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:

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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Ohhhh, by the skin of your teeth!

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,627 4/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨🟩🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
Which gave me a, i, t
Everything I could think of was either ruled out by a black or by the position of a yellow.
So I tried tacit to try to work out vowel positions.
After that, it was easy.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1408
5️⃣6️⃣
🔟3️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

There was only one time it felt risky and that was on #5 (probe or prove) but I looked at the space and thought.. oh well, it can't be prone, aha probe. Then as I was typing it in, I saw the V next to the B but decided to go ahead anyway.
In hindsight, I should have been solving #1 first as that was a 100% guess,  not just a 50/50.
My problem is I don't always look at every spot before I make a move, I tend to start to do that, then get caught up along the way.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1408
4️⃣🕚
5️⃣7️⃣
🔟6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 54

Why does this always happen to me? Caught again right near the end with no clear way to know which answers to go with.

Spoiler

Alien gave very disappointing pickings but I had hopes that shout would even things up and it wasn't too shabby.
I was going along quite nicely till the end.
I had hoped #2 would sort itself out. It was quite obvious right at the beginning that it would be a job of work. I was left with a couple of possibilities at the end, shame or shape. I felt no tingle of premonition.

And #5 was even worse. catty, batty or patty. Or tatty! Thank goodness fatty and ratty were out of play or I would have risked all and gone for ratty as they usually love that one.😂

That was 6 contenders though and only 4 turns left. So I used an eliminator, bumpy.

[springyzone]

I should have used bicep as eliminator. Ah well, bumpy still worked. Lucky. Too late I think, probably need to go to bed. Just finished a coffee so that probably won't help.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,627 3/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Déjà-vu.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,627 3/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ TRACE

🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 ANTIC -> eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CACTI 🎯

There was a small field of possibilities after the starter. Antic was going to drill right down.

But cacti has appeared very recently in Octordle… It really seems that the same words pop up in all of these Wordle-type puzzles at around the same time.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1408

7️⃣8️⃣

🔟6️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

3️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Done in under a minute. It felt so ridiculously smooth!

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

BADGE 🎯🍀 could have been gauge

BUDGE 🎯

PROBE 🎯

PILOT 🎯

PLATE 🎯

BIRCH 🎯

AROMA 🎯

MARRY 🎯

After the eliminator, in 4L I had ___GE with yellow A not in 3rd position. Gauge was possible but gut immediately said BADGE! BADGE!

Of course that gave me 3R (budge) and 3L (probe), whose P then gave me 2R (pilot) and 1L (plate - glad I didn’t try slate or stale earlier)… and 1R lacked only the H to complete birch.

4R was _RO__ with a yellow A (not 2nd or 3rd, but those spots were already filled!)… It had to be aroma. That left 2L - _AR_ with yellow M not in 4th position… which could only be marry.

Daily Octordle #1408

PLATE 7️⃣8️⃣ BIRCH

MARRY 🔟6️⃣ PILOT

PROBE 5️⃣4️⃣ BUDGE

BADGE 3️⃣9️⃣ AROMA

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1408

6️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

🔟5️⃣

9️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

Such a contrast! There was some work involved.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

SHAPE 🎯 

SLOSH 🎯

WAIST 🎯

VIRUS 🎯

VERGE 🎯

DUSKY 🎯🍀 could have been musky

FUSSY 🎯🍀 could have been mussy

BATTY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1408

VIRUS 6️⃣3️⃣ SHAPE

VERGE 7️⃣8️⃣ DUSKY

BATTY 🔟5️⃣ WAIST

FUSSY 9️⃣4️⃣ SLOSH

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,628 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Very pleasing. Brilliant deductive work involved.😂

[springyzone]

That is the end of the very pleasing bit, I am afraid.

I didn't do wonderfully on the classic and thought to redeem myself on the extreme, only to do worse.

Daily Octordle #1409
9️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣🔟
7️⃣8️⃣
🕚5️⃣
Score: 60

Spoiler

It is not that anything went hideously wron, just that whichever way I swung it, I could see at least 2 possibilities on everything, even after my first 2 turns.

It's a well know fact my best guesses are rarely inspired so I went for another eliminator, pricy. It helped though I had my fingers crossed on #3 that it would not be hutch or butch (I thought that last one unlikely).