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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #805
3️⃣🔟
7️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

This was a classic TRACE and LOUGH start.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #805
🕚4️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣🔟
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 55

Done. It worked out an easier one for me today.

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Nicely done! I was grinning a little at the different way in which we solved this. My first was your last.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,025 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I really felt I had to use the first 3 guesses as eliminators rather than 'tries' at the answer because I just had so little to go on.

Fortunately, the position of that first yellow cut out most of the possible words I thought of, so I was able to narrow it down.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #806
4️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
🔟🕚
Score: 58

I actually felt I did okay in this, in that I started solving from turn 3.

I feel the score is a reflection of the fact I made a mistake on turn 5. 

Spoiler

build instead of guild

[springyzone]

Ah, school holidays! No rush, at least for today. Lady of leisure.

I decided to do quordle.

Daily Quordle 806
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

And why not dordle as well. The whole hog.

I found the second word took longer to pin down.

Daily Dordle 0806 3&6/7
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,025 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My most frequent starter followed by a small hill… I had a very strong hunch and played it.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #806
5️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣🔟
7️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

This was weird. I was sure I’d started Octordle but was interrupted… I went back and it was unstarted. I suppose I must mentally planned my first move/s rather than physically performed them.

TRACE and MOULD were my two openers.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,026 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Apparently after my first guess, there were 303 possible words left. 

As I was typing it in, I was thinking-this will probably be a good guess today as it did so poorly yesterday that they are sure to have a different mix of letters in the answer today.

Then by the third turn, I had a suspicion of the possible  pattern.

This is where I think Bot is mistaken in his advice.

Spoiler

Bot told me it was only out of froth, broth, tooth and booth. I hadn't thought long and hard about it but I had thought of froth, broth, troth and tooth. So now we know, troth is not a possible answer in wordle world.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #807
🕐4️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣🔟
7️⃣🕚
Score: 67

I deserved the poor score here. I didn't start solving till turn 4 and then, on the second last turn, I made a stupid mistake in #1. I also made a mistake earlier in a guess on #7, but that at least was a perfectly reasonable guess.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,026 3/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

TRACE and DOUGH… and I had it down to 2 possibilities.