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 🤣

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,518 5/6

⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'm not doing too well at wordle lately!

Spoiler

alien/shout

I was left thinking-likely to be 2 e's in this, but I was thinking-bevel-revel-level-leper-repel and so on.
Maybe even excel.
I was going to try pricy next but I really wanted to rule V in or out so went with carve instead.
Then bevel. Finally got there with level.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1299
6️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
🕚4️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 55

Spoiler

Towards the end, I felt I needed an extra eliminator (I used dumpy).
I was torn on #2, dusky or musky and #5 I suspected mummy or puppy though dumpy wasn't impossible. I thought #7 was most likely apply, so at least dumpy gave me a heads up on that one too!
If I had had to guess, I would have guessed dusky, mummy & apply. So probably just as well I had the eliminator, points well spent.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,519 4/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/trade/matte

[springyzone]

A most satisfactory game, in that I was able to start solving from turn 2 (although I needed another eliminator at turn 3) & most of the answers seemed obvious, although #3 was a bit of a risk.

#1 answer is one I am not keen on but they have trained us to think of it as it makes regular appearances.

Spoiler

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1300
🕚6️⃣3️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
🔟5️⃣
Score: 59

I didn't make any mistakes as such. It is just that I used another eliminator on turn 4, but I really could not see my way clear without it. There were multiple possibilities that needed to be sorte

Even at the end, I had fingers crossed for #1 & could easily have finished this one in the red if things had not gone my way.

Spoiler

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[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,519 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩

⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I made a reasonable guess as my eliminator. It was wrong, but it led the way clear to the answer.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,519 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩 TRACE

⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 LATHE -> guess/eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MATTE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1300

🕚7️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣8️⃣

Score: 53

That wretched first letter of the last word!

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

DROIT 🎯

PAINT 🎯🍀 could have been faint

DIRTY 🎯

PSALM 🎯

REPAY 🎯

ROUTE 🎯

ANGEL 🎯

WATER 💣

HATER 🎯

Daily Octordle #1300

HATER 🕚7️⃣ REPAY

PAINT 4️⃣3️⃣ DROIT

PSALM 6️⃣5️⃣ DIRTY

ANGEL 9️⃣8️⃣ ROUTE

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1300

🕚5️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

Score: 53

Yet another “not that first letter” misstep. Luck wasn’t with me.

Spoiler

TRACE

GHOUL <- eliminator

HEARD 🎯

GOLLY 🎯

GRIND 🎯

ORBIT 🎯

FUNKY  🎯

YEAST 🎯

UNMET 🎯

WASTE 💣

PASTE 🎯 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1300

PASTE 🕚5️⃣ GRIND

UNMET 9️⃣3️⃣ HEARD

ORBIT 6️⃣4️⃣ GOLLY

FUNKY 7️⃣8️⃣ YEAST

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Today’s:

Wordle 1,520 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The answer isn’t a delight - but sometimes that’s just how it is.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,520 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨 SPOIL <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LOUSY 🎯

The only other possible word I could see was bolus, which I thought unlikely to be the answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1301

7️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

🔟2️⃣

Score: 51

Oh, so much better that yesterday’s!

Spoiler

TRACE

CRACK 🎯

SPOIL <- eliminator

SLOTH 🎯

THROB 🎯

CREED 🎯

EDICT 🎯

FLASK 🎯

SIXTY 🎯

STOIC 🎯

I was tempted to try a guess for 2L without using an eliminator, but with five possible answers it just wasn’t worth the risk.

Once I’d played spoil, I knew 2L but I made it wait while I dealt with 1R (sloth) - which then opened up 2R (throb).

The rest was simply logical - no guesswork required.

Daily Octordle #1301

EDICT 7️⃣4️⃣ SLOTH

CREED 6️⃣5️⃣ THROB

FLASK 8️⃣9️⃣ SIXTY

STOIC 🔟2️⃣ CRACK

Score: 51