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]

Daily Octordle #1356
4️⃣🔟
6️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕚
Score: 54

Spoiler

Most of these were straight forward. I feel we meet some familiat friends again in this one-warty, lowly.

My main hesitations were at turn 5. Tribe/trice/write/tripe. To me, it was between tribe abd write and I felt for the classic, probably write, so went with it.
Which helped solve #3, as I had that pegged as folly/jolly (surely not again)/dolly/golly/lowly

Then I made a mistake for #2 (scamp instead of smack), but hey, it helped solve #8 as I really could not decide between steed and steep.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1356
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
🔟3️⃣
Score: 52

I felt a moment of panic before turn 3 as I thought there might be nothing to clearly solve, then I saw #8.

Obviously there could have been other answers but they were unlikely.

Spoiler

#8, slack. Unlikely to be eg slams or slaps. That's not the octordle way we know and love, is it!
Ah, and here comes the grassy knoll, been a while since he was last out.
I was thinking of pearl for #5 but leafy is their usual go-to.
I was actually inclining towards bitty or witty for #7 till the D was exposed.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,575 2/6

🟨⬛🟩🟩⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

springyzone, I didn’t even have the chance to put Wordle through its paces!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,575 2/6

🟨⬛🟩🟩⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STACK 🎯

Skill not required!

[countessalmirena]

Just back from a friend’s book launch… (Very exciting as I’m one of the characters!)

Daily Octordle #1356

9️⃣🔟

7️⃣3️⃣

4️⃣5️⃣

6️⃣8️⃣

It worked out well enough with the eliminator.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

WRITE 🎯

AROSE 🎯

WARTY 🎯

LORRY 🎯

LOWLY 🎯

STEEP 🎯

QUELL 🎯

SMACK 🎯🍀 could have been snack

Daily Octordle #1356

QUELL 9️⃣🔟 SMACK

LOWLY 7️⃣3️⃣ WRITE

AROSE 4️⃣5️⃣ WARTY

LORRY 6️⃣8️⃣ STEEP

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1356

3️⃣6️⃣

4️⃣9️⃣

7️⃣🔟

8️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

Octordle lacked the wit to fool me today.

Spoiler

TRACE

LINGO <- eliminator

CARGO 🎯

CLAIM 🎯 

SLACK 🎯

KNOLL 🎯

LEAFY 🎯

DITTY 🎯🍀 could have been witty

BATHE 🎯

RADAR 🎯

There was a leafy knoll, a cargo claim, a bathing of radar, and a slack ditty. Most of it was completely straightforward; I opted for ditty as witty appeared very recently - but of course, that’s not always a successful manoeuvre since Octordle is unscrupulous in reusing words even a day or so after the last appearance.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1356

CARGO 3️⃣6️⃣ KNOLL

CLAIM 4️⃣9️⃣ BATHE

LEAFY 7️⃣🔟 RADAR

DITTY 8️⃣5️⃣ SLACK

Score: 52

[springyzone]

I am extremely pleased to have got this in 4, considering.

Wordle 1,576 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
I then had the feeling it would be a -ound pattern, although it could also possibly be something like unbox.
Thank goodness hound and sound were not in contention, but that left W R P F B M to sort out.
My 3rd eliminator was frump, which covered 4 out of 6, so you'd think I'd have had a good chance of uncovering the right letter. No such luck.
It at least also eliminated unbox though. So that left wound or bound and I went with wound simply as it was first cab off the rank on the keyboard plus they seem to like W sometimes.
But it was 50/50 for a 4 or 5 liner.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1357
🔟5️⃣
4️⃣2️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
Score: 51

I had a bit of luck with this one, as my first eliminator worked out reasonably well.

Spoiler

I did have to go back to an eliminator by turn 3, mind you.
I couldn't quite see my way clear on any of the others after turn 2.
I had #5 tentatively tagged as apply and #6 as speak or smear. #1 was alloy or allow or maybe allot.
Even #3 could have been space. #7 arial/axial (though I strongly favoured axial and should probably have taken a risk & just gone for it before the eliminator)

But hey, got there in the end.

[springyzone]

I was surprised to score so well, considering the mistakes I made. I was expecting it to be in the 60s, for sure.

The first eliminator didn't work half as well in this one, lean pickings.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1357
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
🕚7️⃣
🕛4️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

I guess #1 could have been shuck, but I liked shush more.

I didn't really love reedy for #3 but I couldn't see what else it could be at that stage. What I really wanted was N so i could make nerdy.😂
And #7, I'd thought maybe boozy till the B was eliminated. Then woozy wasn't it either.
Can't win them all!
By that stage though there were hardly any letters left, so I was able to guess it at the end.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,576 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There is no way I could have solved this in fewer moves - unless … (see spoiler)

Spoiler

Wordle 1,576 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ NOISY <- eliminator

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ BUMPH <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WOUND 🎯

It could have been found … but at least my second eliminator reduced the field from bound, found, hound, mound, pound, wound.

If I’d used “downy” or some other W-containing word, I’d have had a very good chance of a 3-rower… but let’s be frank: W is not a likely go-to letter for a Wordle eliminator! No, I’m just glad to have solved this one in 4 rows.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1357

8️⃣2️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

9️⃣🔟

Score: 49

This Octordle exemplifies the “No guts, no glory” saying.

Spoiler

TRACE

DANCE 🎯🍀 could have been lance, sauce

PANEL 🎯

SHAPE 🎯🍀 could have been agape

GOYIM <- eliminator

SMEAR 🎯

AMPLY 🎯

ALLOY 🎯

AXIAL 🎯

IDIOM 🎯

If only I’d continued solving after shape! I strongly suspected that 3R would be smear, but it could have been swear. I just ran out of “risk-it” puff and opted for an eliminator.

Daily Octordle #1357

ALLOY 8️⃣2️⃣ DANCE

SHAPE 4️⃣3️⃣ PANEL

AMPLY 7️⃣6️⃣ SMEAR

AXIAL 9️⃣🔟 IDIOM

Score: 49