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]

Wordle 850 3/6

🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Got lucky with this. Possibly could have been solved in 2 but every word that popped into my mind was ruled out by the blacks so I tried my usual second word and it all became clearer.

Now with octordle, I was completely thrown off my stride as I typed in my first word, pressed enter and realised it wasn't my first word at all, it was the answer to wordle! Not what I wanted. So then I had to think of a second word & it wasn't half as satisfactory as my usual combo.

Still, I got through it.... eventually!

Daily Octordle #631
6️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
🔟🕛
7️⃣🕚
Score: 67

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 850 3/6

⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛
🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yes, a bit of luck and a bit of careful logic, and the thing is done.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0631 5&4/7
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

5/4 again.  And that left word was a bit sneaky…

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 631
6️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

I made a wrong guess at row 4, but at least I knew then what the word must be. It also stopped me from a wrong guess for bottom left; one letter was definitively ruled out.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #631
2️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 50

This was full of traps. Bottom left, second letter; bristling with possibilities! 3L, second letter again - 3 possibilities. Top right… I nearly went for the corn option.

[springyzone]

Wordle 852 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

 After the first 2 words, the answer was the only word I could think of to fit!

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 852 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

 After the first 2 words, the answer was the only word I could think of to fit!

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Very nice…

I didn’t have as much information as you, but TRACE did at least give me two yellows. My eliminator was SHINY; this didn’t drill down to one answer by any means, but I thought through some possibilities and decided to go for the word that had first come to mind.

Wordle 852 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

I’m very pleased with this.

My starter was CATER, and I used LINDS as my 2nd row eliminator. I went through my mental list of words for the RH and literally found nothing but the answer fitting the pattern.

The answer also gave me a vital letter for the LH, and it was over in a flash.

Daily Dordle 0633 4&3/7
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 633
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

The usual result, with my most frequently used starter.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #633
2️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 50

At one point I thought I’d need another eliminator.

I started with SCARE. My row 4 eliminator was MINTY.