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]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1286

3️⃣9️⃣

8️⃣4️⃣

🔟6️⃣

7️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

This felt harder than it was.

Spoiler

TRACE

MOUND <- eliminator

COVET 🎯

AMEND 🎯

MUDDY 🎯

VYING 🎯

GROWL 🎯🍀 could have been prowl, gross, brook

UVULA 🎯

GOODY 🎯

NINTH 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1286

COVET 3️⃣9️⃣ GOODY

UVULA 8️⃣4️⃣ AMEND

NINTH 🔟6️⃣ VYING

GROWL 7️⃣5️⃣ MUDDY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1286
8️⃣7️⃣
🔟4️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

This was an odd game in that after my first turn I thought I was doomed and after my second turn, I didn't feel much better.

I zoomed in on #5 as I had 4 exposed letters and I thought, "Surely I can come up with at least one possibility?"

So.. a slow start with the first answers dragged out of me.

Spoiler

By turn 5, I was back where I started, feeling doomed to an early extra eliminator till I noticed the Y in #6 was not at the end.
The last word (#3), all I could think of was vulva but could see it couldn't be. I suspected U was the starting letter so got there evenutally.
Was surprised I did better at this one than the classic as it didn't feel as easy.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Wordle 1,505 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛

⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It’s that first letter which could have ruined this for me.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,505 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 PAINT <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DAUNT 🎯

It could have been gaunt, haunt, jaunt, vaunt. I’d considered using hadji as a second eliminator, but I’d still be left with two possible answers. Risky guess made instead.

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I did think of vaunt too but decided it was not as likely.

Never thought of gaunt and jaunt, don't know why. I really was worried it would be taunt though.

Oh well, blissful ignorance today.😂

[springyzone]

I knew - with the utmost loathing - that 3R was “wooly”. But first, I punished that panel by leaving it until last.

Exactly so. I do this sometimes. And wooly deserved to be punished, it is an abomination, as you said!

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,506 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
Hmm, fully/gully/dully/lucky/pulpy/curly
Maybe more. fudgy or pricy next? (I couldn't think of an eliminator with everything). Went with pricy, it put me on the right track, had not thought of lumpy at all till then.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1287
🕚3️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
🕛4️⃣
Score: 59

This really had me stumped at first.

Spoiler

I had 4 letters for #2 and suspected _uite, but it couldn't be suite.  It couldn't be utile either. I went through the keyboard once and nothing made sense, till I realised I had overlooked Q.
Lucky I got it as I had not thought of squat for #8 till then.

But as you can see, I used an eliminator half way through (pricy) then got #1 wrong at the end. I really thought I was on to something with prior. Never mind.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1287
9️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣🔟
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

This one  worked out better for me.

Spoiler

It seemed as if solving one led smoothly to the next as it usuallt involved uncovering at least one new letter.
Strangely enough, I really fancied freak for #1 quite early on, but it could have been several other things, so i held back.
Probably the hardest one for me was #5, till I decided that it was unlikely to be anything starting with BA. After that, Y was the only letter left that made sense in second spot.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,506 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It’s amazing how much information can be gained from nothing but a single green tile.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,506 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ LINGO

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LUMPY 🎯

All blanks with my starter - but let us not despair. The eliminator was a superhero and brought it down to 3.

It could have been lymph or lupus, so there was a bit of luck.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1287

8️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

🕚5️⃣

Score: 53

It’s not the best Octordle I’ve played; it’s not the worst.

Spoiler

TRACE

GUILD <- eliminator

UTILE 🎯

QUITE 🎯 🍀 could have been suite

SQUAT 🎯

REGAL 🎯

ADORE 🎯

PRIMO 🎯🍀 could have been prion or prior

CHUNK 🎯

WITTY 💣

BITTY 🎯

After “chunk”, 4L could have been fifty, witty or bitty.

Daily Octordle #1287

PRIMO 8️⃣4️⃣ QUITE

CHUNK 9️⃣3️⃣ UTILE

ADORE 7️⃣6️⃣ REGAL

BITTY 🕚5️⃣ SQUAT

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1287

8️⃣2️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

🔟9️⃣

3️⃣5️⃣

Score: 50

Phew. I did need to step carefully, but there it is - a lovely 50, thanks to a risky first guess.

Spoiler

TRACE

TRIED 🎯🍀 could have been treed, trend, tress, trews

TIMID 🎯

GHOUL <- eliminator

MOUTH 🎯

LUMEN 🎯

BLUNT 🎯

FREAK 🎯🍀 could have been wreak

COVEY 🎯

BYLAW 🎯

The order of solving was a major factor. Once I solved 4R (mouth), 2R (lumen) was right there. That in turn gave me 2L (blunt). Following on from that, 1L had the letter B ruled out, so that the only two remaining choices were freak and wreak, and luck waded in to help me make the correct guess.

2L also gave the solution for 3R. I’d been all set to play coven, but covey was also possible; with 2L ruling out the N, it was clearly not coven.

And finally, the yellow Y from covey solved 3L; prior to that; I’d probably have tried basal.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1287

FREAK 8️⃣2️⃣ TRIED

BLUNT 7️⃣6️⃣ LUMEN

BYLAW 🔟9️⃣ COVEY

TIMID 3️⃣5️⃣ MOUTH

Score: 50