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

[countessalmirena]

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Editing because of autocorrect sticking its nose in to ill effect

@countessalmirena wrote:

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) I’M EDITING THIS AS MY PHONE HAS AUTOCORRECTED… and made a nonsense of this! That last word should be gaumy. Leave it alone, you wretch.

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

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[countessalmirena]

Yesterday’s (Monday):

Wordle 1,584 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ah, Monsieur Wordle, did you think you could fool me? But no, hein, I have you dead to rights and you must surrender on the third turn!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,584 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛ LIONS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIMBO 🎯

Limbo was the only possible answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1365

5️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣🔟

7️⃣9️⃣

8️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

I whizzed through this quite quickly with an unusual eliminator.

Spoiler

TRACE

WIMPY <- eliminator

CRASH 🎯🍀 could have been crass

CINCH 🎯

WACKY 🎯

MINER 🎯

RUSTY 🎯

FACET 🎯

VERSE 🎯🍀 could have been gorse

FLAKE 🎯 

Daily Octordle #1365

WACKY 5️⃣6️⃣ MINER

CINCH 4️⃣🔟 FLAKE

RUSTY 7️⃣9️⃣ VERSE

FACET 8️⃣3️⃣ CRASH

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1365

3️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣9️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣🔟

Score: 52

I thought I was in for a Humpty Dumpty disaster… and I definitely did NOT whizz through this one.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINDS -> eliminator

DRINK 🎯🍀 could have been grind

CRESS 🎯

QUASI 🎯

CROOK 🎯

LLAMA 🎯

BEGUN 🎯

HEAVY 🎯

PRIME 🎯

There was no way around it: 1A was a 50/50 guess. Thankfully it was correct.

After that, 1R and 2L were good little eggs. 3R - no problem: it couldn’t be anything other than crook. 3L - with L_A__, nothing would go between the L and A than another L, so … hello, llama.

I had 4R as _RIME, with both G and P contenders for 1st letter. I left this for now.

4L - it looked unpromising, with yellow E (can’t be 3rd or 5th), yellow N (can’t be 3rd or 4th), yellow U (can’t be 2nd). But intensive reckoning gave me only one word that would fit: begun.

In quick succession after that, 2R and 4R yielded sunny side up. It was heavy and - with G ruled out - prime.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1365

DRINK 3️⃣4️⃣ CRESS

QUASI 5️⃣9️⃣ HEAVY

LLAMA 7️⃣6️⃣ CROOK

BEGUN 8️⃣🔟 PRIME

Score: 52