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]

Yes, I discovered that too on my second turn, and I also knew T was out, so I guessed it would start with C but went through chary and charm before I hit on the right answer.😑

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 578 3/6

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CATER

HOUND

[*sons_and_daughters*]

My second word was SHARD. It sounded good at the time!

[*sons_and_daughters*]

Wordle 579 3/6

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Not what I expected. A bit of a dirty word if you ask me.

[springyzone]

Wordle 579 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 579 3/6

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SLIMY

CROUT

Yes, this word has me reaching for a pair gloves and a good dose of detergent!

[springyzone]

My path to it didn't start off well.

alien-with not a single letter to show for it

chord 

bumpy

Finally got it after that!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0360 4&3/7
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zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

TRACE

SOUND

… and I was well on the way.

[springyzone]

I am in a mood, could kick myself. Just goes to show what happens when you are distracted.

And when you are debating which starter to use and choose the wrong one.

Wordle 580 5/6

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After my 3rd try, I tinkered with the letters and was pretty sure I had it. But then had an interruption, came back a few minutes later and couldn't remember what it was but a word came to me so I thought that was it & quickly typed it in, only to realise it was one I had rejected earlier as impossible.

But the real kicker is that had I started with alien as I was almost going to, I think I could possibly have solved this in 2. That's life though!

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 580 3/6

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I started with CATER.

The unknown letter could have been one of four possibilities. I rejected two of them as unlikely, but between the remaining two there was nothing to swing it one way or the other.

Given that - that is, that the 2nd place letter was almost certainly either L or F - there was no point in using an eliminator. I’d make the correct guess on either the 2nd or 3rd row.