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 #741
6️⃣🕛
7️⃣🕚
🔟3️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Score: 62

There are a few words that I am sure have been out before.

For a while at the start, I had 3 squares (2,3,7) that looked to have much the same letters in them but it was a sea of yellows. Got there though.... eventually! 😁

[springyzone]

Wordle 961 4/6

⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bot was not at all keen on my 3rd word eliminator.

I actually thought it out carefully as there were many words I could make, given the 2 letters I had, and several of the letters in my eliminator word were ones that popped up the most in those possible words.

I was pleased anyway as it immediately narrowed the field nicely.

Spoiler

I used proxy

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #742
🔟9️⃣
🕚🕛
3️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Score: 61

So many possibilities wwith some of the words.

[springyzone]

Daily Quordle 742
7️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

I had a few minutes before I need to go out.

Weather not looking great. Either a feast or a famine here in Melb with the weather lately.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 961 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I started with CATER, and the bot thought that was fine. He was a little uppity about my second guess, but I solved Wordle on my third … which did better than he had expected.

Spoiler

You also did better than the bot!

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #742
🔟9️⃣
🕚🕛
3️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Score: 61

So many possibilities wwith some of the words.

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I know…!

Daily Octordle #742
🔟7️⃣
🕚8️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 54

I started with CATER and then SPOIL, which gave me a reasonably good start… but at guess 9 I used a wrong starting letter for 2L. That did actually give me 1L (top left), so all’s well.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Quordle 742
7️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

I had a few minutes before I need to go out.

Weather not looking great. Either a feast or a famine here in Melb with the weather lately.

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Snap.

Daily Quordle 742
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

CATER was my starter, and I followed with SPINY. For the additional eliminator at guess 4, I used DUMBO.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0742 4&5/7
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I did not expect that LH word!

[springyzone]

Congratulations on yesterday's wordle, countess. You blew Bot out of the park!

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Wordle 962 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bot quite approved of my 3rd word, at least. It is just what he would have done in my situation. 😂

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 962 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used one of my 2nd rowers as my starter today: COUGH. I followed with TRIPS. At that point I had only two immediately obvious possibilities, and I made the right call.

Luck: you can never discount it.