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 #1389
8️⃣🔟
9️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

Spoiler

I wasn't all that happy after turn 2 as there wasn't much to show for it, but knell just jumped into my mind as it could not be kneel. And #4 could not be raise, but I thought that was the probable vowel pattern and waive was all I could come up with otherwise.
After that, they fell into place but not without a think.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,609 4/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
After which, my first thought was pupil.
Then I had a little bit more of a think and came up with lurid and lucid.
There may be dozens more, I don't know, but those are the ones I could think of, off hand.
I really fancied pupil, but we know how reliable my fancies are, so i thought an eliminator might be safer, just in case.
I tried pricy, which cut out the P & C so I just went with lurid.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1390
3️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
🕚4️⃣
🔟8️⃣
Score: 57

Another day of disappointment. I live in hope of breaking through to the 40s again one day but this week is obviously not going to be it!

Things started pleasantly enough, with very easy solves. I was on a roll for a while.

#2 looked like being a pain though, with about half a dozen possible starters.

I actually thought of tepee after turn 5 but stopped myself as I thought.. there must be other things it could be. Should have just done it, no guts no glory, as they say.

But anyway, went with eliminator pudgy, on the basis C had already been out so didn't want pricy, but I did want the P.

Got there eventually.

Spoiler

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1390
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
🔟4️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Can't complain. 

Well, I can, but at least it is under 60.

Spoiler

This started off smoothly enough after turn 2. I had tentatively marked #5 as maybe pitch but luckily the Y came up early on.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,609 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I like the solution! It’s such a pleasingly expressive word, and I can hear the colours of it when I look at its shape.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,609 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 SOUND <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LURID 🎯

By its colours, I mean that the sound of the word is acid green and cherry red when I read the word or hear it spoken. Do you find that certain words simply fit their meaning like this? The spelling of it, the shape of each letter in context of the whole word, the way one’s face looks when speaking the word… 

Anyway, this was the only solution after the eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1390

7️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣🕚

8️⃣5️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

Score: 53

I had no clear way through the final thorns, and chose the wrong word. I felt like the prince in Sleeping Beauty hacking at a recalcitrant tangle of thorny growth before finally clearing a way.

Spoiler

TRACE

BIPOD  <- eliminator

TEPEE 🎯

POUND 🎯

CONCH 🎯

CRICK 🎯

CHANT 🎯

DANDY 🎯🍀 could have been sandy

ODDLY 🎯

FROZE 💣

GROVE 🎯

Wouldn’t you just know it? Last time I faced a _RO_E dilemma with froze as one of the possible answers, I didn’t choose it… and was wrong. This time I chose it… and was wrong to do so!

Daily Octordle #1390

CHANT 7️⃣4️⃣ POUND

CRICK 6️⃣🕚 GROVE

DANDY 8️⃣5️⃣ CONCH

ODDLY 9️⃣3️⃣ TEPEE

Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1390

9️⃣8️⃣

2️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣7️⃣

🔟6️⃣

Score: 51

Three instances of luck…

Spoiler

TRACE

CREPT 🎯🍀 could have been crest

SOILY <- eliminator

SCALY 🎯

PITHY 🎯

THYME 🎯

MOULT 🎯

BLOCK 🎯🍀 could have been flock

HOBBY 🎯

UNITE 🎯🍀 could have been quite

I hesitated over that final word choice for some considerable time. There was no signpost, no gut feeling… Quite/unite, quite/unite, quite/unite … grrrrrrrr! It’s rattled through my mind like an Edwardian train over clackety-clackety rails. There was no particular reason for my final choice.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1390

HOBBY 9️⃣8️⃣ BLOCK

CREPT 2️⃣4️⃣ SCALY

PITHY 5️⃣7️⃣ MOULT

UNITE 🔟6️⃣ THYME

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1390
3️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
🕚4️⃣
🔟8️⃣
Score: 57

Another day of disappointment. I live in hope of breaking through to the 40s again one day but this week is obviously not going to be it!

Things started pleasantly enough, with very easy solves. I was on a roll for a while.

#2 looked like being a pain though, with about half a dozen possible starters.

I actually thought of tepee after turn 5 but stopped myself as I thought.. there must be other things it could be. Should have just done it, no guts no glory, as they say.

But anyway, went with eliminator pudgy, on the basis C had already been out so didn't want pricy, but I did want the P.

Got there eventually.

Spoiler

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I think you chose an excellent second eliminator. At that point, there really wasn’t any certainty for the remaining words.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,610 4/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

The first thing I thought of straight after turn 2 was flung/clung (in no particular order or preference).
But then I thought, hang on a minute. clunk, flunk, maybe plunk (more unlikely).
So my 3rd word was flock

[springyzone]

Well, today was another average day, I am afraid. Some mistakes, although honourable mistakes, rather than just plain stupidity.

Daily Octordle #1391
8️⃣🕚
9️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

I was going okay for a while. I really fancied cower or cover for #3, except R was ruled out, but I got there in the end.
#2, caught out on the last word of the day. I should have thought of magma as it has been out a few times in the past.