WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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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]

Daily Octordle #1172
6️⃣🕚
8️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Hmm. Wrong guess - but at least my early guess kept the points at 52.

Spoiler

TRACE
CRAZE 🎯 could have been crane or crake
SPOIL <- eliminator 
TRIBE 🎯
BASTE 🎯
CUBIC 🎯
SUITE 🎯
SPOON 🎯 could have been spook
SHAWL 🎯 could have been shall or small
POLLY 💣
POLYP 🎯

Daily Octordle #1172
CUBIC 6️⃣🕚 POLYP
SPOON 8️⃣7️⃣ SUITE
BASTE 5️⃣9️⃣ SHAWL
CRAZE 2️⃣4️⃣ TRIBE
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1172
🕚7️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 53

This felt rather chaotic.

Spoiler

TRACE
SHINY <- eliminator
DAISY 🎯
APHID 🎯
WISPY 🎯
SCALP 🎯
STALL 🎯 could have been stalk
PUPAL 🎯
PRUNE 🎯 (It had been a prune/prone dilemma with a side order of prove)
RUMOR 💣 I’m being conditioned to try  US spellings! 😱
JUROR 🎯 could have been furor

Daily Extreme Octordle #1172
JUROR 🕚7️⃣ STALL
PRUNE 9️⃣8️⃣ PUPAL
SCALP 6️⃣5️⃣ WISPY
DAISY 3️⃣4️⃣ APHID
Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,391 3/6

🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was a bit clumsy with this.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,391 3/6

🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ MOULS <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TURBO 🎯

I should really have used something like HUMOR for the eliminator, but I do not want to fall into the US spelling whirlpool. Anyway, MOULS worked for me.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,392 3/6

⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Night wakes, and it’s time to Wordle.

This one wasn’t too difficult.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,392 3/6

⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ BLOND <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ARROW

🏹

[countessalmirena]

Two sign-ins later…

Daily Octordle #1173
🔟8️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

This was chock full of words we’ve seen before. Ay ay ay.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
SINCE 🎯
SNOUT 🎯
SHORT 🎯
MONTH 🎯
ONSET 🎯 seen too often
RECUT 🎯
GLOVE 🎯 could have been bloke
GRIND 🎯

Daily Octordle #1173
GRIND 🔟8️⃣ RECUT
GLOVE 9️⃣7️⃣ ONSET
SINCE 3️⃣6️⃣ MONTH
SNOUT 4️⃣5️⃣ SHORT
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1173
6️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Remarkable only for its ordinariness, this Extreme Octordle wasn’t very extreme. I think only one word is a newcomer to Octordle.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <- eliminator 
HATER 🎯
SINGE 🎯
SPICE 🎯
USURY 🎯
POPUP 🎯
RUPEE 🎯 I’m glad I left this until “pop up”, as I wasn’t sure whether it would be purée or rupee
NOMAD 🎯 could have been woman
ALLAY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1173
USURY 6️⃣5️⃣ SPICE
POPUP 7️⃣9️⃣ NOMAD
SINGE 4️⃣3️⃣ HATER
RUPEE 8️⃣🔟 ALLAY
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,392 4/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

4 seems to be my default number.

alein/shout/arbor (after debating ardor, have to laugh as it was neither)

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1173
🔟7️⃣
🕛3️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣🕚
Score: 58

Spoiler

Looking back at this, I can see I got too engrossed in solving 4/5/6, when 7 was staring me in the face, but I noticed it eventually. Story of my octordle life.
I felt I needed an eliminator half way down as I had quite a  few words in mind for #1 and #3.
Then I made a mistake on #3 after all that!

I was lucky as I never even thought of singe for #5, since popped into my head and that was it.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1173
7️⃣🕚
9️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

Can't say I am a big fan of that word hater, but it has been out a few times before.

I looked at #5 and thought-since. And then I thought-I am sure that was just out and in the same spot too. That made me pause & look to see if there was anything else it might be. I know we have seen it happen before where they use the same word but it would be plain rude to put it in the same spot.

I was lucky with rupee. I looked at your answers before writing here (but I had already done mine before logging in here) and see you wondered about puree. Luckily, that didn't occur to me this morning so I did rupee in blissful ignorance.

I felt I needed that last eliminator (wreck) as I was torn between spike/spice/swipe. I had exactly 3 turns left so could have just tried each but I had no leaning towards any of those three.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,393 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I got lucky today with 4 letters to work with.