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 Extreme Octordle #1195
6️⃣3️⃣
🕛8️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
🔟5️⃣
Score: 55

This one slowed me down in my tracks in a couple of spots. I used a heap of eliminators (or it felt like that), only solved it on the very last turn and was shocked the score came out at 55.

I was expecting about a 60 at least.

Spoiler

Just looking at it now, I was lucky with #8 as early on, I was thinking crank/prank/grand etc but it could have been frank.
I was a bit surprised not to uncover P for #5 as I had that tagged as likely to be party, for sure.
#4 took me a while to solve, I was trying the e in 2/4 spots for a while.
Then bumfs as eliminator then wagon as eliminator as #3 was still a mystery to me. So 4 eliminators.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,414 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The result of my opener had me thinking about the likelihood of either i or u rather than o being used, or with no second vowel at all. That led me to focus more on the consonant situation…

(No shogi this time!)

Spoiler

Wordle 1,414 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ PLUSH <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PATSY

Thankfully the S positioning ruled out “pasty”.

This result is such a 40s gangster word! “Hey guys, you think I’m some kinda patsy? What am I, chopped liver? The next guy to mouth off is gonna get a gutful of lead and woise!”

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1195
9️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣🔟
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

This was relatively straightforward. There were two words which could have been something else, but in one case it wasn’t likely.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
TRIED 🎯
SONIC 🎯🍀 could have been ionic
LYRIC 🎯
SPURN 🎯
CIDER 🎯🍀 could have been dicer, but let’s face it – Octordle looooooves cider
SOUND 🎯
GAUGE 🎯
DEBUG 🎯

Daily Octordle #1195
GAUGE 9️⃣8️⃣ SOUND
CIDER 7️⃣🔟 DEBUG
TRIED 3️⃣4️⃣ SONIC
LYRIC 5️⃣6️⃣ SPURN
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1195
7️⃣5️⃣
🕚9️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Score: 53

Hmm. There was something odd about the feel of this; it felt staggered.

Spoiler

TRACE
SOILY <- eliminator 
TRIED 🎯 déjà-vu
RATTY 🎯
UNCUT 🎯
MUNCH 🎯🍀 could have been punch or hunch
CHEEK 🎯🍀 could have been cheep
PRANK 🎯
EXPEL 🎯
BIMBO 💣
GIZMO 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1195
CHEEK 7️⃣5️⃣ UNCUT
GIZMO 🕚9️⃣ EXPEL
RATTY 4️⃣3️⃣ TRIED
MUNCH 6️⃣8️⃣ PRANK
Score: 53