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]

Sometimes the fates align!

Wordle 1,344 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I didn't have a clue, or should I say, I had too many. The third word was by way of an eliminator as it had some useful new letters in it, plus it would serve to test out a possible placement of my yellows. Surprised when it hit the jackpot!

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1125
🕚7️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
🔟9️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 58

Made an unforgivable error on turn 5.

Had to laugh at #7. When it finally occurred to me, I thought ....is it? Surely not but what else? It is or used to be a common eliminator of mine.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1125
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣🕚
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
Score: 55

Spoiler

Sometimes, as much as I would like to be a worthy player here, I just can't get it below mid to high 50s, score wise. I felt I really needed an eliminator towards the end, I wasn't game to make a stab at #1.

Spoiler

I used bumpy to try to narrow down that well loved combo of theirs-patch/batch/match/watch and so on.
It was a great help too with #2, as I had been debating creme/crepe and as an added bonus, it solved #4.

[countessalmirena]

Yesterday’s  Octordle…

Daily Octordle #1124
5️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator 
PLUSH 🎯
HARPY 🎯
OUGHT 🎯
VAPOR 🎯 US spelling
NUTTY 🎯
BOSSY 🎯
KARMA 🎯
MURAL 🎯 <- left until last, as I hoped for data to determine whether rural or mural

Daily Octordle #1124
OUGHT 5️⃣9️⃣ KARMA
PLUSH 3️⃣6️⃣ VAPOR
NUTTY 7️⃣8️⃣ BOSSY
HARPY 4️⃣🔟 MURAL
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Yesterday’s Extreme

Daily Extreme Octordle #1124
3️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣🔟
5️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
LOGIC 🎯
TIARA 🎯
TARDY 🎯
DECRY 🎯
ODDLY 🎯
PLIED 🎯
TEETH 🎯
ALBUM 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1124
LOGIC 3️⃣8️⃣ PLIED
DECRY 6️⃣🔟 ALBUM
TARDY 5️⃣4️⃣ TIARA
ODDLY 7️⃣9️⃣ TEETH
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Octordle

Daily Octordle #1125
3️⃣7️⃣
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator 
SHRUG 🎯
SPRIG 🎯
CHUNK 🎯
WHIRL 🎯
SNIDE 🎯
DUMPY 🎯
DWELL 🎯
FJORD 🎯

Daily Octordle #1125
SHRUG 3️⃣7️⃣ SNIDE
FJORD 🔟9️⃣ DWELL
SPRIG 4️⃣8️⃣ DUMPY
CHUNK 5️⃣6️⃣ WHIRL
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Wordle:

Wordle 1,344 2/6

⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had two possibilities… one being more likely than the other.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,344 2/6

⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨 TRACE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREAM

It could have been crema.

[countessalmirena]

It’s so hot!

The dazed press of heat envelops one,

A sullen swathe of thickly vestured sun

Into the torpid dark that finds

No wearied sleep of restless minds.

So… Wordle.

Wordle 1,345 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,345 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 OTHER <- guess/eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OTTER

🦦

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1126
6️⃣9️⃣
🔟5️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

This Octordle looked very unpromising on the first row, but I chose a good eliminator to get things moving.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
LILAC 🎯🪻
BRINE 🎯🌊
GUILD 🎯🛠️🪡🎨🪑
REBUS 🎯 🔖🚌
AMISS 🎯 🚫🙈🙉🙊
SCOPE 🎯 🔬🔭
SMACK 🎯 👋
SHOWY 🎯 🦚

Daily Octordle #1126
REBUS 6️⃣9️⃣ SMACK
SHOWY 🔟5️⃣ GUILD
AMISS 7️⃣8️⃣ SCOPE
LILAC 3️⃣4️⃣ BRINE
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,345 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟨🟨⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/tower/otter