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 1,330 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
Then I was faced with a choice-steep, steed, steer

My favourite was steep but I seem to recall that some time recently I faced this same dilemma and the answer was steer, so i decided to go with a 3rd word (pride) which cleared the way.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1111
6️⃣7️⃣
🕛4️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣🕚
Score: 60

You know, there are 2 main times I fall in a hole

-when I rush in like a bull at a gate 

-when I am too cautious, even when an answer seems pretty obvious but I doubt myself.

I fell into both traps with this one.

Spoiler

I had #2 worked out (because of the positions of the yellows) but went for an eliminator instead. FRUMP. It at least helped a lot with #1.

Then towards the end I had 2 choices in mind for #8, cinch or winch, having eliminated the possibility of pinch or finch, when I solved decry and it showed a yellow C. Now, I already had a green CH ay the end, exposed after solving perch, but I immediatley jumped on the yellow C to mean it must be cinch.
As I was pressing enter, I thought, oh no, it could still be winch, I've used a C at the end. And so it was.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1111
7️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
🔟3️⃣
Score: 52

Easier, although quite a few words are repeats.

I can't shake the feeling sometimes that we are like Pavlov's dogs, being trained.😂

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1111
🔟2️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 50

I am not happy with this Octordle. I only managed to solve it due to luck.

Spoiler

TRACE
TRAMP 🎯 risky - could have been trawl, or trash, or train, or trail
PERCH 🎯
DINGO <- eliminator
LINGO 🎯 darn it… so close… I so often use this as an eliminator
DRESS 🎯
SANDY
DECRY 🎯
WINCH 🎯 I object - it could have been finch or cinch
FULLY 🎯 could have been bully or bulky

Daily Octordle #1111
FULLY 🔟2️⃣ TRAMP
DRESS 6️⃣7️⃣ SANDY
PERCH 3️⃣5️⃣ LINGO
DECRY 8️⃣9️⃣ WINCH
Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1111
🕚8️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 56

Ugh.

Spoiler

TRACE
MOUND <- eliminator 
MINTY 🎯
BIOME 🎯
MUCUS 🎯
WRONG 💣
PRONG 🎯
PEACH 🎯
FLUNK 🎯
PEDAL 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1111
PEDAL 🕚8️⃣ PRONG
MUCUS 5️⃣9️⃣ PEACH
MINTY 3️⃣4️⃣ BIOME
FLUNK 🔟6️⃣ SMITH
Score: 56 

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,330 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had a 1 in 3 chance of guessing correctly.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,330 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ STONY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEEP

It could have been steed or steel.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,331 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Second word came home for me! Knew straight off what it probably was then!

Daily Octordle #1112
3️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
🔟5️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

The classic version. Started solving from turn 3 & no mistakes.

Spoiler

Knew right from early on that V and W would need sorting, so I looked at a few of the sections with thoise letters in mind and thankfully #2 helped.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1112
6️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🔟
9️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣🕚
Score: 56

This was going fine, exactly like the classic. I had started solving at turn 3. But then, I made a mistake on #7, towards the end.

Spoiler

mocha instead of macho. If #8 had been solved, I would have known mocha was not 'it' but at that stage, 
bingo, yonic and jingo were all contenders for #8.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,331 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Thank goodness for my eliminator!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,331 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE 
🟨🟩🟨🟨⬛ SOUND <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BONUS

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1112
4️⃣🔟
6️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator 
GUILT 🎯
GLIDE 🎯
ADORN 🎯
RESIN 🎯
RIPER 🎯
POWER 🎯
POPPY 🎯
VAPID 🎯

Daily Octordle #1112
GLIDE 4️⃣🔟 VAPID
RESIN 6️⃣3️⃣ GUILT
POPPY 9️⃣5️⃣ ADORN
RIPER 7️⃣8️⃣ POWER
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

It’s morning, and what do I see? A little Octordle trying to escape… but I’ve got hold of it!

Daily Octordle #1113
4️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣🔟
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
HOUND <- eliminator
COUPE 🎯 we had this only recently…
SPICE 🎯 we had SPICY recently…
TEPID 🎯 This one too: we’ve had it
GUEST 🎯 could have been quest
BEGAN 🎯 could have been vegan
WINDY 🎯
WHACK 🎯
NAVEL 🎯

These are starting to feel very “not again”-ish.

Daily Octordle #1113
SPICE 4️⃣8️⃣ WINDY
COUPE 3️⃣9️⃣ WHACK
TEPID 5️⃣🔟 NAVEL
GUEST 6️⃣7️⃣ BEGAN
Score: 52