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 🤣

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

😡😤

Wordle 1,113 5/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,113 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

You'd think with 2 greens after turn 2, that it would be a pretty sure thing, but it wasn't. I could think of several words so #3 was an eliminator of sorts. Luckily it worked out.

[springyzone]

My short run of countess type scores is officially over. 😂

Today's octordle was actually not too bad, as far as being able to think of what the words could be.

Funnily enough, #7 is probably the one I solved first (in my mind) after the first 2 turns and I probably should have just tried it.

I went for the wrong choices a couple of times, hence the bad score.

Oops nearly forgot.

Daily Octordle #894
9️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🕐
🕚8️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 66

Spoiler

I tried clunk instead of flunk, which in hindsight probably wasn't the brightest guess.
But then I sat pondering #4. I was leaning towards 'aging' from early on, although that is not how I would spell it. Then I thought axing and tried that instead because... I don't know why, really.😂 I just don't like the look of aging.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,113 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The right eliminator at the right time…

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[springyzone]

Redemption.

I decided to try out K1000's octordle sequence. I do it sometimes but not every day.

Daily Sequence Octordle #894
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 52

It relies so heavily on getting that first word quickly though. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #894
5️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣🔟
Score: 52

My eliminator was BOING.

I could solve 4L on a 50/50 chance. Having done that, I could only see one possibility for 3L. I was back to a 50/50 for 1L but I was lucky.

2R - it was another 50/50.

3R - it had to be what it was; nothing else would fit and I’d ruled out the other final letter possibility.

1R - I could see the shape; the yellow letter had to go to 4th position and that meant that the first two letters could only be… what they were.

2L - aha. I knew what the final letter must be.

And so we come to the final word, 4R. It was obvious by now.

Done.

Spoiler

TRACE
BOING

Daily Octordle #894
PRAWN 5️⃣8️⃣ SMIRK
IMPLY 9️⃣6️⃣ AGING
TIBIA 4️⃣7️⃣ FLUNK
COVET 3️⃣🔟 TIPSY
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

😡😤

Wordle 1,113 5/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Oh no…

You may need a scotch on the rocks to get over that.

[countessalmirena]

Springyzone, your x dilemma was a 50/50 for

me; I’d already ruled out two other letters.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

doing the happy dance again (not a pretty sight)

Wordle 1,114 2/6

🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

No 2 for me, I’m sorry to say.

Wordle 1,114 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Fireworks and congratulations for you, k1ooo, and a “there, there” for me.

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CANON