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 🤣

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Wordle 1,553 2/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Four yellows - but I still needed to guess!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,553 2/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨 TRACE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LATER 🎯

I didn’t use a logical eliminator; gut feeling drove this guess from a field of 17.

It could have been extra, after, aster, alter, alert, avert, earth, hater, water, dater, pater, rater, eater, mater, rated, retag.

EDIT: snap! We both solved this Wordle sooner rather than … etc.

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Daily Octordle #1334

3️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣🕚

5️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 53

One trap avoided… another got the better of me.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

THIGH 🎯

FUNGI 🎯

NYMPH 🎯

FIFTY 🎯

HILLY 🎯

SHEEN 🎯

SPASM 🎯🍀 could have been swamp

VOWEL 💣

DOWEL 🎯🍀 could still have been bowel

4L - I had the green S and A, and yellow P. I could so easily have been lured into playing “swamp”.

2R - I had the green E, and yellow O and L. It was a 1 in 3 situation: vowel, dowel, bowel. I made a wrong guess.

Daily Octordle #1334

THIGH 3️⃣7️⃣ HILLY

FIFTY 6️⃣🕚 DOWEL

NYMPH 5️⃣4️⃣ FUNGI

SPASM 9️⃣8️⃣ SHEEN

Score: 53

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1334

5️⃣8️⃣

🔟7️⃣

3️⃣9️⃣

4️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

Another 50/50 for the final word… but this time, luck smiled.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS -> eliminator

CORPS 🎯

LOUSY 🎯

VIDEO 🎯

VAPID 🎯

STASH 🎯

TENTH 🎯

EJECT 🎯

SHELL 🎯🍀 could have been shelf

It was interesting to see “tenth” make an appearance after yesterday. I didn’t need any whittling down of possibilities; it could only have been “tenth”.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1334

VIDEO 5️⃣8️⃣ TENTH

SHELL 🔟7️⃣ STASH

CORPS 3️⃣9️⃣ EJECT

LOUSY 4️⃣6️⃣ VAPID

Score: 52

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Wordle 1,554 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

 I think I chose the best eliminator in the circumstances. It still left me needing to gallop towards the quintain, but fortune graced me.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,554 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 LINED <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DEFER 🎯

My eliminator reduced the many possibilities to a much more manageable bunch.

I therefore laid out the possibilities as:

defer, odder, udder, rodeo, ruder, doper, dozer, edger.

My gut said “defer”.

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Daily Octordle #1335

8️⃣9️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

🔟5️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

No real surprises. There was a bit of a hazard with 1R, but I was lucky.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

TAROT 🎯

CURLY 🎯

METRO 🎯🍀 could have been retro

SNARE 🎯

SCOUT 🎯

CLIMB 🎯

FILLY 🎯🍀 could have been dilly, hilly

EVOKE 🎯

Daily Octordle #1335

CLIMB 8️⃣9️⃣ FILLY

TAROT 3️⃣4️⃣ CURLY

EVOKE 🔟5️⃣ METRO

SNARE 6️⃣7️⃣ SCOUT

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1335

4️⃣9️⃣

🔟7️⃣

3️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

Oh, this was tricky and smug. Yes, it was SMUG. It knew it was being difficult, and revelled in it.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO -> eliminator

RIGOR 🎯🍀 could have been vigor - US spelling 

RAMEN 🎯🍀 could have been raven

EMCEE 🎯

DRAFT 🎯🍀 could have been wrath

HABIT 🎯🍀 could have been waist

NOBLY 🎯

BLOKE 🎯

SUING 🎯🍀 could have been using, swing 

The first trap - vigor/rigor - I escaped through chance.

The second by virtue of having been fooled before by a possible raven, at which time I told myself to remember this lesson.

The third - wrath - by mere chance.

The fourth - habit - by being resistant to W, having avoided the W-containing trap of wrath this moment hence.

The last - by deciding on suing as it would rule between the final two possibilities were my guess wrong.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1335

RAMEN 4️⃣9️⃣ BLOKE

SUING 🔟7️⃣ HABIT

RIGOR 3️⃣6️⃣ DRAFT

NOBLY 8️⃣5️⃣ EMCEE

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,554 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout. I had thought there was a good chance there would be another vowel in it.
But not so.
I then assumed either an E in 2/4 position or a double E.
Tried greed in 3rd spot. 
Wrong, but I was lucky it exposed other letters for me.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1335
9️⃣🔟
3️⃣7️⃣
🕚8️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
Score: 58

Spoiler

As you can see, it was a case of so near and yet so far, but I wasn't quite game to jump in with a guess on #8. #7 I suspected sneak or snake or snare.
#3 at least was easy.

Then I hit a wall and decided I badly needed to know about letters C and M at the very least, and used comfy. After that, smooth all the way but of course it cost me.

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1335
9️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
🔟🕚
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 56

Fractionally better, but only because I didn't use a 3rd eliminator quite as early.

Spoiler

I resisted #2 as long as I could. I thought, "Surely it couldn't be..". It is such an Aussie word.
I used famed as 3rd eliminator. 
I had #1 tagged as likely raven and#5 tagged as vigor up till that stage.
And luckily for me, it gave me a lead on #8 as I figured there had to be a 3rd E in it but my brain was foggy up till then, very foggy.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,555 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ze leetle grey cells, zey suspect who it is! (In full Hercules Poirot mode… I suspected the word immediately.)

Spoiler

Wordle 1,555 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 TRACE

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 LINGO <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COVEN 🎯

I didn’t use the best eliminator in terms of pure logic, but I had a gut feeling that the answer was coven.