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 1,253 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A good result after an appalling start. I narrowed it down to just 3 possibles.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,253 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 DOILY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 JELLY 🎯 - could have been belly or newly

[countessalmirena]

Can’t sleep with this hayfever and heel pain, so…

Daily Octordle #1034
8️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣🔟
3️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator
SHORE 🎯
MULCH 🎯
PROUD 🎯
COAST 🎯
MATCH 🎯
ATOLL 🎯
BOXER 🎯 could have been joker
UNFIT 🎯

Daily Octordle #1034
ATOLL 8️⃣7️⃣ MATCH
BOXER 9️⃣🔟 UNFIT
SHORE 3️⃣4️⃣ MULCH
COAST 6️⃣5️⃣ PROUD
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,253 4/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used a third eliminator at turn 3

Spoiler

pricy. Then I thought it was probably out of jelly or belly but jelly seems a more popular choice in these word games.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1034
3️⃣🔟
🕐🕚
5️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 64

I found this reasonably easy although the score doesn't reflect that, mainly as I didn't bother pondering the possibilities too long, just used eliminators.

Spoiler

I solved #1 easily enough but then although I could see the pattern of a few words, the initial letter of each was a toss up . In #7, was it toast, roast, coast, boast etc
In #2 was it match, catch, batch, hatch, patch and so on.
#4, inuit or unfit

And so it went. So I used pricy for my 4th turn to put an end to that nonsense.
And further down, another eliminator, but it still didn't help with #3, bower, boxer, borer

Went for bower. It wasn't.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1034
3️⃣🔟
🕐🕚
5️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 64

I found this reasonably easy although the score doesn't reflect that, mainly as I didn't bother pondering the possibilities too long, just used eliminators.

Spoiler

I solved #1 easily enough but then although I could see the pattern of a few words, the initial letter of each was a toss up . In #7, was it toast, roast, coast, boast etc
In #2 was it match, catch, batch, hatch, patch and so on.
#4, inuit or unfit

And so it went. So I used pricy for my 4th turn to put an end to that nonsense.
And further down, another eliminator, but it still didn't help with #3, bower, boxer, borer

Went for bower. It wasn't.

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Yes… you didn’t have the eliminators in early play to rule out some of those letters. 

[countessalmirena]

Sunday’s Wordle

Wordle 1,254 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wasn’t lucky with either my starter or my eliminator - but with some element of luck (or knowing the deviousness of Wordle AKA experience and gut feeling), I guessed the answer on row 3.

Spoiler

 Wordle 1,254 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ GHOUL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWIST

Ir could have been timid, tinny, tizzy, tipsy, or ‘twixt. I thought the last was unlikely … “twist” was the one that sprang into my mind immediately, and I essayed it without further ado.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,254 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟨⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/wrist/twist

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1035
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣🔟
5️⃣🕚
4️⃣9️⃣
Score: 60

The score is a bit savage because I had a guess on turn 3 and it was incorrect, but I never put a foot wrong after that.

Spoiler

For #6, I thought it was likely to be leach. How wrong I was! But it sure helped immediately for #7! 😂

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1035
3️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣🔟
8️⃣🕚
4️⃣9️⃣
Score: 57

My worst result for a while owes everything to the haphazardness of this Octordle. It was all over the place! Solving one word did not lead to the next; in fact, I came to a dead stop at row 6.

Even before that, I was flailing a bit.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
INTRO 🎯

LLAMA 🎯
RURAL 🎯 could have been “aural”
… and then nothing! Too little information to proceed… so I needed another eliminator.

SWEPT <- eliminator
DEPTH 🎯
SPARK 🎯
RISER 🎯
BRIBE 🎯
HALVE 🎯

The M is used once; K once; B in one word only; V once; D once. The word patterns lend themselves to an overwhelming number of possibilities.

You can tell that I hated this particular Octordle.

Daily Octordle #1035
INTRO 3️⃣7️⃣ DEPTH
RURAL 5️⃣🔟 BRIBE
SPARK 8️⃣🕚 HALVE
LLAMA 4️⃣9️⃣ RISER
Score: 57

[springyzone]

You can tell that I hated this particular Octordle.

I think so much depends on how 'lucky' the first 2 eliminators are. Some days you just get a hard run.

Even so, you did better today than I did, even though I had found the octordle flowed smoothly for me, one word to another (except for that unfortunate 3rd turn😂).

Mind you, maybe I missed some of the other possibilities, that happens to me a lot.😁

Sometimes ignorance is bliss, I guess.

I don't know how to do your target thing.