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]

Decided to try quordle today and went with a few hunches.

Daily Quordle 705
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 924 2/6

🟩🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used TRACE as my starter. There were four possible solutions after that, so I was sitting pretty. My eliminator word in row 2 was actually the answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #705
9️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🔟4️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

My starter was SCARE, and first eliminator was PHONY.

I don’t think I could have chosen any better, tactically.

[springyzone]

Wordle 925 4/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I have to concede that Bot was right and slate would have been a better starter today.

He was, nevertheless, quite supportive of all my tries. The thing was, even after my second turn, there were 3 perfectly good possibilities. Oh well, got there eventually.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #706
🕛4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
🕚8️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
Score: 62

Happy enough with this, given I made no silly mistakes as such. Just wrong guesses. The first and sixth words in particular had different possible starting letters.

[springyzone]

Wordle 926 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

First Wordle of the year.

I took a slight risk and guessed at turn 3, as I could think of a couple of possibilities.

Bot told me there were actually 6, but most of those had not occurred to me. 

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #707
🔟🕛
9️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕐
Score: 68

Not a great start to the eyar. One silly mistake in there, overlooked a letter. Was distracted by dogs. That's my excuse, anyway!😂

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 926 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

First Wordle of the year.

I took a slight risk and guessed at turn 3, as I could think of a couple of possibilities.

Bot told me there were actually 6, but most of those had not occurred to me. 

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Wordle 926 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter was SLATE, and I played COURD as my second.

There were a few possibilities for the solution, but like you, springyzone, I had a suspicion about the answer and went for it.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #707
🔟🕛
9️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕐
Score: 68

Not a great start to the eyar. One silly mistake in there, overlooked a letter. Was distracted by dogs. That's my excuse, anyway!😂

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Perfectly good excuse!

Daily Octordle #707
5️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
🔟9️⃣
Score: 52

I started with SLATE, and it did give a good start. I used MOURN as my 2nd row eliminator.  That gave me enough to guess 3R, and there we are; the game was afoot!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0707 5&4/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

STARE and LOUGH… Just the average 5 here.