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]

The extreme…

Daily Extreme Octordle #1090
7️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
🔟9️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator 
HAZEL 🎯
FISHY 🎯
OASIS 🎯
SIXTY 🎯
HIPPY 🎯
CAVIL 🎯
BULKY 🎯
DEUCE 🎯

I won’t point out all of the “could have beens”, but there were plenty.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1090
HIPPY 7️⃣8️⃣ CAVIL
FISHY 4️⃣6️⃣ SIXTY
DEUCE 🔟9️⃣ BULKY
HAZEL 3️⃣5️⃣ OASIS
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

The rescue…

Daily Rescue Octordle #1090
5️⃣🕛
6️⃣7️⃣
🕚🔟
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 9

Spoiler

The following had already been played (disastrously, of course):

GROWN
THICK
COUPE
TIMID
… I could immediately solve 1L, and so on.

OTHER 🎯
MOWER 🎯
GLOAT 🎯
GAMMA 🎯
USING 🎯
USURP 🎯
UPPER 🎯
SNAKE 🎯

Daily Rescue Octordle #1090
OTHER 5️⃣🕛 SNAKE
MOWER 6️⃣7️⃣ GLOAT
UPPER 🕚🔟 USURP
GAMMA 8️⃣9️⃣ USING
Score: 9

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1090
4️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣🔟
5️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

[…]

I so wanted to try another eliminator for turn 3, but oh the shame, especially as I had 4 letters exposed in #2.

How hard can it be, I thought.

So I forced myself to sit there for a while till inspiration came, because I knew I would have to front up here and show results. 🤣

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Mm-hmm… yes, the risk of a shameful error!

But you played it perfectly.

[countessalmirena]

The sequence…

Daily Sequence Octordle #1090
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator 
FLOAT 🎯
DONUT 🎯
FILET 🎯
BULKY 🎯 Cheek! I actually played “bulky” as a sort-of ironic gesture, thinking it would be sulky or sully or bully or dully
BATON 🎯
MAJOR 🎯
COPSE 🎯
WORRY 🎯

Daily Sequence Octordle #1090
FLOAT 3️⃣4️⃣ DONUT
FILET 5️⃣6️⃣ BULKY
BATON 7️⃣8️⃣ MAJOR
COPSE 9️⃣🔟 WORRY
Score: 52

[springyzone]

My sequence was 62 and my rescue was 8.

Because I don't normally post results of those on here, I usually approach sequence differently. as if I have a bowl of popcorn and I am just seeing where the plot leads me.😂

I have no sense of urgency on the first word and I'll often play 3 eliminators in a row, even if I have a suspicion of the answer. 

Usually I just go alien/shout (you would never have guessed!) then maybe pricy and then I may guess or if not, I may go for fudge. (not fudgy as I have already covered Y ending & I figure the e in last spot might help further down the line)

After that slow beginning, they usually all fall into place because I have covered so much of the alphabet. It's a bit of a lazy method, I guess.

[countessalmirena]

The popcorn method of solving… My sequence score is the most variable, I have to admit. I find it hard to focus only on that first word, knowing that the other words will need letters helpful to them without knowing whether the letters I’ve already used are helpful to them.

Rescue is so illogical! I mutter “Who on earth would ever use this ridiculous and haphazard way of guessing?” under my breath… 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1091
8️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣2️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 50

As soon as I’d played my starter, I had 4 letters revealed for 1R, and 3 letters (2 of which were green) for 2R. 1R was clearly 1 of 4 possible words… yet I decided to plunge into a guess for 2R first. I can’t explain it; it was not a logical decision.

Spoiler

TRACE
STALE 🎯 could have been stage, stale, stave, state, slate, plate, elate, abate… I’ll stop there. It was luck and folly that gave me this.
CLEAT 🎯 This was the one with 4 possibilities after my starter: cheat or cleat or cadet or éclat. After “STALE”, it was down to cleat or éclat. 50/50.
BINGO <- eliminator
BASIC 🎯
SEGUE 🎯
BUNNY 🎯
RIGHT 🎯
PUPIL 🎯
PIZZA 🎯

Daily Octordle #1091
RIGHT 8️⃣3️⃣ CLEAT
SEGUE 6️⃣2️⃣ STALE
PUPIL 9️⃣5️⃣ BASIC
BUNNY 7️⃣🔟 PIZZA
Score: 50

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

The popcorn method of solving… My sequence score is the most variable, I have to admit. I find it hard to focus only on that first word, knowing that the other words will need letters helpful to them without knowing whether the letters I’ve already used are helpful to them.

Rescue is so illogical! I mutter “Who on earth would ever use this ridiculous and haphazard way of guessing?” under my breath… 

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🤣😂🤣

That sums up my thoughts.

The popcorn method.🤣

So true though. With some words in sequence, I actually am taking care of future planning.

With the rescue, it is so ridiculous that I think it must actually be tricky for them to put it together, so that there is always enough there to solve at least one straight off, or maybe two, but not the others quite yet.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,310 5/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It's not that I had no idea after turn 2, it is that I had too many ideas.🤣

I started to write them down. 

My first inclination was rodeo. I really, really wanted to just go for it, I don't know, maybe I should have. I would have been wrong, mind you, but probably no worse off than I ended up being.

But as it was, I decided I needed another eliminator.

I used crimp. That got rid of some possibilities but not enough.

So I tried bawdy next. Goodbye rodeo. 😂

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1091
7️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
🕚🔟
Score: 58

By turn 5, I just couldn't see my way clear, so played another eliminator (burps. Not all that refined but it got me moving again.😂)

With extreme, my score was 66. Just too many possibilities & did not start solving till turn 4, and a slow popcorn a couple of times along the way.😂