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]

Yesterday’s (Monday):

Wordle 1,528 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It got a laugh.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,528 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE 

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ MOUND -> eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MIRTH 🎯

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Daily Octordle #1309

9️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣🔟

8️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

After my eliminator, two words were identical 50/50s. It didn’t matter which of the two letter possibilities I chose first, which got things off to a rousing start.

Spoiler

TRACE

GHOUL 🎯 <- eliminator

GLAZE 🎯

GLADE 🎯

GOODY 🎯

COPSE 🎯

REPEL 🎯

BRIEF 🎯

PIANO 🎯

KAPPA 🎯

Both 2L and 3L had the same GLA_E pattern. One of them would be glaze, and the other glade. 🙂

The whole thing proceeded with ease.

Daily Octordle #1309

PIANO 9️⃣6️⃣ COPSE

GLADE 4️⃣5️⃣ GOODY

GLAZE 3️⃣🔟 KAPPA

BRIEF 8️⃣7️⃣ REPEL

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1309

2️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣🕚

5️⃣8️⃣

Score: 51

Two early bits of solving are swamped by the challenges of the final word. 

Spoiler

TRACE

TEACH 🎯

HASTE 🎯🍀 could have been bathe, but I thought it less likely than haste

MOUND  <- eliminator

NICHE 🎯

SUMAC 🎯

KNACK 🎯

IMPEL 🎯

EXPAT 🎯

WORDY 💣

ROWDY 🎯

That wretched final word caught me again.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1309

TEACH 2️⃣7️⃣ KNACK

EXPAT 9️⃣3️⃣ HASTE

SUMAC 6️⃣🕚 ROWDY

NICHE 5️⃣8️⃣ IMPEL

Score: 51

[springyzone]

I was out yesterday and I did do them on my phone but can't post here if I do that.

I can't remember exactly how I went though both the classic and extreme were in the 50s. I think for one of them I got 52 but cannot recall which one.

Wordle: I am looking at yours and trying to think back.

Ah, pretty sure I've got it now

I went alien/shout/

Then I assumed a _irth pattern as I knew i was not in 3rd position.

Then I unfortunately tried birth

Finally, mirth.

So I took 4 turns to solve.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,529 3/6

🟩⬛⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was a pity. I thought I had an outside chance of solving in 2 but it was not to be!

Spoiler

alien/anger/annex

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1310
🔟6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

This one felt easy, I didn't have to think too hard about it as each solved word seemed to lead to the next.

Spoiler

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1310
🕚6️⃣
9️⃣2️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Although the score looks the same, this was a different game. I started off with a little flurry of excitement as I solved a word on my second turn. It was a bit of a risk actually but I felt it was the likely answer.

I couldn't keep it up though and had to use the usual eliminator next on turn 3.

Then I was moving along through them (having to give a bit more thinking time to some than I had done in the clasic) but I fell on the last hurdle.

Spoiler

I thought they liked briny & that it was a sure thing. Never thought of brink till straight after it and it was a case of, oh yes, there was another possibility after all.😂

[countessalmirena]

I solved these during the night.

Wordle 1,529 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨

⬛🟨🟩🟩⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wanted to confirm or rule out a particular word pattern with the eliminator. (I ruled it out.) That gave me enough to solve it.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,529 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 TRACE

⬛🟨🟩🟩⬛ PANEL <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ANNEX 🎯

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Daily Octordle #1310

9️⃣5️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

🔟8️⃣

7️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

Some usual suspects appeared in this Octordle.

Spoiler

TRACE

GHOUL 🎯 <- eliminator

ALONG 🎯

OLIVE 🎯

OTTER 🎯

BRIAR 🎯🍀 could have been friar

WHISK 🎯

NOSEY 🎯

HAPPY 🎯🍀 could have been hammy

LOFTY 🎯

Olive has popped up rather too frequently of late.

I’m glad that my eliminator contained an H; otherwise, I know I’d have tried “other” for 1R. 

Daily Octordle #1310

HAPPY 9️⃣5️⃣ OTTER

BRIAR 6️⃣4️⃣ OLIVE

LOFTY 🔟8️⃣ NOSEY

WHISK 7️⃣3️⃣ ALONG

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1310

9️⃣6️⃣

3️⃣🔟

4️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

This was remarkably straightforward. One pivotal letter became obvious in my row 4 guess, and that gave me the next two words.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

INGOT 🎯

FILET 🎯

FLORA 🎯

FETID 🎯 US spelling 🙄✍🏻📝

DOZEN 🎯

HEATH 🎯

BRINK🎯 could have been briny

AVIAN 🎯

Having solved 3R, I knew (thankfully) that 1R couldn’t be drink, and the eliminator had already ruled out G, so bring and any other _RING words were also persona non grata.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1310

BRINK 9️⃣6️⃣ FETID

INGOT 3️⃣🔟 AVIAN

FILET 4️⃣7️⃣ DOZEN

FLORA 5️⃣8️⃣ HEATH

Score: 52