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 1,056 3/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was lucky today as I could think of a couple of alternatives.

Spoiler

One of the possibilities I thought of was maize.
What amazed me though when I looked at Bot was he says after my first turn that there were only 4 possible answers and he did not list maize as one of them.
So I guess now we know, Bot does not care much for plurals and we can scrub maize from our considerations too.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #837
🕚9️⃣
8️⃣🔟
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
Score: 58

I probably should have taken a risk at turn 2 on #5 (3L) as I could only think of one possible answer at that point. But often it turns out that there are more possibilities than I realised, so I held off & went with my usual eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,056 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SPOIL was my eliminator again. That gave me one green letter which, in conjunction with the two yellows, was all I needed to solve Wordle.

We both hit the 3 today!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #837
6️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🔟
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

TRACE and BOING got things started. 2L was just a little tricky as the word there could have been the sound or the body part.  But once I solved that, I could work my way through the various Octordle highways and byways.

[springyzone]

PS I figured out what was wrong with maize.

Honestly, after years of wordling, I still have not got this fully under control.😂

[countessalmirena]

Was it the position of i?

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Was it the position of i?

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Yes.😔

Today I had much better luck with wordle.

Wordle 1,057 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Usual opener but had a try at positioning on turn 2 as I figured it used 2 useful new letters, in any case.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #838
9️⃣8️⃣
🔟5️⃣
🕚7️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 57

There weren't that many unused letters left over at the end of the game.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,057 3/6

🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used DINGO as my 2nd row eliminator - helpful enough to give me the answer.

Another 3 for both of us.

(I am guessing that your path led you via a Chinese criminal gang…?)

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #838
3️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣🔟
5️⃣🕚
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 54

I’m surprised at the 54; I thought it would be a bit higher.

I had a wrong guess at 2R - numerical rather than crafty. However, at least that uncovered 3R.

My 2nd row eliminator was SPOIL.

I think we both did well with a rather tricky Octordle.