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 #1331
6️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
🔟7️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

I didn't feel much inspiration at first and wasn't sure I would solve on turn 3 till I saw #7. After that, most of the words fell into place but I did feel anxious about my last turn (#5). Space or spade

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1331
6️⃣🕚
8️⃣🔟
3️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
Score: 58

Spoiler

Olive? Again? I could hardly believe it last time and here it was popping up once more. I keep suspecting a trap but could not see what else it could be.

Things came to a halt after that for me.
I suspected #1 black or possibly flack,  #2 hutch or Dutch, #3 no clue but probably O in second spot at least.
#7 blank or flank or plank, #8 bunny, funny, runny

I used fudgy as eliminator. The Y in #1 surprised me & later the C in #7 did as well. 

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,550 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The answer is unsatisfactory.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,550 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ FOILS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEFTY 🎯

I almost used boils as my eliminator; I had vague suspicions of betel as the answer.

Lefty is one of those words to which I object. I’ll need to stomp about a bit with an annoyed expression and a sign saying “LEFTY: IT’S AN INFORMAL ABBREV.”

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1331

8️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

2️⃣🔟

4️⃣5️⃣

Score: 51

Although this had two spots of risk, they weren’t enormous risks (especially the last one which was 50/50h)

Spoiler

TRACE

SPACE 🎯🍀 could have been place, apace, peace, glacé

LINGO <- eliminator

AGENT 🎯

ERUPT 🎯

GIVEN 🎯

GLOBE 🎯

NOBLY 🎯

MISER 🎯🍀 could have been wiser

AMITY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1331

NOBLY 8️⃣6️⃣ GIVEN

MISER 9️⃣7️⃣ GLOBE

SPACE 2️⃣🔟 AMITY

AGENT 4️⃣5️⃣ ERUPT

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1331

7️⃣9️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣🕚

4️⃣6️⃣

Score: 53

Wrong guess on the last word…

Spoiler

TRACE

BOUND <- eliminator

DUTCH 🎯

CLANK 🎯🍀 could have been clang

KNELT 🎯

FUNNY 🎯 could have been dunny (unlikely), punny

FLAKY 🎯

COMBO 🎯I object

ERROR 🎯

GLOVE 💣

OLIVE 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1331

FLAKY 7️⃣9️⃣ ERROR

DUTCH 3️⃣8️⃣ COMBO

KNELT 5️⃣🕚 OLIVE

CLANK 4️⃣6️⃣ FUNNY

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

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

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I agree!

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,551 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Obviously my eliminator did the heavy lifting …

Spoiler

Wordle 1,551 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 TENTH <- eliminator/guess

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TEETH 🎯

So… it was the chompers all along…

After the starter, it could have been tenet, tenth, teeth, testy, tepid, tempo, tempi, teddy, thief, theft, tweed, tweet, token, towel, totem.

I decided on tenth as my combined guess/eliminator. The outcome patterns of green, yellow and blank tiles would be extremely helpful.

If totem, g_yy_

If towel, g__y_

If token, g__yy

If tweet, g_y_y

If tweed, g_y__

If theft, gyy_y

If thief, gy_y_

If teddy, gg___

If tempi, gg___

If tempo, gg___

If tepid, gg___

If testy, gg_y_

If teeth, gg_gg

If tenth, ggggg

If tenet, ggg_y

So… there would be a unique result for each possible word if I played tenth - except for tepid, teddy, tempo or tempi. At the very worst, I’d reduce the field down to 4; at best, I’d guess the word on row 2. Most likely, I’d have it on row 3.

🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷 And so it was.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1332

4️⃣🔟

5️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣8️⃣

7️⃣2️⃣

Score: 51

This has a dreamlike simplicity.

Spoiler

TRACE

TAKER 🎯🍀 could have been tamer, taper

LINGO <- eliminator

ALIGN 🎯

GAMUT 🎯

BULGE 🎯

GORGE 🎯

JUICY 🎯

SMELT 🎯

VERVE 🎯

Daily Octordle #1332

ALIGN 4️⃣🔟 VERVE

GAMUT 5️⃣9️⃣ SMELT

BULGE 6️⃣8️⃣ JUICY

GORGE 7️⃣2️⃣ TAKER

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1332

2️⃣5️⃣

7️⃣4️⃣

🕚3️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 49

Good luck proceeded with me until we came to the final word.

Spoiler

TRACE

ECLAT 🎯🍀 could have been cheat, but we’ve had that recently 

CRIME 🎯🍀 could have been crude, crone, crème, crêpe

CACHE 🎯

METAL 🎯

SOUND <- eliminator

MAMBO 🎯

BALER 🎯

AWARE 🎯

RIDER 💣

DIVER 🎯

I wouldn’t have guessed baler for 4L if it hadn’t been for the 2L (mambo) result; it would probably have been paler.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1332

ECLAT 2️⃣5️⃣ METAL

MAMBO 7️⃣4️⃣ CACHE

DIVER 🕚3️⃣ CRIME

BALER 8️⃣9️⃣ AWARE

Score: 49