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 #1357

8️⃣4️⃣

🔟3️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

Hmm. I could have tried guessing 2R without an eliminator, but it would have been a 1 in 7 guess.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

CHARM 🎯🍀 could have been chard, chary

TOXIC 🎯 

HOARD 🎯

GOOFY 🎯🍀 could have been goody

TIPSY 🎯

SHUSH 🎯

UNWED 🎯

DERBY 🎯🍀 could have been reedy

2R could have been could have been scarf, scary, chard, charm, chary, chair, roach … I played safe and used an eliminator.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1357

SHUSH 8️⃣4️⃣ TOXIC

DERBY 🔟3️⃣ CHARM

UNWED 9️⃣7️⃣ TIPSY

GOOFY 6️⃣5️⃣ HOARD

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1357

8️⃣4️⃣

🔟3️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

CORRECTION

Hmm. I could have tried guessing 2R without an eliminator, but it would have been a 1 in 6 guess.

Spoiler

2R could have been scarf, scary, chard, charm, chary, chair (NOT roach - of course this was ruled out because of the C not being in 4th position) … 

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,577 5/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

so close and yet so far.
alien/shout

Thinking maybe an ea word but that wasn't an absolutely sure thing.

Next word-bodgy, to cover some letters I felt were likely to go with ea. I would have loved to have R or C in there too, but we can't have everything.

bread
beard

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1358
8️⃣🕛
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
🕚🔟
Score: 64

Spoiler

As you can see, I ran out of sure things by turn 4. In fact, turn 3 was a risk that paid off.
I tried the eliminator frump, which sorted some. I had been thinking month/north for #1 and float/gloat for #6 and chuck/chuff/chump for #4.

Then I took a risk on #2 with vocal, as focal had been eliminated. The right answer was immediately obvious but after that, I left it to languish till last.😠
I was most pleased to get #8 right but in all honesty, not many  letter choices left by then.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1358
🕚3️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 53

This worked out better.

Spoiler

Turn 3 was a risk but for the extreme, I felt it would be more likely.
I was pleased to get #8, shades of teh classic though!

And #1 reminded me of yesterday's wordle. I knew from early on it would be a job of work to get rid of all the possibilities so at the end used wimpy to narrow it down. I suspected it wouldn't be wound today, but you can never tell!

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,577 3/6

⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I suspected the word pattern and concentrated on the consonants.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,577 3/6

⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨 TRACE

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ HANDY <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD 🎯

The eliminator zeroed in on the answer very nicely.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1358

5️⃣3️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

4️⃣🔟

Score: 52

After the starter, the landscape remained bleak. Finally the eliminator drew into view like a troika and illuminated just enough for me to see which way I should take.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

LOCAL 🎯 

IGLOO 🎯

NORTH 🎯

JUMBO 🎯

CHUMP 🎯

BLACK 🎯

FLOAT 🎯

BIDDY 🎯

Jumbo led to chump; the B from jumbo also ruled out bloat for 3R (leaving float), and BIDDY was the only possible word for 4R, given the remaining letters.

Daily Octordle #1358

NORTH 5️⃣3️⃣ LOCAL

BLACK 8️⃣7️⃣ CHUMP

JUMBO 6️⃣9️⃣ FLOAT

IGLOO 4️⃣🔟 BIDDY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1358

🕚4️⃣

5️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

Score: 53

The battle of the initial letters - grrr.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

CHORE 🎯

TOUGH 🎯 

GULCH 🎯

AHEAD 🎯

VOTER 🎯

BITTY 🎯🍀 could have been witty, kitty

FLUNK 🎯🍀 could have been plunk

MOUND 💣

POUND 🎯🍀 could still have been wound

I played bitty because it hadn’t been used in the last two _ITTY solutions, and kitty was less likely than the other possibilities.

Flunk/plunk - a real dilemma. Either F or P would also work for 1A (found/mound/pound/wound). It was blind chance.

That left me with 1A. At least it was now down to three choices. Unluckily I chose mound and it bombed.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1358

MOUND 🕚4️⃣ TOUGH

GULCH 5️⃣3️⃣ CHORE

AHEAD 6️⃣9️⃣ FLUNK

VOTER 7️⃣8️⃣ BITTY

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1358
8️⃣🕛
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
🕚🔟
Score: 64

Spoiler

As you can see, I ran out of sure things by turn 4. In fact, turn 3 was a risk that paid off.
I tried the eliminator frump, which sorted some. I had been thinking month/north for #1 and float/gloat for #6 and chuck/chuff/chump for #4.

Then I took a risk on #2 with vocal, as focal had been eliminated. The right answer was immediately obvious but after that, I left it to languish till last.😠
I was most pleased to get #8 right but in all honesty, not many  letter choices left by then.

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That score is so mean. It’s a pity that you needed another eliminator at row 4, but you played it logically. 

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1358

🕚4️⃣

5️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

Score: 53

The battle of the initial letters - grrr.

Spoiler

MOUND 💣

POUND 🎯🍀 could still have been wound

Flunk/plunk - a real dilemma. Either F or P would also work for 1A (found/mound/pound/wound). It was blind chance.

That left me with 1A. At least it was now down to three choices. Unluckily I chose mound and it bombed.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1358

MOUND 🕚4️⃣ TOUGH

GULCH 5️⃣3️⃣ CHORE

AHEAD 6️⃣9️⃣ FLUNK

VOTER 7️⃣8️⃣ BITTY

Score: 53

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Suspect the other way round and you tried pound when it was mound.

I had more luck today in wordle than I had yesterday.

Wordle 1,578 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩