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 Classic Octordle #1417

🔟9️⃣

8️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

3️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

There was a dangerous patch of three guess-the-words.

Spoiler

TRACE

POLIS <- eliminator

FRUIT 🎯

PRONE 🎯🍀 could have been prove, probe

BLAND 🎯🍀 could have been blank, gland

BAGGY 🎯🍀 could have been byway

DODGY 🎯

AMONG 🎯

HAPPY 🎯

USHER 🎯

That cluster of three “could have been”s didn’t feel as risky as they were while I was solving. I barely hesitated with prone, but logically I should have. I spent a little more time on bland; gut feeling drove the choice. And I thought byway less likely than baggy.

After that trip of guesswork, it was a relief that the rest was straightforward. In retrospect, bipod would have been a better eliminator.

Daily Classic Octordle #1417

USHER 🔟9️⃣ HAPPY

AMONG 8️⃣4️⃣ PRONE

BLAND 5️⃣6️⃣ BAGGY

FRUIT 3️⃣7️⃣ DODGY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1417

5️⃣🔟

3️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

Quick and simple! This was NOT extreme.

Spoiler

TRACE

SOILY <- eliminator

FANCY 🎯

SHUCK 🎯

COCOA 🎯

TUBAL 🎯

LEFTY 🎯 <- abominable word

PRUNE 🎯

STEEP 🎯

GRASP 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1417

COCOA 5️⃣🔟 GRASP

FANCY 3️⃣4️⃣ SHUCK

STEEP 9️⃣6️⃣ TUBAL

PRUNE 8️⃣7️⃣ LEFTY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

😂🤣I don't like lefty either, but it has been out a couple of times before, so I just thought... Not lefty again.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,637 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

This puzzle should be right up your alley.
I predict you will solve it in 2 or 3 at the most.
Mine-alien/shout/pricy
After my first 2 turns, I couldn't think of a lot. Maybe trump or putty?
I really favoured trump actually.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1418
9️⃣🔟
6️⃣7️⃣
🕚8️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

You should solve on turn 2 with this one. I started off like that as well but mid way, wasn't game to guess so went with curdy as eliminator.
Probably just as well as I had been half inclined to just go for tally for #2 and I thought #1 might be moody or woody.
Even at the end for #5, I had trouble deciding between comet and covet.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1418
8️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣🕚
5️⃣🔟
7️⃣3️⃣
Score: 57

Well, at least I was consistent today!

Spoiler

I solved it all eventually but it took me a while.
Again, I felt I needed another eliminator half way through and went with pricy.
I had almost been going to just go for drain for #7 but then I thought of gamin and this is the extreme, so i held off.
I was looking at #6 at the end, thinking, it has to be candy, no, it can't be candy. Took a while till the penny dropped.😂

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,637 2/6

🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It was a 1 in 2 chance of guessing it on row 2. 🤞😉

Spoiler

Wordle 1,637 2/6

🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRUCK 🎯

Trick or truck - and I guessed correctly.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1418

9️⃣🔟

2️⃣7️⃣

8️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣5️⃣

Score: 51

Old favourites reappear.

Spoiler

TRACE

TRADE 🎯

SPOIL <- eliminator

PLAIN 🎯

BLESS 🎯

RADII 🎯

CACHE 🎯

COMET 🎯🍀 could have been covet

WOOZY 🎯

WALTZ 🎯

Everything slid neatly into place. There was only one word to guess.

Daily Octordle #1418

WOOZY 9️⃣🔟 WALTZ

TRADE 2️⃣7️⃣ CACHE

COMET 8️⃣6️⃣ RADII

PLAIN 4️⃣5️⃣ BLESS

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1418

6️⃣8️⃣

3️⃣🔟

9️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

Score: 52

Apart from the first word, it was steady.

Spoiler

TRACE

HONGI <- eliminator

BOUGH 🎯🍀 could have been dough, lough

ABBOT 🎯

DRAIN 🎯

TULIP 🎯

CANNY 🎯

LAYER 🎯

GLOSS 🎯

EXPEL 🎯

Gut feeling leaned me towards B rather than D; L was less likely than either.

Nothing got in the way of the rest being solved.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1418

TULIP 6️⃣8️⃣ LAYER

BOUGH 3️⃣🔟 EXPEL

GLOSS 9️⃣7️⃣ CANNY

DRAIN 5️⃣4️⃣ ABBOT

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,638 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It was all I could think of, given I did not believe the S would be at the end.