WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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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 Octordle #1305

6️⃣3️⃣

4️⃣8️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣🔟

Score: 52

Once I started solving, it was quite straightforward. I had only one hesitation - with the final word.

Spoiler

TRACE

LUPIN <- eliminator

QUACK 🎯

AZURE 🎯

RAPID 🎯

AVOID 🎯

THOSE 🎯

ASSET 🎯

SNEER 🎯

POLYP 🎯

My first thought as I came to the final word was “polly”, but as it’s an Australian abbreviation, I always consider this an unlikely contender. However, from polly to polyp is only a whisker… and polyp is an Octordle favourite.

Daily Octordle #1305

AVOID 6️⃣3️⃣ QUACK

AZURE 4️⃣8️⃣ ASSET

SNEER 9️⃣7️⃣ THOSE

RAPID 5️⃣🔟 POLYP

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1305

5️⃣🔟

3️⃣9️⃣

8️⃣6️⃣

2️⃣7️⃣

Score: 50

Ah, an interesting newcomer (I think?)! There’s a word here that I wasn’t expecting.

Spoiler

TRACE

TIARA 🎯

AWAIT 🎯

MOULD <- eliminator

YUCCA 🎯

NOISY 🎯

ANVIL 🎯

GRAVY 🎯

GROAN  🎯

NAKED 🎯

Straight in we went with tiara, followed by await. But then I came to a halt. 1L surprised me with its _ _ _ C A pattern. There was no second A; no I; no E. That left me with musca or yucca. I therefore played mould as an eliminator, and that sorted it out.

The rest proceeded without a hitch.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1305

YUCCA 5️⃣🔟 NAKED

AWAIT 3️⃣9️⃣ GROAN

GRAVY 8️⃣6️⃣ NOISY

TIARA 2️⃣7️⃣ ANVIL

Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Wordle 1,524 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Knowing that one particular letter could not be in the 2nd position and that another letter couldn’t be in the last position ruled out all but four possible answers - and two of them were, I think, too esoteric for Wordle.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,524 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ LOGIN <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EXTOL 🎯

It could have been owlet, helot, telos - but I thought the last two unlikely.

Edit: away with the extra owlet.

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CORRECTION IN SPOILER

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Octordle #1304

🕚9️⃣

8️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

Score: 53

I was stuck with the last word. About to try a guess, I paused - and decided to use an eliminator. It’s just as well, as the word towards which I was leaning would have been wrong. 

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

MANGO 🎯

ANODE 🎯

THEIR 🎯

SCENT 🎯

SOLID 🎯

PENNE 🎯

SQUAT 🎯

WAKFS 💣

BITTY 🎯

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OMG. Wakfs?

No wonder you do so well, I have never heard of the word. I'll have to google it now.

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Result of a cheeky childhood during which I read voraciously and even submitted a book review of the dictionary. The teacher was amused, luckily.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,525 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
3rd: tramp. I liked this as it was a possible answer but more to the point, covered some other useful letters. I was hoping the TRA would come in green, but alas. So, not track either.

So I thought... maybe that ratty, they love ratty in octordle... but it could be warty. Fingers crossed.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1306
3️⃣7️⃣
🕚🔟
8️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

I felt the first 3 answers had a sort of sameness about them. Maybe the pattern.
My 5th word, clump, was a joint eliminator/try. I knew it could easily be something like bluff, fluff etc but thought it was worth the try to uncover C, M, P at least.

My last turn was a guess, with not a lot to go on, but then again, there weren't a lot of useful letters left either, so that narrowed the likely field.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1306
8️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
🕛4️⃣
🕚9️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

I made the mistake of jumping in on turn 6 with sigma for #3. Of course, straight after it, I could see what it had to be, but too late! And of course, #5 was not joker, it was poker. I think it normally is poker. Next time though, will I be game to go poker or will they ring the changes?
I was able to give myself the satisfaction of making poker wait till last turn though.

[countessalmirena]

Yesterday’s:

Wordle 1,525 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛

🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I chanced upon an excellent eliminator for this Wordle.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,525 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ ROYAL ->eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATTY 🎯

That was short and sweet.

Daily Octordle #1306

5️⃣9️⃣

🕚3️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

Score: 53

This was lacking in cohesion.

Spoiler

TRACE

LOUGH <- eliminator

LARGE 🎯

CURVE 🎯

TONAL 🎯🍀 could have been total

NATAL 🎯

TENET 🎯

EXPEL 🎯🍀 could have been wheel, bezel, jewel - and far less likely sheel, mesel, sewel, sweel, wedel.

PLUMP 🎯🍀 could have been plumb

FIZZY 💣

JIFFY 🍀

For 3L, I just had to take a guess. Any of expel, jewel, bezel or wheel seemed likely.

For 1R, the p/b dilemma again required a guess.

For 2L, I had literally no tiles uncovered, neither green nor yellow. The Y and I had not been used, and it could be a _ i _ i _ pattern (bifid was the only one that came to mind) or _ i _ _ y - which i thought more likely.

Possibles were dizzy, fizzy, jiffy, kiddy, fishy. I decided to play fizzy; if it was wrong, it would at least narrow it down to the correct answer. Well, it was indeed wrong, but as I’d planned, it did give me jiffy on the next turn.

Daily Octordle #1306

TONAL 5️⃣9️⃣ PLUMP

JIFFY 🕚3️⃣ LARGE

EXPEL 8️⃣7️⃣ TENET

NATAL 6️⃣4️⃣ CURVE

Score: 53

Daily Extreme Octordle #1306

8️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

🔟4️⃣

5️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Two guesses and a decided air of ugh!

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS  <- eliminator

LOUSE 🎯

LOONY 🎯

CURLY 🎯

SLIMY 🎯

SWAMI 🎯

ALOOF 🎯

MAKER  🎯🍀 could have been embar, mazer, rearm…

POKER 🎯🍀 could have been joker

It was by and large easy enough, although i had to guess with the final two words.

The overall ambience made me laugh a little. Slimy louse and aloof loony…?

Daily Extreme Octordle #1306

ALOOF 8️⃣3️⃣ LOUSE

SWAMI 7️⃣6️⃣ SLIMY

POKER 🔟4️⃣ LOONY

CURLY 5️⃣9️⃣ MAKER

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,526 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was unusual in that later on, I had deja vu vibes when doing octordle.

Spoiler

alien. You would never have guessed.

Second word though was a deviation of sorts-scout.
I decided to change it slightly as I had scion in mind as a possibility.
After that, it was a case of rethinking but it was fairly obvious.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1307
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕚
6️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
Score: 53

I would love to score under 52 one day, but today isn't that day!

Spoiler

As you can see, after turn 1, #6 was a wordle replica. I decided to go with the normal shout though as I didn't feel I could outright guess on turn 2 & H could be more useful across the other spots. If it turned out to be scion, I'd be using the C anyway.
I was not amused by #5.
I fell at the last hurdle-water instead of eater.
I felt as if some of these words were definitely repeats.