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]

Back to reality.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1403
4️⃣🕚
6️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 55

I felt there were a few potential traps in this game.

Spoiler

This was very annoying, right from the start.
#2, chuck or chuff. I fancied chuck but.. too risky.
#7 bushy or mushy or pushy. Mushy was my least favourite of those.
#4 I thought bumpy or dumpy and I liked bumpy, but straight after that bombed out, my eyes alighted on the keyboard J (which is one of the few still in pristine order) and I thought.. of course. They love J when they can!
In the end I just had to go with one or the other for #2.

[countessalmirena]

From yesterday:

Wordle 1,622 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨

🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Choosing the right eliminator wasn’t a quick exercise.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,622 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛ METES <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REMIT 🎯

There were roughly 60 possible words after my starter. Ruling out two Es was a priority, although I’d have liked to rule I and U in or out as well. Placement of the T, presence or absence of S… and of the remaining consonants, L or M…

After considerable thought and no gut feeling, I decided on METES.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1403

3️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

🔟7️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

I was lucky with a 50/50.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

FIEND 🎯

OLDEN 🎯

GLARE 🎯🍀 could have been blare

TRAMP 🎯

PRISM 🎯

PHONY 🎯

QUOTE 🎯

RUMOR 🎯

I was tempted to try an immediate guess with either 2R or 4L, but there were really too many possibilities and my logic-meter said “No!”

Fiend was obvious after the eliminator. The D from fiend gave me olden. 1R now narrowed down but could still have been glare or blare; had to guess.

The rest was obvious. Tramp gave me the P and M for 3R (prism) and the P for 2P (phony). 2R now couldn’t be anything but quote, and the U from quote gave me rumor, even though it’s the US spelling.

Daily Octordle #1403

FIEND 3️⃣5️⃣ GLARE

PHONY 8️⃣9️⃣ QUOTE

RUMOR 🔟7️⃣ PRISM

TRAMP 6️⃣4️⃣ OLDEN

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1403

4️⃣5️⃣

6️⃣🔟

7️⃣3️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Another 50/50 with the final word.

Spoiler

TRACE

BOILS <- eliminator 

STOIC 🎯

CHAIN 🎯

CHUCK 🎯

PINTO 🎯

SIXTY 🎯

MUSHY 🎯

ARRAY 🎯

JUMPY 🎯🍀 could have been dumpy

Daily Extreme Octordle #1403

CHAIN 4️⃣5️⃣ CHUCK

PINTO 6️⃣🔟 JUMPY

SIXTY 7️⃣3️⃣ STOIC

MUSHY 8️⃣9️⃣ ARRAY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,623 4/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout.
That gave me lio.
I've no idea how many different words it could make.
The ones I thought of were polio, folio, logic
Ideally, I would have liked an eliminator with PFCG combo but I couldn't come up with much so just went with pricy.

[springyzone]

I found the classic octordle harder than the extreme today.

Daily Octordle #1404
🔟🕚
3️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

After turn 3 I was a bit stuck.
#1 riper/viper/wiper maybe. Or biker, though I thought that unlikely.
#6 the usual suspects-shape, shade, shave, shame etc
#7 pivot or vomit
#5 merge or verge

I actually wondered if #5 and #6 might be connected in that both might have M or both might have V.

My eliminator was vampy. It didn't give a lot but enough to solve the rest. 

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1404
8️⃣🕚
7️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 53

I was moving through this easier than the classic. Till the end.

Spoiler

[countessalmirena]

Today’s:

Wordle 1,623 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Luck and logic hit the home run.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,623 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩🟨🟨⬛ COILS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COLIC 🎯

Position of C was important; so too were the vowels. I hovered between coils and chino for the eliminator, but was also considering the letters H and M.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1404

3️⃣4️⃣

🔟5️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

9️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

There was quite a rosy start to this, and it all continued well with solved words solving other words.

Spoiler

TRACE

PINKS <- eliminator

BICEP 🎯

BROKE 🎯

SCUBA 🎯

DOGMA 🎯

VERGE 🎯

SHADE 🎯

VOMIT 🎯

WEIGH 🎯

1L (bicep) was revealed after the eliminator, and its B gave me 1R (broke) and 2R (scuba). The A in 5th position gave me 4R (dogma), and the G from that revealed 3L (verge) while its D gave me 3R (shade).

The V from verge and the M from dogma completed all that I needed for 4L (vomit). By now, it was clear that the final word must have the _EIGH pattern; it could only be weigh.

Daily Octordle #1404

BICEP 3️⃣4️⃣ BROKE

WEIGH 🔟5️⃣ SCUBA

VERGE 7️⃣8️⃣ SHADE

VOMIT 9️⃣6️⃣ DOGMA

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1404

9️⃣🔟

4️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

There was one piece of audacious luck, but the rest was straightforward.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator 

SURGE 🎯

PESTO 🎯

DECOR 🎯

AMBER 🎯🍀 could have been baker, maker, wafer, waver, waker

MIRTH 🎯

AMITY 🎯

LANKY 🎯

WHIFF 🎯

3R was obvious after the eliminator. The S (and final O from eliminator) gave me 2L (pesto). In turn, that put the E in 2nd position for 2R, so that the highly likely pattern _ECOR gave me decor.

I was looking at 4R, which was _IRTH (so … birth or mirth). At the same time, just next to it was 4L, obviously _A_ER or A__ER. It occurred to me that it be just like Octordle to have 4L be amber as a sort of taunt - “Here are both of the possible letters for 4R!”, and immediately I felt certain that it was indeed amber. Gut instinct, luck! It was. And thus was revealed mirth.

Amber also gave me 3L (amity). Then 1L - L(A)N_Y - was obviously lanky. That left 1R - _(H)I__ (bracketed H presumed position as it couldn’t be on the final position). Only possible first letter would be W, and from the scarce pickings of the unplayed letters, the gin  add l two letters just had to be double F for whiff.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1404

LANKY 9️⃣🔟 WHIFF

PESTO 4️⃣5️⃣ DECOR

AMITY 8️⃣3️⃣ SURGE

AMBER 6️⃣7️⃣ MIRTH

Score: 52