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 #1204
4️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 52

I HATED this!

Frankly, my score should be worse. I was full of uncertainty and thinking of using an eliminator… but I could see is probably another eliminator after that, so I thought, “Let’s just make a guess and wear the result”. 

It was pure luck that those three particular guesses were correct. Luck, not logic … or only a modicum of logic.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
LOAMY 🎯 all right, this was logic
RUSTY 🎯 also logic
RISKY 🎯 and this one
STOUT 🎯🍀 could have been spout or shout
ADOBE 🎯🍀 could have been adobe, above
BRIBE 🎯 
HALVE 🎯
FOUND 🎯🍀 could have been pound, wound

Daily Octordle #1204
RUSTY 4️⃣8️⃣ BRIBE
STOUT 6️⃣9️⃣ HALVE
LOAMY 3️⃣5️⃣ RISKY
ABODE 7️⃣🔟 FOUND
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1204
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣🕚
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 53

Hmm. This was also a non-favourite as it felt odd… too full of repeated letters.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
COPSE 🎯
PUPPY 🎯
HUSKY 🎯🍀 could have been mushy or bushy
FUSSY 🎯
GEEKY 🎯
BEADY 🎯
VENUE 🎯
NODDY 💣
DOWDY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1204
GEEKY 7️⃣6️⃣ FUSSY
HUSKY 5️⃣9️⃣ VENUE
PUPPY 4️⃣🕚 DOWDY
BEADY 8️⃣3️⃣ COPSE
Score: 53