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 Octordle #1320
🕚7️⃣
6️⃣🔟
3️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 59

I know, not wonderful but at least I kept it under 60 today.

Spoiler

I wasn't feeling  much inspiration after turn 3. or too much. I don't know.
I was on the wrong track about a few, in any case.
For #6, I was thinking reach/beach etc and #4, rusty/dusty etc, #7 carol/coral/vocal/local,
#3 sober/sower

So I went with another eliminator (crowd).

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,539 3/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I’m very pleased with this.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,539 3/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ FLING <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DRIFT 🎯

I wanted primarily to drill down on the possible consonants. Even in retrospect, this eliminator couldn’t be bettered – and the 3rd row solution is satisfying.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1320
4️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
🕚6️⃣
Score: 53

This one was a tad easier.

I think we have a new word in it today though. It is one that I did not initially have in mind as a possibility at all, but it became obvious further down in the game.

Spoiler

My 5th turn was on a wing and a prayer, as I was tossing up between remit and debit.

Either though would have solved #8 for me. Up till then, I couldn't figure out how to get all the vowels in. All I kept seeing in my mind up till then was the word aisle, which of course it could not be!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1320

8️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

4️⃣🔟

5️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

2L was a small risk (1 in 2) and 3R was an repeat objection.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

TRUSS 🎯

STOOP 🎯

CAROL 🎯

RIVAL 🎯

DEVIL 🎯

GECKO 🎯

SOWER 🎯 could have been sober

REHAB 🎯 I object! (again)

Gecko at 1L was nicely logical to resolve. There was a green E in 2nd position, and with the O ruled out of 3rd and 4th position (due to STOOP), it had to be 5th. The C was ruled out of 1st position because of CAROL, and out of 4th position because of TRACE, and there wasn’t anything else to fit the _EC_O pattern.

Daily Octordle #1320

GECKO 8️⃣7️⃣ DEVIL

SOWER 9️⃣3️⃣ TRUSS

STOOP 4️⃣🔟 REHAB

CAROL 5️⃣6️⃣ RIVAL

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1320

3️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣🕚

8️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣4️⃣

Score: 53

A new word and a wrong final guess - it’s chock full of interesting things.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

CHIEF 🎯

AEGIS 🎯

FAVOR 🎯🍀 could have been foray; US spelling, ugh

TULIP 🎯🍀 could have been timid

RIPER 🎯

DEBIT 🎯

BELLY 🎯

BUNNY 💣

BUZZY 🎯

“Aegis” hasn’t made an appearance previously, I believe. 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1320

CHIEF 3️⃣5️⃣ FAVOR

BELLY 9️⃣🕚 BUZZY

DEBIT 8️⃣6️⃣ TULIP

RIPER 7️⃣4️⃣ AEGIS

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1320
🕚7️⃣
6️⃣🔟
3️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 59

I know, not wonderful but at least I kept it under 60 today.

Spoiler

I wasn't feeling  much inspiration after turn 3. or too much. I don't know.
I was on the wrong track about a few, in any case.
For #6, I was thinking reach/beach etc and #4, rusty/dusty etc, #7 carol/coral/vocal/local,
#3 sober/sower

So I went with another eliminator (crowd).

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That second eliminator was actually a stroke of genius. Yes, it affected the score, but you uncovered vital letters and zipped through the rest of it with ease. There are times when the score just doesn’t reflect how well played a particular Octordle may be.

[springyzone]

Thanks for saying my eliminator was a stroke of genius. That did make me laugh.

It was all I could think of at the time.

Ah well, another day done & dusted.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,540 4/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/quell (it seemed like a good idea at the time. It was the word that came instantly to mind & I figured it would give L a decent run too.
The next word to pop into my mind was bugle, but thanks to quell, at least i knew that one was wrong.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1321
6️⃣🕚
8️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
Score: 53

This didn't work out too badly as one word led to another for a while.

Spoiler

I did have a moment of worry with #1, debating brawn/drawn, but brawn seemed more likely. I guess it could have been prawn too but I only just thought of that.
Fell on the last hurdle, as I often seem to do, with plume instead of flume.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1321
🔟3️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
🕚7️⃣
Score: 57

Just trying to remember what i did wrong here to blow the score out but I think I used another eliminator.

Spoiler

Yes, i did, crave.

Things started smoothly but by the mid point I was befogged (they would like that word).
I had in fact been rattled slightly on the turn before (turn 5) with pants as I had all the letters but could not believe a word would end in S, so i was worried about that one.

But then I was left with
#1, maybe couch or vouch
#6, shirt or shift
#7, borax or foamy
#8, edict or evict
#3, all I could think of was carpe.

Luckily, crave sorted some words out and I solved them before I tried #3, as I had not thought of that answer. That might be a new one on octordle. They are getting adventurous, an unused word 2 days in a row.