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 #1420
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🕚
6️⃣🔟
Score: 60

Spoiler

I was on the wrong track with a few of these after my first 2 turns. What it came down to is I didn't feel confident I could solve any of them straight off without risking a mistake. And I hate it when I make a mistake as it is a turn where I could have used an eliminator for more help.
#1 I thought could be batty/ratty/patty/track
#2 I thought quilt or guilt
#3 pivot/divot
#4 rapid/vapid/rabid
#5 lease/lapse (one of the few where I was even on track)
#6 merge/verge
#7 too many
#8 mauve/gauze/gauge
I'm probably lucky to have come out at only 60 today!

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1420
3️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕚
4️⃣🔟
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 56

I did use another eliminator, but luckily didn't need it till a bit further down.

Spoiler

About half way through, I felt I really needed to sort letters c/p/b so used eliminator bicep.
At the time, I was wondering
#2 glove/clove
#3 the usual contenders but bicep would narrow the field
#4 bread/dread
#6 smack/swamp. It is just lucky I went with bicep and not pubic as eliminator as otherwise I would have assumed the answer was swamp, for sure. Took me a while to figure that one out as it couldn't be scamp/stamp either.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,639 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬛🟨⬛🟩🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator was pure logic, but the guess owed something to luck.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,639 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟨⬛🟩🟨 LIONS

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SWING 🎯

I had 5 possibilities after the eliminator, but instinct was saying “swing”. It could have been shiny, spiny, suing, using.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1420

4️⃣9️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣🔟

6️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

GAUGE 🎯

TRAMP 🎯🍀 could have been trash

LAPSE 🎯

DREAM 🎯🍀 could have been bream

BRAID 🎯

ORBIT 🎯

BUILT 🎯

VERVE 🎯

4R could only be gauge. 1L - I suspected tramp, acknowledged trash as a real possibility, but went with my gut.

The P of tramp gave me lapse.

The M of tramp gave me a 50/50 for 4L. I guessed correctly.

The D of dream gave me 2R (braid). The B of braid gave me 2L (orbit) and 1R (built). 

3R couldn’t be anything but verve.

Daily Octordle #1420

TRAMP 4️⃣9️⃣ BUILT

ORBIT 8️⃣7️⃣ BRAID

LAPSE 5️⃣🔟 VERVE

DREAM 6️⃣3️⃣ GAUGE

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1420

3️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣🕚

6️⃣8️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

Score: 53

Aaagh! I ignored my gut and played the wrong letter in the final word!

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

SOLID 🎯

CLOVE 🎯

POUND 🎯

VIVID 🎯

LIMIT 🎯

SPASM 🎯

REVUE 🎯

BREAD 💣

DREAD 🎯

It was all going so well, like a well-oiled machine. Each word was inexorably solved … until bread/dread.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1420

SOLID 3️⃣4️⃣ CLOVE

POUND 5️⃣🕚 DREAD

VIVID 6️⃣8️⃣ SPASM

REVUE 9️⃣7️⃣ LIMIT

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1420
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🕚
6️⃣🔟
Score: 60

Spoiler

I was on the wrong track with a few of these after my first 2 turns. What it came down to is I didn't feel confident I could solve any of them straight off without risking a mistake. And I hate it when I make a mistake as it is a turn where I could have used an eliminator for more help.
#1 I thought could be batty/ratty/patty/track
#2 I thought quilt or guilt
#3 pivot/divot
#4 rapid/vapid/rabid
#5 lease/lapse (one of the few where I was even on track)
#6 merge/verge
#7 too many
#8 mauve/gauze/gauge
I'm probably lucky to have come out at only 60 today!

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It was an unlucky beginning. You could have risked a guess for #5 or #6… but with a 50/50 chance of a wrong letter, it isn’t an easy call to make.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,641 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1422
9️⃣4️⃣
🔟5️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

I skipped through this one quite quickly, without any really difficult choices, because alternatives rended to fade out as I went along.

Spoiler

The surprise for me with this one was #3 fibre as I tend to expect Americans to only ever spell it as fiber.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1422
🔟4️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣🕚
Score: 54

I don't feel too bad about the score as I didn't do anything supremely stupid but I did need another eliminator near the end. Even looking back, I can't see how I could have avoided it at that stage.

Spoiler

I had #8 pegged as maybe mecca and #1 as foggy/dodgy/doggy etc before eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

Yesterday’s:

Wordle 1,640 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator brought it down to 4 possibilities.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,640 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 GUILD <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DODGY 🎯

It could have been podgy, doggy, goody - but none were as likely as dodgy.

I thought I’d posted these.