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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Octordle #1360

6️⃣5️⃣

🔟4️⃣

3️⃣7️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

SPELL 🎯 

COVER 🎯🍀 could have been coder, comer, coper, corer, cower, coyer

STICK 🎯

WHIRL 🎯

ASHEN 🎯

BEZEL 🎯

ABLED 🎯

ROUGH 🎯

I took a risk with 1R (cover), but my gut instinct was determined.

Everything else was completely logical. 

I needed the H of whirl to solve ashen.

Even when I came to 4L, where I had only ___EL, nothing else would fit but bezel.

I needed the B of bezel to solve abled. I’d been inclined towards alley up to that point. CORRECTION: I had had alley cross my mind before I realised that of could it couldn’t be: double L was ruled out by spell. A moment’s silly inattention!

For 2L, I had _O___, with a yellow H (not in 3rd) and R (not in 4th or 5th). There was nothing that would fit save rough.

Daily Octordle #1360

WHIRL 6️⃣5️⃣ STICK

ROUGH 🔟4️⃣ COVER

SPELL 3️⃣7️⃣ ASHEN

BEZEL 8️⃣9️⃣ ABLED

Score: 52

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[countessalmirena]

It’s 5:43 am… I can’t sleep with bad hayfever symptoms so I’ve just wordled.

Wordle 1,580 2/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator was the quarry! Logic and luck combined gave it away.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,580 2/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CATTY 🎯

Possible solutions after the starter: yacht, catty, cacti, caput, antic, ascot, attic, octal, ducat.

Using catty as eliminator:

yacht = ygy_y

catty = ggggg (of course)

cacti = gg_g_

caput = ggy__

antic = yyg__  octal = yyg__ (same pattern)

ascot = yyy__  ducat = yyy__ (same pattern)

attic = yygy_

Using attic as eliminator:

yacht = yy__y  caput = yy__y  ducat = yy__y (same pattern)

catty = yyg_y

cacti = yy_yy

antic = g_ggg

octal = y_g_y

ascot = gy__y

attic = ggggg (of course)

They’re both excellent eliminators. I decided on catty because the very worst possible outcome would be 4 rows rather than 5. Most likely outcome would be 3 rows. As it turned out, I was lucky and the eliminator was the answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1361

8️⃣3️⃣

9️⃣🔟

4️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

Three 1-in-2 guesses made things a little tricky, but I was fortunate enough to land on the correct words.

Spoiler

TRACE

SHOGI <- eliminator

SHEIK 🎯🍀 could have been shied

FUSSY 🎯🍀 could have been lupus

DUVET 🎯

UNFED 🎯

REFER 🎯

LUCID 🎯🍀 could have been cupid

AVIAN 🎯

BAGEL 🎯

That rather ungainly word “unfed” pops up again. How can it be unfed? There’s a bagel right there.

Daily Octordle #1361

LUCID 8️⃣3️⃣ SHEIK

AVIAN 9️⃣🔟 BAGEL

FUSSY 4️⃣6️⃣ UNFED

DUVET 5️⃣7️⃣ REFER

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1361

🔟4️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣2️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

Score: 51

Row 2 guess was lucky; there were 4 other possible words. That got me off to a good start.

Spoiler

TRACE

FACET 🎯🍀 could have been cheat, cleat, eclat, cadet

SPOIL -> eliminator

DITTO 🎯

PICKY 🎯

BUMPY 🎯🍀 could have been jumpy, guppy, pygmy

BERTH 🎯 

BOUND 🎯

SIEVE 🎯

BRAND 🎯 

After the eliminator, 1L had to be ditto.

Guessing 2R correctly was pivotal; three further words beginning with B lay in wait!

4R could have been singe, until I played bound for 4L, thus ruling out the N.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1361

BRAND 🔟4️⃣ DITTO

BERTH 7️⃣6️⃣ BUMPY

PICKY 5️⃣2️⃣ FACET

BOUND 8️⃣9️⃣ SIEVE

Score: 51