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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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. CORRECTION: I had had alley cross my mind before I realised that of could it couldn’t be: double L was ruled out by spell. A moment’s silly inattention!

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

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[countessalmirena]

It’s 5:43 am… I can’t sleep with bad hayfever symptoms so I’ve just wordled.

Wordle 1,580 2/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator was the quarry! Logic and luck combined gave it away.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,580 2/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CATTY 🎯

Possible solutions after the starter: yacht, catty, cacti, caput, antic, ascot, attic, octal, ducat.

Using catty as eliminator:

yacht = ygy_y

catty = ggggg (of course)

cacti = gg_g_

caput = ggy__

antic = yyg__  octal = yyg__ (same pattern)

ascot = yyy__  ducat = yyy__ (same pattern)

attic = yygy_

Using attic as eliminator:

yacht = yy__y  caput = yy__y  ducat = yy__y (same pattern)

catty = yyg_y

cacti = yy_yy

antic = g_ggg

octal = y_g_y

ascot = gy__y

attic = ggggg (of course)

They’re both excellent eliminators. I decided on catty because the very worst possible outcome would be 4 rows rather than 5. Most likely outcome would be 3 rows. As it turned out, I was lucky and the eliminator was the answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1361

8️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣🔟

4️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

Three 1-in-2 guesses made things a little tricky, but I was fortunate enough to land on the correct words.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

SHEIK 🎯🍀 could have been shied

FUSSY 🎯🍀 could have been lupus

DUVET 🎯

UNFED 🎯

REFER 🎯

LUCID 🎯🍀 could have been cupid

AVIAN 🎯

BAGEL 🎯

That rather ungainly word “unfed” pops up again. How can it be unfed? There’s a bagel right there.

Daily Octordle #1361

LUCID 8️⃣3️⃣ SHEIK

AVIAN 9️⃣🔟 BAGEL

FUSSY 4️⃣6️⃣ UNFED

DUVET 5️⃣7️⃣ REFER

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1361

🔟4️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣2️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 51

Row 2 guess was lucky; there were 4 other possible words. That got me off to a good start.

Spoiler

TRACE

FACET 🎯🍀 could have been cheat, cleat, eclat, cadet

SPOIL -> eliminator

DITTO 🎯

PICKY 🎯

BUMPY 🎯🍀 could have been jumpy, guppy, pygmy

BERTH 🎯 

BOUND 🎯

SIEVE 🎯

BRAND 🎯 

After the eliminator, 1L had to be ditto.

Guessing 2R correctly was pivotal; three further words beginning with B lay in wait!

4R could have been singe, until I played bound for 4L, thus ruling out the N.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1361

BRAND 🔟4️⃣ DITTO

BERTH 7️⃣6️⃣ BUMPY

PICKY 5️⃣2️⃣ FACET

BOUND 8️⃣9️⃣ SIEVE

Score: 51

[springyzone]

Yesterday I did it all on phone.

4 for wordle and the other two were about 54/59 I think.

Nothing amazing but not a disgrace either.

Today's wordle:

Wordle 1,580 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

fter alien/shout, I was thinking words such as track or tatty, party and so on.

In other words, not a clue, as always.😂

So 3rd word was pricy and for some reason, my mind went to catty, but I was hoping it was not tacky.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1361
🔟5️⃣
2️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣🕚
Score: 52

Now this octordle really annoyed me. You certainly get marked down if you dare to use another eliminator (after the first two words) too early, but there's not a huge reward for good guesses early on.

In this one, I started solving at turn 2 & 3 and only used shout on turn 4.

My only mistake was towards the end in #1. There were only 2 things it could be (or that I could see, anyway) so it was a 50/50 chance but I made the wrong call.

Spoiler

When I look at my 3rd turn. I realise it was a bit of a risk. I was trying to think what would fit a _a_el pattern and bagel was the first word to pop into my mind. Plus it is a word they use from time to time.
Later I thought... could have been hazel. Possibly other contenders too but that was all I thought of at the time.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1361
4️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣🕚
Score: 53

Straight after turn 2, I looked at #7 and thought, here we go, another ound word so popular of late.

Spoiler

Fell on the last word. It was obvious from early on it was probably between siege and sieve.
The reason I went for siege was that at one point, I had been considering buggy for #4 & I wondered if they factored in that if someone made a mistake, at least the G would help in #8. Nope.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,581 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/cross
I almost tried pricy or fudgy next because I suspected it probably had R in second spot, which would make, cross, gross & dross.
Cross was my favourite so i just went for it in the hope of a 3 liner, but it wasn't to be.
I was lucky it was a 4 liner.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1362
🔟3️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

It took me a while to work some of these out.

Spoiler

I decided to concentrate on #2 for my 3rd turn as I had 4 of the letters but nothing was working till I put un at the start. Not a word I love but I think they have used it before.
My main concern was #8 as I had been considering arrow till near the end.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1362
🕚3️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
🔟8️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
Score: 58

This didn't go as well as I had hoped.

I took ages on some of them too, this wasn't a comfortable glide through today.

Spoiler

I thought leach for #3 seemed like a reasonable thing but not only was it wrong, not a single letter was in the right place. Most annoying.

V was obviously the letter of the day.