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]

Wordle 1,601 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wasn’t very adventurous with my solving, but it got the job done.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,601 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 SLING

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GUISE 🎯

It was a 1-in-1 chance.

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Daily Octordle #1382

8️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣🔟

Score: 52

One small risk at row 4…

Spoiler

TRACE

MOULD <- eliminator

SWARM 🎯

WORDY 🎯🍀 could have been rowdy

AWARD 🎯

WHOLE 🎯

HEADY 🎯

SHALL 🎯

LOUSE 🎯

STORE 🎯

Daily Octordle #1382

SHALL 8️⃣7️⃣ HEADY

AWARD 5️⃣6️⃣ WHOLE

WORDY 4️⃣3️⃣ SWARM

LOUSE 9️⃣🔟 STORE

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1382

5️⃣7️⃣

8️⃣3️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣🔟

Score: 52

… and I’m relieved to have got that.

Spoiler

TRACE

BIPOD <- eliminator

BRICK 🎯

DOPEY 🎯

DINGO 🎯

PEONY 🎯

PROMO 🎯

QUILL 🎯🍀 could have been quiff, shill

SURER 🎯

WINCE 🎯

The eliminator was very helpful… It’s just that I hadn’t an S or a U, which would have been lovely. By the time I got to my 8th row/guess, even though I had two letters (yellow) revealed for 3R, and only one green I in 3rd position for 2L, and either wince or since for 4R, 3R was by far the worst option to attempt. Too many possible answers. 

2L was quiff, quill, shill. I doubted that slish would even be in consideration (obsolete). The sensible obvious thing to do would be to play since for 4R and hope it ruled S in or out for 2L. I didn’t feel like doing that; I just didn’t feel that since was the answer. 

(If it wasn't, then 4R would have bombed, and 2L would still be 1 in 2, and 3R would still have 6 possible answers.)

It would be good to rule U in or out for 3R; that would really narrow it down.

So… I played a 1-in-3, quill. To my relief, it was correct.

It also ruled out L and ruled in U for 3R. I was pleased to see that this left, in fact, only one remaining solution for 3R: surer.

Aha! And that ruled out S for 4R!

Daily Extreme Octordle #1382

DINGO 5️⃣7️⃣ PROMO

QUILL 8️⃣3️⃣ BRICK

DOPEY 4️⃣9️⃣ SURER

PEONY 6️⃣🔟 WINCE

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Ah, it is funny you used bipod as eliminator as I was thinking of that word myself in wordle this morning, although in the end, I never used it.

Wordle 1,602 3/6

⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

I wasn't feeling it for shout today.  
I was almost inclined to go bipod on the basis it at least covered O and had some letters I liked better but in the end, I just went for pricy.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1383
8️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣🕚
🔟7️⃣
Score: 58

Life is full of disappointments.

Spoiler

Overall, not too hard, though I fancied bulge for #2 and that wasn't it. Close though.
But close does the score no good.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1383
🔟8️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

This was better or easier, or should I just say, I at least did it without making mistakes along the way.

Spoiler

My main this or that moment was at the end. Froze or broke.
I don't think I have ever seen broke out so I went for froze, but it was just luck, really.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,602 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨

🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was full of dangers, and yet not.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,602 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ LINED <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PERIL 🎯

Peril was the only possible answer.

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Daily Octordle #1383

3️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣🔟

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

A new eliminator for today … I instantly suspected some possible letter problems that might crop up and chose an eliminator in anticipation.

Spoiler

TRACE

VIOLD <- eliminator

GIRLY 🎯

BUGLE 🎯

TERRA 🎯

SHAVE 🎯

HAVEN 🎯

MELEE 🎯

WATER 🎯🍀 could have been rater

FUZZY 🎯🍀 could have been puffy, puppy

Had it not been for the V (and the D) in my eliminator, 2R could have been shake, shame, shape or shade.

Had V not been ruled out for 4R, it could have been levee.

This eliminator being accepted as a word in Octordle astonished me! I tried it out but was prepared for rejection. It’s an obsolete form of “vialled” (as in a liquid’s being placed/held in a vial), and I know it from Milton’s masque, “Comus”.

❝Helping all urchin blasts, and ill lucke signes / That the shrewd medling elfe delights to make, / Which she [a maiden called Sabrina, saved from a raging flood by nymphs, and transformed into the river’s goddess] with precious viold liquors heales.❞

Daily Octordle #1383

GIRLY 3️⃣4️⃣ BUGLE

TERRA 5️⃣6️⃣ SHAVE

HAVEN 7️⃣🔟 FUZZY

WATER 9️⃣8️⃣ MELEE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1383

🕚3️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

Score: 53

Again with the final word! Pooh and felonious cheese!

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

PORCH 🎯

SCION 🎯

SPIED 🎯

SNEER 🎯

DOGMA 🎯🍀 could have been vodka, or douma

GREED 🎯

GUILE 🎯

BROKE 💣

FROZE 🎯

All fine until 4L. I ruled out douma as Russian historical council or modern-day assembly is probably not an Octordle thing. I nearly went for vodka (I’d also contemplated it yesterday).

At the same time I couldn’t go forward with 4R (breed, freer, greed), or with 1L (broke, froze).

I decided that I just had to bite the bullet and make a guess for 4L. If I could the presence or absence of G, I’d at least be a step closer …

It was dogma. That also gave me 2R (guile), and of course 4R (greed).

Final Abyss of Choice - 1L. It was still broke/froze. A thousand curses upon it: I chose the wrong one.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1383

FROZE 🕚3️⃣ PORCH

SCION 4️⃣9️⃣ GUILE

SNEER 6️⃣5️⃣ SPIED

DOGMA 7️⃣8️⃣ GREED

Score: 53

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1383
8️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣🕚
🔟7️⃣
Score: 58

Life is full of disappointments.

Spoiler

Overall, not too hard, though I fancied bulge for #2 and that wasn't it. Close though.
But close does the score no good.

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It’s such an irony that the all-important letter which my weird eliminator uncovered just fell naturally into your lap. It’s the luck of the tiles…but I didn’t have the spread-or-instrument dilemma as my eliminator ruled out the L being in 4th position… Luck is always going to play its part. 🤞🧩