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]

I've just finished mine.

I am very impressed you got the  wordle in 3 today as it would not have been a straight forward one for you.

I imagined you would start with trace, which gave you the E ending, and I was trying to figure out what it could be but my mind was influenced by my own choices after alien.

I was thinking (for me) above, awoke, adore, abode/adobe.

I couldn't think of any others, though there may have been.

But you would have been faced with those and words such as halve, abide, gauze, maybe, eagle etc

So you used an excellent eliminator.

Mine went

alien

shout

bawdy (which I was very pleased with)

then awoke

I forgot to put the link!

Wordle 1,598 4/6

🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1379
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣🕚
8️⃣6️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

This went reasonably quickly.
About midway, I had a feeling #6 would have a double L but left off even thinking about it till the end, when I suddenly saw the possibility of badly.😑 So I guess it was 50/50

Disaster narrowly averted for #8. Saw the letters and thought aha, got to be topic, but just in time noticed the P had been out in the move before!
And I am sure I have seen leapt recently somewhere, it is a repeat performer.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1379
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
🔟9️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Did this one reasonably quickly.  No places with multiple choices.

Early on I did think-not nitro, again?

pinot was standing out but I did hesitate and think, would it be? But couldn't see anything else. Same with capon.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,599 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
I suspected a 2/4 vowel pattern then, with an E having to go in spot 2, but after that, all I could think of was venue (Venus & nexus not being possible.) I may have missed some other possibilities but in any case, got lucky today! 

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1380
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣🕛
6️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
Score: 59

Well, I didn't exactly shine in this one.😑

Spoiler

Things started off with promise but very quickly I ran into trouble, in that most spots had various possibilities.
#5 had looked like frail to me, till turn 3, so then I tried a 2/4 vowel pattern and thought viral seemed about right.
It wasn't.😋
I can't complain too much though as the V was useful. I would not have guessed #8 otherwise, because of the spelling.

Then at the end, baker or maker. I fancied baker slightly more. Typical!😂

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1380
9️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣🕚
3️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
Score: 53

I was reasonably pleased with this, till the end.

Spoiler

Everything was working out well till the finish, when I had to solve #4. I went for mecca on the basis I am sure I have seen it out before. My hunches don't always work out, as we know!

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,599 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛

⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,599 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ SLING <- eliminator

⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩 ENDUE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 VENUE 🎯

It was down to neume, mneme, endue, undue, venue. I thought the first two unlikely. It seemed most probable to be between endue and venue. I picked the wrong word.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1380

9️⃣8️⃣

7️⃣🔟

6️⃣3️⃣

4️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

Smooth enough… I had only one instance of 50/50 uncertainty.

Spoiler

TRACE

LOINS <- eliminator

FROST 🎯

SHALT 🎯

VALOR 🎯

VALID 🎯

WHALE 🎯

DRINK 🎯

COCOA 🎯

MAKER 🎯🍀 could have been baker

One word led to the other.

Daily Octordle #1380

COCOA 9️⃣8️⃣ DRINK

WHALE 7️⃣🔟 MAKER

VALID 6️⃣3️⃣ FROST

SHALT 4️⃣5️⃣ VALOR

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1380

3️⃣8️⃣

4️⃣🔟

7️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

This was challenging but solvable.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGS <- eliminator

CRASS 🎯

EGRET 🎯

VALET 🎯

GROVE 🎯

BROIL 🎯

SQUIB 🎯

BONNY 🎯

DECAF 🎯

I wanted S as the final letter of the eliminator, to narrow down 1L (crash, crass, crawl, cramp, crack). An L would also be useful to rule out crawl, and L is a handy letter anyway.

Egret was obvious, and that opened up valet (3R), which in turn gave me grove (4R).

3L (broil) was now obvious, and the B was revealed in 1R and 4L. I almost risked playing bonus for 4L, but it could be bonny. A closer look at 1R yielded only one possible solution - squib - and that would reveal S and U for 4L if bonus were the answer there. And… just as well I’d tackled 1R first; 4R was NOT bonus.

2R had also been teasing me throughout. I had a C that couldn’t be in 1st or 4th position; A that couldn’t be in 2nd or 3rd position; E that couldn’t be in 1st, 4th or last position. Ruled-out letters included S, L, N, T, to deal just with the most obvious. It could NOT be pecan, no matter how many times the word whispered in my mind. After calculating, it became clear that It had to be deca_. A strong possibility was decay… but it could be decaf or decad (the latter was unlikely, in my opinion). Well, with the Y of bonny ruling out decay, the most likely answer was decaf - and so it was.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1380

CRASS 3️⃣8️⃣ SQUIB

EGRET 4️⃣🔟 DECAF

BROIL 7️⃣5️⃣ VALET

BONNY 9️⃣6️⃣ GROVE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1380
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣🕛
6️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
Score: 59

Well, I didn't exactly shine in this one.😑

Spoiler

Things started off with promise but very quickly I ran into trouble, in that most spots had various possibilities.
#5 had looked like frail to me, till turn 3, so then I tried a 2/4 vowel pattern and thought viral seemed about right.
It wasn't.😋
I can't complain too much though as the V was useful. I would not have guessed #8 otherwise, because of the spelling.

Then at the end, baker or maker. I fancied baker slightly more. Typical!😂

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Oh no… You were in an unenviable situation at row 5. I don’t know what I’d have done…