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]

Yes, so did mine. It’s in my stable of go-to eliminators.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0456 4&3/7
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

With the green letters in the LH word, and the letters already ruled out, I could see one possibility only.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 456
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

My standard result. CATER and LOUGH were my starter and row 2 eliminator respectively.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #456
🔟5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

This felt uncomfortable almost all of the way through. I made a couple of wild guesses they worked out, such as not using a word within double L… even though my mind was saying “You should have used [that word]”.

[*sons_n_daughters*]

Wordle 676 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

3rd word was an eliminator to see if I could get those 2 yellows in place. Sometimes eliminators pay off!

I used my usual starter word.

[springyzone]

Wordle 676 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My third try wasa  logical attempt with the 3 letters I had but it wasn't 'it'. It helped though.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #457
🕐5️⃣
9️⃣🟥
8️⃣7️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 72

Missed one today.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 677 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was too easy. Obviously it comes down to which starters and eliminators one uses, but really, this just fell into my lap.

[countessalmirena]

On the other hand…

Daily Dordle 0458 4&5/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

This started badly… If I’d used my 2nd row word as my starting word, I’d have guessed the solutions in less time than it takes to shave a hedgehog.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 458
6️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

I tried to find an eliminator that would rule out two out of three possibilities, and couldn’t - well, not without using double letters! In the end, I played that to rule out the most likely words.