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 1,625 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Spoiler

Wordle 1,625 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ LIMOS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MUGGY 🎯

The eliminator brought this right down to three possibilities: muddy muggy pygmy. At worst, I’d have this in 4 moves, but I thought I’d likely solve it on the third row, muggy being a Wordle preferred word.

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Daily Octordle #1406

🔟8️⃣

6️⃣3️⃣

5️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

One minor risk.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

INTER 🎯

PHONE 🎯

SCRAP 🎯

SKIMP 🎯

BOOTH 🎯

DETER 🎯🍀 could have been utter

GRIEF 🎯

JELLY 🎯

2R (inter) and 4R (phone) were immediately solvable after the eliminator.

The P from 4R (phone) gave me 3L (scrap), which in turn gave me 2L (skimp). I could see only booth for 3R.

Now I looked at 4L: grief or dried or fried. 2R was deter or utter. I had a better chance with 2R (and my gut instinct was deter), and as a bonus the D from deter would settle the 4L question as well. Luckily deter was correct, and that gave me grief.

Finally 1L could only be jelly (unless I included welly in the possibilities, which I thought unlikely as it’s British abbreviation/slang).

Daily Octordle #1406

JELLY 🔟8️⃣ DETER

SKIMP 6️⃣3️⃣ INTER

SCRAP 5️⃣7️⃣ BOOTH

GRIEF 9️⃣4️⃣ PHONE

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1406

6️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣4️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

2️⃣🔟

Score: 51

Four “could-be”s - blimey. It didn’t feel that risky as I was doing this - but in retrospect… yes, not reassuringly amenable to pure logic!

Spoiler

TRACE

TREAD 🎯🍀 could have been treat

LOGIN <- eliminator 

TULLE 🎯

STUNK 🎯🍀 could have been stunt

LEAPT 🎯

STRUT 🎯

SHILL 🎯🍀 could have been swill

PASTA 🎯🍀 could have been pasty or patsy

GIVER 🎯

First word was a 50/50 – I had to go for it, surely!

Then 3R… stunt or stunk. In Britain and Australia, we’d only use stunk as the past participle, but in the US stunk is used far more frequently, instead of stank for the simple past tense. Gut feeling… I played stunk.

1L - N and L being ruled out, it had to be leapt.

3L - P and K were ruled out, but it was still another 50/50… shill or swill. I thought swill unlikely.

2L - grrrr. Another could-be-this or could-be-that. I thought pasty the least likely, and pasta the most likely.

4R - Thankfully there was only one possibility left.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1406

LEAPT 6️⃣7️⃣ STRUT

PASTA 9️⃣4️⃣ TULLE

SHILL 8️⃣5️⃣ STUNK

TREAD 2️⃣🔟 GIVER

Score: 51

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,626 3/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was lucky as there wasn't much else it could be (or not that I could see).

[springyzone]

Mixed results in today's games.

Daily Octordle #1407
6️⃣🔟
8️⃣2️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
Score: 50

Spoiler

As you can see, I was able to start with a couple of very likely guesses. And as a bonus, my second eliminator could be short, as I had already exposed the U.
The surprise answer for me today was probably #7 which I thought earlier on might be misty, but I got busy solving the obvious ones first & it sorted itself out.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1407
5️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣🕚
🕛4️⃣
Score: 62

Oh well, we can't win them all.

Spoiler

I found this a bit tricky. 
After my first couple of turns, I could not see any spot that had a clear cut answer. It felt too risky to guess.
So I went for a 3rd eliminator, pricy and it gave me quite a bit actually, I can't complain. It cleared the way nicely. 
But at the end, I was faced with #6, mower or mover, #7, glade or blade.
And only 3 moves left.
If I had had to choose, I would probably have thought maybe mover and blade, though I fancied glade too.
So, eliminator bewig.
Just squeezed in on the last turn.

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Wordle 1,626 2/6

⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I guessed immediately; admittedly it was a one in three guess, so there was an element of luck.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,626 2/6

⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨 TRACE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEACH 🎯

A 2-row victory! It could have been beach or peach, but gut instinct said “leach”. If I’d used plumb as an eliminator, there would have been no doubt… but I felt luckier than a punk in a Dirty Harry movie.

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Daily Octordle #1407

3️⃣🔟

5️⃣8️⃣

7️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

Risk-free and lilypad-continuous.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

CONCH 🎯

COMIC 🎯

TEPID 🎯

TIPSY 🎯

AWARE 🎯

ANVIL 🎯

VAGUE 🎯

OFFAL 🎯

I hopped from one word to another, with scarcely more than a second or two between each hop. The starter and eliminator gave me everything I needed, in addition to any new information from the uncovered words.

☘️⛲️🐸

Daily Octordle #1407

CONCH 3️⃣🔟 OFFAL

TEPID 5️⃣8️⃣ ANVIL

AWARE 7️⃣9️⃣ VAGUE

TIPSY 6️⃣4️⃣ COMIC

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1407

4️⃣8️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣🔟

5️⃣2️⃣

Score: 51

Spoiler

TRACE

ENACT 🎯🍀 could have been exact

GOLPS <- eliminator 

PLEAT 🎯

GLADE 🎯🍀 could have been glaze

CHAFE 🎯

DECOR 🎯

CAMPY 🎯

PROMO 🎯

MOWER 🎯🍀 could have been mover

The first guess was a risk; exact was perfectly possible and just as likely as enact. It didn’t help me either, as none of the other words had an N.

So… eliminator needed. Given the revealed letters so far, I was of the view that either P or B would feature, as well as D and G. L seemed likely also. I had to sacrifice I in the interest of more consonants… and decided on golps.

That gave me 1L (pleat) and either glade or glaze for 4L. Lucky guess -> glade. 2R had no S, 2nd letter would surely be H after the C, so it must be chafe. Thanks to the D from glade, 2L must be decor.

Although I disliked it, 1R must be campy. The M gave me 3L (promo), and all that was left was 3R. It was either mower or mover, so once again had to take a leaping 1 in 2 guess.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1407

PLEAT 4️⃣8️⃣ CAMPY

DECOR 7️⃣6️⃣ CHAFE

PROMO 9️⃣🔟 MOWER

GLADE 5️⃣2️⃣ ENACT

Score: 51

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@springyzone wrote:

Mixed results in today's games.

Daily Octordle #1407
6️⃣🔟
8️⃣2️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
Score: 50

Spoiler

As you can see, I was able to start with a couple of very likely guesses. And as a bonus, my second eliminator could be short, as I had already exposed the U.
The surprise answer for me today was probably #7 which I thought earlier on might be misty, but I got busy solving the obvious ones first & it sorted itself out.

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Superb result! 🏅🎖️🥇🏆👏🏻🥂🍾🎇