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 240 4/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I found it hard too, took a while. I didn't have much to work with, just those 2 letters and nothing seemed to fit for a while. My 3rd try was a regular word but I knew it wouldn't be right, American sensibilities would probably put it in lewdle.😅

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

Wordle 240 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

after 3 words I'd managed to knock out half the alphabet (a blessing in disguise).

Happy Valentines Day to all the ladies out there (in a non-creepy, friend-zone kind of way)

[*sons_and_daughters*]

I was concerned today....

Wordle 240 4/6

🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[ambercat16]

Had me worried too....

Wordle 240 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[*sons_and_daughters*]

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@ambercat16 wrote:

Had me worried too....

Wordle 240 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Yikes! That was close!

I started off with "crane". I thought it was going to get me today! 

[countessalmirena]

It's when you get that first line with all of the blanks sticking out their tongues at you that you begin to panic. Then one tells oneself, no, no, don't panic... you know now that there's no s, no a, no e, no h, no r. That cuts out a lot of possibilities.

Then on the second line... WHAT? If that particular vowel doesn't go THERE, then that means... well, I can't put it THERE either, so I'm left with last letter (no) or... Okay, now we're cooking... THAT letter goes here, and THAT letter goes there or THERE... and inexorably I am led to... the WORD!

[*sons_and_daughters*]

I normally do them in the morning. I guess it's morning, just (12.10am). Got it in 3!

Wordle 241 3/6

🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 241 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Again, I looked at line 2 and thought WHAT???  Then I examined it more carefully. It became apparent that the first letter had to be the particular letter which had been yellow in line 1 (can’t say which tile as my First Guess Word is known) and yellow in line 2 tile 2, because the other yellow letter from line 1 was not the final letter and I had strong reason to consider it not the 2nd letter. 

And so it was.

[janeababe]

Wordle 241 4/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I stuffed up. I repeated my 3rd yellow tile, in the same place! Doh 😣 

[*sons_and_daughters*]

I did that they other day. I also used a letter that was grey! Very much a slap yourself in the face moment.