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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0685 5&4/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

My starter was TRACE - fine, but my 2nd row eliminator was largely unproductive. Oh well, the 3rd row gave me all I needed.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 685
6️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

Not bad…

CRATE and then MOUND were enough for me to guess top right, and then the rest.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #685
🕚3️⃣
5️⃣🔟
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 59

Had to think about some of these and used another eliminator at 4 but on the whole, not bad.

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Daily Octordle #685
🔟3️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

I started with SLATE, then played COURD. This gave me 1R immediately, and I took a bit of a punt with 4R.

[springyzone]

Wordle 905 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The second word gave it away but Bot suggested I should have tried 'terse' then instead. I actually don't think that would have been as helpful.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #686
🕚4️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
🔟🕐
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 65

Curiously, what led me astray on #6 was that although I thought of the answer, I tried something else first as I didn't expect Americans to spell it that way. So I put it down as unlikely. I was wrong.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 905 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The second word gave it away but Bot suggested I should have tried 'terse' then instead. I actually don't think that would have been as helpful.

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I used SLATE as my starter, and ROUGH as my 2nd row eliminator. The bot had to admit he would have done exactly the same and begrudgingly congratulated me in such a smarmy way. Ha, bot - you thought I’d go astray, didn’t you?

Wordle 905 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

So… springyzone, we’ve both shown the bot what’s what!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0686 3&5/7
🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

SLATE and GROIN were the opening acts here.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 686
5️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

I could have tried solving bottom left immediately, but there was a risk with the first letter. That’s why I used an eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #686
🕚4️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
🔟🕐
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 65

Curiously, what led me astray on #6 was that although I thought of the answer, I tried something else first as I didn't expect Americans to spell it that way. So I put it down as unlikely. I was wrong.

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Yes, I know to which word you refer.

Daily Octordle #686
5️⃣🔟
4️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

This was quite an unsettling Octordle. At row 1, I had all but one letters in the correct sequence for 3L, but 5 possible letters for that missing letter.

2R was also a 1-letter-missing mystery, but there were 2 possibles. I chose one and it was correct.

But with each guess, I felt uncertain.

[springyzone]

Wordle 906 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩