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 Octordle #1359
5️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

I was stuck when it came to turn 3, hit a real road block of indecision. In the end though, I decided to concentrate on #4 because there were 4 letters out inclunding the starter letter, so I felt I had some chance.
They all unravelled okay after that.
The surprise of the day (for me) was #8, as I had initially pegged it as likely to be theme or there (fancied theme).

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1359
9️⃣2️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣🔟
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 51

Spoiler

I felt it was worth taking a risk for turn 2.
It could of course have been flier, plied. But they just had flyer in the classic and plied-less likely.
Several of the words I feel are just rehashes from past games. Bluer, tulle, cutie.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

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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.

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Yes! Exactly. 😳🤭

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,578 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛

⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I suspected the word pattern and concentrated on the consonants.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,578 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ SOUND <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FORUM 🎯

With A and E ruled out, and R definitely not in 2nd position, I decided to focus on the vowels O and U, as roughly 17 (very rough calculation) “I” and “R” words seem to have I following R - frill, bring, etc (_RI__) - which rules them out. Another 17 or so are still ruled in (quirk, rhino, vigor/rigor, robin, rigid, smirk, whirl etc.) I could see I’d be ruling out or confirming more with OU than OI in this instance.

[countessalmirena]

I forgot to change the visible comment; it’s still there from yesterday’s Wordle. Everything else is fine, so I won’t repost.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1359

9️⃣🔟

6️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣2️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

Score: 51

Spoiler

TRACE

ENACT 🎯🍀 could have been exact

SOILY <- eliminator

SONAR 🎯 

CHAFE 🎯

FROTH 🎯

THYME 🎯

DENIM 🎯

FLYER 🎯

OPTIC 🎯

These words seem to be reused from the past. Didn’t we have them popping up repeatedly earlier in the year or last year?

Ah well. It was all straightforward.

Daily Octordle #1359

FLYER 9️⃣🔟 OPTIC

FROTH 6️⃣4️⃣ SONAR

CHAFE 5️⃣2️⃣ ENACT

DENIM 8️⃣7️⃣ THYME

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1359

9️⃣7️⃣

8️⃣6️⃣

2️⃣4️⃣

🔟3️⃣

Score: 49

This was unexpectedly better than my initial glance led me to believe.

Spoiler

TRACE

CUTIE 🎯🍀 could have been chute

TULLE 🎯

MATTE 🎯

SHOWY <- eliminator

WHISK 🎯

PLIER 🎯 

BLUER 🎯

BROOM 🎯

ALOUD 🎯 

Look at how nicely this flowed!

Daily Extreme Octordle #1359

BROOM 9️⃣7️⃣ PLIER

BLUER 8️⃣6️⃣ WHISK

CUTIE 2️⃣4️⃣ MATTE

ALOUD 🔟3️⃣ TULLE

Score: 49

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,579 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Gut instinct didn’t come to my aid.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,579 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 LIONS

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ SPOOK

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPOOF 🎯

I hovered between snowy and spook for the 3rd row, but it didn’t matter; both were wrong. Ah well.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1360

6️⃣5️⃣

🔟4️⃣

3️⃣7️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

SPELL 🎯 

COVER 🎯🍀 could have been coder, comer, coper, corer, cower, coyer

STICK 🎯

WHIRL 🎯

ASHEN 🎯

BEZEL 🎯

ABLED 🎯

ROUGH 🎯

I took a risk with 1R (cover), but my gut instinct was determined.

Everything else was completely logical. 

I needed the H of whirl to solve ashen.

Even when I came to 4L, where I had only ___EL, nothing else would fit but bezel.

I needed the B of bezel to solve abled. I’d been inclined towards alley up to that point.

For 2L, I had _O___, with a yellow H (not in 3rd) and R (not in 4th or 5th). There was nothing that would fit save rough.

Daily Octordle #1360

WHIRL 6️⃣5️⃣ STICK

ROUGH 🔟4️⃣ COVER

SPELL 3️⃣7️⃣ ASHEN

BEZEL 8️⃣9️⃣ ABLED

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1360

4️⃣8️⃣

2️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣🔟

9️⃣6️⃣

Score: 51

I could leap into 2L without an eliminator, but then I was stuck. 3L was almost within guessing reach… but not quite. Eliminator time.

Spoiler

TRACE

CATER 🎯

SHOGI -> eliminator

BRASH 🎯

CAROL 🎯

HOVER 🎯

WHINE 🎯 

AFOUL 🎯

AXIAL 🎯

ANIMA 🎯 

I was a little surprised at the presence of anima; whether meant as a Jungian concept or as the irrational soul, it’s not an obvious Octordle sort of word! I left 3R until last, thinking there might be another possibility.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1360

BRASH 4️⃣8️⃣ AFOUL

CATER 2️⃣7️⃣ WHINE

CAROL 5️⃣🔟 ANIMA

AXIAL 9️⃣6️⃣ HOVER

Score: 51