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 🤣

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Wordle 1,612 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛

🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,612 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ TRACE

🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ PLIMS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLAMP 🎯

Possible solutions after starter: chain chaff chalk champ chasm chaos clash clank clang class claim clamp clasp scamp scaly scalp scald 

Using PLIMS as eliminator:

chain __y__

chaff _____

chalk _y___

champ y__g_

chasm ___yy

chaos ____g

clash _g__y

clank _g___ A: possibility 1 of 2

clang  _g___ A: possibility 2 of 2

class _g__g

claim _gyy_

clamp yg_g_

clasp yg__y

scamp y__gy

scaly _y__y B: possibility 1 of 2

scalp yy__y

scald _y__y B: possibility 2 of 2

13 unique outcomes, and only two 50/50 could-be groups! I’d almost certainly guess it on row 3; worst case scenario would be if it were clank/clang or scaly/scald, so a 2/17 chance it would be solved on row 4.

Yes, plims was ideal.

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Daily Octordle #1393

3️⃣7️⃣

4️⃣8️⃣

🔟9️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

LEMON 🎯

STOOL 🎯

LABEL 🎯

BESET 🎯

HOTLY 🎯

CHEEK 🎯🍀 could have been cheep

ACUTE 🎯

PITCH 🎯🍀 could have been ditch, witch

I left 3L until last in the hopes of enlightening information for the first letter.  Alas, the only letter ruled out for first position was H (hitch ruled out), and I still had to guess.

Daily Octordle #1393

LEMON 3️⃣7️⃣ HOTLY

STOOL 4️⃣8️⃣ CHEEK

PITCH 🔟9️⃣ ACUTE

LABEL 5️⃣6️⃣ BESET

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1393

7️⃣8️⃣

3️⃣9️⃣

4️⃣🔟

5️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

First word and last word were both 50/50s.

Spoiler

TRACE

MISDO <- eliminator

TAROT 🎯🍀 could have been torah

ALLOT 🎯

TROLL 🎯

ROBOT 🎯

ABASE 🎯

SONIC 🎯

BELAY 🎯

PRIZE 🎯🍀 could have been gripe

New eliminator tried. Not a bad result.

It was a bit of a risk playing tarot at the start; torah was a real contender. Luckily I was right, and that led me straight to allot, which gave me troll. 4R (robot) was obvious, and that B cleared up 1L (abase).

By now I knew that 1R was sonic. (Earlier, it could have been scion, but robot’s O in 2nd position clarified its being sonic.)

2R could only be belay.

3R was down to two possibilities; I thought gripe unlikely. 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1393

ABASE 7️⃣8️⃣ SONIC

TAROT 3️⃣9️⃣ BELAY

ALLOT 4️⃣🔟 PRIZE

TROLL 5️⃣6️⃣ ROBOT

Score: 52