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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1415

7️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

2️⃣🔟

6️⃣5️⃣

Score: 51

One 50/50 to start with… and further risks shimmered in little pools upon the path of this Octordle. By judicious guessing on 1L, I was able to avoid the remaining guess-pools.

Spoiler

TRACE

GRACE 🎯🍀 could have been brace

SOUND <- eliminator

TRASH 🎯

GUISE 🎯

GAMUT 🎯

ABACK 🎯🍀 could have been black, clack, flack

STOKE 🎯

FLAME 🎯

CIVIC 🎯

The first word (3L) was a 1 in 2: worth the risk. I almost decided to try 4L as well with gaunt… but it might be gloat, gamut, gault (unlikely), gaita (unlikely). Better to use an eliminator - after which I knew what it was. Along the way I quickly dealt with 1R (trash) and 4R (guise) before playing gamut for 4L.

At this point, 2L was blame/flame/amaze; 2R was stove/stole/stoke; 3R was civil/civic/picky; 1L was black/clack/flack/aback/alack. There was no help for it: another eliminator or a guess. I decided to guess aback - and luck was with me.

I now knew 2R and 2L, and with both K and L ruled out, I also had the final word in my grasp.

Daily Octordle #1415

ABACK 7️⃣4️⃣ TRASH

FLAME 9️⃣8️⃣ STOKE

GRACE 2️⃣🔟 CIVIC

GAMUT 6️⃣5️⃣ GUISE

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1415

7️⃣9️⃣

🔟6️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

This was guess-driven at pivotal points.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

TILDE 🎯🍀 could have been title

CROWN 🎯🍀 could have been croon

SCOPE 🎯

CAMEL 🎯

THYME 🎯🍀 could have been theme

STEEL 🎯

FLUKE 🎯

SILKY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1415

THYME 7️⃣9️⃣ FLUKE

SILKY 🔟6️⃣ CAMEL

TILDE 3️⃣4️⃣ CROWN

STEEL 8️⃣5️⃣ SCOPE

Score: 52

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Wordle 1,634 3/6

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.

😂This is where I go wrong in life.

I would have gone with snipe, for sure.

So either with your eliminators or mine, it would have been a 4 guess day.

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[countessalmirena]

Today:

Wordle 1,635 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had only 10 possible answers but my best efforts at an eliminator would give me no better than 5 certain outcomes on row 3. It was lucky that the answer was one of those certain outcomes.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,635 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 DUMPS

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ERASE 🎯

Ten possible words after the starter… Let’s see.

Using kembs:

grade _y___

brake yy_y_

drake yy___

frame _yy__

drape _y___

grape _y___

erase _y__y

brave _y_y_

grave _y___

graze _y___

1 group of 5 and the rest are unique.

Using dumps:

grade y____

brake _____

drake g____

frame __y__

drape g__g_

grape ___g_

erase ____y

brave _____

grave _____

graze _____

1 group of 4 and the rest are unique.

Go with dumps.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1416

🔟3️⃣

4️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

This somehow felt trickier than it was.

Spoiler

TRACE

HONGI <- eliminator

STAIR 🎯

CAIRN 🎯

HAVEN 🎯

DRAIN 🎯🍀 could have been brain

AMEND 🎯

AGAPE 🎯

MOVER 🎯

TEMPO 🎯

Hongi was a good eliminator here. I’ll keep that in my eliminator pack.

The only moment of real peril was for 2R, when I needed to choose between B and D.

Daily Octordle #1416

TEMPO 🔟3️⃣ STAIR

CAIRN 4️⃣6️⃣ DRAIN

AGAPE 8️⃣7️⃣ AMEND

MOVER 9️⃣5️⃣ HAVEN

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1416

7️⃣🔟

6️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

It’s all connected… 🎵🪇

Spoiler

TRACE

BIPOD <- eliminator

BORON 🎯

CHOIR 🎯

OUNCE 🎯

HIPPY 🎯

CRÈME 🎯

DRAWL 🎯

FLIER 🎯

NASTY 🎯🍀 could have been natty, antsy

The bipod’s connected to the - boron

The boron’s connected to the - choir - and

also connected to the - ounce

Dem words, dem words, dem dry words.

That choir & bipod c’nnecting to the - hippy

And then no P connecting to the - crème - and - 

Starter’n’ D connecting to the - drawl - oh - 

Dem words, dem words, dem dry words.

An F’s in, connecting to the - flier

Then antsy or natty for the - last word?

No, it’s all now connected to - nasty

Dem words, dem words, dem dry words!

Dem words, dem words, dem dry words

Now hear the words of Octordle.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1416

CREME 7️⃣🔟 NASTY

HIPPY 6️⃣5️⃣ OUNCE

DRAWL 8️⃣3️⃣ BORON

FLIER 9️⃣4️⃣ CHOIR

Score: 52