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]

Your Wordle result was excellent, springyzone! You couldn’t have done it in 2 without a lucky guess.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1139
3️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
🔟8️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

Mm-hmmm - TWO TRAPS.

I almost played the wrong word - twice.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator 
STILL 🎯
UTILE 🎯
UTTER 🎯
TRAIN 🎯
CHOIR 🎯
JOINT 🎯
SWASH 🎯 could have been smash
FILMY 🎯 could have been milky

Daily Octordle #1139
STILL 3️⃣4️⃣ UTILE
SWASH 9️⃣5️⃣ UTTER
FILMY 🔟8️⃣ JOINT
CHOIR 7️⃣6️⃣ TRAIN
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Logged out in the middle of my post! Aaagh.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1139
5️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣🕚
4️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator 
LEECH 🎯
GATOR 🎯 I object: slang
CHUNK 🎯
FLUSH 🎯 could have been plush or blush
SKILL 🎯
NINNY 🎯
MAYOR 🎯
ENJOY 💣
ENVOY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1139
CHUNK 5️⃣9️⃣ MAYOR
LEECH 3️⃣🕚 ENVOY
GATOR 4️⃣8️⃣ NINNY
SKILL 7️⃣6️⃣ FLUSH
Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,359 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator still left me with several choices. I was lucky.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,359 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 FRIED <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GREED

[countessalmirena]

Hmph.

Daily Octordle #1140
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🕚
Score: 53

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <- eliminator
GLADE 🎯
GOODY 🎯
GLASS 🎯
COPSE 🎯
CREEK 🎯
TULIP 🎯
PHOTO 🎯
RUMOR 💣
JUROR 🎯

Daily Octordle #1140
CREEK 7️⃣8️⃣ TULIP
PHOTO 9️⃣6️⃣ COPSE
GLADE 3️⃣4️⃣ GOODY
GLASS 5️⃣🕚 JUROR
Score: 53

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,359 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I went slightly off course today and took a risk I normally wouldn't, but was feeling reckless.

Spoiler

Second word was steer. I liked the letters S, T and R, but on the minus side, I was missing out on O/U.
Then I tried the first word that came into my head after that, as I figured the R was probably in second place. But as you can see, there were other possibilities so it was a risk.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1140
🔟3️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣🕛
Score: 59

Spoiler

Ran out of steam by turn 5 and used another eliminator (pricy)
Then made a mistake right at the end with #8, I tried rumor and only got juror on the next turn.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Hmph.

Daily Octordle #1140
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🕚
Score: 53

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <- eliminator
GLADE 🎯
GOODY 🎯
GLASS 🎯
COPSE 🎯
CREEK 🎯  This was a bit of an unusual one, I thought. Very aussie word. Had it pegged as likely to be creed till after I had solved glade and had to rethink.

TULIP 🎯
PHOTO 🎯
RUMOR 💣  Yes, me too. 
JUROR 🎯

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[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1140
4️⃣3️⃣
🕚6️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 53

Quite frankly, I was shocked to get as low as 53 on this one.

# 3 had me in a quandary and I had to try a most unsatisfactory eliminator at the end.

Spoiler

I had it pegged as croon/crown/frown/grown (and earlier on, as maybe  brown or drown)
Ideally, I would have liked an eliminator with C/F/G or otherwise 2 of them plus the W, but I just couldn't think of any, so in the end went with craft. That still didn't solve it so I just took a stab at crown as more likely.

[springyzone]

😂Just finished the chill octordle.

That's the place where my unsatisfactory eliminator belonged!😅