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 #1285
6️⃣8️⃣
🕚7️⃣
🔟3️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
Score: 59

This was another one where I hesitated a bit before guessing.

Spoiler

By turn 4, I felt I needed another eliminator. I had already uncovered C so I went with perky.
I had my fingers crossed on my last turn though that it wasn't crave.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,504 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Luckily the eliminator narrowed things down and I was left with only two possible solutions.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,504 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 LINGO -> eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BANJO 🎯

I went for the “Oh! Susanna” option.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1285

7️⃣🔟

4️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

This was by and large straightforward.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

APTLY 🎯

BATTY 🎯 

MAMBO 🎯

MADAM 🎯

JUMPY 🎯 could have been humpy 

REVEL 🎯

RAMEN 🎯

CRICK 🎯🍀 could have been frock

Daily Octordle #1285

JUMPY 7️⃣🔟 CROCK

BATTY 4️⃣6️⃣ MADAM

REVEL 8️⃣5️⃣ MAMBO

APTLY 3️⃣9️⃣ RAMEN

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1285

9️⃣6️⃣

🕚2️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

Horrible! So many signs posting to dreadful little lanes leading nowhere, and getting my little Octormobile stuck in mud…

Spoiler

TRACE

WROTE 🎯🍀 could have been write

LUPIN <- eliminator

CHINA 🎯

UNDID 🎯

SPEED 🎯

GAWKY 🎯🍀 could have been byway

HUFFY 🎯🍀 could have been hubby

BORAX 🎯

CRAVE 💣

CRAZE 🎯

At least I made a correct guess at row 2, which mitigated the crave that went nowhere.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1285

BORAX 9️⃣6️⃣ SPEED

CRAZE 🕚2️⃣ WROTE

UNDID 5️⃣4️⃣ CHINA

GAWKY 7️⃣8️⃣ HUFFY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

CORRECTION (typographical error) in the spoiler:

@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Octordle #1285

7️⃣🔟

4️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

This was by and large straightforward.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

APTLY 🎯

BATTY 🎯 

MAMBO 🎯

MADAM 🎯

JUMPY 🎯could have been humpy 

REVEL 🎯

RAMEN 🎯

CROCK 🎯🍀could have been frock [was incorrectly typed as CRICK]

Daily Octordle #1285

JUMPY 7️⃣🔟CROCK

BATTY 4️⃣6️⃣MADAM

REVEL 8️⃣5️⃣MAMBO

APTLY 3️⃣9️⃣RAMEN

Score: 52

[springyzone]

could have been frock [was incorrectly typed as CRICK]

Don't worry as you had it right in the bit underneath.

The funny thing is my eyes went to it immediately a moment ago. I thought-crick? I don't remember a crick? The ck looks familiar though. Then I saw crock in the bit underneath and thought-ah just a typo. 

I was pleased actually as I make mistakes all the time. Every post (I can't type and my letters are wearing off the keyboard.) I have to remember by saying-T is the first blank one at the top, R is the next blank one along to the left & E the one after that. But I still get it wrong & you never seem to make typos!

[springyzone]

Where is the year going to? 2nd August already!

Wordle 1,505 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout-so I had a/n/u with a T on the end

Now didn't we just have haunt as the answer a little while ago, or am I hallucinating?
In any case, I figured today's offering was probably daunt or taunt. No way to know so I just had a go. 
Could have gone either way, but I got lucky.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1286
6️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
🕚8️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 54

This started out quite well for me, with the first few answers seeming to be obvious.

Spoiler

except for #1 (could have been slunk)
Things took a turn towards the end though. I had been fancying weedy or perky for #6 and once the W was ruled out, had a go at perky as it covered some good new letters at least.
At the end, had to rethink, but it was obviously between merry or ferry. I was lucky.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,505 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛

⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It’s that first letter which could have ruined this for me.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,505 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 PAINT <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DAUNT 🎯

It could have been gaunt, haunt, jaunt, vaunt. I’d considered using hadji as a second eliminator, but I’d still be left with two possible answers. Risky guess made instead.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1286

3️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣🕚

🔟7️⃣

Score: 55

I’m not happy with this.

Spoiler

TRACE

GHOUL <- eliminator

SLUNG 🎯🍀 could have been flung

NASAL 🎯 

TONIC 🎯

BATON 🎯

EAGLE 🎯

FOLLY 💣

FERRY 🎯

PARER 🎯🍀 could have been rarer or darer

WOOLY 🎯 Abomination of abominations, how matted and stench-laden is this spelling!

After “eagle”, I had three labels left to solve. Nothing looked clear-cut. Let me show you…

3R: _ O _ L_ If either letter duplicated, L couldn’t be in 1st or last position. O couldn’t be in last position.

3L: _ _ _ _ _ with E and R yellow. The E was in neither 1st position nor last position. The R was not in 2nd position.

4L: _ A _ _ _ with E and R yellow. E was neither first nor last.

The one that looked most amenable to solving was 3R. That last letter had to be Y. It was _OLLY

or _OOLY: dolly, folly, jolly, molly, polly, or that abominable US spelling of woolly with only one L.

Risking a guess, I tried “folly” - and ow, with a blank in 4th showing that there was no second O, I knew - with the utmost loathing - that 3R was “wooly”. But first, I punished that panel by leaving it until last. I could now solve 3L, as the F in 1st place gave it away as “ferry”, and 4L was down to three possibilities. I didn't think “darer” at all likely, so I made a guess between P and R for the first letter.

And then … with a face of disgusted hauteur, I completed 3R.

Daily Octordle #1286

SLUNG 3️⃣4️⃣ NASAL

BATON 6️⃣5️⃣ TONIC

FERRY 9️⃣🕚 WOOLY

PARER 🔟7️⃣ EAGLE

Score: 55