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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Daily Octordle #1421

5️⃣9️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

🔟8️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

LATHE 🎯

TROLL 🎯

HOTEL 🎯

CLOWN 🎯

FILMY 🎯

ADMIN 🎯

RIPEN 🎯🍀 could have been riven

TRUER 🎯

Daily Octordle #1421

HOTEL 5️⃣9️⃣ RIPEN

LATHE 3️⃣4️⃣ TROLL

CLOWN 6️⃣7️⃣ FILMY

TRUER 🔟8️⃣ ADMIN

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1421

4️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣9️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

8️⃣🔟

Score: 52

There was one point at which I had to make a guess. (Just as with the above Daily Classic.)

And apart from that … collusion!

Spoiler

TRACE

BIPOD <- eliminator

BROWN 🎯

SPOON 🎯

STOOP 🎯

SNIPE 🎯

RHINO 🎯

ROUGE 🎯🍀 could have been rogue

YAHOO 🎯

DODGY 🎯

Smooth and easy… until 4L posed a 50/50. Octordle has tripped me up in the past with rouge rather than rogue, so I went counter-gut with this. (My instinct leans towards rogue. I guessed rouge.)

But what is this? Dodgy at 4R? This is collusion with Wordle! Outrageous!

Daily Extreme Octordle #1421

SPOON 4️⃣5️⃣ STOOP

BROWN 3️⃣9️⃣ YAHOO

SNIPE 6️⃣7️⃣ RHINO

ROUGE 8️⃣🔟 DODGY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,642 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

My first instinct (after the first two words) was grass.
But I don't entirely trust my instincts and soon thought... or grasp, brass or crass.
So my third word was bicep, and that sorted it out for me.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1423
3️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕚
4️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣🔟
Score: 54

Just for once, I would like to shine in octordle but it doesn't look as if it will be this week.😂

Spoiler

I took a few risks here. Gloss or floss, chase or phase.
But the run of luck did not continue.

 I made the mistake of demur instead of femur. I should have guessed that as femur has popped up before.
Gumbo & pupal make return appearances.

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1423
4️⃣🕚
6️⃣🔟
9️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
Score: 55

I felt a few wobbles throughout this one too.

Spoiler

Things started out okay for a while.

Then I came to #3. Could it be venus? I felt that was unlikely, but who knows, I never do. Then I thought of nexus and decided to go with it.
But towards the end, I was stuck on #2. drank/prank or grand/brand (which luckily sugar & rebus eliminated)
#4 moist or foist
#5 spoke/smoke/scope

So I fellt I needed another eliminator and used skimp. That immediately solved #5 and I thought it solved #4 too and typed in foist. But before I hit the tab, I thought... J!😮 It could be joist and they like J so I went with it, but really I should have solved #2 before I did that, as #2 was pretty certain and joist was a risk.

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I’m still running behind. Here’s yesterday’s:

Wordle 1,641 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There were a minimum of 4 consonants which I wanted to identify as in or out immediately.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,641 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 SLING

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SEGUE 🎯

It could have been sedge.

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Daily Octordle #1422

7️⃣9️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

🔟4️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

One risk (1in 3)… but the rest followed on like a row of ducklings following mummy duck on a walk.

Spoiler

TRACE

LIONS <- eliminator

SONAR 🎯

BRISK 🎯🍀 could have been frisk, prism

FIBRE 🎯

FETID 🎯 US spelling

TUTOR 🎯

APHID 🎯

SPOUT 🎯

SWEET 🎯

4L was obvious after eliminator, but 3R wasn’t as straightforward. My gut instinct was brisk.

That led to correctly-spelled fibre. Uh-oh, in turn that led to US-spelled foetid, that is, fetid. And… the T in 3rd position meant that 1L wasn’t tumor (US-spelled tumour) but rather tutor.

By now, it was clear that 4R must be aphid. That gave me 1R (spout), and finally 3L (sweet).

Daily Octordle #1422

TUTOR 7️⃣9️⃣ SPOUT

FIBRE 5️⃣6️⃣ FETID

SWEET 🔟4️⃣ BRISK

SONAR 3️⃣8️⃣ APHID

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1422

🔟3️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

4️⃣8️⃣

5️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

I had an easy path here, but I must lodge an objection to the abbreviation in 4R. It’s appeared before but I still object. Grrr.

Spoiler

TRACE

SOILY <- eliminator

LOOSE 🎯

TABOO 🎯

BROIL 🎯

PROBE 🎯

VALET 🎯

PROVE 🎯

DECAF 🎯 <- I object; abbreviation!

FOGGY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1422

FOGGY 🔟3️⃣ LOOSE

PROBE 6️⃣7️⃣ VALET

TABOO 4️⃣8️⃣ PROVE

BROIL 5️⃣9️⃣ DECAF

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Today:

Wordle 1,642 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wasn’t entirely happy with my eliminator, but it got the job done.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,642 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 LINGS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GRASS 🎯

It was the only possibility… but I should have used dings as I’d have been in trouble if the answer had been _RAN_ where the final letter was D or K, or to eliminator D as first letter.

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Daily Octordle #1423

5️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣7️⃣

🔟2️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 51

I thoroughly enjoyed this! There were two could-be-this, could-be-that words but I played instinctively without a misstep.

Spoiler

TRACE

CHASE 🎯🍀 could have been chafe, cease, cease, scale

DOILY <- eliminator

COLOR 🎯 loathsome US spelling

GLOSS 🎯🍀 could have been floss

GUMBO 🎯

PUPAL 🎯

THROB 🎯

FEMUR 🎯

ASKEW 🎯

Once I’d solved gloss, I was home free.

Daily Octordle #1423

GLOSS 5️⃣4️⃣ COLOR

GUMBO 6️⃣7️⃣ PUPAL

ASKEW 🔟2️⃣ CHASE

THROB 8️⃣9️⃣ FEMUR

Score: 51