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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Today’s:

Wordle 1,632 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator narrowed it down to one REAL likely answer. 

Spoiler

Wordle 1,632 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ LIONS

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FLUTE 🎯

The field was not bad after the starter; I had a good feeling about solving this quickly. The eliminator was ideal. Admittedly there was another possible solution other than flute – glute – but it was an abominable abbreviation and I banished it from my sight. 🤣

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Daily Octordle #1413

7️⃣8️⃣

🔟9️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

This flowed like the gentle Avon - or is more the river Lethe?

Spoiler

TRACE

MOULD <- eliminator

UTILE 🎯

UNDID 🎯

ABIDE 🎯

DRESS 🎯

BENCH 🎯

SPREE 🎯

SPIEL 🎯

WATCH 🎯🍀 could have been hatch

I solved this in the very early hours… and I hardly remember any of it! I do recall utile; I remember thinking it was more of an “Extreme” word.

Wait… I can recall abide. I recall thinking how glad I was that it was I rather than O - no abode/adobe dilemma.

Hmm… still thinking… I also recall bench, and that it couldn’t be belch because mould had ruled it out.

I don’t remember anything else. I must have fallen asleep, and the washerwoman attending Slumber rinsed my musings away.

Daily Octordle #1413

BENCH 7️⃣8️⃣ SPREE

WATCH 🔟9️⃣ SPIEL

UNDID 4️⃣3️⃣ UTILE

DRESS 6️⃣5️⃣ ABIDE

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1413

7️⃣4️⃣

2️⃣5️⃣

🔟6️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 51

I played this Extreme just now.

Octordle was trying to fool me… It was a final word showdown at the OK Corral.  

Spoiler

TRACE

TRUCE 🎯🍀 could have been trice

SPOIL <- eliminator

SPINY 🎯🍀 could have been spiky

NOTCH 🎯

HAUNT 🎯

UTTER 🎯

SADLY 🎯🍀 could have been sally

ALLAY 🎯

SHAKE 🎯🍀 could have been shame, shave

I thought truce more likely than trice, and it was worth risking. But after that, nothing was sufficiently clear to move forward: eliminator time. Well, that gave me SPI__, which meant N or K. I opted for N, and it was right… but was thinking “It wouldn’t surprise me if K appears in 4L, but don’t go jumping in just yet; let’s see if M, D or V are eliminated first”.

Thanks to the N, anyway, I knew 2R (notch), and that gave me 3R (haunt)… and with vaunt, gaunt, jaunt and daunt ruled out, another thought whispered “It could well be that 4L is shave, and Octordle is taunting with the V. Wait, wait.”

With T a green in 3rd position, 1L was clearly not rebut or anything of that sort; I now knew it must be utter. 4L was either sally or sadly. I was more drawn towards sadly as it was more likely and it would also confirm the presence/absence of D in 3L. Correct guess, and D was ruled out.

4R was our old friend allay.

And here we were at the final word. Remaining contenders shake, shame, shave. I could have played mikva as an eliminator to be sure of the answer, but I knew I wasn’t going to. No, I was playing my hunch - shake - and fortune smiled.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1413

UTTER 7️⃣4️⃣ SPINY

TRUCE 2️⃣5️⃣ NOTCH

SHAKE 🔟6️⃣ HAUNT

SADLY 8️⃣9️⃣ ALLAY

Score: 51

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Yesterday’s:

Wordle 1633 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It worked out well. 

Spoiler

Wordle 1633 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 DAILY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GRAVY 🎯

I definitely wanted the I in the eliminator, and the L and Y.

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Daily Octordle #1414

3️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

4️⃣🔟

Score: 52

Two guesses were needed.

Spoiler

TRACE

LOGIN <- eliminator

TRAWL 🎯

LUNGE 🎯

NASAL 🎯🍀 could have been naval

SUSHI 🎯

HUNKY 🎯

LAPEL 🎯🍀 could have been label

PEDAL 🎯

BROOD 🎯

2L - I opted for nasal primarily because the S seemed more likely to be useful than V.

The H of sushi gave me 3L.

1R could be medal or pedal… 3R was label or lapel… I had to guess for either 1R or 3R. I decided to try lapel as the P would at least settle the 1R dilemma.

The D of pedal gave me the final word.

Daily Octordle #1414

TRAWL 3️⃣9️⃣ PEDAL

NASAL 5️⃣6️⃣ SUSHI

HUNKY 7️⃣8️⃣ LAPEL

LUNGE 4️⃣🔟 BROOD

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1414

9️⃣8️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

🕚4️⃣

5️⃣2️⃣

Score: 52

Last word eliminator dented my score.  Grrr.

Spoiler

TRACE

GRANT 🎯🍀 could have been wrath

SPOIL <- eliminator

GUSTO 🎯

STEED 🎯

SOGGY 🎯

HILLY 🎯🍀 could have been billy, filly

BINGE 🎯

JAZZY 🎯 could have been mawky (unlikely)

WHIFF <- eliminator (3L fight/might/wight)

WIGHT 🎯

After soggy, 1R was hinge or binge; 2R was hilly, billy, filly. Best thing to do would be to play hilly as it had a good chance of being correct and would rule hinge in or out. I thought billy less likely than hilly and filly…

My cunning plan worked.

As I came to the last word (which I’d left as I hoped to gain further data), I had no gut feeling about the three choices… Reluctantly I opted for another eliminator.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1414

JAZZY 9️⃣8️⃣ BINGE

SOGGY 6️⃣7️⃣ HILLY

WIGHT 🕚4️⃣ GUSTO

STEED 5️⃣2️⃣ GRANT

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,634 4/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Hmm, wordle is just trying to be a little bit fancy today.

Spoiler

So, the obvious answer would be spine.
But it could be snipe/snide or swine. I suppose seine too, but unlikely.
My fancies were spine or snipe.

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Daily Octordle #1415
6️⃣5️⃣
🔟8️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

 I got through it fairly quickly but of course there were a few there that, at the start, had a couple of possibilities. What surprised me is those alternatives melted away as I worked through it. I'm not always that lucky.

Spoiler

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1415
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Spoiler

This worked out in similat style to the classic, with alternative ideas melting away. Only risky moment felt like at the end, croon or crown, but we have seen crown a fair few times so I just went for it.

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Wordle 1,634 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It was a 50/50 guess, and I took my guess with panache. 

Spoiler

Wordle 1,634 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 LIONS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNIDE 🎯

Oh, nicely done! The eliminator honed down the possibilities and I had only to choose between snipe and snide.