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 #1314

5️⃣3️⃣

🔟6️⃣

4️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

Horrible. The whole thing teetered on loose planks. My first three were all guesses, and what’s worse, they became riskier as I moved from guess 1 to guess 3. Oh, this could have gone terribly wrong.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

SIREN 🎯🍀 could have been risen

RISER 🎯🍀 could have been wiser, miser

DRILL 🎯🍀 could have been frill, krill, brill, grill

PHONE 🎯

INLAY 🎯 *

HENCE 🎯

AVERT 🎯

OMEGA 🎯

My nerves were shattered after those first three risky guesses.  By the time I got to “phone”, I couldn’t be sure whether it was logic or mere chance that drove me.

Daily Octordle #1314

DRILL 5️⃣3️⃣ SIREN

OMEGA 🔟6️⃣ PHONE

RISER 4️⃣7️⃣ INLAY

AVERT 9️⃣8️⃣ HENCE

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1314

5️⃣6️⃣

🔟3️⃣

7️⃣4️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

… And it didn’t get much better here. I don’t know how I got through this. I didn’t deserve the 52; it was blind luck.

The first two words were fine, admittedly, but 1L …? A wild 1 in 6!

Spoiler

TRACE

LOGIN <- eliminator

CONCH 🎯

TONER 🎯

SHAPE 🎯🍀🎱 could have been shake, shade, shame, shave, heave

PURÉE 🎯🍀 could have been rupee

EXCEL 🎯

ARBOR 🎯🍀🎱 could have been ardor, armour, all with US spelling

ALLEY 🎯

GUTSY 🎯🍀 could have been gusty

I’m using the 8-ball to indicate sheer risky luck.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1314

SHAPE 5️⃣6️⃣ PUREE

GUTSY 🔟3️⃣ CONCH

EXCEL 7️⃣4️⃣ TONER

ARBOR 8️⃣9️⃣ ALLEY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,534 3/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

This was just luck.
After my first 2 turns, my initial thought was .. later. 
But it couldn't be that, so I reversed the vowels into the 2/4 pattern and put L at the end and tried petal. After that, I realised... metal? So.. lucky.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1315
6️⃣🔟
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕚
3️⃣5️⃣
Score: 59

I can't complain too much, the results were under 60 today, which is always a bonus for me.

Spoiler

I was on the point of making my 3rd try another eliminator because I couldn't see my way cleat to a straightforward guess. But then I saw #6 and thought... 3 vowels, I should be able to come up with something here. I was pretty sure the i would go in front of O and the e at the end, and this is a word that has been out a few times before, so I went for it.
As the extreme game showed me later though, I was actually lucky this guess turned out.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1315
6️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
🔟🕚
Score: 56

Spoiler

Imagine my surprise to see #1 was a replica of results in the classic, where I went for biome on turn 3.
They wouldn't have the same answer again, would they? or was it a double bluff? In any case, #3 was clear cut, so safer to try that.
And just like that, biome was off the table. I didn't figure it out till later.

But I was stuck. #6, stoop, story, stork. I fancied stoop.
#2, grown, frown, brown. I fancied grown, for no logical reason.
#7, thought might be relit.
#8, no clear idea but maybe rally?
So I used gripy as eliminator. probably not perfect, but it did the job.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,534 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨

🟨🟨🟩🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator brought it down to 2 possibilities.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,534 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨🟨🟩🟨⬛ LATEX <- eliminator/guess

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PETAL 🎯 could have been metal

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Daily Octordle #1315

3️⃣9️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

🔟2️⃣

Score: 50

What a relief. This is much better than yesterday’s.

Spoiler

TRACE

MERCY 🎯🍀 could have been perch

FERAL 🎯

HOIKS <- eliminator

LANKY 🎯

FLANK 🎯

FLUSH 🎯

CRUST 🎯

SHADY 🎯

BIOME 🎯

Daily Octordle #1315

FERAL 3️⃣9️⃣ SHADY

CRUST 8️⃣7️⃣ FLUSH

FLANK 6️⃣5️⃣ LANKY

BIOME 🔟2️⃣ MERCY

Score: 50

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1315

7️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣2️⃣

5️⃣🕚

4️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

One misstep at the end: nevertheless, it was not a bad Octordle result, although there is an objection.

Spoiler

TRACE

CADET 🎯

LINGO <- eliminator

LEGIT 🎯 I object! Your Honour, this is outrageous!

ATTIC 🎯

GROWN 🎯

DIODE 🎯

LARVA 🎯

SMITH 🎯

STORY 💣

STORK 🎯

There it was: the Y/K dilemma.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1315

DIODE 7️⃣6️⃣ GROWN

SMITH 9️⃣2️⃣ CADET

ATTIC 5️⃣🕚 STORK

LEGIT 4️⃣8️⃣ LARVA

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,535 2/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Holy lucky guess, Batman!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,535 2/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 TRACE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST 🎯🎯🍀

It could have been beast, feast, yeast, leant, meant, dealt, exalt, beaut, death, heath, leapt, meaty, peaty. An eliminator like balmy or delph or sylph or spend could have reduced the possibilities – but not enough to provide certainty.

I decided to just dive in with a a guess. (1 in 14.)

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1316

8️⃣7️⃣

🔟4️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

There was really only one spot in this where the road ahead split into three with unreadable signposts.

Spoiler

TRACE

HONGI <- eliminator

HUNKY 🎯

QUOTH 🎯

QUILL 🎯 could have been quiff but I thought it unlikely

SLING 🎯🍀 could have been bling, fling

ERASE 🎯

MODAL 🎯

SMELL 🎯

OVERT 🎯

After solving 4L (quill), I was at a bit of a standstill. 3L and 3R were both enticing but with one crucial letter out of reach. I assumed the inclusion of S for 3R (hence pattern of S_ELL - smell, spell, swell - but it could also have been dwell) but also assumed the pattern of _LING for 3L. Whatever I did would be a risk. But if I made a guess of sling, and it was wrong, then I’d know 3R must be dwell and I’d have further information to solve the remaining words.

It was right.

I then had enough to solve 1R, and the shrinking pool of letters also meant I could solve 1L, which in turn gave me the M for 3R. 2L was simple to solve from the remaining letters.

Daily Octordle #1316

MODAL 8️⃣7️⃣ ERASE

OVERT 🔟4️⃣ QUOTH

SLING 6️⃣9️⃣ SMELL

QUILL 5️⃣3️⃣ HUNKY

Score: 52