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]

Wordle 1,583 3/6

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

When I saw the results after my first turn, I realised I had to do the hard bit myself (thinking of answers) as any further eliminators would be unlikely to yield much.
All those vowels!
Then I had a brainwave. email.
And we've seen it before in octordle, too.
In with a good chance, I thought. Wrong!
At least it placed the L for me.

[springyzone]

What a pain this was! Took me ages.

Honestly, I might expect one of their multi possibilities in a game but to throw two in was a  bit mean.

Daily Octordle #1364
🕚3️⃣
🔟7️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
Score: 55

Spoiler

Thank goodness I guessed gaudy early on as it at least solved #7 for me. I hadn't been looking forward to having to narrow down that and #4.
Towards the end, I felt I needed another eliminator (comfy).
I probably would have guessed poppy for #1, had I not unearthed a B in it.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1364
6️⃣🔟
8️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
🕚5️⃣
Score: 56

By the score, you'd think this was harder but I found I moved through this game a lot faster.

Maybe not better, but faster.😂

Spoiler

This game was quite obliging in that a couple of times when I was thinking this or that? eg squib/squid, broom/groom, that earlier solve of album came through for me.

I made a mistake (of course I did) on #3, as I was rubbing my hands with glee, thinking, can't be bitty. Only left witty and kitty (we won't be having any uncouth answers, of course). Witty, in my opinion, was a much better answer but unfortunately not the right one.🤣

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,583 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨

🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,583 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨 LINED <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IDEAL 🎯

I was left with only one possible answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1364

🕚8️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣5️⃣

Score: 53

It came down to one letter at the start of the final word, but it was a bit tricky throughout.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

ROAST 🎯🍀 could have been otary or boart, but both are highly unlikely

GAUNT 🎯

CABLE 🎯🍀 could have been calve, caple (unlikely), macle (unlikely)

GAUDY 🎯🍀 could have been gauzy, gaudy (highly unlikely)

LARVA 🎯 could have been lazar, lahar, lavra (all highly unlikely)

DIODE 🎯

DROOL 🎯

HOBBY 💣

BOBBY 🎯 

There were quite a few highly unlikely possibilities, but I ruled them out. 2R (ROAST) was a certainty given the circumstances, and 4R (CABLE) was in practical terms a 50/50. 3R was also a 50/50 by the same process, and I chose GAUDY because a D would be more useful.

3L was clearly LARVA.

1R and 2L offered no resistance.

Everything was going along so well… and then came 1L swaggering along with its _OB_Y. Clearly there was a double B before the Y, but was it HOBBY or BOBBY?

I chose wrongly.

Daily Octordle #1364

BOBBY 🕚8️⃣ DIODE

DROOL 9️⃣3️⃣ ROAST

LARVA 7️⃣6️⃣ GAUDY

GAUNT 4️⃣5️⃣ CABLE

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1364

5️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣8️⃣

🕚7️⃣

Score: 53

The eliminator was one I’ve used a few times before; it wouldn’t help much in the majority of Octordles but was rather good in this one.

Spoiler

TRACE

BIPOD -> eliminator

PLUCK 🎯🍀 could have been punch

ALBUM 🎯

GROOM 🎯

ULTRA 🎯

SQUID 🎯

HIPPY 🎯

KITTY 🎯

PEEVE 💣

PENNE 🎯

Straight out of the gate, 1L was clearly PUNCH or PLUCK. (Small chance it was PSYCH if Octordle was being idiotic with abbreviations.) The risk was worth taking.

Thereafter, everything fell into place, helped by those consonants B, P, or D. I was particularly pleased by not having BROOM to consider for 1L.

My word-horse stumbled over PEEVE/PENNE, but having left it till last mitigated the consequences.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1364

GROOM 5️⃣3️⃣ PLUCK

KITTY 9️⃣4️⃣ ALBUM

ULTRA 6️⃣8️⃣ HIPPY

PENNE 🕚7️⃣ SQUID

Score: 53