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]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1301

7️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣2️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

🔟9️⃣

Score: 49

This was mostly the result of sheer audacity in guessing.

Spoiler

TRACE

BASTE 🎯🍀 could have been haste, paste, waste - risky guess.

SPATE 🎯🍀 could have been skate or slate

CRIMP 🎯

FOUND <- eliminator

SPIKE 🎯

OFFER  🎯

TITHE 🎯

MAXIM 🎯

DADDY 🎯 

It’s a sobering thought that using a purely statistical-lexicological approach just won’t provide the fastest or best path to solving Wordle-type puzzles. Sometimes one just needs to jump over the edge of the word cliff.

NB: After I’d solved “baste” with luck, I’d almost decided to use an eliminator that would help with 3L. The word … oxlip. It would have been an excellent eliminator!

Daily Extreme Octordle #1301

OFFER 7️⃣4️⃣ CRIMP

SPIKE 6️⃣2️⃣ BASTE

SPATE 3️⃣8️⃣ TITHE

DADDY 🔟9️⃣ MAXIM

Score: 49

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,520 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I couldn't really complain about the eliminators as they gave up 4 of the letters, although it would have been nice to get a green somewhere.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1301
9️⃣3️⃣
🔟🕚
6️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
Score: 55

Spoiler

I felt I needed the eliminator biped towards the end for
#1 evict/edict
#3 creep/creed (and had been creek up till the previous move)
#4 throb/throw
If I had guessed, I would have said evict, creed, throw. Disastrous!

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1301
🔟4️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
🕛8️⃣
Score: 61

There was not one single spot where I felt I could confidently solve on turn 3.

It was extremely annoying actually, because I had 4 letters exposed in some of them.

#4 was especially annoying as didn't we just face that same collection of choices a day or so ago??

If I had had to go wild and guess, I would have gone for ethic in #6

But I decided to play it safe and went for pricy on turn 3, which is just as well.

I only got #4 because I seem to recall waste came out last time? Could be wrong. But thought I'd ring the changes.

Then made a mistake on my second last turn.😫

Spoiler

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,521 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Hmm… the eliminator was tantalisingly close to being the answer.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,521 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩 GUISE <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ISSUE 🎯

Actually, the eliminator was a bit of an accident. I’d intended to type guide, but my finger mistyped. 😳

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1302

4️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

🔟6️⃣

Score: 52

This had an intense moment.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

CROCK 🎯🍀 could have been frock

SHUCK 🎯

WHEAT 🎯

MAMBO 🎯 could have been kazoo; I suppose it could also have been wazoo or bazoo (US, slang? Of course Octordle would go for these - but not I.)

MADAM 🎯

BATTY 🎯

JUMPY 🎯

REVEL 🎯

Once I’d solved 1R with wheat, the plains looked decidedly empty. Panic could have set in; nothing looked promising, but then I set my sights upon 4R. I had only a yellow A and a final O - but I realised that was enough, given that most of the letters that would fit that scenario had already been ruled out. I was looking for a word that was almost certainly of the _ A _ _ O pattern, without the letters CEGHILNRSTW. Only two words fit that brief (apart from the slangy informal stuff), and mambo is a notoriously overused Octordle word.

Mambo then led to madam in 3R: easy pickings right through to the end.

Daily Octordle #1302

SHUCK 4️⃣5️⃣ WHEAT

JUMPY 9️⃣3️⃣ CROCK

BATTY 8️⃣7️⃣ MADAM

REVEL 🔟6️⃣ MAMBO

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1302

5️⃣🔟

4️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

This was notable for me in that I kept on wanting to play words that couldn’t be correct. I told myself off very firmly.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

TRIBE 🎯

AFIRE 🎯 (A voice in my head said “raise” even though I’d ruled out S.)

TOWER 🎯🍀 could have been toner or even toyer

GRUNT 🎯

QUIRK  🎯

FILTH 🎯 (That naughty voice kept on insisting “fifty” even though I’d ruled in the L.)

LITHE 🎯

CADDY 🎯 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1302

TOWER 5️⃣🔟 CADDY

AFIRE 4️⃣3️⃣ TRIBE

GRUNT 6️⃣7️⃣ QUIRK

LITHE 9️⃣8️⃣ FILTH

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,522 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Not the most satisfying wordle I have done, that is for sure!

Spoiler

alien/shout-with precious little to show for it.
But I assumed the O was probably in number 2 spot.
Turn 3-podgy. This was better
Turn 4-dowry. Iwas tempted by wordy but I have a dim recollection that it may have been used recently.
Turn 5-No cunning needed.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1303
3️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣🔟
5️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

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Spoiler

Spoiler

I took a risk on tirn 3, shore or shove. I went for shore as R is more useful & it seemed like the word might be more likely, though always hard to tell.
After my first 2 turns, I had written down some possibilities but as I worked through some of the early answers, I was pleased to find the way became clearer each step.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1303
3️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣🕚
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

After turn 3, I felt like I might need another eliminator till I concentrated on #5. I came to the conclusion it probably started with H and I was on my way, because using R suddenly made the answer to #2 clear cut and so it went.
Till the end.
It was between sting/stink on #6 and I chose the wrong one.