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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Daily Extreme Octordle #1246

5️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣🔟

9️⃣7️⃣

3️⃣8️⃣

Score: 52

This needed careful thought and a dedicated avoidance of rushing in too soon. But with the exception of one word with a 50/50 chance, it was actually a logical progression.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

PHONY 🎯

DRINK 🎯 could have been brink

SWIPE 🎯

THROB 🎯

OVOID 🎯

MOVIE 🎯

REMIT 🎯

SMELL 🎯

After solving 4L immediately after the eliminator, I had to take a guess to continue. 1L could have been spine or snipe or swipe; 1R could have been throb or throw; 2L was drink or brink. It was pintail the donkey / lucky dip … so I opted to try “drink” for 2L which would rule “n” in or out for 1L, as well as giving me a good chance of being correct.

It was correct! Phew. Now I knew that 1L had to be swipe. Thus 1R was throb. I could guess 3R as I thought it very unlikely to be zooid; that gave me the “v” to solve 4R. With “m” revealed, I had all of the letters for 3L, and that also gave me 2R.

Done!

Daily Extreme Octordle #1246

SWIPE 5️⃣6️⃣ THROB

DRINK 4️⃣🔟 SMELL

REMIT 9️⃣7️⃣ OVOID

PHONY 3️⃣8️⃣ MOVIE

Score: 52