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]

Countess, I have to say you are a marvel at the words you know.

I am often impressed by the eliminators & choices you come up with.

I had to smile at this:

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.

Not only were the first two unlikely, I can promise you I would never even have thought of them, I would have been in blissful ignorance. The only 2 I would have liked out of that lot were undue and venue.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,600 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I've put the whole thing in a spoiler as otherwise I will ruin the game for you if you have not done it.
As you can see, things did not start with promise, but I always tell myself in those sorts of circumstances that shout is sure to turn up something, & so it did.
No skill required for turn 3.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1381
🔟9️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

This wasn't too bad in that one word led to the next, although I was lucky not to fall into a trap with #7

Spoiler

After my first 2 turns, I wondered if #7 might be month, but it could also have been north, so luckily, I left it. I went for what looked to be a certainty-guise.
I was also, right at the end, fancying enter for #1 till fortunately I looked up and realised no E in spot 4.

My most pleasing moment was solving aback as I didn't have a lot to go on but couldn't see anything else it might be. Not to say there definitely weren't any other choices, just i couldn't think of any.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1381
8️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
🔟3️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

This wasn't too bad. #8 was easy, it's one of their staples for a no vowel word.
#2, I thought meaty or teary but meaty is a run away favourite of theirs, so no contest.
#3, I thought, squad (the obvious one) or squab. It is the extreme, but all the same, yesterday I think it was, one answer was squib and not squid so I thought this time they may give the D ending a run.
You can never tell with them, but my guess paid off today.

It was lucky I got caught up in solving a few that looked straight forward as initially I had wondered if #7 might be lease but by the 4th turn, I could see that was out of the running.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,600 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I can’t help thinking that you’ll have an easy time of it, springyzone!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,600 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 SHIRT <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHORT 🎯

My guess was so close to the answer… and it was quite a good eliminator anyway.

EDIT (edited from my Notes, not here): you did indeed!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1381

🔟5️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

Ah, logic - how do I love thee?

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

NOTCH 🎯

STASH 🎯

NAVAL 🎯

GUISE 🎯

CLING 🎯

ISSUE 🎯

ABACK 🎯

ENTRY 🎯🍀 could have been enter

Smooth as a strawberry smoothie. I worked hardest for 3R (guise) but it was the only possibility.

Daily Octordle #1381

ENTRY 🔟5️⃣ NAVAL

STASH 4️⃣9️⃣ ABACK

CLING 7️⃣6️⃣ GUISE

NOTCH 3️⃣8️⃣ ISSUE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1381

4️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣🔟

Score: 52

This took a few twists and turns.

Spoiler

TRACE

SLIMY <- eliminator

MEATY 🎯

SERIF 🎯

LAPSE 🎯

HUMID 🎯🍀 could have been unmix

SQUAD 🎯

QUILT 🎯

BUGLE 🎯

SHYLY 🎯

Humid really opened this up. Without the U and D, would I have guessed squad? Without the U and the Q, would I have guessed quilt? Bugle, too… and 4L (shyly) needed the H.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1381

SERIF 4️⃣3️⃣ MEATY

SQUAD 7️⃣6️⃣ HUMID

QUILT 8️⃣9️⃣ BUGLE

LAPSE 5️⃣🔟 SHYLY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Countess, I have to say you are a marvel at the words you know.

I am often impressed by the eliminators & choices you come up with.

I had to smile at this:

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.

Not only were the first two unlikely, I can promise you I would never even have thought of them, I would have been in blissful ignorance. The only 2 I would have liked out of that lot were undue and venue.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,600 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I've put the whole thing in a spoiler as otherwise I will ruin the game for you if you have not done it.
As you can see, things did not start with promise, but I always tell myself in those sorts of circumstances that shout is sure to turn up something, & so it did.
No skill required for turn 3.

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I am serious about loving words. ❤️🧑‍🏫📖✍🏻📝📜📃😁

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,601 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Another lucky day where most of the letters came out for me.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1382
3️⃣🔟
9️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

This was straightforward enough in that one word led to the next, though at first, I looked at #2 and thought, oh no, reach, beach, peach etc so that surprised me later on.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1382
7️⃣8️⃣
🕚5️⃣
6️⃣🔟
4️⃣9️⃣
Score: 60

Spoiler

I feel this had a lot of traps.
After my first 2 turns, I could not see anything that looked 100% safe. At that early stage, I was thinking maybe super for #6 and prone for #7, and maybe minor or bingo for #1, so decided to go with another eliminator, pricy.

The surprises for me today were dingo (such an Australian word, though to be fair, I think they have used it before) and promo. Until I saw it had O at the end, I was going to go with proof.