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]

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@springyzone wrote:

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. 

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That was actually an inspired second eliminator.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,624 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My first 2 moves were hardly auspicious.

Spoiler

I was thinking along the lines of furry, grump, dumpy though unlikely etc
Third word was fudgy.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1405
🔟4️⃣
🕚8️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
Score: 57

I got stuck half way through.

Spoiler

Things started off okay and in hindsight, I should have been able to work out #6 digit without the eliminator.
I probably should have been able to guess #1 too, but every word I could think of ended in t or else had e in 4th spot.
At the time I was hung up on #5, built or guilt and thought #4 might be ready.
All in all, clueless, so used fudgy and at last, some enlightenment.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1405
5️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
🕚6️⃣
Score: 52

This has me hopping mad as it should have been better. Not a lot better, maybe a 51.

I had to really concentrate on this one, which is why I am so annoyed to have lost focus on the very last word.

Spoiler

Started off okay with a likely answer on turn 2. But soon after that, most of the words seemed to have at least a couple of possible answers.
I took a risk on #1 as it could have been scuba but I think we saw that recently. We have seen saucy too but I thought it might be too soon to reuse scuba.

But the others were kayak/karma, foist/moist/joist (which I thought might be it as they seem to like J), faint/paint, feign/deign.
I was worried I might need an eliminator but gradually, one word led to the next.

And at last I was on the final word and I gave a sigh of satisfaction. Aha, I thought, the F has now been out and isn't in it, it must be deign, it can't be feign. And typed in feign!🙄
I am going to have to be careful what I think of as I knew the answer but my fingers seem to do my last thought.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,624 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The final letter of the eliminator was yellow… and that narrowed it down.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,624 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 BOING <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GRUFF 🎯

It could have been grump… but my gut was saying gruff.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1405

6️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣2️⃣

🕚4️⃣

7️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

I made a wrong guess on the final word.

Spoiler

TRACE

FARCE 🎯

GUILD <- eliminator

DIGIT 🎯

CACTI 🎯

DETOX 🎯 (loathe this)

USHER 🎯🍀 could have been upper

ESSAY 🎯

WOMAN 🎯

QUILT 💣

BUILT 🎯

What an awkward Octordle. It felt very staggered, unintuitive…

Daily Octordle #1405

DETOX 6️⃣8️⃣ ESSAY

CACTI 5️⃣2️⃣ FARCE

BUILT 🕚4️⃣ DIGIT

USHER 7️⃣9️⃣ WOMAN

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1405

7️⃣🔟

3️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Agggh! This felt like walking on nettles.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator 

LIKEN 🎯🍀 could have been liven

FAINT 🎯🍀 could have been paint

DEIGN 🎯

FOIST 🎯

SAUCY 🎯

ETHIC 🎯

SPINY 🎯

KARMA 🎯

Straightaway I had to guess my first word. That doesn’t set things up comfortably… and it was even worse when I had another 50/50 guess after that. This explains why I felt off-balance, I suppose. This Octordle was heavily reliant on the letter F… At least my guess of faint stopped me from considering joist or hoist for 2R.

Before I gingerly made my way to 2R, though, I solved 4L. F was ruled out so I knew it was deign. Then 2R (foist)… and by now 1L was clear (saucy).

Was 4R shiny or spiny? I knew at least it wasn’t spiky, thanks to liken. I paused, and looked at 3R. Aha. It must be ethic, which ruled out the H for 4R. Spiny it was - and that just left 1R… which could only be karma.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1405

SAUCY 7️⃣🔟 KARMA

LIKEN 3️⃣6️⃣ FOIST

FAINT 4️⃣8️⃣ ETHIC

DEIGN 5️⃣9️⃣ SPINY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

I did the puzzles in the wee small hours today (about 1.30) but didn't have the energy to screenshot or post.

I had a distinct feeling of deja vu with the wordle.

Wordle 1,625 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Seriously, only a U after the first 2 words? Didn't that just happen to me recently?
Third word was fudgy as the field was wide open. Puppy, guppy, dumpy, frump, grump, buddy... and so on. At least fudgy would test the U position and if Y was in play.
And it narrowed it down nicely.
I then had to choose between buggy and muggy and I thought, buggy for sure, not even certain if they use the word muggy in US. Obviously they must. Intensely annoying.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1406
9️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣🔟
🕚3️⃣
Score: 58

Things went wrong here.

Spoiler

For some reason, I felt spark was a great choice for #5. I don't know why, as looking at it now, spray looks more logical. That would have been wrong too. It wasn't all gloom though as it at least saved me from considering spick for #3, which I thought unlikely.
I had a bit of luck with #1, belly or jelly. But why would they use a  B when they could use a J?

But I still needed to sort out B in the remaining spaces.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1406
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🔟
8️⃣🕚
Score: 54

I can't remember what happened here, let's have a look.

Spoiler

Ah yes, things were going along quite nicely till near the end.
I was faced with #6 stung or stunk. I favoured stung, but you never know with this type of one.
And #8 had several I could think of, river, biker and I can't recall what else I had in mind (maybe fiber or fixer), but befog seemed a good eliminator at the time.