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 🤣

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,275 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/fudgy (had some letters I thought were possibilities)/funny/funky

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1056
5️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
🔟4️⃣
🕚7️⃣
Score: 60

Spoiler

Smooth and easy enough run today except I wasn't quite game to have a guess at turn 3 (I nearly tried scale but opted for another eliminator, pricy)

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1055
8️⃣3️⃣
🔟4️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣🕚
Score: 54

I was not thrilled by this result, but… it would have been sheer luck to do any better.

Spoiler

TRACE
DOUGH <- eliminator
ACUTE 🎯
BERTH 🎯
HUTCH 🎯
SQUAD 🎯
SERIF 🎯
PIQUE 🎯
MILKY <- another eliminator - I couldn’t see a risk worth taking
KRILL 🎯
WIGHT 🎯

It could have been a lot worse. “WIGHT” - I knew early on that it was _IGHT, but that left me with fight, light, might, night, sight, wight. “Squad” ruled out sight, “serif” ruled out fight, “milky” ruled out might and light… It could still have been “night”, but if it had been, I thought it somewhat likely that there’d be another use of “N” in one of the other words. At any rate, by the time I came to that final word, I thought it would be typical of Octordle to have “wight”, so it played it.

Daily Octordle #1055
PIQUE 8️⃣3️⃣ ACUTE
KRILL 🔟4️⃣ BERTH
HUTCH 5️⃣7️⃣ SERIF
SQUAD 6️⃣🕚 WIGHT
Score: 54

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1055
5️⃣4️⃣
🕚6️⃣
🔟8️⃣
7️⃣🕐
Score: 64

Spoiler

Didn't have enough information to start solving after turn 2 so went for a 3rd eliminator (pricy).
Made a mistake on turn 9  #8 when I tried might.
After that, I knew it was out of tight/wight  but later tried tight as I felt that was more likely. Wrong.

I am glad I held off with #3 as I thought drill/frill/krill were all possibilities but towards the end, was able to eliminate the first 2.

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Yes… you had some of my dilemmas, I can see! I did have “tight” rules out because of my starter… but I am supposing you had both “light” and “night” ruled out in place of that.

I benefited from using an eliminator further along; the sooner an eliminator is used, the more it costs.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1056
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣2️⃣
🔟4️⃣
Score: 51

This was better.

I did take a risk with my first guess; I went with my gut instinct.

Spoiler

TRACE
SCALE 🎯 could have been scape, chase, chafe, cease… I was lucky.
DINGO <- eliminator
TROLL 🎯
MACHO 🎯 
MELEE 🎯
LURCH 🎯
MOUND 🎯
CADDY 🎯
IVORY 🎯

One piece of luck was in using DINGO as my 3rd-row eliminator. That final “O”  in macho was pinpointed.

But one piece of bad luck was in my not having used “MOUND” as my eliminator.  For goodness’ sake, it’s one of my stable of eliminators!

Daily Octordle #1056
LURCH 7️⃣8️⃣ MOUND
CADDY 9️⃣6️⃣ MELEE
MACHO 5️⃣2️⃣ SCALE
IVORY 🔟4️⃣ TROLL
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,275 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had bad luck with both starter and eliminator, but the one yellow that I did uncover narrowed down my options.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,275 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ BOING
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FUNKY 🎯

It could have been nymph, snuff, junky, sunup, hunky, punky. 

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,276 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A solid 3-row victory was mine.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,276 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ LOGIN <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BOAST

[countessalmirena]

Octordle satisfied. I think you’ll do quite well with it, springy.

Daily Octordle #1057
3️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣🔟
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator
OCEAN 🎯
ARISE 🎯
CLINK 🎯
SCONE 🎯
POKER 🎯
FLAKE 🎯
DROOP 🎯
NERDY 🎯

Everything flowed well in this Octordle. I had 1L, 1R and 3L solved as soon as I played the eliminator. I had 4L solved in my head as soon as I’d played “ocean”, and 4R and 2L as soon as I’d played “clink”.

Daily Octordle #1057
OCEAN 3️⃣4️⃣ ARISE
FLAKE 8️⃣9️⃣ DROOP
CLINK 5️⃣🔟 NERDY
SCONE 6️⃣7️⃣ POKER
Score: 52 

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Octordle satisfied. I think you’ll do quite well with it, springy.

Spoiler

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Ah, the countess curse.🤣

Daily Octordle #1057
8️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣🕐
7️⃣🔟
5️⃣🕛
Score: 68

I must own up to just being a bit rushed and careless with it today.

Spoiler

mistakes cling/clink and joker/poker

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[springyzone]

Wordle 1,276 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I know the pattern after turn 2, but coast/roast/boast/toast?

Turn 3 was an eliminator, brick. I really fancied coast but luckily turn 3 set me straight.