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 1,558 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien
Then I knew N would be in 4th spot and 3rd spot would be O or U.
I went for scout for second word, which was probably not the best but I thought at least it would cover more than H would.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1339
4️⃣🔟
6️⃣2️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
🕚8️⃣
Score: 55

Somewhat annoying. Disappointing. I got off to a good start, solving on my second turn.

I was tempted to solve #1 on turn 3 as hotel is the first word that occurred to me, but it could have been eg towel or steel.

Spoiler

I felt I needed another eliminator half way through and used dumpy as I was stuck on #8, maybe stuff/stump/stuck and #7 drown (which I thought likely) or brown, frown.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1339
7️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
🔟8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

4th turn was a risk (brush or crush). I almost went crush.
#7 had me beat till towards the end as my first thought was carat but then C was eliminated.
There was nothing else it could be, by then, except karat.