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]

Daily Octordle #1399

5️⃣2️⃣

6️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣🔟

8️⃣7️⃣

Score: 50

Two instances of “Go on, guess!” set the opening.

Spoiler

TRACE

STORE 🎯🍀 could have been forte, route, metre, mitre

BURST 🎯🍀 could have been first, rusty, wurst

MILKY <- eliminator

LOUSE 🎯 

POESY 🎯

MAGIC 🎯

MACAW 🎯

RAINY 🎯 

SHEER 🎯

After my starter, 1R was showing TR in yellow, with green E in last position. I simply had a strong gut feeling that it was store - a 1 in 5 guess. Without further hesitation I ignored the more sensible course of eliminations, and had at it. Luckily it was right.

A similar but not identical sensation for 2R overtook me immediately thereafter. This time it was between two words that my gut feeling swung like a pendulum: rusty or burst. The two other perfectly good possibilities didn’t appeal (for no real reason!). I hovered… then played burst.

At last common sense struck and I decided upon an eliminator: milky. That gave me 1L (louse) and 2L (poesy) and 4R (magic). 4L now presented me with what could only be macaw.

3L had everything in place save for one letter, and coincidentally (or not) it was one of the two possible letters for 3R. That is, 3R was obviously either sneer or sheer. The presence or absence of N would resolve it. I played rainy for 3L, and L did not appear for 3R. Voilà, it must be sheer.

Daily Octordle #1399

LOUSE 5️⃣2️⃣ STORE

POESY 6️⃣3️⃣ BURST

RAINY 9️⃣🔟 SHEER

MACAW 8️⃣7️⃣ MAGIC

Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1399

7️⃣8️⃣

3️⃣🔟

5️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

No risks with this! It was like playing mini-golf with a put-put-put - landing it straight into the hole first time every time.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator 

LUSTY 🎯 

LUCRE 🎯

AMINO 🎯

MOTEL 🎯

PLAID 🎯

PINCH 🎯

OAKEN 🎯

BROOK 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1399

PLAID 7️⃣8️⃣ PINCH

LUSTY 3️⃣🔟 BROOK

AMINO 5️⃣4️⃣ LUCRE

MOTEL 6️⃣9️⃣ OAKEN

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,619 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien. Not off to a great start but oh well, something is sure to show up in shout.
hou.
Not Tough, obviously, but I thought cough sounded likely so I went for it.
Then I tried dough.

But I have just realised I should have gone for an eliminator on turn 3 (maybe cider?) as it could have been rough or bough, I just never thought of them at the time.😳
On my keyboard, the R is completely gone, the G almost gone. B is in pretty good nick though, but I just didn't think of it. Sometimes I look down at the keyboard for inspiration. Dodged some bullets today!

[springyzone]

Didn't fly through the octordles today. They gave me pause.

Daily Octordle #1400
🕚4️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
🔟9️⃣
Score: 56

Spoiler

I was able to start with a few likely answers but I ran into trouble part way through.
Was #1 maybe cater or water?
Could #4 be cigar?
Was #8 brace or brave?
I should of course have gone for #6, rather than an eliminator as I had been thinking dress/press/cress (unlikely?) and idler had eliminated dress, but I didn't notice,  & used paced as eliminator.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1400
5️⃣🔟
🕛7️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 58

From bad to worse. Not only another eliminator but a mistake as well.

These things happen, I suppose.

Spoiler

The first couple of answers felt inevitable as I could not think of anything else they could be.
But I was very pleased to solve epoxy. Once I realised it most probably started with E, there were not that many choices.
#3 was frustrating-if I had gone with instinct, I would have typed in clown immediately but I knew flown and blown were also possible, so i held off.
I thought #4 might be covet.
#6, widen or vixen or maybe wizen (unlikely)
#7 was a killer, cable, fable, calve

I wanted an eliminator with C & V, at least, so went with carve. Moderately helpful but then made a mistake, flown instead of blown.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,619 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The row 3 eliminator/guess was a mixture of logic and luck.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,619 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ LIONS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DOUGH 🎯

The possible solutions: buxom jumbo mumbo gumbo hobby hoppy howdy dowdy bobby boggy boppy moggy mommy poddy poppy foggy bough dough dodgy podgy bodgy hokum buffo oomph popup dumbo boffo oxbow

Bough would be the most efficient eliminator… but my gut instinct was dough. Dough would be very nearly as efficient as bough. Worth the risk.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1400

6️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣4️⃣

🔟3️⃣

Score: 52

1L was a wide-field guess, but instinct was right.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

BARGE 🎯

TUBAL 🎯

VICAR 🎯 

WATER 🎯🍀 could have been dater, eater, hater, mater, pater, rater

MELEE 🎯

IDLER 🎯

SHINE 🎯🍀 could have been spine

PRESS 🎯

With 1L I just had to guess. Water called to me…

After solving 3L (idler), 4L could be fresh or press, and 2L could be shine or spine. Whichever guess I made for 2L would solve 4L, and vice versa. Again, I just had to plunge in… 

Daily Octordle #1400

WATER 6️⃣7️⃣ MELEE

SHINE 9️⃣5️⃣ VICAR

IDLER 8️⃣4️⃣ TUBAL

PRESS 🔟3️⃣ BARGE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1400

🔟6️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

The order is everything. Hercule Poirot would be saying “Method and order, my good Hastings”…

Spoiler

TRACE

BOING <- eliminator 

OCTET 🎯 

BLOWN 🎯

WIDEN 🎯

LOWLY 🎯

GUISE 🎯

QUASH 🎯

VALVE 🎯

EPOXY 🎯

No rabbit holes, no slippery grass-torn mud spots… Each word led to the next one.

Before I solved 4R (quash), 4L could have been halve or salve. For that matter, before 3L (guise), it could have been value. But 3L and then 4R were ready to flower; no other words were possible. It demonstrates yet again that one should first solve what’s ready, rather than faff about with words that MIGHT be right.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1400

EPOXY 🔟6️⃣ LOWLY

BLOWN 4️⃣3️⃣ OCTET

GUISE 7️⃣5️⃣ WIDEN

VALVE 9️⃣8️⃣ QUASH

Score: 52

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@springyzone wrote:

Didn't fly through the octordles today. They gave me pause.

Daily Octordle #1400
🕚4️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
🔟9️⃣
Score: 56

Spoiler

I was able to start with a few likely answers but I ran into trouble part way through.
Was #1 maybe cater or water?
Could #4 be cigar?
Was #8 brace or brave?
I should of course have gone for #6, rather than an eliminator as I had been thinking dress/press/cress (unlikely?) and idler had eliminated dress, but I didn't notice,  & used paced as eliminator.

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Hmm, you had some bad luck with the letters…

Spoiler

The lack of a C in your starter and eliminator was one thing (it would have helped with cater/water and also with that cheeky vicar … but in the other hand, you didn’t have the press/fresh dilemma.

And yet you had some fantastic solving here. Epoxy, tubal, melee - perfectly done.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,620 4/6

🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

After alien, I wasn't sure-an ea pattern or an a-e.
I felt it unlikely there would be H or O or U in the mix, though S & T were in with a chance.
But in the end, I went with scrub second as it covered what i thought of as a few likely letters.
That got me nowhere fast.
So next up was adopt. My first thought had actually been to try adapt but adopt at least meant all the vowels were now covered. As I suspected though, no o/u.
But it gave me enough to now solve it.