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 Extreme Octordle #1351
9️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣🔟
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

This game was surprisingly similar, in that I didn't feel torn between choices. One answer helped towards the next.
I did wonder about crier/cried/drier/dried early on, but even that sorted itself out.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1351

6️⃣3️⃣

🔟7️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

This felt lopsided, somehow…. It was not as smoothly flowing as I’d have liked. Logical, yes. Ah well, I’m probably being persnickety.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

SCANT 🎯

SMOCK 🎯

TITHE 🎯

TEMPO 🎯

TROLL 🎯

SOBER 🎯🍀 could have been sorer, sower

BOWEL 🎯

LAUGH 🎯

It was fortunate that my eliminator included an H. That helped to set things on the move from 3R (smock - shock ruled out) onwards.

But half of the time, elements of solved words led nowhere. The N of scant…? Nowhere. The P of tempo? Nowhere. Admittedly the Ls of troll helped with bowel and laugh, and the B of sober helped to uncover bowel as well, but you see what I mean about its being lopsided?

Daily Octordle #1351

TEMPO 6️⃣3️⃣ SCANT

LAUGH 🔟7️⃣ TROLL

TITHE 5️⃣4️⃣ SMOCK

SOBER 8️⃣9️⃣ BOWEL

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1351

8️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣🔟

4️⃣3️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

A careful approach got me through.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

FORGO 🎯 

LONER 🎯

FLUTE 🎯

THEFT 🎯

FIFTH 🎯

PENNY 🎯

DRIED 🎯

SCHWA 🎯

1R was either fifth or fifty; I left it until 4R (theft) ruled in the H.

2R: H was ruled out in 2nd and final position, with C also ruled out of 4th position. Schwa was all it could be.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1351

PENNY 8️⃣7️⃣ FIFTH

DRIED 9️⃣🔟 SCHWA

LONER 4️⃣3️⃣ FORGO

FLUTE 5️⃣6️⃣ THEFT

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,571 5/6

Spoiler

Okay, so it's put a spoiler box up the top. How these things happen to me I don't know sometimes. Must have hit something by accident.
alien/shout

Absolutely no idea so tried colon. Well, you never know! And at least it would try out some O positions.
pylon-very confident. When it was wrong, I looked at it in disbelief. What other letter could it be?
That's when it clicked that we were having a letter used again.
Why I didn't think of nylon straight off, I don't know, as it appears in octordle from time to time.

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This wasn't my finest hour.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1352
5️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣🕚
9️⃣8️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 58

The octordles today weren't that hard but I didn't shine in them, put it that way.

Spoiler

Spoiler

My main bit of luck came at the start. Clean or glean.  I fancied glean more and thought G might be the start of #6 too.
But then after shout, I used another eliminator, crumb, because there were a few too many choices for me to feel safe guessing. 
Just as well I didn't guess as I probably would have said clown or flown before blown.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1352
🔟3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕚
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 59

Just managed to sneak in under 60 on this one.

Spoiler

As you can see, I jumped in with a wrong answer on #7. Why I was fixated on globe, I am not sure, but I had it down for elope or globe, but now realise it could have been clove as well. Or glove, which it ultimately was.

Oh well, at least it ruled out gusty! And it suddenly made #8 clearer.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,571 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh no - the black row of letterlessness!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,571 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ LIONS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 NYLON 🎯

Luckily the lions eliminator came to the rescue. But it could still have been nobly or pylon.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1352

3️⃣7️⃣

4️⃣🔟

2️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣6️⃣

Score: 45

Once I started solving from the 2nd row, I became somewhat determined to avoid an eliminator for as long as possible.

Spoiler

TRACE

GRACE 🎯🍀 could have been brace

SNARE 🎯🍀 could have been share, spare, aware, flare

GLEAN 🎯

BLARE 🎯🍀 could have been flare

BLOWN 🎯

SCOUT 🎯🍀 could have been scoot

FUNNY 🎯🍀 could have been funky

HOVEL 💣

HELLO 🎯

Risks all over the place, but they were risks that I felt inspired to take. Logically I should have played an eliminator at row 3. Really, I didn’t deserve the good luck with snare and blare and scout and funny.

That run of good fortune stopped short at 2R; hovel didn’t have the appropriate planning permission from Octordle Council.

Daily Octordle #1352

SNARE 3️⃣7️⃣ SCOUT

GLEAN 4️⃣🔟 HELLO

GRACE 2️⃣5️⃣ BLARE

FUNNY 8️⃣6️⃣ BLOWN

Score: 45

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1352

3️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣🔟

9️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

In contrast, only one small risk - but it wasn’t a joyous solving. It felt all over the place.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

HENCE 🎯 

BIOME 🎯🍀 could have been diode

SCUBA 🎯

GLOVE 🎯

FLACK 🎯

ALTAR 🎯

SEWER 🎯

MUSTY 🎯

The few unused letters - Q, P, D, J. K, Z, X - show just how little connection there is between the words used. That made the solving feel disjointed. I reluctantly admit that this was a logical playground of words; the only risky guess was 4R (biome), as long as I solved words in the right order.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1352

HENCE 3️⃣8️⃣ ALTAR

SCUBA 5️⃣🔟 MUSTY

SEWER 9️⃣7️⃣ FLACK

GLOVE 6️⃣4️⃣ BIOME

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 1,571 5/6

Spoiler

Okay, so it's put a spoiler box up the top. How these things happen to me I don't know sometimes. Must have hit something by accident.
alien/shout

Absolutely no idea so tried colon. Well, you never know! And at least it would try out some O positions.
pylon-very confident. When it was wrong, I looked at it in disbelief. What other letter could it be?
That's when it clicked that we were having a letter used again.
Why I didn't think of nylon straight off, I don't know, as it appears in octordle from time to time.

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This wasn't my finest hour.

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Spoiler

Pylon was one of the three possibles that I cornered… but Wordle loves nylon; it used it rather too often in the past.
🦵🧦 <- sort-of