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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I reposted yesterday’s.

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1423

4️⃣6️⃣

🔟3️⃣

5️⃣8️⃣

7️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Challenging.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

JOIST 🎯🍀 could have been hoist, moist, foist

STASH 🎯

SMOKE 🎯

DRANK 🎯🍀 could have been frank

UNITY 🎯

SUGAR 🎯

REBUS 🎯 

NEXUS 🎯

I chose joist simply because Octordle loves using it… but it could have been any of the 3 others. Luck, pure luck.

Stash was obvious. Smoke just couldn’t be anything else. Drank was a risk, and I nearly did go for frank, especially because of the earlier foist option.

I spent longer on unity than I should have. It was obviously _NIT_ but my mind was somehow ruling Y out.

Sugar was obvious then. Rebus was the only possibility for 4R, and that gave me nexus.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1423

STASH 4️⃣6️⃣ DRANK

NEXUS 🔟3️⃣ JOIST

SMOKE 5️⃣8️⃣ SUGAR

UNITY 7️⃣9️⃣ REBUS

Score: 52