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]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

One of my eliminators has once again been an answer.

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That's my dream! One day!

I am almost superstitious to change my usuals in case that's the day one of them pops up. 😂

[countessalmirena]

One day it probably will.

Daily Quordle 800
7️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

Another 7. I used TRACE and DOUGH.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0800 3&4/7
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

4!

I had a lucky eliminator; FORBY.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,020 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

On reflection, I probably should have tried a different eliminator on turn 2 or just gone for it. Bit of a lucky guess as there were other possibilities.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #801
5️⃣7️⃣
🔟8️⃣
🕛9️⃣
3️⃣🕚
Score: 65

Wasn't hard though I guess it looks like it from my score.

Could have been worse though as #5 & 8 both had another possible solution even at the end.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,020 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator was MOULD. It was enough to make a good guess.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #801
2️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣🔟
6️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 51

I guessed the top left immediately, but needed an eliminator to proceed.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,021 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh, the irony. After my first guess, I decided that I really should try to use a second word that had more of the likely letters, instead of just relying on my old trusty. I doubted there were any more vowels in it, which is one of the main reasons I use my usual second.

But I think that had I used it, I possibly would have solved this one in 3. Not a sure thing even then though.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #802
🟥6️⃣
🕚8️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
🕛🟥
Score: 74

Not my day. Wasted turns on #3 & 4. Ironic with #4 as the answer was the first word I thought of but I dismissed it as too Australian to likely be 'it'. Mistakes everywhere, even at the end, where I could see #8 had a couple of choices and I went with the water one.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,021 3/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used SKINT as my second.