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]

Daily Octordle #897
7️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 52

This felt even better than a 52, mainly because I “solved” a particular letter early on, and it led to a mostly easy lilypad-strewn leap from one word to the next.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH
VOGUE 🎯 (couldn’t be anything else)

Glorious “v” all over the place!

Daily Octordle #897
WEAVE 7️⃣6️⃣ LOWER
VEGAN 4️⃣5️⃣ GAVEL
VOGUE 3️⃣8️⃣ DODGE
DROVE 9️⃣🔟 HUNCH
Score: 52

DODGE was inevitable… and as a result I had 4L in the bag. (It ruled out PROVE.)

I only had a potential stumble with 4R. PUNCH? MUNCH? BUNCH? I went for HUNCH, and luck was with me.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 1,116 6/6

🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I went off script today as after my first turn, I could think of several words it could be, but I felt I needed elminators that would cut down on a few of the possible letters.

In hindsight, I may have been just as well or even better off to just use my usual 3.😁

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What was your tortuous word journey? 

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,117 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I completed this one in about 10 seconds, without giving it enough thought.

I was tempted to go off script and try something different at turn 2. Glad I didn't.

After it, 2 possibilities occurred to me but one was ruled out, so I quickly went with the other.

After I did, I realised there was another possibility, but today I got lucky.

Spoiler

I thought of haunt and gaunt. Then vaunt, which is possibly more unlikely.

[springyzone]

Made a few errors in octordle.

At the end, I would have done much better to have gone with solving #1, which I was pretty sure of, but instead went with #7, which I was convinced was a particular word, although there were, in my mind, a couple of possibilities. Had I done #1 first, I would have been put ona  different track for #7.

Daily Octordle #898
🕐6️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
🔟7️⃣
🕛9️⃣
Score: 70

Spoiler

All I could think of for #1 was druid.
For #7, I had been thinking-ferry, berry, jerry but once ferry was ruled out, I was convinced it would be ferry, and wentt for it. Wrong.  I just never thought of derby till I solved #1, then it was all clear.

[countessalmirena]

A perfectly respectable 3 for me today.

Wordle 1,117 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

TRACE
DOUGH
GAUNT

The awful bone-grindingly unbearable lower back pain has thankfully subsided after heat pack and analgesic and rest. I know I did a fair amount of bending yesterday… but perhaps I twisted as well. It’s so frustrating…

So, onto Octordle.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #898
🔟4️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 47

I benefited from being able to guess 3L immediately. (Obviously..!)

Spoiler

TRACE
CATER 🎯

Daily Octordle #898
DRUID 🔟4️⃣ TROOP
FETCH 5️⃣9️⃣ SPIKE
CATER 2️⃣6️⃣ THEME
DERBY 8️⃣3️⃣ ERROR
Score: 47

I did make a wrong guess for 4L after guessing 3R:

BERRY 💩

… but I was able to solve 4L after that, and thereafter to guess 2R. (That could have been SPINE or SNIPE or PIXIE, etc., but gut feeling was that that shape must be S_I_E.)

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Octordle #898
🔟4️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 47

II did make a wrong guess for 4L after guessing 3R:

BERRY 💩

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Wow, amazing result!

mind you, Berry is the word that did me in too (along with a couple of other spots).

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 1,116 6/6

🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I went off script today as after my first turn, I could think of several words it could be, but I felt I needed elminators that would cut down on a few of the possible letters.

In hindsight, I may have been just as well or even better off to just use my usual 3.😁

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What was your tortuous word journey? 

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I can't remember.🤔

I can't even recall the answer, offhand.

And I currently cannot see your solution post, which would normally show me.

My computer often scrambles the order of posts. Well, always, on longer threads.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 1,116 6/6

🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I went off script today as after my first turn, I could think of several words it could be, but I felt I needed elminators that would cut down on a few of the possible letters.

In hindsight, I may have been just as well or even better off to just use my usual 3.😁

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What was your tortuous word journey? 

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Back! I found your post and I see the answer was blare. That part comes back to me.

After turn 1, I had A,E and L, with the L in place. The only letter I had eliminated was N as far as likely answers went.

I am pretty sure turn 5 must have been blame and I suspect turn 4 was bleak.

Had I done my usual alien/shout/crypt, I would have bombed out on shout, which is what I suspected might happen & why I went with a different eliminator (can't recall what it was). Had I just gone with the usual 3 though, I would have had R on turn 3 which may have helped.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,118 4/6

🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my first 2 turns I had a feeling about the last 2 letters but the words ricocheting round in my head didn't fit and I couldn't think of anything else offhand so went with #3 eliminator. Suddenly, all was clear.

Spoiler

video, rodeo. And I knew oaken couldn't be it either.