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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

After that magnificently lucky result, of course today’s Octordle was going to be less impressive.

I’m still pleased with the result, but it actually felt too easy. Yesterday’s was more of a challenge; I had to think and work out possibilities, whereas today’s didn’t require much thinking and I solved it very quickly.

Daily Octordle #965
9️⃣4️⃣
🔟5️⃣
8️⃣2️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 51

Spoiler

TRACE
FORCE 🎯 obvious from my starter
SHINY <- eliminator
LEASH 🎯
GNASH 🎯
SHOVE 🎯
KIOSK 🎯 repeat offender
TIDAL 🎯
DOWRY 🎯
HUMOR 🎯 gritted my teeth and used the US spelling

You see what I mean? Every word was inevitable. Rather too easy.

Daily Octordle #965
DOWRY 9️⃣4️⃣ LEASH
HUMOR 🔟5️⃣ GNASH
TIDAL 8️⃣2️⃣ FORCE
KIOSK 7️⃣6️⃣ SHOVE
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Wordle went well.

I’m feeling under the weather with bad hayfever; a good Wordle can distract.

Wordle 1,184 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,184 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 TRACE
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ OILED <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🎯

[countessalmirena]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Today’s Wordle went well.

I’m feeling under the weather with bad hayfever; a good Wordle can distract.

Wordle 1,184 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,184 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 TRACE
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ OILED <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🎯 RECUR

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Oops - I forgot to include the answer! I’ve added it in the spoiler quoted above.

It’s the only possible answer that I could see.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,185 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There was only one possible answer after that eliminator!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,185 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE - bad start
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩 SHINY <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HONEY 🎯

[countessalmirena]

After an unenlightening first row, I was concerned about choosing an eliminator that would give me a good springboard.

Daily Octordle #966
🔟6️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
MOUND <-eliminator
METRO 🎯
CHIME 🎯
CLOWN 🎯
BRAWL 🎯
FLUID 🎯
BUYER 🎯
RAYON 🎯
VIRUS 🎯

Daily Octordle #966
VIRUS 🔟6️⃣ BRAWL
FLUID 7️⃣3️⃣ METRO
BUYER 8️⃣9️⃣ RAYON
CLOWN 5️⃣4️⃣ CHIME
Score: 52

[chewill-8708]

Daily Octordle #966
5️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣🔟
4️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Coughing fit - hayfever - my mouth feels as though it’s full of dust.

So… let’s Octordle.

Daily Octordle #967
6️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
🔟4️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

Again, this was a bit too easy to be truly satisfying. The only time I paused for more than a second or two was with my final word.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator
SNARE 🎯 off to a good start
AZURE 🎯 nothing else would fit
ADULT 🎯 ditto
FROST 🎯 ditto
STUDY 🎯 only other possibility would be a plural (studs) which I obviously discounted
UNITY 🎯 only possibility
ASSET 🎯 nothing else would fit
PUSHY 🎯 ah. Choices, choices… it could have been mushy or bushy or pushy. I was fortunate and chose the right first letter.

Daily Octordle #967
FROST 6️⃣5️⃣ ADULT
STUDY 7️⃣8️⃣ UNITY
PUSHY 🔟4️⃣ AZURE
ASSET 9️⃣3️⃣ SNARE
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

O Wordle! What is with all of this abbreviated slangy  nonsense???!

Wordle 1,186 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,186 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ HOUND
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEAUT 🎯

My eliminator left me with little choice: stomp off and leave Wordless unfinished, or play the word that I knew was the answer.

I’ve never yet stomped off.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I am happy with 3 on this one

Wordle 1,187 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

I am satisfied with my result, even though I was unlucky in my 3rd row choice. Given my starter, I’m just glad that my eliminator narrowed down the wide field to just three possibilities.

Wordle 1,187 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,187 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛TRACE - nothing!
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ BOILS - so it must be _ULLY
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 GULLY - starting letter wrong
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FULLY

It was down to gully, fully, or dully.