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]

Daily Octordle #988
9️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣🕚
6️⃣2️⃣
Score: 52

Another wrong guess… 

Spoiler

TRACE
STACK 🎯
DOILY <- eliminator
MOLDY 🎯 ha! US spelling
VICAR 🎯
ANIME 🎯 could have been “amine”
RIVER 🎯 could have been “giver”
SOUTH 🎯 could have been “sooth”
FLOOR 🎯
SPELL 💩💣 … grrrr
SWELL 🎯


Daily Octordle #988
FLOOR 9️⃣7️⃣ RIVER
VICAR 5️⃣8️⃣ SOUTH
MOLDY 4️⃣🕚 SWELL
ANIME 6️⃣2️⃣ STACK
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,207 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

That’s better. A nice 3 for Wordle is food for the brain.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,207 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ SPOIL <-eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 JOINT

”Joint” was not the only possibility; I could have tried another eliminator to pinpoint it, but I recklessly decided to jump in with a guess.


To pivot in this way may have been the act of an idiot searching for an elusive ingot - ditto, let’s not vomit!

[springyzone]

I have meant to keep up with wordle and I did do it on several days, just didn't get to post.
Internet connection was often slow or glitchy. I could open wordle and facebook easily, but some other sites, they took forever to load and I just lost patience trying to wait.

Wordle 1,208 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I didn't have much to go on, just a lot of letters that I had to rule out. I took a chance on the answer as despite everything, there was still another possibility.

Spoiler

bobby

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #989
🔟🕚
3️⃣4️⃣
🕛6️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 63

Made a couple of mistakes, one really stupid one, but got there in the end.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,208 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A 4: I must be satisfied with that.

Spoiler

TRACE <- nothing! Oh no…
NOISY <-eliminator no. 1
PLUMB <-eliminator no. 2
MOMMY 🎯 Not only reusing the “m” three times, but it’s also an Americanism.

Talk about a tricky word!

Wordle 1,208 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 NOISY
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ PLUMB
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOMMY

[countessalmirena]

Welcome back, weary traveller!

[countessalmirena]

Octordle was slightly frustrating in that I felt very close to solving a word in row 2 … but not quite.

Daily Octordle #989
4️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
🔟7️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator 
TRAWL 🎯 could have been “trail”
ENDOW 🎯
PRUNE 🎯
TRYST 🎯
FALSE 🎯
REUSE 🎯
BEVEL 🎯
HAVOC 🎯

Daily Octordle #989
ENDOW 4️⃣9️⃣ BEVEL
TRYST 6️⃣3️⃣ TRAWL
HAVOC 🔟7️⃣ FALSE
REUSE 8️⃣5️⃣ PRUNE
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

This was quite challenging.

I had to make guesses twice, and it could have worked out poorly.

Daily Octordle #990
5️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
🔟6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator
REIGN 🎯
BRAWN 🎯 Luck; it could have been prawn or drawn
BAYOU 🎯
MEATY 🎯 could have been yeast or peaty
CROSS 🎯
SORRY 🎯
PETAL 🎯
TITLE 🎯

Daily Octordle #990
BAYOU 5️⃣3️⃣ REIGN
PETAL 9️⃣8️⃣ SORRY
TITLE 🔟6️⃣ MEATY
BRAWN 4️⃣7️⃣ CROSS
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,209 3/6

⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩
⬛🟩🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator/guess was despised by the bot. For some inexplicable reason, it’s not considered a possible word in Wordle. 

Ah well, I’m left with only one possible answer after that play.

Spoiler

TRACE
NACRE <-a valid word but not a possible answer?????
CARVE 🎯

Wordle 1,209 3/6

⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩 TRACE
⬛🟩🟨🟨🟩 NACRE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CARVE

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,210 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

3: eliminator was fudgy. I had S, U, T as yellows and was thinking along the lines of dusty, rusty etc