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 🤣

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Daily Octordle #1375

3️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣🔟

8️⃣5️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

This wasn’t tricky. I avoided trying to solve one word too early, and all was fine. 

Spoiler

TRACE

SOILY <- eliminator

CURVY 🎯

COACH 🎯

STORY 🎯

BOAST 🎯

PLUMB 🎯

FILMY 🎯

SWASH 🎯

FOGGY 🎯

It started easily enough with 1L and 1R, but then left 2L for a while as it could be either smash or swash. 3R and 4L were unambiguous…

4R had yellow B, U and L. A bit of thinking gave me the only possible answer: plumb.

This gave me filmy at 3L

Now that I had the M ruled out for 2L, I could play swash.

The final word at 2R was FO__Y - it had to be foggy.

Daily Octordle #1375

CURVY 3️⃣4️⃣ COACH

SWASH 9️⃣🔟 FOGGY

FILMY 8️⃣5️⃣ STORY

BOAST 6️⃣7️⃣ PLUMB

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1375

8️⃣7️⃣

🕚6️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

Score: 53

That final word was a 1 in 3. I chose an eliminator to get things sorted out.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

STAIR 🎯

SAUTÉ 🎯

BATON 🎯

CHOIR 🎯

OUGHT 🎯

HYPER 🎯 could possibly have been hewer, hexer (but unlikely)

POPPY 🎯

FREMD  <- eliminator

RAZOR 🎯 

Clear, simple - until I was facing 2L for the final word. The pattern was _A_OR. It could be major, favor (US spelling), razor. I didn’t have a good feeling about it - so employed an eliminator.

It was a good decision. I would not have played razor.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1375

HYPER 8️⃣7️⃣ OUGHT

RAZOR 🕚6️⃣ CHOIR

SAUTE 4️⃣3️⃣ STAIR

POPPY 9️⃣5️⃣ BATON

Score: 53

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Wordle 1,595 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛

⬛🟨🟨🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I’m extremely satisfied to have solved this in 3.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,595 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟨🟨🟩🟩 LABOR <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ABHOR 🎯

I had a strong gut feeling immediately for LABOR. It would have been strategically better to use MAYOR but I went with my gut.

Had I tried mayor, it actually wouldn’t have made any difference, interestingly.  I’d still have ended up with only one possible answer.

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Daily Octordle #1376

8️⃣4️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣9️⃣

3️⃣🔟

Score: 52

I found this quite tricky. The eliminator was not quite right for this Octordle, and I’ll admit that I felt like grabbing another eliminator halfway through.  

Spoiler

TRACE

MOUND <- eliminator

MEDIC 🎯

MOTIF 🎯

DIZZY 🎯🍀 could have been idyll, dippy, dishy, dilly

GRADE 🎯

KNELT 🎯

START 🎯🍀 could have been apart, or swart (unlikely)

STRAP 🎯🍀 could have been straw

PARRY 🎯

Medic and motif were all well and good. I hurled myself at dizzy without letting myself calculate the odds - pure gut instinct.

Welk, the D at the start at least helped with 2R; I knew now that it wasn’t DRA_E, but rather _RADE - which could only be grade.

That still didn’t help. This was when I thought I might be forced into another eliminator… but then I focused on 2L. I had only yellows - T, E, N. The possible placement of those letters actually gave me only one possible solution: knelt.

With 1L, I simply had to guess. I was influenced by my hearty desire to see S in play for the remaining words, although I also wanted to rule P out or in… and what an irony that proved to be.

3R presented yet another guess situation. Yes, P was the sticking point! I gave in and tried strap.

That effectively dealt with the final word as well. Before strap, 4R could have been harry, harpy, parry. After it - only one possibility.

Daily Octordle #1376

START 8️⃣4️⃣ MOTIF

KNELT 7️⃣6️⃣ GRADE

DIZZY 5️⃣9️⃣ STRAP

MEDIC 3️⃣🔟 PARRY

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1376

6️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

🔟4️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

This was like trying to get through the Fire Swamp (of Princess Bride infamy).

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

STALL 🎯

LATHE 🎯

FROTH 🎯🍀 could have been broth

ROTOR 🎯🍀 could have been motor

SWATH 🎯

SHADE 🎯 could have been shake, shame, shave

PROXY 🎯🍀 could have been prong, promo, group

FUNGI 🎯 - no Y confirmed (can’t be fizzy or figgy - must be fungi)

Daily Extreme Octordle #1376

ROTOR 6️⃣5️⃣ FROTH

STALL 3️⃣8️⃣ SHADE

FUNGI 🔟4️⃣ LATHE

PROXY 9️⃣7️⃣ SWATH

Score: 52

[springyzone]

I did yesterday's but forgot to post them later.

With wordle, I took 4.

alien/shout

That gave me green A in line 1. Yellow  H & O in line 2.

I didn't have a clue what it could be, the only word I could remotely think of was achoo, which seemed unlikely.

Third line I tried pricy and revealed a yellow R. The penny finally dropped. Abhor.

By the way, you used a great eliminator in one of the games, fremd. I have never heard of that, must remember it. Covers a lot of good letters.

[springyzone]

Yesterday's octordles.

Well, I can't believe this! I did them yesterday morning and I had to go out, but I could have sworn I saved them. Now They are not showing as saved recently.

On one of them (and I forget which) I scored 52, on the other I used another eliminator along the way and score either 59 or 60, around that.

I do have today's.

Daily Octordle #1377
5️⃣🔟
9️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

This was reasonably straightforward.
I did hesitate slightly on turn 3, over melon or felon, but melon was the first word I thought of and I am sure it has been out a few times before. Plus #4 was looking like count or mount or perhaps fount but I fancied the first two more. So... m was useful. It actually proved a lot more useful than I had expected.

The extreme.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1377
🕚8️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 58

Spoiler

Again, I started with what i thought of as a 50/50 guess (rhino or chino) but rhino seemed more likely. As soon as I finished line 3 though, I looked at #4 and thought-idiot! That one is 100% obvious and should have been done before #5.
After that, I was a at a bit of a loss and debated whether to use fudgy or something else. I had already uncovered P & R  so pricy was out as a choice. I went with comfy. I probably should have just used fudgy as later I was faced with gross or dross. I chose dross as it appealed to me as maybe more likely in the extreme game. But who knows!
All in all, probably lucky to come out of it with 58.

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Yesterday’s (1st Nov):

Wordle 1,596 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The initial field of suspects was over 50; I stopped calculating from that point. Narrowing it down from that was a matter of luck and logic.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,596 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ LOINS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOTEL 🎯

Well… that went well. The eliminator wasn’t as all-encompassing as it might have been, but then, that’s part of the fun and challenge.

It could have been hotel: 50/50 chance of being right.

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Still yesterday’s:

Daily Octordle #1377

9️⃣4️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣🔟

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

LURID 🎯

CREDO 🎯

CADET 🎯

MACRO 🎯

MELON 🎯

MOUNT 🎯

MOCHA 🎯

SCALY 🎯🍀 could have been scalp

Such an m-heavy Octordle!

This was easy enough; it had lots of connections between the words, almost like a Lego village. The only guesswork was the final word.

Daily Octordle #1377

MOCHA 9️⃣4️⃣ CREDO

LURID 3️⃣8️⃣ MOUNT

CADET 5️⃣7️⃣ MELON

MACRO 6️⃣🔟 SCALY

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1377

5️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣3️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

🔟8️⃣

Score: 52

Hmmm… a bit too easy, until it came to 4R (which did require some working out). 3R was a 1-in-3 guess (or - no, a 1-in-2, as one of the possible solutions was highly unlikely).

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

PHONE 🎯

RHINO 🎯

GRASS 🎯

DROSS 🎯

FRIED 🎯

TIBIA 🎯

CYNIC 🎯🍀 could have been cunic, cumin

LOAMY 🎯 - this again?

I did briefly consider tikka for 4R, but ruled it unlikely. Who uses that as a word on its own?

3L - cunic was extremely unlikely, but cumin was a serious contender. I had to guess.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1377

GRASS 5️⃣6️⃣ DROSS

FRIED 7️⃣3️⃣ PHONE

RHINO 4️⃣9️⃣ CYNIC

LOAMY 🔟8️⃣ TIBIA

Score: 52