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]

It’s 2:13 a.m., and Ichabod Sebastien is poking his little nose into my phone.

Time to Wordle.

Wordle 786 3/6

🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Well…. Not as staggeringly good as yesterday, but this is still an excellent result.

[springyzone]

Wordle 786 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

As you can see, my 2 eliminators got me off to a fairly ordinary start, but the yellow in the 3rd word (K) helped a lot. Four seems to be my usual default setting for wordle.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #567
6️⃣8️⃣
🔟🕚
🟥9️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Score: 69

Alas, I dipped out on this one, with #5.

I kept looking at what letters I had left and played the only words I could think of that would fit.

The answer took me a little by surprise (though I should be on the alert for this) but just a heads up, there are two answers today that are American spelling.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0567 4&3/7
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

STEAL was my starter.  I resisted the temptation to use some of the less obvious letters for solving the LH word, and it did pay off.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 567
5️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

I made a wrong guess for top left in row 3, but it did at least give me a necessary letter for bottom right, and it ruled out other word possibilities for top left.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #567
4️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
🕚5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 53

I found this one tricky with that 3L word - US spelling. I was looking at that row after an X didn’t cut the mustard, thinking “What then?” … Those American spellings do add an extra layer of difficulty.

[springyzone]

Wordle 789 3/6

🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I've missed my word games. Been away from home and phone has no internet connection. I contacted the company as all my new details have been uploaded but no reply, very bad service.

So glad I am home now and have a computer!

[countessalmirena]

Being without internet connection on the phone is one of those things we’d not have dreamed about years ago, and there’d be public phones for making calls… The information and connection landscape has changed dramatically.

Wordle 789 3/6

⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We had a similar gameplay here. Interesting!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0570 5&4/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟨🟨
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I started with a weird one, just for the heck of it: DOGMA. It duly gave me hardly any return.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 570
5️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ah, this was better. SANER was the starter.