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 🤣

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1419
3️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣🔟
9️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

This wasn't too bad. There were a few places where I would initially have thought the answers might be different but luckily they sorted themselves out as I went along.

Spoiler

The frustration with this game was #7 as right from the start, I thought it was smash/swash & I was thinking at one stage I might need an eliminator but I soldiered on.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1419
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
🔟8️⃣
🕚3️⃣
Score: 54

😂I was lucky with this one as I was on totally the wrong track for #7 and got a surprise at the end as it virtually solved itself with a word I had not even considered. Not that it is an unusual word, I just had not thought of it.

Spoiler

The game of the double letters!

Towards the end, I was torn.
#5 gawky or gabby. I leaned towards gawky and almost just went for it but it has had a bit of a run and I wondered if they may want to ring the changes.
#7 I had down as tatty, batty, fatty (unlikely, but you never know)

I felt I needed to sort out b/f at least. And it would have been deeply satisfying to also include W or K but I couldn't think of anything with bfw or bfk, so I just went with bumfs.

Aha, I was right, they were not recycling gawky today. I got a big surprise after that to see what came up in #7.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

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.

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I’ve said this before, and I’ll repeat it as needed – Octordle unjustly punishes players for using a second eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

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.😂

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I think you may have been able to solve #1 instead of using the second eliminator. But it’s always tricky when one just isn’t sure.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,638 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I’m staggered by the perfection of my eliminator.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,638 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 MINUS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MISER 🎯

Wow! That is serendipitous indeed. I would often use LINED as the eliminator for this starter result, but had I done so, I’d hardly have helped myself at all. MINUS was as good as it gets for this particular solution. It’s champagne-worthy.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1419

7️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

4️⃣2️⃣

🔟8️⃣

Score: 51

Spoiler

TRACE

GRATE 🎯🍀 could have been irate, orate, prate

LIMBO <- eliminator

BOARD 🎯

TODDY 🎯

ELECT 🎯

HYPER 🎯

FACET 🎯

WORRY 🎯🍀 could have been sorry

SWASH 🎯🍀 could have been awash

Right from the start, I had to guess. I could have ruined things completely… were luck not on my side.

Daily Octordle #1419

HYPER 7️⃣9️⃣ WORRY

ELECT 6️⃣5️⃣ TODDY

BOARD 4️⃣2️⃣ GRATE

SWASH 🔟8️⃣ FACET

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1419

7️⃣8️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣🔟

Score: 52

There was a measure of quiet gentle rocking in this.

Spoiler

TRACE

BOUGH <- eliminator

GREET 🎯

STEER 🎯

GULCH 🎯

GABBY 🎯

ADEPT 🎯

MUDDY 🎯🍀 could have been dummy

TABBY 🎯

DEMON 🎯

Of course… I used BOUGH as the eliminator. It was good enough to let the cradle rock-a-bye in the treetop without the baby tumbling down, cradle and all.

Yes, 1L could have been dummy, but it seemed less likely than muddy.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1419

ADEPT 7️⃣8️⃣ MUDDY

GREET 3️⃣4️⃣ STEER

GABBY 6️⃣5️⃣ GULCH

TABBY 9️⃣🔟 DEMON

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1419
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
🔟8️⃣
🕚3️⃣
Score: 54

😂I was lucky with this one as I was on totally the wrong track for #7 and got a surprise at the end as it virtually solved itself with a word I had not even considered. Not that it is an unusual word, I just had not thought of it.

Spoiler

The game of the double letters!

Towards the end, I was torn.
#5 gawky or gabby. I leaned towards gawky and almost just went for it but it has had a bit of a run and I wondered if they may want to ring the changes.
#7 I had down as tatty, batty, fatty (unlikely, but you never know)

I felt I needed to sort out b/f at least. And it would have been deeply satisfying to also include W or K but I couldn't think of anything with bfw or bfk, so I just went with bumfs.

Aha, I was right, they were not recycling gawky today. I got a big surprise after that to see what came up in #7.

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The two rhyming words were both something of a surprise for me as well.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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@springyzone wrote:

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.😂

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I think you may have been able to solve #1 instead of using the second eliminator. But it’s always tricky when one just isn’t sure.

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I just wasn't sure. To be honest, tulip had not even occured to me before I used the eliminator pricy. I'd been thinking maybe multi. And I wanted it to be tuile but of course it couldn't be.😁

I've done even worse today, I think.😂

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,639 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I rushed into this one, which I probably would not have done had I given it more thought.

It couldn't be sting so I thought... aha, swing. No flies on me.

It was only after pushing the tab I thought, oh boy, snick, sniff.