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]

Wordle 1,603 3/6

🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟨🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien
Which gave me enough to see the shape of the word to the extent I didn't think shout would be a good eliminator.
I fancied abide or aside as the answer and decided to go with aside as at least it has the S from shout included.
So.. neither aside nor abide could be the answer, which was a surprise to me. I had not even thought of arise but of course by third turn, it was obvious.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,603 2/6

⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Two-row victory.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,603 2/6

⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩 TRACE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ARISE 🎯

It could have been arose, or argue. I was in an excellent position after the starter.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1384
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣🔟
5️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

This wasn't hard as such but my mind wanted to go in some directions which I could see were not helpful.

Spoiler

It took me longer than it should have to solve #2 as originally I was trying out _aush.
Then for #7, I was trying __ach but that clearly did not work either.

#4 worried me as I figured it could be aping, acing or aging (which isn't how I would spell it... but we have seen it out before) and even at the end it was down to 50/50, so I just went with their usual.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1384
8️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣2️⃣
🔟9️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
Score: 51

Marginally better as I managed to solve on my second turn.

Needed shout after that, though.😁

Spoiler

My first thought for #7 was swarm but of course I could see it ended in N, so back to the drawing board!
And I strongly fancied chide for #8 but held off as it could also be chime.  I actually preferred chive but of course the V had been out.
It was lucky I waited as the M was later revealed but for sure, if it had not been, I would have gone with chide.
And I was quite liking broth/troth for #5 until I found there was no R.

So all in all, a lucky round for me as all my initial fancies were wrong.

[countessalmirena]

I forgot to post the Octordle results of yesterday:

Daily Octordle #1384

3️⃣8️⃣

4️⃣🔟

5️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

GUILD <- eliminator

TODDY 🎯

TANGY 🎯

BRINE 🎯

WEARY 🎯

ADMIT 🎯

QUASH 🎯🍀 could have been quaff

GRAPH 🎯

AGING 🎯

After solving 4R (admit), I was faced with quaff/quash (1R), grass/grasp/graph (4L), and aping/aging (2R). I decided to try 1R first; the presence or absence of S would help with 2R At any rate.

I was lucky. It was quash… and that ruled out grass and grasp for 4L, which then meant P was ruled out for 2R.

Daily Octordle #1384

TODDY 3️⃣8️⃣ QUASH

TANGY 4️⃣🔟 AGING

BRINE 5️⃣6️⃣ WEARY

GRAPH 9️⃣7️⃣ ADMIT

Score: 52

Daily Extreme Octordle #1384

8️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣9️⃣

🔟4️⃣

Score: 52

No surprises, no twists.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

NAIVE 🎯

CHIME 🎯🍀 could have been chide

SMITE 🎯

SAUCE 🎯

TOOTH 🎯

CROWD 🎯

TARDY 🎯

SPAWN 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1384

CROWD 8️⃣6️⃣ SAUCE

SMITE 5️⃣3️⃣ NAIVE

TOOTH 7️⃣9️⃣ TARDY

SPAWN 🔟4️⃣ CHIME

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Today’s:

Wordle 1,604 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator was perfect; it reduced the number of solutions to 2.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,604 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ LOGIN

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FUGUE 🎯

It could have been segue.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1385

7️⃣5️⃣

4️⃣2️⃣

8️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣🔟

Score: 48

I gained an early advantage in guessing one word immediately. It was something of a risky guess, and I had two further risky guesses as well. It could have gone horribly wrong,

Spoiler

TRACE

THREE 🎯🍀 could have been there, terse, (not as likely) titre, or (unlikely) throe, twire, terne, torse

HALVE 🎯

PORCH 🎯🍀 could have been birch

ERODE 🎯🍀 could have been broke, drone, froze - or unlikely options: brome, drome, krone

SWING <- eliminator

FIRST 🎯

SWEPT 🎯

SNIFF 🎯

MEDAL 🎯

I had a lucky guess with three (2R). I discounted throe as it’s inevitably used as a plural (throes), twire as it’s obsolete, terne as it’s highly unlikely (type of alloy), and torse as it’s specific to heraldry and I’ve only ever seen it used twice! Titre was certainly possibly but I thought it unlikely as Octordle invariably uses the US spelling of titer. So … there, three, terse - I took a guess.

3R - couldn’t really have been anything else. 

2L - L ruled out so it wasn’t lurch. Birch/porch - worth guessing.

1R - gut feeling. Even before the O was confirmed, that gut instinct had gravitated towards erode.

At that point, I needed an eliminator. That gave me 1L, and 3L was obvious as well. 4L with that F was now clear, and 4R couldn’t hide.

Daily Octordle #1385

SWEPT 7️⃣5️⃣ ERODE

PORCH 4️⃣2️⃣ THREE

FIRST 8️⃣3️⃣ HALVE

SNIFF 9️⃣🔟 MEDAL

Score: 48

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1385

5️⃣8️⃣

3️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

7️⃣🔟

Score: 52

No early guess this time. In fact, I had a 1-in-2 chance of a wrong guess at row 3. Sometimes one just has to plunge in.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

CABIN 🎯 could have been china

CIRCA 🎯

SHUCK 🎯

JUMBO 🎯 (unlikely, but could have been mumbo, dumbo, bumbo, buffo, dubbo)

MOTIF 🎯

PILAF 🎯

PINEY 🎯🍀 could have been pined

NEEDY 🎯

2L - cabin is an Octordle favourite; I thought it the most likely solution.

3R - mumbo isn’t used on its own; dumbo and dubbo are Australian slang; bumbo (vote-persuading rum-based drink) is not commonly used; buffo is a type of opera singer in Italian opera (usually a comic bass) so it’s not commonly used … I felt safe eliminating these from consideration. 

3R - piney is another Octordle favourite, hence I tried that rather than pined.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1385

SHUCK 5️⃣8️⃣ PILAF

CABIN 3️⃣6️⃣ JUMBO

CIRCA 4️⃣9️⃣ PINEY

MOTIF 7️⃣🔟 NEEDY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,604 5/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The first line wasn't much help as E is such a common letter anyway.

Position of the U on turn 2 limited the answers, but not enough.

One of my first thoughts was debug, but then other words came to mind... revue, demur, recur, femur

Most words I could think of had an R and I was tempted to try pricy (though would probably have gone with price as Y seemed unlikely), but in the end decided to go for broke and pick a favourite.

I fancied revue.

Wrong, but it at least gave me the UE end and cut out the R.

Fourth line was queue as I thought that would be just evil enough to be 'it'.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1385
8️⃣🔟
5️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

I didn't get anywhere fast in either of today's octordles.

This started off well enough although I can see now that #5 could have been midst. At the time though, all I could see was the i was probably in second place and S was probably in 4th spot, so I assumed it would be _irst.

I guess I was lucky.

I was too scared to make any move on #4 because.. threw/three, but eventually other words solved that dilemma.

I did consider drome for #2, but once I mentally placed D in 4th spot and saw erode, theb path was clear.