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]

Daily Dordle 0576 4&5/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I started with SANER.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 576
7️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

I started with CATER, and one of my eliminators was SPINY.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #576
2️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕚
Score: 51

I don’t like the last word… I consider it an abbreviation.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Wordle 795 4/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I don’t think I could have guessed this in fewer than four rows.

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 You did better than I did.

I took 6.

After my 1st 2 tries, I only had one letter, e. My 3rd word was another eliminator to at least get an idea of what other letters I should include. It didn't help a lot but I got there eventually.

Wordle 795 6/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

It absolutely is an abbreviation.

They seem to do this quite a lot in these games.

I have to hand it to you, you are a marvel at octordle. I was pretty happy with my effort but must admit, I just threw in 3 of my old eliminators to start, without even looking at the board. ocean, flirt, dumps.

And went from there. It worked out pretty easily after that but even so, I can't get near a score of 51!

Daily Octordle #576
4️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣🕚
6️⃣9️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 60

[springyzone]

Daily Dordle 0576 4&3/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I wasn't going to bother with dordle as it has been a long day but at least it worked out.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Dordle 0576 4&3/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I wasn't going to bother with dordle as it has been a long day but at least it worked out.

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That’s got my effort knocked into a cocked hoop!

[springyzone]

Wordle 796 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Another slow start with this one.

They are having fun with us, they are definitely playing with us on this one.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #577
9️⃣🔟
6️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
🕚4️⃣
Score: 55

This was slightly trickier for me than yesterday's, in that I needed a third eliminator at turn 8. Luckily, it helped a lot.

[springyzone]

I wasn't going to bother as I have to go out soon, but just did quordle.

Daily Quordle 577
7️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

I had that feeling of deja vu so went back and had a look at today's octordle.

Talk about synchronicity.  Mind you, I suspect there actually could be a connection, it is not merely accidental that so often we get the same words popping up, often close together.