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]

I thought I would get it in 2 as my 2nd guess was a word puzzle favourite SLYLY

I guessed correctly in 3 😁 

[countessalmirena]

My Octordle wasn’t too tricky to solve.

Daily Octordle #968
4️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
🔟5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE <- so tempting a result! 4 yellows… but… I didn’t have quite enough data.
LOGIN <- eliminator
TODAY 🎯 a different panel
MERCY 🎯
VIRAL 🎯
YEAST 🎯
EXIST 🎯
BANAL 🎯
EXTRA 🎯 finally enough information
PLUCK 🎯could have been “cluck”

Daily Octordle #968
MERCY 4️⃣9️⃣ EXTRA
BANAL 8️⃣3️⃣ TODAY
PLUCK 🔟5️⃣ VIRAL
YEAST 6️⃣7️⃣ EXIST
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #969
7️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🔟
Score: 52

As soon as I began solving this Octordle, I was struck by the repeat appearance of letters. It was a pattern used throughout.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator 
TEPEE 🎯
OPTIC 🎯
TEETH 🎯
IDEAL 🎯
SWOON 🎯
CINCH 🎯 could have been finch; I decided to play cinch because of all of those doubles so far
EYING 🎯
LOBBY 🎯 luck; it could have been folly, lolly, jolly, lobby.

 Daily Octordle #969
SWOON 7️⃣3️⃣ TEPEE
EYING 9️⃣6️⃣ IDEAL
CINCH 8️⃣4️⃣ OPTIC
TEETH 5️⃣🔟 LOBBY
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,188 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my eliminator, I could only see one possible answer. 

Spoiler

Wordle 1,188 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ SPOIL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PRESS

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

happy to have got this in 3 after a nil first word

Wordle 1,189 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

My starter was almost as uninformative as yours.

Wordle 1,189 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator didn’t leave me with a clearcut answer. However, I launched my answer without havering, and it was correct. Fortune was on my side.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,189 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ GHOUL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SMOKE

It could have been evoke, diode, spoke, ozone, noose, moose, biome, myope… but I went straight to “smoke”. Gut feeling.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #970
4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 52

I don’t believe it!

Top left word… Octordle is pulling my leg.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
STICK 🎯
SMOKE 🎯 Look at it. That is unashamedly “smoke”. Collusion!
SWAMP 🎯
USURP 🎯
MUMMY 🎯 could have been dummy or gummy.
FILMY 🎯
JIFFY 🎯
CHOCK 🎯 could have been “knock”.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0970 3&5/7
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Wrong guess at row 4.

Spoiler

Daily Dordle 0970 3&5/7
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 TRACE
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ LOGIN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 GUANO
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 HOVEL
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MODEL
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I could see that the 2nd word was _O_EL. My guess was perfectly logical, but sometimes the luck runs against one.

[countessalmirena]

Ah. Quordle was riddled with moments of “Is it…?” and “Would this fit?”

🙂 Daily Quordle 970
4️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

A 6 is very satisfactory.

Spoiler

🙂 Daily Quordle 970
4️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ TRACE
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ GHOUL
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SHAWL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ELIDE
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DITTO

⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ TRACE
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ GHOUL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ SHAWL
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ELIDE
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 DITTO
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BONUS

It could have been SHALL rather than SHAWL.

ELIDE was a wild card guess. It could have been so many other words; delve, belle, belie, levee, melee, etc. Sheer luck.

It could have been BOSUN instead of BONUS.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

another day of 3.  I've been lucky lately, solving with no help.

Wordle 1,190 3/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩