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 1,030 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had a guess at it on turn 2, as the guess at least used 3 reasonably useful new letters. I got lucky.

Daily Octordle #811
3️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣🕚
6️⃣🔟
🕛7️⃣
Score: 62

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,030 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had no luck at all with my starter, but it pointed me towards a good eliminator - BUILD.

[countessalmirena]

Your result for Wordle was excitingly fortunate (and well-crafted)!

What a good choice of eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #811
2️⃣🔟
3️⃣5️⃣
🕚8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
Score: 54

This was quite a difficult Octordle. CATER was my starter, so I had a terrific rows 2 and 3 blitz. After that, though, I needed another eliminator; SPIKY.

Even then, it wasn’t smooth going. One more eliminator… FOUND.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,031 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

As soon as I saw the exposed letters, I thought immediately of Q. Possibly because all my yellows were vowels & I had a U. But the first words to mind (quiet, quite) could not be it. So I had to keep thinking.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #812
4️⃣🕚
5️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
🕛9️⃣
Score: 58

Despite the score being better, I actually found this harder going than yesterday's, as far as thinking of possibilities.

With #4, I could see the likely pattern but there were several letters that could have gone at the start, so I ended up using another eliminator, which proved to be reasonably useful.

Spoiler

cubed

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,031 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Starter gave little but helpfully ruled out many possibilities, and my 2nd row eliminator continued to rule out words. It also gave me that all-important green in the 3rd spot, so I began thinking along the lines of YELLOW / THAT POSSIBLE LETTER / GREEN / — —.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #812
8️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
🔟5️⃣
Score: 52

I found today’s Octordle easier going, solving the first word on row 3 rather than row 2, and being able to solve each word in turn without any further eliminators.

Spoiler

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,032 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It was my eliminator that got things moving. With my first row, I thought I might be in for a 4-rower.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #813
5️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣🔟
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 51

My 3rd row eliminator was WOULD. I took a risk with 2R’s first letter…