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]

My red letter day.😁

I lucked out on this one, as I am sure you would have noticed when you did it.

I found this game quick and very straightforward, with answers fairly obvious. Except for the very last turn, where I thought-you have to be kidding me.

Spoiler

The only times I hesitated were for #4 where I considered (and rejected) doozy.

But then at the end-glove, globe, elope.

I actually fancied elope but decided I needed to go for a G word so i could at least get there in 2 turns if it turned out to be wrong. I chose glove and was lucky.

[springyzone]

And even the extreme was better than normal for me.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1342
8️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
🔟2️⃣
Score: 51

Spoiler

I was almost going to just type in my usual shout for second turn, but deleted it and had a look at #8 and inlay was all I could come up with.
I actually thought of cavil/valid/trail for #7 after my first turn but at that point, too uncertain so I forgot about it till the end.
I was ridiculously pleased with myself solving #4.😂

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,561 3/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛

🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The starter was good enough to limit possible solutions to 16, with just enough difference and similarity to let me do my calculations.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,561 3/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ FLING <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FRITZ 🎯

Possible words after the starter:

broth, brunt, drift, droit, front, froth, frost, fritz, fruit, grift, grist, grout, grunt, orbit, print, wrist

I wanted an eliminator that contained n, i (because it appears in different positions as well as being absent or present), f… An r wouldn’t help; t would be very limited in helping; o would be very limited in helping… Fling might work well.

Using fling:

broth _____

brunt ___g_

drift __gy_

droit ___y_

front g__g_

froth g____

frost g____

fritz g_g__

fruit g_y__

grift y_g_y

grist __g_y

grout ____y

grunt ___gy

orbit __y__

print __gg_

wrist __g__

This would leave only 2 words that would yield the same pattern; the rest would give me a unique result after the eliminator. Unless the answer was grunt or grout, I’d definitely solve this on row 3. I was happy with that.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1342

8️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣7️⃣

4️⃣🔟

3️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Treading carefully, I could solve most of it in a straightforward way. Two could-be-this-or-that words…

Spoiler

TRACE

DOILY <- eliminator

STAND 🎯

SNOWY 🎯

SINEW 🎯

ONSET 🎯

MOODY🎯

GLOVE 🎯🍀 could have been globe, bloke, elope

KARMA 🎯

SHOUT 🎯🍀 could have been shoot, spout

If that last word turned out to be shout, that would be a lovely boost for you, springyzone! (And it was.)

Daily Octordle #1342

GLOVE 8️⃣6️⃣ ONSET

SINEW 5️⃣7️⃣ MOODY

SNOWY 4️⃣🔟 SHOUT

STAND 3️⃣9️⃣ KARMA

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1342

9️⃣8️⃣

🔟3️⃣

4️⃣7️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

 I had nowhere to go after the starter; good eliminator needed. 

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

GIZMO 🎯

CONDO 🎯

CAVIL 🎯

INLAY 🎯

SWAMP 🎯

SWEPT 🎯

FLOSS 🎯

REBUS 🎯

And… after all, it turned out to be a perfectly amenable little Octordle.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1342

FLOSS 9️⃣8️⃣ SWEPT

REBUS 🔟3️⃣ GIZMO

CONDO 4️⃣7️⃣ SWAMP

CAVIL 5️⃣6️⃣ INLAY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Congratulations on both of those 51s!

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,562 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

After my second turn, I had not a clue.
OE at the (almost) end of the word seemed unusual.

So with a blank mind, I just tried another eliminator (fudgy) and the G gave it away.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1343
8️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
🕚7️⃣
Score: 53

This was a fairly straightforward one that I was able to do quickly.

Probably too quickly as I didn't even hesitate and made a mistake on the last word. Didn't even see the other possible answer till after it was done.

Never mind, even if I had known, I would have had to choose one or another and would probably still have chosen the word I initially went with, so no harm done.

Spoiler

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1343
7️⃣🔟
🕚5️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣2️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

I was going along okay till near the end when I got hung up on #3
Batty, tatty, patty. Thank goodness R was out of the reckoning or no doubt they would have had ratty.

What I should have done of course is concentrate on #2, but what happened there was I had glanced at it and thought doggy, boggy because I had overlooked the fact it had an e in it. That would have made the answer a lot clearer.
But I went with an eliminator (biped), which luckily brought the E in #3 to my attention. My fingers still almost typed in dodgy though.

Spoiler

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,562 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I needed the eliminator to start limiting the field.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,562 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ LIONS <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GOOEY 🎯

After the eliminator, it could have been a _OOED pattern. Booed, mooed, pooed, wooed.

Or E_O__ hmm, can only see epoxy and ebook.

Or _OOEY … gooey, hooey.

I really doubt it’s pooed! I also don’t think it’s hooey.

If pushed, I’d also be less inclined to use a past tense verb, but it isn’t ruled out exactly…

Using a y-ending would rule out the _OOED words…

GOOEY or EPOXY were my top choices. Gooey would rule out more options if my guess were wrong.