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 1,163 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I couldn’t match your 2, k1ooo, so I will vicariously join your dance and be happy with 3.

Oh, springyzone… 5? If it takes 5, that’s what it takes. Everything depends on those opening two words to get the little green ducks in a row…

Note: I did my Wordle at around 3 am, but fell asleep right in the middle of posting it here. 😴💤🥱🛌💤

Spoiler

TRACE
KILTS <- eliminator
SKATE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #944
7️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🔟3️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

It could have a lot worse. There were traps everywhere.

Spoiler

TRACE
LUPIN <- eliminator
SPORT 🎯
HATCH 🎯 trap no. 1 - could have been watch, batch, match
THESE 🎯
WIDTH 🎯 trap no. 2 - could have been fifth
UNTIL 🎯 trap no. 3 - if it hadn’t been for green T (from “hatch”), I’d have played “unlit” as it’s an Octordle favourite
MINOR 🎯
VOWEL 🎯 trap no. 4 - could have been bowel
BRAKE 🎯 trap no. 5 - could have been graze (and more, had I not knocked out other letter possibilities)

Daily Octordle #944
UNTIL 7️⃣8️⃣ MINOR
THESE 5️⃣6️⃣ WIDTH
BRAKE 🔟3️⃣ SPORT
HATCH 4️⃣9️⃣ VOWEL
Score: 52

 springyzone, I’m not surprised by your score; I made lucky guesses and it could so easily have plunged me into more and more guesses. 

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I had been watching some news stories and saw Trump on stage, so my starter was STAGE.  That gave me 4 letters in the right position.  It was then guessing time.

I suspect you knew it would end in ATE and were tossing up between SLATE & SKATE with your eliminator.  If neither of them, then SPATE.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

After line 2, I thought "surely they wouldn't", turns out they would

Wordle 1,164 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Oh ho ho… I see what you mean.

Wordle 1,164 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

TRACE
PINKS <- eliminator
STAKE 🎯

That’s a bit cheeky.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,164 5/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Since you have both done it, I can type in the open!

I was peeved by this!

I still had a sheet of paper in front of me from ysterday and I thought-deja vu, same possibilities. The list goes stare, stake, stage etc but I thought... I am sure yesterday it ended up being skate when i tried stake. Nope, it won't be the same pattern today. More likely to be an ea word. Wrong again. Bit cheeky!

alien/shout/skimp/steak/stake

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #945
6️⃣3️⃣
🕛🕚
8️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
Score: 60

For the most part, this went okay but I did make a couple of wrong guesses.

#8, I tried siege and #4, I thought would be parry

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #945
3️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣🕚
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 53

I fell for the trap in 2R (your #4, springyzone). Ah well. Sometimes the luck is just not there.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <- eliminator 
GRILL 🎯
SHELL 🎯
DUNCE 🎯 could have been deuce or educe - luck
SHADE 🎯 I now had the 4th letter for an easy solution of this word
SLEEP 🎯 could have been sleek
SIEVE 🎯
FABLE 🎯 could have been ladle or amble or addle
PARRY 💣💩 Uh oh - tricked!
PARKA 🎯 

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,165 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

After my second turn, I was pretty sure the pattern would be _ROWN, so I used Brick as an eliminator for turn 3. Just in case it was KNOWN. Even so, it would not eliminate all, so I was in luck really.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #946
7️⃣4️⃣
🔟8️⃣
🕚6️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
Score: 54

Spoiler

Some of these I got from past experience. # 6 & #8 for example.
I originally had #2 pegged as either cause or pause, so when I got a G, I had to rethink.

I feel as if #3 and #5 have been classic staples since forever, maybe because they know there are several alternatives grill/frill/krill etc