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]

I managed to grab a 51 for Octordle.

Daily Octordle #977
2️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣🔟
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 51

Spoiler

TRACE
CHANT 🎯
SPOIL <- I couldn’t go on without an eliminator
WHICH 🎯
SMELT 🎯 could have been “sleet”
CRUMB 🎯
TWEAK 🎯
SHYLY 🎯
FENCE 🎯
HORDE 🎯

Yes, let’s finish with Attila the Hun. HORDE pops up too frequently for my liking! 

Daily Octordle #977
CHANT 2️⃣9️⃣ FENCE
SHYLY 8️⃣🔟 HORDE
TWEAK 7️⃣6️⃣ CRUMB
SMELT 5️⃣4️⃣ WHICH
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #978
8️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
🔟5️⃣
Score: 52

A solid 52 - but I feel as though this has more than one word from quite recent Octordles popping up sooner than I’d expect.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
OUTGO 🎯
CLUED 🎯
BIOME 🎯 Haven’t I played both “diode” and “biome” recently? I chose “biome” solely on the “eliminate two letters rather than one” theory.
BASIN 🎯 - recently used?
THIEF 🎯 - again, recently used?
HAPPY 🎯
PRIDE 🎯
PRIVY 🎯

Daily Octordle #978
HAPPY 8️⃣4️⃣ CLUED
BASIN 6️⃣9️⃣ PRIDE
THIEF 7️⃣3️⃣ OUTGO
PRIVY 🔟5️⃣ BIOME
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,197 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was fine. I had the shape down to two possibilities after my starter, and my eliminator narrowed it down to … one word.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,197 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ TRACE
🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ BLIND
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRAIN

After the starter, it was clear this was _RAI_ or _RA__ with a high probability of an “n” or “d” or “L”.
_RAPH _RAND _RASH _RANK _RASS _RAWN _RAWL _RANG … or _RAIN _RAIL _RAID gave me the basic outline.

My eliminator ruled out everything but one.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

All I can say is once you know some letters, trust your instincts 

Wordle 1,198 2/6

🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #979
🔟7️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

This was mostly smooth.

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <-eliminator
ROUGH 🎯
GRAIN 🎯 could have been “grand” or “grass” or “grasp” but I very much wanted to see “i” in play
SHINY 🎯
OLIVE 🎯
PROXY 🎯
LIPID 🎯
MINIC 🎯
SOBER 🎯 could have been “sower” but we had that only a day or two ago

Daily Octordle #979
SOBER 🔟7️⃣ PROXY
MIMIC 9️⃣6️⃣ OLIVE
ROUGH 3️⃣5️⃣ SHINY
LIPID 8️⃣4️⃣ GRAIN
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,198 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I took note of your comment, k1ooo, and did trust my instinct. My instinct told me that Wordle was being sneaky and was using a letter twice.

If I’d gone for the eliminator route, this would have been a 4- or 5-row Wordle. Sheer luck or gut instinct - whatever one calls it - cannot be underestimated!

Spoiler

TRACE
DOING <- eliminator 
RIDER 🎯

When I think of all of the possibilities, my heart seems to lurch. Wider hider eider wired fired mired sired hired redid rebid idler diver direr… but “rider” came to mind instantly and I just drew a deep breath and threw the metaphorical dice.

[countessalmirena]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

All I can say is once you know some letters, trust your instincts 

Wordle 1,198 2/6

🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Excellent result. 🏆

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

my first line was

D R I V E

Once you had those same four letters in the exact position I had you faced the same decision as me.  Well done on the 3.

[chewill-8708]

Daily Octordle #979
5️⃣8️⃣
🔟3️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

todays octordle

[chewill-8708]

Trying to post wordle but keeps doing October. I took 5

currently in theatre of shipswaiting excursion call to kotor in Montenegro. 
running an hour late. Hence time for games but hope we disembark soon

beautiful weather outside