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]

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@springyzone wrote:

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.

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We should create a list of potentially useful eliminators…!

Fremd is unusual in English, but a standard word in German. Some of the best eliminators do seem to result from words of foreign origin absorbed into English.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,597 4/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This is what happens when I go off  course.

I started with alien.

Then I thought-chair, stair, rapid.. maybe shout would be useful. Or pricy might be better, so i went with that but it didn't go as well as I had hoped. I really had thought chair might be it.

Third word was stair.

I was hoping at the finish that it was not radii but that seemed unlikely.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1378
7️⃣🔟
🕚5️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
Score: 55

Spoiler

You'd think having 4 letters straight off in #8 would be a sure fire easy solve, but no such luck. I was thinking renal, lance, penal, venal etc Too risky.
#6 was a risk, clock or clomp but I fancied clock slightly more.
But towards the end, I was stumped #2 refer or fever, #7 green or preen, #3 amber or abbey.
My fancies at the time were fever, green and amber, so that would have ended up well.😂
So.. another  eliminator to the rescue.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1378
4️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Spoiler

This was a pleasant surprise because one word led to the next without too much drama.
Even #4, which usually would have a long list of letters to eliminate, did the job itself.
I did wonder if #5 might be clunk but then thought.. clung more likely.
At the end, my fingers were positively twitching to type in usurp so I had to watch myself carefully, didn't want another 'shale' moment.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,597 4/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Frustrating!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,597 4/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 SYNOD <- eliminator

🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 RAPID 💣

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RABID 🎯

Grrrrr.

After the eliminator, it could have been rapid, rabid, laird, farad, marid. The last two were incredibly unlikely. Either rabid or rapid would at least eliminate between the remaining three possibilities if I chose the wrong word.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1378

6️⃣7️⃣

🔟5️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

One patch of “could-be”… and the rest were slam dunks.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

LEANT 🎯

PREEN 🎯

NOVEL 🎯

DUVET 🎯

REFER 🎯🍀 could have been fewer, sewer - less likely hexer, hewer, keyer, and re- words eg rekey

CHIEF 🎯

CLOCK 🎯

ABBEY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1378

DUVET 6️⃣7️⃣ REFER

ABBEY 🔟5️⃣ NOVEL

CHIEF 8️⃣9️⃣ CLOCK

PREEN 4️⃣3️⃣ LEANT

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1378

5️⃣6️⃣

🕚3️⃣

4️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 53

I avoided three missteps, but my last guess was wrong.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

COAST 🎯

CLUNG 🎯🍀 could have been clunk

UNLIT 🎯

SPELT 🎯🍀 could have been smelt

INERT 🎯

USURY 🎯

STOMP 🎯🍀 could have been stoop

THROW 💣

THROB 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1378

UNLIT 5️⃣6️⃣ SPELT

THROB 🕚3️⃣ COAST

CLUNG 4️⃣7️⃣ INERT

STOMP 9️⃣8️⃣ USURY

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

A new day, a new Wordle.

Wordle 1,598 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,598 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ LAMBS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AWOKE 🎯

It could have been anode, novae, pupae, aquae, adoze, azine, apode. Adoze to apode were very unlikely rarer words. Novae to aquae were unlikely (plurals plus being rather less common). Gut instinct was saying awoke.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1379

4️⃣3️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣🔟

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

This was a Jack-be-nimble Octordle - very quick.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

LEAPT 🎯

STEEL 🎯

LUNCH 🎯

SLOSH 🎯

CAMEO 🎯

GREET 🎯

TOXIC 🎯

DALLY 🎯

One word led to the other.

Daily Octordle #1379

STEEL 4️⃣3️⃣ LEAPT

LUNCH 5️⃣6️⃣ SLOSH

CAMEO 7️⃣🔟 DALLY

GREET 8️⃣9️⃣ TOXIC

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1379

5️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣7️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

🔟9️⃣

Score: 52

Interesting … some unexpected words!

Spoiler

TRACE

HONKY <- eliminator

SCARY 🎯

EPOCH 🎯

CAPON 🎯

PINOT 🎯

SIGHT 🎯

SKIMP 🎯

NITRO 🎯

BURNT 🎯

I don’t know why I chose honky as the eliminator. On the face of it, it’s not an obvious choice - only one more vowel and that K not being the most usual consonant. However, it gave me just what I needed as I went along.

The Y together with the letters R, A and C from my starter were enough to give me scary. The C in 4th position with E, O and H were enough to give me epoch. I now had all the letters for 1L’s capon. For 1R I now had __NO_ with P and T, so all I had to do was add the I to make pinot.

For 2R, I had SI__T with an H, for which I needed only to add G for sight. Then 3R (S____ , with yellow P, I and K) could only be skimp. 4R was _I_R_ with yellow N, T, O - obviously nitro. And finally… 4L was ____T with yellow R and N, vowel must be U, and I had only to add B for the whole thing to be burnt.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1379

CAPON 5️⃣6️⃣ PINOT

EPOCH 4️⃣7️⃣ SIGHT

SCARY 3️⃣8️⃣ SKIMP

BURNT 🔟9️⃣ NITRO

Score: 52