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 #1307
5️⃣4️⃣
🕛7️⃣
3️⃣🕚
🔟8️⃣
Score: 60

Spoiler

The funny thing with this game was that after turn 2, I didn't feel I had much for #4, but I wrote down a couple of possibilities. The first was fizzy, but then I thought-or maybe dizzy. But I wasn't game to go for it at that stage.
The score is punishment because I used another eliminator half way through. I went for forge instead of fudgy as I already had Y exposed plus I really wanted the R in the mix.
Then on #7 near the end, I tried brand instead of drank. Ah well, here's to tomorrow!

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,526 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Luck and logic in equal measure.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,526 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩 LOGIN <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 UNION 🎯

This could have been a word along the lines of _i_on, or __ion. Possibilities: ippon, bidon, bison, piñon, ninon, inion, onion, union… of which I thought bison, onion and union were the most likely.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1307

2️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣🕛

7️⃣3️⃣

8️⃣4️⃣

Score: 51

Two wrong guesses at the end traumatised me.

Spoiler

TRACE

LOGIN 🎯 <- eliminator / correct guess

SCION 🎯

ATTIC 🎯

HUMPY <- eliminator

LLAMA 🎯

HUMOR 🎯 US spelling {sigh}

CHALK 🎯

SHIED 🎯

WATER 💣

RATER 💣

EATER 🎯

Daily Octordle #1307

LOGIN 2️⃣9️⃣ SHIED

LLAMA 6️⃣🕛 EATER

HUMOR 7️⃣3️⃣ SCION

CHALK 8️⃣4️⃣ ATTIC

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1307

6️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣3️⃣

🔟7️⃣

Score: 52

It was another guess-heavy endeavour.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO  <- eliminator

TRAWL 🎯

MULCH 🎯🍀 could have been pluck or cluck

MUSIC 🎯

HASTY 🎯

NERDY 🎯🍀 could have been nervy

FIZZY 🎯🍀 could have been jiffy

EVOKE  🎯

DRANK 🎯

After “trawl”, I could either take a stab at 3R or use an eliminator. Luckily “mulch” was correct, and that gave me “music”, which gave me “hasty”. 

“Nerdy” seemed likelier than “nervy”.

We’ve just had “jiffy”, so I tried “fizzy”.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1307

HASTY 6️⃣4️⃣ MULCH

EVOKE 9️⃣8️⃣ FIZZY

MUSIC 5️⃣3️⃣ TRAWL

DRANK 🔟7️⃣ NERDY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,527 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was intensely annoying for me.

Spoiler

alien/shout
Immediately into my mind-spore.
I was almost inclined to just go for it, but we know how well that usually works out for me.
A moment's reflection and I could see that score, spoke, smoke were all possible too. Maybe more, I don't know. Well, I did think of spode but deemed it unlikely.

Third word was cramp.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1308
5️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣🔟
4️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

This is the best it gets today. The rest is downhill.

Spoiler

There was a definite element of luck involved in this. Not so much in guesswork but more so in the order I solved them.
#3 was obvious but I had toyed with stash for #1. Glad I decided to solve #3 first.
After that, they fell into place, with possible choices eliminated nicely as I went along.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1308
5️⃣9️⃣
🕚8️⃣
🕛🔟
6️⃣4️⃣
Score: 65

This was one of life's disappointments.

I knew I was in trouble almost immediately as after my first 2 turns, there was nothing I could see that was a clear cut certainty. With hindsight, I should have worked on #8 more but I didn't think of the answer till after my third turn.

Spoiler

So 3 eliminators to start with. It wasn't looking good.
Then I went and made a mistake on #2 with stage. I had managed to eliminate some of the other possibilities so took a risk. At least it helped with #4.
Even at the end, #5, I was hovering between flick and click, so things could have been worse today, I could have been in the red.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,527 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There is an element of disappointment in this Wordle for me, in that it presented no challenge at all.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,527 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ SPOIL <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPORE 🎯

Absolutely no cunning word-knowledge was required here. It’s almost insulting! The answer simply popped out.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1308

6️⃣3️⃣

5️⃣8️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

🔟7️⃣

Score: 52

The order of solving was everything with this Octordle.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL 🎯 <- eliminator

CLUMP 🎯

CHOIR 🎯

FILTH 🎯

SWATH 🎯

DRYLY 🎯

JOIST 🎯

TRAIT 🎯

SPEED 🎯🍀 could have been spend

I had to solve 2L (filth) before I could solve 1L (swath).

I needed 1L (swath) solved before I could solve 4R (dryly - ruling out wryly).

Thankfully 1R (clump) and 3L (choir) ruled out moist and hoist for 2R, so that I was left with joist. In turn 2R (joist) ruled out train for 3R, and I was left with trait.

Daily Octordle #1308

SWATH 6️⃣3️⃣ CLUMP

FILTH 5️⃣8️⃣ JOIST

CHOIR 4️⃣9️⃣ TRAIT

SPEED 🔟7️⃣ DRYLY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1308

4️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣🔟

9️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

Luck and judicious solving 

Spoiler

TRACE

MINTY  <- eliminator

TRULY 🎯

MAPLE 🎯

PAGER 🎯

STAKE 🎯🍀 could have been stave

BUNNY 🎯🍀 could have been funny or even dunny (unlikely)

FLICK 🎯🍀 could have been click

BRAVE  🎯

ELIDE 🎯

F and V - these were the 🃏 letters on this Octordle.

Firstly… part of my reason for using MINTY as an eliminator was to rule out an S_ATE pattern in 1R. I still had to guess between stave and stake when the time came…

1L - well, that M from the eliminator stopped me from trying a mistaken AMPLE. 

2L was simply a guess; I don’t know why I chose to try BUNNY rather than FUNNY, although I rejected DUNNY on the Australian colloquialism basis. At least I knew it couldn’t be FUNKY; 1R had ruled out a K.

3L - I might have felt “poor F; I rejected you on 2L so let’s give you a chance here”. Who knows!

However… 1R also ruled out K for 4L, so no BRAKE; it had to be BRAVE.

I’d planned to play OLIVE for 3R. The lack of V as evidenced from BRAVE ruled it out, and it was obviously ELIDE.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1308

MAPLE 4️⃣6️⃣ STAKE

BUNNY 7️⃣5️⃣ PAGER

FLICK 8️⃣🔟 ELIDE

BRAVE 9️⃣3️⃣ TRULY

Score: 52