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]

Daily Octordle #1367

8️⃣2️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣🔟

4️⃣3️⃣

Score: 49

This was not without its risks: early risks, too, which have the potential to punish severely if it all goes wrong.

Spoiler

TRACE

CAPER 🎯🍀 could have been recap, cedar, clear, racer

TRIPE 🎯🍀 could have been trope

NICER 🎯🍀 could have been ricer

MOULD <- eliminator

APPLY 🎯

LINER 🎯

MONEY 🎯

LOATH 🎯

ELATE 🎯🍀 could have been slate

My gut said caper.

I hovered between trope and tripe. Luck smiled.

It would have been exactly Octordle’s style to plunk another R into the _IC(ER*) [*confirmed] of 4L. On the other hand, nicer would certainly fit and an N would be handy to rule in or out… I made my guess.

There were “could-be”s all over the place. I wanted to rule in/out M, L, O, S, D, F, G… but I whittled it down to the most useful and decided upon MOULD as an eliminator.

Right! That got rid of amply for 2L; it was apply. It gave me liner for 2R. 1L was an all-green money. 3L needed only an H for loath. And finally it was the final word… _LATE. Ah. Perhaps I should have played MOULS as my eliminator. I had to guess between slate and elate.

Daily Octordle #1367

MONEY 8️⃣2️⃣ CAPER

APPLY 6️⃣7️⃣ LINER

LOATH 9️⃣🔟 ELATE

NICER 4️⃣3️⃣ TRIPE

Score: 49

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1367

3️⃣8️⃣

7️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣🔟

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

BOILS -> eliminator

PEACH 🎯

EMAIL 🎯

ALIGN 🎯

BRAWN 🎯

AVERT 🎯🍀 could have been after

SINEW 🎯

RADII 🎯🍀 could have been radix, faqir/fakir, kafir, rakia

HOOKY 🎯

After my 4th row, I was very tempted to try hound for 4R… but I resisted as I could see other possibilities. I turned my attention to the other blocks, in particular to 4L. I had 4 letters, including a green I. Careful work here resulted in only one possible word – align.

That final N gave me 3L (brawn). The W of brawn gave me 1R (sinew) but along the way I took a chance on 2L (avert). I really should have waited with that; sinew would have established the position of E and ruled out after.

3R – hmm. I hadn’t narrowed it down further, but I judged most of the possibilities to be very unlikely apart from radii and radix. I made my choice.

4R - I almost played this before 3R, and had I done so, I’d have made a misstep and tried hoody. As it was the D from radii ruled that out, and there was only hooky remaining.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1367

PEACH 3️⃣8️⃣ SINEW

AVERT 7️⃣9️⃣ RADII

BRAWN 6️⃣4️⃣ EMAIL

ALIGN 5️⃣🔟 HOOKY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Wordle 1,586 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator seems to me to be entirely satisfactory.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,586 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 HOIST <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STUNT 🎯

I just cannot see any other word possibility. Have I missed anything?

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This gave me such a good laugh. You're asking ME? I have no clue, apart from the fact your eliminators pointed to the likely hood the word had a U in it and started with S. I can't think of any other words in any case, though I am not a good judge.

Today's wordle.

Wordle 1,587 4/6

⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout.
Which led me to the unhappy conclusion the answer was probably something like drill/frill/grill/krill/drily/icily
So I felt I needed another eliminator and used fudgy.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1368
6️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
🔟7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

As I was doing this, it felt smooth and easy enough, with no real dilemmas, although I think I just overlooked some traps.

Spoiler

After turn 1, I recall thinking #3, chomp or chord, don't know, move on. Luckily for me, #4 was clearer.
I had glanced earlier at #2 and thought fried/cried/dried/drier etc but when the D came up green at the end, I jumped on it and thought-aha, C eliminated, D used, must be fried. So I was lucky there that the D was not used twice.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1368
🔟8️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🕚9️⃣
Score: 56

Not difficult as such, no great gnashing ot teeth and indecision, but did get stuck half way down. Now that it is finished, I can see that #7 should have been obvious, but at the time I was stuck, particularly on #2.

Spoiler

Fudgy to the rescue.
On turn 4, I looked at #4 and thought, here we go again, chomp or chord. Surely it won't be chord again, will it? Well, it might be, we have had that done to us before, but I decided to take a risk and assume they probably went for a different answer this time.

[countessalmirena]

Sometimes another person can spot a different possibility with a fresh pair of eyes. But looking over than Wordle, I think that I didn’t miss anything. (But I am definitely feeling a bit wobbly with these at the moment - the dizziness is interfering with my thought processes.)

Well, on to today’s Wordle:

Wordle 1,587 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It wasn’t bad.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,587 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ DINGO <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DRILL 🎯

It could have been druid. If I’d used doing as the eliminator rather than dingo, there would have been just one possibility. You see? Not optimal eliminator! 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1368

7️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

🔟8️⃣

9️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

CHORD 🎯

CHEAP 🎯

FRIED 🎯🍀 could have been dried

POSSE 🎯

GLASS 🎯

GLAND 🎯

SEIZE 🎯

ABATE 🎯

Daily Octordle #1368

GLASS 7️⃣5️⃣ FRIED

CHORD 3️⃣4️⃣ CHEAP

ABATE 🔟8️⃣ GLAND

SEIZE 9️⃣6️⃣ POSSE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1368

7️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

8️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣🔟

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL -> eliminator

TEMPO 🎯

CHOMP 🎯

EXIST 🎯

USAGE 🎯

BINGE 🎯

CONIC 🎯

DICEY 🎯🍀 could have been diced

DOWEL 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1368

BINGE 7️⃣9️⃣ DICEY

EXIST 5️⃣4️⃣ CHOMP

CONIC 8️⃣3️⃣ TEMPO

USAGE 6️⃣🔟 DOWEL

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Sometimes another person can spot a different possibility with a fresh pair of eyes. But looking over than Wordle, I think that I didn’t miss anything. (But I am definitely feeling a bit wobbly with these at the moment - the dizziness is interfering with my thought processes.)

I am here to tell you there is nothing wrong with your thought processes. On a bad day, you're still better than I am on a good one, so don't worry. I do hope you feel better soon though.

Maybe just put your feet up, have plenty of water on hand and order a pizza instead of cooking tonight.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,588 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien
shout
cuter. I didn't like this one but then again, they seem to like cutie in octordle and that is worse.
tuber. Which I will have something to say about later!