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 Octordle #1329

7️⃣8️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣2️⃣

9️⃣🔟

Score: 51

Without a doubt, luck was with me. No less than four words were “could be”s, and the worst of them was the final word at 4R.

Spoiler

TRACE

TEASE 🎯

HOUND <- eliminator

HUNCH 🎯

STEED 🎯

PRIED 🎯🍀 could have been dried, fried

BARON 🎯🍀 could have been rayon, rowan 

PUFFY 🎯🍀 could have been puppy, pulpy

SPOOF 🎯

LIVER 🎯🍀 could have been giver, jiver, liker, mimer, mixer, viler

Daily Octordle #1329

BARON 7️⃣8️⃣ PUFFY

PRIED 6️⃣4️⃣ HUNCH

STEED 5️⃣2️⃣ TEASE

SPOOF 9️⃣🔟 LIVER

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1329

7️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

🔟8️⃣

Score: 52

Round and round the mulberry bush we go...

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

DRYLY 🎯🍀 could have been wryly

GUILT 🎯

FRILL 🎯🍀 could have been krill

VALID 🎯

GLOSS 🎯 

MILKY 🎯

SHUNT 🎯 could have been stunt

WARTY 🍀🎯 could have been ratty or party

Again, you can see all of the could-be bunkers on this word-course, just waiting to trap me. The most notable one is 4L, my final word: yet again the ratty-warty-party dilemma. I chose warty this time because it was party last time.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1329

GLOSS 7️⃣6️⃣ VALID

SHUNT 9️⃣5️⃣ FRILL

DRYLY 3️⃣4️⃣ GUILT

WARTY 🔟8️⃣ MILKY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,549 2/6

🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bit of luck happening today with 2 greens to start it off.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1330
6️⃣7️⃣
🕚5️⃣
🔟8️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
Score: 60

Alas, a really stupid, impetuous move on turn 3. It could have been avoided if i had paid greater attention.

Spoiler

#8 could have been krill but I thought grill more likely.
#3, i was tossing up grape/grave but solving purer helped out there.
All in all, I let myself down on turn 3 but after that it went okay.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1330
6️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣🕚
7️⃣🔟
5️⃣2️⃣
Score: 54

I actually solved one on turn 2, so i felt quite chuffed.

One of my old eliminator words!

But after that, it was harder and I had to use a couple more eliminators.

Spoiler

After using O in ocean, I was torn what eliminator to use next & settled on shtum. The M didn't end up helping at all except in the sense it was out of the game.

Later I used befog as eliminator.
I was torn on #6, considering bully, fully, gully & only thought of bulky later. I went for bulky because I was also stuck on #4-stake, spate, skate. Lots of K possibilities.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,549 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

One of my favourite eliminators provided me with a field of yellow. 🌻🌻🌻🌼🌻

Spoiler

Wordle 1,549 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨 LOGIN <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALONG 🎯

Things didn’t look wonderful after the starter. But LOGIN gave me all of the remaining letters. The rest was as easy as opening a window.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 1,549 2/6

🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bit of luck happening today with 2 greens to start it off.

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An excellent result! I thought you’d get this in 2, and had this medal prepared for you: 🏅

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1330

4️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣2️⃣

9️⃣🔟

5️⃣7️⃣

Score: 51

This Octordle… It was like driving a wagon without any suspension, where the first half or so of the journey was safe enough, but then came a crossing, and I had to make my way over a rickety bridge that spanned a rock-strewn chasm.

Spoiler

TRACE

TACIT 🎯🍀 could have been tacky

LOBUS <- eliminator

DEBUT 🎯

THESE 🎯

FLEET 🎯

GRILL 🎯🍀 could have been krill

GRAVE 🎯🍀 could have been graze, grape

PURER 🎯🍀 could have been upper

ROOST 🎯

I wanted an eliminator with O and U, that included L and S or N, and with B or P as I could see already they’d reveal crucial Octordle information. LOBUS did perfectly well; I could solve the next three words without a hitch.

Then came 4R. Grill/krill. It is usually grill, and so it was here. (But this was the bit where I sensed that rickety bridge/rocky chasm.)

That removed the possibility of frame, brake, brave for 2L, leaving only grape, grace, graze. Choice needed, and it was a lucky one.

3L - I had only yellow: U, E, R. With the remaining letters, Octordle could only offer two possible words. One of those was an Octordle stalwart (purer) and I decided to play it. Luck, again.

Finally, the final word at 3R… It could have been worst or roost, but with the R in 3rd position (from purer) now showing yellow, worst was ruled out. Bridge safely crossed.

Daily Octordle #1330

DEBUT 4️⃣6️⃣ FLEET

GRAVE 8️⃣2️⃣ TACIT

PURER 9️⃣🔟 ROOST

THESE 5️⃣7️⃣ GRILL

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1330

7️⃣2️⃣

🔟8️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣3️⃣

Score: 50

How I dared to make that first guess…! Far too risky. It worked out but the odds against should have stopped me.

Spoiler

TRACE

CEDAR 🎯🍀 could have been caver, clear, cager, caner, carer, caper, facer, lacer, macer, recap, serac

OCEAN 🎯

HILUS <- eliminator

HEADY🎯

DEVIL 🎯

HITCH 🎯

SKATE 🎯🍀 could have been stake, spate, stage

BULKY 🎯

FIXER 🎯🍀 could have been rifer

Gut feeling with cedar - what a risk! But my instinct went from “clear?” to “cedar!” in a nanosecond… My logic took a back seat and gut feeling took over.

Ocean (4R) was obvious.

I wanted an eliminator with U and I, S, L, possibly B or H or P or G… I chose hilus and that gave me heady which gave me devil and hitch.

I could have made a guess at 3R - bully, fully, gully, pulpy, bulky - but there were fewer risks with 2R. Skate was lucky, and it solved 3R as well. That left 2L - a 50/50.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1330

HITCH 7️⃣2️⃣ CEDAR

FIXER 🔟8️⃣ SKATE

DEVIL 6️⃣9️⃣ BULKY

HEADY 5️⃣3️⃣ OCEAN

Score: 50

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,550 4/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Can't say I love this choice of word for the game.

Spoiler

alien/shout
After which I am at a loss, with words like cleft clanging around in my head. Obviously not 'it'.
Fudgy
Lefty