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]

Yesterday’s:

Wordle 1581 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1581 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ SPOIL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GROSS 🎯

_ROSS was by far the most likely pattern, so it was between gross and dross.

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Daily Octordle #1362

4️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣🔟

5️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

Again, three risky guesses taken…

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

TRUTH 🎯

ITCHY 🎯

STARK 🎯🍀 could have been start

PURGE 🎯

UNMET 🎯 could have been duvet or debut, but yesterday’s unfed influenced me

ARDOR 🎯🍀 could have been arbor

ALARM 🎯

DOLLY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1362

ITCHY 4️⃣7️⃣ UNMET

ALARM 9️⃣🔟 DOLLY

STARK 5️⃣3️⃣ TRUTH

PURGE 6️⃣8️⃣ ARDOR

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1362

🔟3️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

4R and 1L were the potential stumbling blocks. I was lucky.

Spoiler

TRACE

LOGIN -> eliminator

THONG 🎯

HEAVE 🎯

HALVE 🎯

GODLY 🎯

DRAIN 🎯 

APPLY 🎯🍀 could have been amply

AMISS 🎯

WAVER 🎯🍀 could have been raver

Daily Extreme Octordle #1362

WAVER 🔟3️⃣ THONG

HALVE 5️⃣4️⃣ HEAVE

DRAIN 7️⃣6️⃣ GODLY

AMISS 9️⃣8️⃣ APPLY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,582 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien, which did well for me today.
After it, I was thinking, maybe taken or raven but I did not think of haven, that only came to me after turn 2, when I was surprised to see the H uncovered.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1363
7️⃣5️⃣
🔟4️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
🕚8️⃣
Score: 54

I was able to get down towards the end without dramas but then I got stuck.

For some reason, #7 wasn't ringing any bells, though in hindsight it is obvious.

And #3 was between 2 words.

So I used an eliminator and that solved things.

Spoiler

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1363
3️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣🕚
🔟6️⃣
4️⃣🕛
Score: 61

Most annoying. I could have played this better, I solved in the wrong order. Had I changed things slightly, my score would have been better. Not much better, mind you, but perhaps 59 or 60.

These things are sent to try us (or me, anyway)😂

I am convinced the puzzle makers have a little list of words where the letters can be rearranged to make 2 or 3 different words, or where there are half a dozen different words that can be made just by changing one letter.

Spoiler

I was going okay till just after solving #2. Even that felt risky (terra/tetra).
But the others, I wasn't seeing any clear way forward.
#4 blown or flown
#5 bower or rower
#8 (and this is where I made my tactical error) topic or optic

But straight after I solved terra, #8 pathway was cleat, but I never noticed as I was concentrating on the others and decided to try bower as I figured it would be handy in any case to expose the B, as well as being a 50-50 chance. 
So-always going to have made that mistake but it should have come after optic.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,582 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨

⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,582 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 TRACE

⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 GLEAN <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HAVEN 🎯

Luckily the eliminator narrowed it down to one.

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Daily Octordle #1363

🔟8️⃣

2️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

Score: 50

Again, three risky guesses taken…

Spoiler

TRACE

CREAK 🎯🍀 could have been cream

DRINK 🎯🍀 could have been drunk, brink, prink, pronk,  brisk, frisk, brook

GHOUL <- eliminator

VITAL 🎯

FAULT 🎯

FIGHT 🎯

AWFUL 🎯

COCOA 🎯

SPRIG 🎯

Taking two risky guesses at the start was the fuel for this Octordle. The first guess was reasonable enough - a 1 in 2 chance of being right. But that second guess was wild! It was all gut instinct.

After that, I definitely needed an eliminator. That gave me vital… and the lack of a V in 3L meant it must be fault, which in turn gave me 2R (fight).

1R could only be awful. The sparse-looking 4L - with only yellow Cs and Os and As - must surely be cocoa… and so it was.

By this time, 1L could only be sprig.

Daily Octordle #1363

SPRIG 🔟8️⃣ AWFUL

CREAK 2️⃣7️⃣ FIGHT

FAULT 6️⃣5️⃣ VITAL

COCOA 9️⃣3️⃣ DRINK

Score: 50

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EDIT: one of the possible words was bleeped. It was always a possibility…

Daily Extreme Octordle #1363

3️⃣6️⃣

🔟8️⃣

7️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

Did I complain about three risks…?

This whole thing was riddled with risks. Not until the two final words did I have certainty. I could not relax until the end.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI -> eliminator

SHALT 🎯🍀 could have been shaft

OPTIC 🎯🍀 could have been dicot, picot, ontic

SEEDY 🎯🍀 could have been sense, seven, [male contribution to a baby], suede

TERRA 🎯🍀 could have been tetra

ROWER 🎯🍀 could have been rover

FLOWN 🎯🍀 could have been blown

MINUS 🎯

STEAK 🎯

4R - I’ve not seen Octordle employ dicot or picot or ontic, and I gauge these to be unlikely. I suppose you could say that this was a sure thing… but my assumption regarding likelihood could well have been wrong.

3R - [male contribution to a baby] was very unlikely; I ruled it out. Gut instinct said seedy. Sense or seven would have been more logical in that they’d narrow down words if my guess were wrong, but I stubbornly played my gut-driven guess.

1R - I don’t think I’ve seen tetra in play; I judged it to be unlikely but I could have been mistaken.

3L - both rower and rover were equally likely. I actually entered R O V before I changed my mind and back-keyed to make it rower. Sheer luck.

2R - Thanks to the last-second change of mind to rower, I had the W for this. It was still a 1-in-2 and I had to guess.

4L - I’d suspected that this was minus, but with only a yellow I and yellow S, it seemed prudent to see whether any other letters could be uncovered… With N now confirmed, I was sure.

2L - Finally I could also be sure that this was steak. I’d held back while stead and then steam were eliminated from consideration.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1363

SHALT 3️⃣6️⃣ TERRA

STEAK 🔟8️⃣ FLOWN

ROWER 7️⃣5️⃣ SEEDY

MINUS 9️⃣4️⃣ OPTIC

Score: 52

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1363
3️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣🕚
🔟6️⃣
4️⃣🕛
Score: 61

Most annoying. I could have played this better, I solved in the wrong order. Had I changed things slightly, my score would have been better. Not much better, mind you, but perhaps 59 or 60.

These things are sent to try us (or me, anyway)😂

I am convinced the puzzle makers have a little list of words where the letters can be rearranged to make 2 or 3 different words, or where there are half a dozen different words that can be made just by changing one letter.

Spoiler

I was going okay till just after solving #2. Even that felt risky (terra/tetra).
But the others, I wasn't seeing any clear way forward.
#4 blown or flown
#5 bower or rower
#8 (and this is where I made my tactical error) topic or optic

But straight after I solved terra, #8 pathway was cleat, but I never noticed as I was concentrating on the others and decided to try bower as I figured it would be handy in any case to expose the B, as well as being a 50-50 chance. 
So-always going to have made that mistake but it should have come after optic.

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Spoiler

This was insanely difficult. I agree with you; Octordle has a store of words which could use this or that letter, deliberately to fool or taunt us.

#5 … I think you may possibly have missed the double R revealed by TERRA? #5 couldn’t have been bower… but it could have been rover/rower (which I also faced). Your dilemma would still have been there - two 1-in-2 risks.