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]

Ah, Monday…

Wordle 1,507 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A cornucopia of logic was employed with this!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,507 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 MINOR <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RIGID 🎯

It could have been rigid, risky, ribby, girly, virus, bidri, pirri, sigri, wirri. I discounted pirri and wirri as they’re of Australian Aboriginal origin. I discounted sigri and bidri as being too unusual for Wordle. I don’t recall seeing ribby in Wordle … so I had it down to rigid, risky, virus or girly. I decided upon rigid; if it was wrong, the absence or presence of G and R (green or yellow) would be enough to solve it on the next guess.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1288

7️⃣🔟

6️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣4️⃣

🕚3️⃣

Score: 54

Oh, this was like a piece of spinach lodged in my teeth - irritating and grimly aware I wasn’t doing as well as I’d hoped.

Spoiler

TRACE

SOILY <- eliminator

STALE 🎯

SUMAC 🎯 ♻️

STEAM 🎯

IMPLY 🎯

PATTY 🎯

SENSE 🎯

DEFER 💣

FEVER 🎯🍀 could have been fewer

FIXER 🎯🍀 could have been fibre (US spelling)

I’ve placed the recycle symbol next to “sumac” because that aspect (having seen sumac pop up multiple times before) helped me to solve it. It doesn’t mean there aren’t other recycled words - oh boy! The stale steam must imply the sense of a patty!

Once I’d solved 2L (sense), there was a wasteland.

“You cannot say, or guess, for you know only

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.” (T.S. Eliot)

Neither 1R nor 4L were so singular in their arrangement as to give relief. So I sighed, and tilted at the broken images of 1R. The possibilities included defer, refer, fever, fewer, hewer, vexer, hexer… I tried “defer” – wrong! but it did at least give me a 1 in 2 chance of guessing the solution on my next go.

And then it was down to another 1 in 2 chance for the last word, since F was now confirmed in its first position.

As you can tell, I’m in a very Eliotian mood.

Daily Octordle #1288

PATTY 7️⃣🔟 FEVER

IMPLY 6️⃣5️⃣ STEAM

SENSE 8️⃣4️⃣ SUMAC

FIXER 🕚3️⃣ STALE

Score: 54

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1288

3️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

4️⃣2️⃣

8️⃣🔟

Score: 48

The dry stumbling rocky places of the Daily Classic have given way to a much more rewarding Extreme. I took a few risks, but they were tiny risks, cracks rather than chasms. 

Spoiler

TRACE

TREAD 🎯🍀 could have been treat

STEAD 🎯

SCOUT 🎯
SNOUT 🎯🍀 could have been shout

IMPLY <- eliminator

PROVE 🎯🍀 could have been probe

MAIZE 🎯

HYDRA 🎯

GUMMY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1288

STEAD 3️⃣7️⃣ PROVE

GUMMY 🔟5️⃣ SNOUT

SCOUT 4️⃣2️⃣ TREAD

MAIZE 8️⃣9️⃣ HYDRA

Score: 48

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,508 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A fine Wordle - but it did leave me with a one-in-three.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,508 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 HOIST -> eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STORK 🎯

It could have been storm or story.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1289

8️⃣6️⃣

3️⃣5️⃣

7️⃣1️⃣

4️⃣🔟

Score: 44

Huzzah!

Spoiler

TRACE 🎯🍾🥂 !!!!! 🥰🎉🥳👏🏻

BOILS <- eliminator

STUCK 🎯

TWIST 🎯 

SHOOK 🎯🍀 could have been spook or snook

GHOUL 🎯

HARPY 🎯 could have been hardy or harry

RADII 🎯 could have been radix or nadir

FLACK 💣

CLACK 🎯🍀 could have been alack

Luck ran with me throughout most of it. The tremendous starting kick, with TRACE being the solution for 3R, can’t be overestimated.

Daily Octordle #1289

RADII 8️⃣6️⃣ GHOUL

STUCK 3️⃣5️⃣ SHOOK

HARPY 7️⃣1️⃣ TRACE

TWIST 4️⃣🔟 CLACK

Score: 44

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1289

3️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣8️⃣

6️⃣🔟

7️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

And… we’re back to the less heady heights of Mt Octordle’s tourist trail no. 52. 🙂

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL -> eliminator

SPRIG 🎯

RAPID 🎯

CLOAK 🎯

ATOLL 🎯

ABIDE 🎯

SMOTE 🎯

TOTEM 🎯

BEVEL 🎯🍀 could have been bezel

Daily Extreme Octordle #1289

SPRIG 3️⃣4️⃣ RAPID

CLOAK 5️⃣8️⃣ SMOTE

ATOLL 6️⃣🔟 BEVEL

ABIDE 7️⃣9️⃣ TOTEM

Score: 52

[springyzone]

I thought you might go well with that octordle today.

Wordle 1,508 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

alien/shout/

Hmm, stoop, story, storm, stock?

I went with pricy as 3rd word

storm as 4th

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1289
🕛3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🕐8️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 64

Not a great day for some of us!😂

Spoiler

I had some ideas, too many after turn 3, so went with corky as eliminator.
It helped a lot but then I made the mistake on #6 with hardy, which I was confident was the answer. 
Then I thought rapid would be it for #1 for sure. At least it helped solve #6 as after hardy, I probably would have tried harry.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1289
🔟🕚
5️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣7️⃣
Score: 54

Spoiler

This went better but I did use another eliminator towards the end. privy.
At that stage, I was torn between bezel/bevel for #6, I had nothing much exposed for #1 (and was thinking sissy, though unlikely) and I was wondering about diary for #2. Privy saved the day.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1289
🕛3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🕐8️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 64

Not a great day for some of us!😂

Spoiler

I had some ideas, too many after turn 3, so went with corky as eliminator.
It helped a lot but then I made the mistake on #6 with hardy, which I was confident was the answer. 
Then I thought rapid would be it for #1 for sure. At least it helped solve #6 as after hardy, I probably would have tried harry.

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Oh no… That’s frustrating. The first eliminator just didn’t give you enough. It’s so cruel a result. 😳😢