it was.

Finally I had 2R in my hands: tying. Oh, Octordle, you are depraved and twisted!

With only 1L and 1R left, 1R was best left until last; it could have been droop or dross. Since 1L was clearly alloy, it would resolve 1R by the absence or presence of O in 4th position.

And there it was.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1280

ALLOY 9️⃣🔟 DROOP

FORTE 6️⃣8️⃣ TYING

AGENT 4️⃣5️⃣ GUIDE

DAILY 7️⃣2️⃣ BRACE

Score: 51

[springyzone]

beefy-could have been bedew, but perhaps that's a little too poetic for Octordle.

Yes, it probably is.

Why use a new word when there are several they can recycle?

Plus they adore the word beefy lately.

Wordle 1,499 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout and I basically had the last 4 letters in place so it wasn't hard for me today.