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 🤣

[springyzone]

Wordle 938 4/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The third try was an eliminator as after the first 2 turns, I could still see too many possibilities.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 938 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter was STARE, and I used LYMPH to eliminate some possibilities. I almost went with a gut-based guess for the 2nd row; had I done do, I’d still have solved it in 3 as my hirsute guess was almost correct (except for the first letter).

[springyzone]

Wordle 939 5/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

So many possibilities today!

Often I can only see a few but this time, I had a long list!

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #720
3️⃣🔟
8️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

A very cheery result (for me)

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 939 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The bot was busy telling me that my row 2 eliminator was soooo lucky (with a sour expression on its tightly closed mouth), while wanting to say something defensive about its own guess.

That eliminator was one of my oft-used ones, and it turned about to be the anagram of the solution. Swivel on it, bot!

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #720
3️⃣🔟
8️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

A very cheery result (for me)

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Wonderful, springy!

I can join you in the “52” club.

Daily Octordle #720
3️⃣🔟
6️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

My starter was SANER, followed by LOUGH.

[springyzone]

Wordle 940 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bit easier for me today.

Bot was not impressed at all.

For my second guess, he had this to say.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #721
6️⃣4️⃣
🕚🔟
3️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Score: 54

I was going okay with this but with word 4, I had letters 1,3, 5 in place and I knew one other letter. Unfortunately, the word I tried out had all 5 letters correct but letters in 2nd and 4th place were reversed.

Can't win them all, 54 is okay for me!

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 940 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bit easier for me today.

Bot was not impressed at all.

For my second guess, he had this to say.

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See… snarky! He just cannot accept that you outplayed him here. Luck is part of the equation.

Enjoy the victory and have a glass of champagne, knowing that it’s all bitter herbs and sour gall to Monsieur Bot.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 940 2/6

🟩⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used my most often-played 2nd rowers as my starter. It left me with two possible answers.