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]

Daily Octordle #1401
6️⃣🔟
9️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Huh! My first thought was, couldn't be, could it? These people are playing with us!

Spoiler

Nothing too bad there. I was lucky brine had been solved, otherwise I would have gone for brisk over frisk for #1.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1401
🔟3️⃣
6️⃣🕚
9️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
Score: 55

This ran smoothly enough, but not quite as smoothly as the classic, as I needed another eliminator part way through.

Spoiler

I suppose #2 could have been scoot, but I fancied sport more.
I was also unsure a bit on #3, locus or bolus. So a bit of luck there.

But then I hit trouble.
#1 could have been a whole range of words such as jazzy or gawky, baddy, daddy and so on.
#4 I was torn between dandy and nanny, with no clear preference.
#5, glass or flask

So.. I used that old favourite, fudgy. Job done. The surprise answer today for me was #1. If I had had to choose blindly, without fudgy to help out, I would have gone gawky, followed by jazzy.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,620 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This went well. If my guess turned out to be wrong, I knew I’d get it on row 4. As it was, my guess was lucky.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,620 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛ LADEN <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLEAD 🎯

I didn’t narrow it down to one; there were still two other possible answers – ideal or delay.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1401

6️⃣3️⃣

🔟4️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

There weren’t many letters left unused.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

MUCUS 🎯

QUASH 🎯

BRINE 🎯 

FRISK 🎯

WEARY 🎯

TANGY 🎯

AGING 🎯

TODDY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1401

FRISK 6️⃣3️⃣ MUCUS

TODDY 🔟4️⃣ QUASH

TANGY 8️⃣9️⃣ AGING

BRINE 5️⃣7️⃣ WEARY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1401

🔟3️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Ow, tricky.

Spoiler

TRACE

PHONY <- eliminator 

SPORT 🎯 

STEEP 🎯

NANNY 🎯

FLASK 🎯

PULPY 🎯

LOCUS 🎯

CIVIC 🎯

DAFFY 🎯

This felt ridiculously uncertain to me.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1401

DAFFY 🔟3️⃣ SPORT

LOCUS 8️⃣5️⃣ NANNY

FLASK 6️⃣7️⃣ PULPY

STEEP 4️⃣9️⃣ CIVIC

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,621 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Luck and logic hit the home run.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,621 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛ OILED <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HOVEL 🎯

It was down to bowel, vowel, yokel, lovey, novel, hovel. 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1402

🔟9️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

Lovely logic.

Spoiler

TRACE

DINGO <- eliminator

LIMBO 🎯

GRIPE 🎯

APING 🎯 

SAUCE 🎯

SHARD 🎯

NINTH 🎯

IVORY 🎯

OFFER 🎯

Limbo ruled out M for 2R, so it was gripe, not grime. Gripe then ruled in P for 2L, so it was aping, not aging or awing.

3L had to be sauce. 4L had to shard, not shark (thanks to the D in dingo).

By now, the remaining words couldn’t be anything else.

Daily Octordle #1402

OFFER 🔟9️⃣ IVORY

APING 5️⃣4️⃣ GRIPE

SAUCE 6️⃣3️⃣ LIMBO

SHARD 7️⃣8️⃣ NINTH

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1402

4️⃣🔟

3️⃣9️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

Two 50/50s… but overall, it wasn’t too bad.

Spoiler

TRACE

SOILY <- eliminator 

CLICK 🎯🍀 could have been flick

VISOR 🎯

COMET 🎯

LEAKY 🎯

MAVEN 🎯

URBAN 🎯

ORGAN 🎯

STOOD 🎯🍀 could have been stoop

Daily Extreme Octordle #1402

VISOR 4️⃣🔟 STOOD

CLICK 3️⃣9️⃣ ORGAN

URBAN 8️⃣5️⃣ COMET

LEAKY 6️⃣7️⃣ MAVEN

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Ah, looking at yours for yesterday has refreshed my mind.

I did wordle and octordle on the phone but only had time for one and couldn't recall which it was, but must have been the extreme.

I got the wordle in 3 as I had most of the letters.

The extreme wordle, not so great as I made a mistake part way through. I know I tried raven. The annoying thing is, I actually did think of maven and dismissed it as unlikely so I was hopping mad when it turned out to be 'it'.

Here is today's wordle.

🤣🤣Haha, I just went to retrieve my results to copy the tab and up came the screen and on the top it said 'admire puzzle'.😂 I've never seen that happen before. I had to go in and 'admire' it before I could hit the "see results' tab.

Wordle 1,622 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I did this a while back, maybe about 6.30am? I took a look at the position of the yellows and decided it might be a 2/4 vowel pattern but 

Spoiler

_e_it
The first thing to come to mind was relit, which obviously it could not be, considering I had eliminated L.
So I thought, Oh I know, got to be remit then, can't think of anything else offhand. And quickly entered it and got the result I fully expected.
But then a little later, a thought suddenly came to me.. I wonder what other 27 words countess might be able to come up with though? And some came to me. refit or befit or hang on, merit. Or debit.😲

Had I thought of them earlier instead of rushing in like a bull in a China shop, I would have used a third eliminator. Not sure what, exactly, maybe brief.
So... today I was very lucky!

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1403
5️⃣🔟
4️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣2️⃣
Score: 51

A most satisfactory result. I had to work on solving #8 but I suspected there weren't that many choices if I could just work out the pattern.

Spoiler

With #8, I at first assumed a vowel would have to go in 3rd spot but nothing seemed to work. Which meant a vowel was probably in first spot, so got there eventually.
The rest fell into place though #2, I was hoping it was not blare.
I don't think I would have guessed #5 except for the fact I uncovered the M. That's when it clicked. American spelling.