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]

Daily Octordle #665
4️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣🔟
8️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

In many ways, this was sheer luck. I was going great guns for a while at the start but then I came to a few different squares where I had at least 2 possible choices. I was just fortunate that my first choices worked out.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 884 3/6

🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter was CATER; with the eliminator, it was easy.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0665 4&5/7
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Today’s Dordle starter was SHINY. Is it my y imagination or do Dordle solutions contain H or Y more frequently than Wordle?

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 665
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

I started 

[countessalmirena]

Agh… it posted without my permission…

I started with an unusual starter - EBONY. I must have been inspired! My second was a more conventional STAIR, and that was enough to solve top left. All smooth from then on.

[countessalmirena]

Here’s a screenshot:

Spoiler

 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #665
4️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣🔟
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

I used SHINY again. It worked on this occasion…

[springyzone]

Wordle 885 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

 Bot tells me I was extraordinarily lucky with my first guess as I eliminated all but 9 words. I didn't realise there were that many but went with a second eliminator word anyway (which bot wasn't that keen on) & it helped me.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #666
6️⃣🕛
8️⃣9️⃣
🕚5️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 58

A couple of wrong guesses but got there in the end.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 885 2/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter was STAIN.

I could certainly think of more than 2 words after that starter (about 7), but the bot seemed to think there were only 2 possible solutions from that point.

At any rate, I played the word that I thought most likely, and it was correct.