on 27-01-2022 01:45 AM
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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on 11-10-2025 08:27 AM
Daily Octordle #1356
4️⃣🔟
6️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕚
Score: 54
on 11-10-2025 08:42 AM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1356
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
🔟3️⃣
Score: 52
I felt a moment of panic before turn 3 as I thought there might be nothing to clearly solve, then I saw #8.
Obviously there could have been other answers but they were unlikely.
on 11-10-2025 10:16 AM
on 11-10-2025 04:59 PM
Just back from a friend’s book launch… (Very exciting as I’m one of the characters!)
TRACE
SHOGI <- eliminator
WRITE 🎯
AROSE 🎯
WARTY 🎯
LORRY 🎯
LOWLY 🎯
STEEP 🎯
QUELL 🎯
SMACK 🎯🍀 could have been snack
Daily Octordle #1356
QUELL 9️⃣🔟 SMACK
LOWLY 7️⃣3️⃣ WRITE
AROSE 4️⃣5️⃣ WARTY
LORRY 6️⃣8️⃣ STEEP
Score: 52
on 11-10-2025 05:00 PM
TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
CARGO 🎯
CLAIM 🎯
SLACK 🎯
KNOLL 🎯
LEAFY 🎯
DITTY 🎯🍀 could have been witty
BATHE 🎯
RADAR 🎯
There was a leafy knoll, a cargo claim, a bathing of radar, and a slack ditty. Most of it was completely straightforward; I opted for ditty as witty appeared very recently - but of course, that’s not always a successful manoeuvre since Octordle is unscrupulous in reusing words even a day or so after the last appearance.
Daily Extreme Octordle #1356
CARGO 3️⃣6️⃣ KNOLL
CLAIM 4️⃣9️⃣ BATHE
LEAFY 7️⃣🔟 RADAR
DITTY 8️⃣5️⃣ SLACK
Score: 52