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]

Wordle 1,566 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
birth-risky, probably should have tried another eliminator, but I was expecting the R, at least, to be green.
width

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1347
7️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
🕚8️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

By turn 4, I was really stuck as every spot had more than one possibility and some had loads.
Once I got to 4 or 5 possibilities, I stopped even considering any more.
If I had had to guess on turn 4, I would have tried rebut for #3, trait for #6 and boost for #8 & all would have been wrong. Lucky I went for an eliminator (pricy) and I had to laugh as price had not even been one of my thoughts for #2, I'd been thinking bride, drive, pride etc

All in all, lucky to get it in under 60.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1347
9️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
🔟🕛
3️⃣8️⃣
Score: 57

Fractionally better but I was not inspired.

Spoiler

Again, most of my hunches would have been wrong in this one, had I gone with them.

I agonised over turn 4-throw or throb, but throw was first to occur to me so I went with it & was lucky.

Had the R not shown up in #4, I was then ready to go with fetch, which would have been wrong.
I made mistakes in #1 (poker instead of joker) & #6 (offer instead of odder), probably should have used another eliminator.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,567 5/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien
shout
pricy

So A S P,  but word starting with S
swamp, which was all I could think of & was convinced was probably it.

Finally, spasm.

[springyzone]

I am quietly pleased with the results of this one, even though it is 52 , it felt like an achievement for me.

Daily Octordle #1348
7️⃣3️⃣
🔟6️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

Spoiler

After my first 2 turns, I didn't feel I had a lot to go on to make a sure fire guess.
But before another eliminator, I decided to look at #2, as there are a limited number of letters that go before L, plus I could see it wasn't a double E.
I tried fleck, there are other possibilities (eg clerk) but I was lucky and after that, the rest gradually fell into place.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1348
4️⃣3️⃣
🕚8️⃣
6️⃣🕛
7️⃣5️⃣
Score: 56

Mistakes, mistakes, I made a couple in this one.

I call foul on #6 though.

It is where I made one of my mistakes, so maybe i am biased.

I was stumped for a while for any answer, after my mistake.

I actually tried it with other left over letters (which were rejected, as I expected) till I came to the solution.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1348
4️⃣3️⃣
🕚8️⃣
6️⃣🕛
7️⃣5️⃣
Score: 56

Spoiler

[countessalmirena]

I neglected to post yesterday’s; here they are.

Wordle 1566 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  

I had it down to two possibilities.

Spoiler

Wordle 1566 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ DINGO <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WIDTH 🎯

It could have been midst.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1347

4️⃣2️⃣

7️⃣🔟

8️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

Score: 49

I interrogated the guilty suspects until they cracked!

Spoiler

TRACE

PRICE 🎯

TACIT 🎯

RELIC 🎯

MOUND -> eliminator

PURER 🎯

DEBUT 🎯

GRAVE 🎯

ROOST 🎯

FLEET 🎯

4R - Until I solved 2L (debut), 4R could have been robot or roost.

3L - it was _RA_E, so the letters B, D, F, G, K, M, and V were all in the pool of suspects. After mound and debut, only G, K and V remained, which narrowed down potential words to … one.

Daily Octordle #1347

RELIC 4️⃣2️⃣ PRICE

DEBUT 7️⃣🔟 FLEET

GRAVE 8️⃣3️⃣ TACIT

PURER 6️⃣9️⃣ ROOST

Score: 49

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1347

🕚4️⃣

7️⃣2️⃣

6️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣🔟

Score: 53

Tricky. The same suspects could have committed various crimes, and only by making an accusation could I break their alibis… 

Spoiler

TRACE

RETCH 🎯

LOGIN <- eliminator

THROW 🎯 (thorn ruled out)

ANTIC 🎯

AGONY 🎯 

CRUMB 🎯🍀 could have been crump

ODDER 🎯🍀 could have been offer

POKER 💣 (suspects were: poser, poker, joker - now I knew it must be joker. I put this on ice)

SHAKE 🎯 (suspects had been shave, shake, shape) 

JOKER 🎯

2L (crumb) was a risk, but only a small one.

3R was a bigger risk as offer was a serious contender. I chose odder mostly because it would at least remove (or reveal) shade from the suspect list for 4R.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1347

JOKER 🕚4️⃣ THROW

CRUMB 7️⃣2️⃣ RETCH

AGONY 6️⃣8️⃣ ODDER

ANTIC 5️⃣🔟 SHAKE

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1347
7️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
🕚8️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

By turn 4, I was really stuck as every spot had more than one possibility and some had loads.
Once I got to 4 or 5 possibilities, I stopped even considering any more.
If I had had to guess on turn 4, I would have tried rebut for #3, trait for #6 and boost for #8 & all would have been wrong. Lucky I went for an eliminator (pricy) and I had to laugh as price had not even been one of my thoughts for #2, I'd been thinking bride, drive, pride etc

All in all, lucky to get it in under 60.

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Yes, after you solved that first word, there was no clear path forward. Given the letters available, you played it perfectly, and the score doesn’t reflect that.