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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,111 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I so nearly went with another word…

Spoiler

TRACE
DOUGH
DEBUT 🎯
… and this is where it nearly went wrong. I considered DUVET because I’m coooold. DUVET - DEBUT - DUVET - DEBUT… but I finally decided on DEBUT only because I know it’s come up on Wordle before, whereas I just don’t remember DUVET appearing.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #892
3️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🔟
Score: 52

This didn’t start very promisingly. I can only be thankful that my eliminator at row 2 was more generous.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH
MOGUL 🎯
… and we were off!

Daily Octordle #892
VAULT 3️⃣9️⃣ TWIXT
SWORN 8️⃣7️⃣ SLEPT
FRESH 6️⃣5️⃣ WOVEN
MOGUL 4️⃣🔟 OVINE
Score: 52

If I hadn’t already discounted the S for 1R, I’d have thought it was TWIST.

I immediately thought “vault” for 1L, even though it could have been FAULT. Lucky - as that also gave me WOVEN for 3R.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #892
6️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
🔟4️⃣
Score: 52

Happy days! A countess sort of score, for once. 😁

Mind you, I was sitting there, pondering what to do on #7.

There were 2 possibilities I could think of. In the end, I decided to go with the first one I had thought of and I was lucky that it worked out.

Spoiler

mogul or locum. Both were equally possible on my board.

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Excellent score. I’m in awe of how you managed to get 4R so early in the piece.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

3 again

Wordle 1,112 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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Excellent score. I’m in awe of how you managed to get 4R so early in the piece.

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I was sitting here wondering what 4R had been but luckily you have a view of the words in your result.

I remember doing ovine! By that stage (after turn 2} I had 4 letters for it.  

Plus ovine has been out a few other times in this game. I actually remember thinking-it helps when you do this puzzle regularly and are familiar with the wordlebot mind. 😂 Not like ovine-but a typical type of word the creator loves.

There is another word in today's puzzle (your 2R) which is very like that.

Daily Octordle #893
5️⃣🔟
4️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

I had a good day of it today too. Guessing the first word relatively early on helped.

Wordle: I was pretty sure it was out of 2 choices, had no idea which was more likely so just played them, got the order worng, of course! 😂

Wordle 1,112 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

I was adding a PS to my post but put the sentence in the wrong place & too late to change it.

There is another word in today's puzzle that reminds me of yesterday's ovine. Not in the actual word itself, but in the fact it is the sort of word the octordle creator tends to favour. 

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,112 3/6

⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my eliminator, I knew; there was nothing else in the running.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL
CRUSH 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #893
🔟5️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
Score: 50

I could guess one word immediately, and that meant a good start to the whole thing! (It wasn’t a dead certainty, but worth the risk in this case.)

Another word (3R) followed with an equally small risk, but after that my luck ran out. I had to use an eliminator. DINGO wasn’t a superb eliminator but I could then solve 1R, and 2R, and 4L was obvious because of the final letter and knowing what couldn’t immediately precede it.

By this time 3L seemed to jump out at me, and that gave me a needed letter for 4R. In turn that gave me a needed letter for 1L… and we were done.

Spoiler

TRACE
TAKEN 🎯
LEANT 🎯
DINGO <- eliminator
INNER 🎯

Daily Octordle #893
ZESTY 🔟5️⃣ INNER
TAKEN 2️⃣6️⃣ DEBUG
PROOF 8️⃣3️⃣ LEANT
SPRIG 7️⃣9️⃣ FROZE
Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Oh, nice!

Daily Dordle 0893 3&4/7
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Spoiler

TRACE
BOUND
BENCH 🎯
GROUP 🎯

Daily Dordle 0893 3&4/7
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ||`TRACE`||
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ||`BOUND`||
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ||`BENCH`||
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ||`GROUP`||
<https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle>

[countessalmirena]

Oh, severed limbs on a stick. It’s a seven. And I so nearly managed it in 6… but that initial letter of 2R got the better of me.

Daily Quordle 893
4️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

Spoiler

TRACE
MOGUL
SCRUM 🎯
SOGGY 🎯
TENOR 🎯
FIGHT 💩
WIGHT 🎯

SOGGY  4️⃣3️⃣ SCRUM
 TENOR  5️⃣7️⃣  WIGHT