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 #773
4️⃣6️⃣
🔟🕚
8️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
Score: 54

[springyzone]

Wordle 993 4/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟩🟨
⬛🟨🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Took a while to get there.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #774
🔟5️⃣
🕚9️⃣
🕛7️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
Score: 63

Couple of wrong guesses set me back, but not too hard to solve, overall.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 993 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

With my most frequently used starter hitting pay dirt on the first row, I didn’t want or need additional vowel information. My eliminator was perfect; after the 2nd row guess, I knew what the answer must inevitably be.

Spoiler

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #774
🕚3️⃣
🔟4️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 55

One wrong guess at row 8…

Spoiler

 

As you can see below, I tried GLEAN instead of GLEAM.

 

[springyzone]

Wordle 994 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bot was quite nice today. he commiserated with me over my first word-said it was a good guess but unlucky today and left 210 possible answers.

I got there in the end though!

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #775
6️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
7️⃣🕚
🕛3️⃣
Score: 66

The solution to word #3 helped me as it eliminated one letter I knew was the possible solution to #4.

Even on my last turn on #7, I knew the answer was between 2 possible solutions & had to take a guess. I was just lucky it turned out to be the right one in this instance.

On #1 and #5, I had made wrong guesses out of 2 each time.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 994 3/6

🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Don’t let the bot patronise you!

My starter was CATER. I strongly suspected two possible words, although there were other contenders. I used an eliminator that focused on narrowing down my major suspects.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #775
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣🔟
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣2️⃣
Score: 51

My 2nd row eliminator was the answer to bottom right!

But… then I needed another eliminator to go any further.

Spoiler

 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0775 5&3/7
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

CATER and SPOIL… I so nearly got this in 4.