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 #1316

5️⃣🔟

3️⃣4️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

This was as steady as a metronome.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

GRAFT 🎯

BANJO 🎯

WRING 🎯

INLET 🎯

COLIC 🎯

BLOND 🎯 US spelling

GLEAM 🎯

UNDUE 🎯🍀 could have been endue

It all came together in harmony.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1316

WRING 5️⃣🔟 UNDUE

GRAFT 3️⃣4️⃣ BANJO

COLIC 7️⃣6️⃣ INLET

BLOND 8️⃣9️⃣ GLEAM

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,536 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
Third word was frame. I was trying to figure out if it could be fight/might/right

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1317
2️⃣8️⃣
🕚6️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Realy, really, not my finest hour, although the score may look reasonable.

Spoiler

As you'll see, I started off well, with solving a word on my second turn.
After that, I used shout but I was still in a happy mind frame.
Till the end.😟
I looked at #3 and letters in play and immediately thought... broke, I have got it!
I even typed in broke and was about to press enter when I thought, no no no, there is no B in first place.
Disaster averted, lucky I saw that trap in time!
So I thought.. has to be probe then.. isn't it lucky I didn't type in broke!
I quickly entered probe, only to realise, idiot! The O could not go there, it was no more possible than broke.
Solved eventually but not a proud moment.😂

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1317
7️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
🕛4️⃣
🔟9️⃣
Score: 61

Even worse.

Although I feel I never made any majot blunders, as such.

Spoiler

My major mistake was using another eliminator on turn 3. I feel that if I had focussed more on #2, I should have solved it on turn 3 as I never received much more in the way of useful information for this word after turn 2 anyway so should have solved it way earlier.
I was hung up on #6, thinking scout or spout & it ended up being neither.
Slight risk on #8 as I think I was debating speak or spade.
Then the very next turn, another eliminator (badge). Forget exactly why-think I was trying to cover a few more letters to get a clue.

[springyzone]

major, not majot. But the system will not allow me to revise. It does this sometimes, to punish me for not being more careful in the first place!

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,536 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I’m very happy with this Wordle result.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,536 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 MIDST <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MIGHT 🎯

I was hovering between PILOT, MIDST, HOIST and FLINT as the eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1317

3️⃣9️⃣

7️⃣4️⃣

🔟5️⃣

8️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

The order, the order - take care of the order, and the order will take care of you (said in a mystical Karate-Kid-mentor tone).

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

ANGEL 🎯

FLINT 🎯

BILGE 🎯

STONE 🎯

OMBRE 🎯

SLYLY 🎯

ROUTE 🎯

QUEEN 🎯

Had I tried to solve 4L (SLYLY) before 2L (OMBRE), I’d probably have played SLUMP, and that would have wrong. OMBRE was conducive to being solved, and the rest is history.

Daily Octordle #1317

ANGEL 3️⃣9️⃣ ROUTE

OMBRE 7️⃣4️⃣ FLINT

QUEEN 🔟5️⃣ BILGE

SLYLY 8️⃣6️⃣ STONE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1317

🔟7️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣6️⃣

2️⃣3️⃣

Score: 46

I was strangely sure-footed on this precipice of words, like an adept mountain goat. 🐐🗻

Spoiler

TRACE

TWEAK 🎯

SPEAK 🍀 could have been bleak; worth the risk

SLURP 🎯

SNOOP 🎯

STOUT 🎯

QUOTA 🎯

MIDGY <- eliminator

MANGE 🎯

FILLY 🎯🍀 could have been billy, hilly, jilly

At first, I thought my lucky start would be the only solved word without an eliminator. The whole thing continued with such ease (after I took the SPEAK risk) that I I performed little mental skips of glee.

But I did need an eliminator after QUOTA. I had only a yellow A, a yellow N and a green final E for 3L: also, a single yellow L for 1L. To maximise the chances of getting the correct letters from the pool of remaining unplayed ones, I used MIDGY. Ding! Bullseye! MANGE revealed itself… and also it was clear that 1L was _ILLY. I had to risk another guess - but all went well.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1317

FILLY 🔟7️⃣ QUOTA

SNOOP 5️⃣4️⃣ SLURP

MANGE 9️⃣6️⃣ STOUT

TWEAK 2️⃣3️⃣ SPEAK

Score: 46

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1317
2️⃣8️⃣
🕚6️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Realy, really, not my finest hour, although the score may look reasonable.

Spoiler

As you'll see, I started off well, with solving a word on my second turn.
After that, I used shout but I was still in a happy mind frame.
Till the end.😟
I looked at #3 and letters in play and immediately thought... broke, I have got it!
I even typed in broke and was about to press enter when I thought, no no no, there is no B in first place.
Disaster averted, lucky I saw that trap in time!
So I thought.. has to be probe then.. isn't it lucky I didn't type in broke!
I quickly entered probe, only to realise, idiot! The O could not go there, it was no more possible than broke.
Solved eventually but not a proud moment.😂

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Spoiler

Oh no! The old avoided-one-trap-only-to-fall-into-another-trap trick! That’s the third time I’ve avoided that this week! 😄 

Luckily you had that head start. You still had an excellent result.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1317
7️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
🕛4️⃣
🔟9️⃣
Score: 61

Even worse.

Although I feel I never made any majot blunders, as such.

Spoiler

My major mistake was using another eliminator on turn 3. I feel that if I had focussed more on #2, I should have solved it on turn 3 as I never received much more in the way of useful information for this word after turn 2 anyway so should have solved it way earlier.
I was hung up on #6, thinking scout or spout & it ended up being neither.
Slight risk on #8 as I think I was debating speak or spade.
Then the very next turn, another eliminator (badge). Forget exactly why-think I was trying to cover a few more letters to get a clue.

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Spoiler

Hmmm… Yes, you could have solved #2 with what you had, because of where the U was not allowed to go. But you would probably have needed either a lucky guess or another eliminator on the next round to go forward.

I just realised I’d ignored the possibility of SHOUT in my solving. I didn’t rule it out for a logical reason - just gut instinct. But I did have the benefit of having ruled out C, P, N, so of course you used PRICY!