WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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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 🤣

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1357

8️⃣4️⃣

🔟3️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

Hmm. I could have tried guessing 2R without an eliminator, but it would have been a 1 in 7 guess.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

CHARM 🎯🍀 could have been chard, chary

TOXIC 🎯 

HOARD 🎯

GOOFY 🎯🍀 could have been goody

TIPSY 🎯

SHUSH 🎯

UNWED 🎯

DERBY 🎯🍀 could have been reedy

2R could have been could have been scarf, scary, chard, charm, chary, chair, roach … I played safe and used an eliminator.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1357

SHUSH 8️⃣4️⃣ TOXIC

DERBY 🔟3️⃣ CHARM

UNWED 9️⃣7️⃣ TIPSY

GOOFY 6️⃣5️⃣ HOARD

Score: 52

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1357

8️⃣4️⃣

🔟3️⃣

9️⃣7️⃣

6️⃣5️⃣

Score: 52

CORRECTION

Hmm. I could have tried guessing 2R without an eliminator, but it would have been a 1 in 6 guess.

Spoiler

2R could have been scarf, scary, chard, charm, chary, chair (NOT roach - of course this was ruled out because of the C not being in 4th position) …