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 🤣

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1352
5️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣🕚
9️⃣8️⃣
🔟7️⃣
Score: 58

The octordles today weren't that hard but I didn't shine in them, put it that way.

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My main bit of luck came at the start. Clean or glean.  I fancied glean more and thought G might be the start of #6 too.
But then after shout, I used another eliminator, crumb, because there were a few too many choices for me to feel safe guessing. 
Just as well I didn't guess as I probably would have said clown or flown before blown.

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Fair enough … Yes… needing that second eliminator put you in Octordle’s sights. It definitely punishes second-eliminator users, even when it’s necessary.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1352
🔟3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕚
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 59

Just managed to sneak in under 60 on this one.

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As you can see, I jumped in with a wrong answer on #7. Why I was fixated on globe, I am not sure, but I had it down for elope or globe, but now realise it could have been clove as well. Or glove, which it ultimately was.

Oh well, at least it ruled out gusty! And it suddenly made #8 clearer.

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This was actually beautifully solved. It was just a small itsy bitsy piece of not-quite-good-luck with #7.