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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1354

8️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣🔟

3️⃣5️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

One word gave me considerable pause.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

ACORN 🎯 

CLUMP 🎯

FLYBY 🎯

TEDDY 🎯

SPASM 🎯

DUVET 🎯

SHARK 🎯

SHOOK 🎯

3R almost stumped me. I would write it as fly-by… but I suppose flyby is also used.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1354

DUVET 8️⃣7️⃣ SPASM

TEDDY 6️⃣🔟 SHOOK

ACORN 3️⃣5️⃣ FLYBY

CLUMP 4️⃣9️⃣ SHARK

Score: 52

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Here’s today’s Octordle:

Spoiler

Then I tackled 4R, which was either decal or fecal (US spelling of faecal) - and I thought it unlikely that Octordle would use fecal. (Possible but not as likely as its old favourite, decal.) Another piece of luck: I was right.

That was not a piece of luck, that was a given. I think it will be a long time before the Octordle makers have enough vapours to deal with fecal.😂
I thought of fecal and decal but decal is much more their thing, not as... uncouth, in their eyes.
For some reason, I can't get to click out of the spoiler.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,574 4/6

⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

My very first thought after turn 1 was hovel, but then I realised it could be something like cruel.
So I went with my usual shout next, just to sort out the vowels, if nothing else.
Next i went with pricy, because.. leper, repel, creel
Then finally I tried lever, though it could have been revel, maybe others. But lever came to mind first.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1355
4️⃣🕚
3️⃣🔟
9️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 56

This was going along okay till about turn 7, when I felt it was too risky to continue without another eliminator.

Spoiler

#2, grass, grasp, brass
#4 mauve or gauge
#5 brace, grace, crave, craze
#8 munch, bunch, punch, hunch. the usual.
I wanted an eliminator with G and whatever I could get of C, P, M
In the end I tried pigmy. Got me there eventually.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1355
3️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣🔟
7️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

This was a more straightforward game for me.
My only moment of indecision came at the end.
#4 enjoy or envoy (I fancied envoy but my fancies are not always reliable)
#8, folly or jolly. No really strong hunch on this one, though they do seem to like jolly.

Rather than an eliminator, I decided to go for jolly. It would either be right or wrong but would solve the J issue in any case and leave the way clear.

[countessalmirena]

EDITED to add that this is yesterday’s (Friday’s):

Wordle 1,574 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨

🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There were still a lot of possible answers after my starter, but I could see only six contenders after the eliminator.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,574 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 LINER <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEVER 🎯

I was heavily inclined towards lever as the answer. It’s exactly the sort of sneaky resolution that Wordle uses. But logically, it could have been lover, or lower, or loper, or loser, or leper.

[countessalmirena]

I should mention that these are yesterday’s (Friday):

Daily Octordle #1355

4️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣8️⃣

2️⃣🔟

7️⃣9️⃣

Score: 51

A tiny tiny starter 2nd row risk played out in my favour… and another piece of luck saw me safely through on row 6.

Spoiler

TRACE

BRACE 🎯🍀 could have been grace but we had that just days ago

LINGO <- eliminator

FRAIL 🎯

ATOLL 🎯

GRASP 🎯🍀 could have been graph, grass, gravy, gramp (unlikely)

SHORT 🎯

MAUVE 🎯

MUNCH 🎯

UNION 🎯

I took quite a risk with 1R. It was mostly gut instinct.

Daily Octordle #1355

FRAIL 4️⃣6️⃣ GRASP

ATOLL 5️⃣8️⃣ MAUVE

BRACE 2️⃣🔟 UNION

SHORT 7️⃣9️⃣ MUNCH

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1355

7️⃣2️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣🔟

Score: 51

So you want to play chicken, do you, Mr Octordle…?

Spoiler

TRACE

ARGUE

DHOBI <- eliminator

BUYER 🎯 

WIDTH 🎯

WITTY 🎯

SHOAL 🎯

ELEGY 🎯

ENVOY 🎯🍀 could have been enjoy

JOLLY 🎯🍀 could have been folly, lolly, molly, polly

Once I was faced with envoy/enjoy, I strongly suspected that Octordle was playing off the letter J. As in… if I were lured into playing enjoy, it would taunt me by giving me EN_OY while at the same time showing me ____Y with a yellow L, yellow O and yellow J. So… I played envoy, and without any further ado put down jolly.

My suspicion was correct. Ha!

Daily Extreme Octordle #1355

SHOAL 7️⃣2️⃣ ARGUE

BUYER 4️⃣9️⃣ ENVOY

WIDTH 5️⃣6️⃣ WITTY

ELEGY 8️⃣🔟 JOLLY

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1355
4️⃣🕚
3️⃣🔟
9️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 56

This was going along okay till about turn 7, when I felt it was too risky to continue without another eliminator.

Spoiler

#2, grass, grasp, brass
#4 mauve or gauge
#5 brace, grace, crave, craze
#8 munch, bunch, punch, hunch. the usual.
I wanted an eliminator with G and whatever I could get of C, P, M
In the end I tried pigmy. Got me there eventually.

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That second eliminator was a good choice.