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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #444
2️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
🔟🕚
Score: 57

After a good start at row 2, I needed an eliminator… and then another one at row 5.

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Wordle 664 3/6

🟩🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The answer was the only solution, given the letters I had and which letters couldn’t take certain positions.

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Daily Dordle 0445 4&5/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

All that I’ll say is… The Case of the Doubles.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 445
6️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

That went quite well…! I flew by the seat of my pants but I had just enough to guess each word.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #445
3️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣🔟
5️⃣🕚
6️⃣9️⃣
Score: 55

There were quite a few different letters, and mostly the letters didn’t lead to further clues for other words. It was slightly frustrating.

[*sons_n_daughters*]

Wordle 664 3/6

⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Trying to work out what your start word was Countess? Mine was my usual "adieu".

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Mine was TILER. My second was COUGH.

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Wordle 665 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used RAISE as today’s starter. As you can see, it yielded little in the way of information, but at least in combination with my 2nd row eliminator, it was enough for me to launch into a strong guess. 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0446 3&4/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I almost ALMOST played the feature word for LH… Had I not considered how often an alternative was the solution, I would have taken a misstep.

After that, I thought about how sneaky it would be if the letter I DIDN’T use turned out to be involved in the RH word.

I’m on fire! 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 446
4️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

Brought back down to earth with my need for a row 6 eliminator, I humbly admit that top right word should have been the easiest to guess, if I’d used a different starter. SANER was my starter.