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 🤣

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Today’s…

Daily Octordle #1191
6️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Tricksy little monster, this one.

Spoiler

TRACE
LIONS <- eliminator
OVINE 🎯🍀 could have been opine
DRAWL 🎯🍀 could have been brawl
INDEX 🎯
SULKY 🎯🍀 could have been sully or slyly
NYMPH 🎯
CYBER 🎯
PINKY 🎯 I nearly erred here; I almost missed seeing the “p” and was about to try “kinky”
ELFIN 🎯

Daily Octordle #1191
SULKY 6️⃣7️⃣ NYMPH
DRAWL 4️⃣8️⃣ CYBER
OVINE 3️⃣5️⃣ INDEX
PINKY 9️⃣🔟 ELFIN
Score: 52

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Back to the old 52.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1191
4️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
LASSO 🎯
MUSTY 🎯🍀 could have been dusty or busty
MOLDY 🎯 but oh, that US spelling!
MOUND 🎯
CANON 🎯
CHEWY 🎯
ALOHA 🎯
SERIF 🎯 could have been épris but I thought it unlikely 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1191
MUSTY 4️⃣3️⃣ LASSO
MOUND 6️⃣5️⃣ MOLDY
ALOHA 9️⃣7️⃣ CANON
CHEWY 8️⃣🔟 SERIF
Score: 52

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Yes… tribe has appeared a few times recently.

And I agree - “unset” is not often used. I’d say “The jelly hasn’t set yet” rather than “The jelly’s unset”, but I may use it if referring to an unset diamond or to a value that hasn’t been assigned…