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 #1391

9️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
🔟🕛
6️⃣4️⃣
Score: 59

Just scraped in under 60 on this one.

Spoiler

I didn't get that far down until I was faced with multiple choices, or that is how it felt.
#7 pouch/couch/vouch
#5 pluck/cluck/fluff/bluff
#4 budge/fudge at first then purge/curve
#1 woozy, boozy/goody/goofy. Boozy run away favourite though.

So I used pricy as eliminator and it was good till the end, when I thought juror would be it. Wrong.

[countessalmirena]

Again, I didn’t manage to post my Wordle, etc., for yesterday. As usual, they’re saved in my Notes app.

Here they are in this post and following two posts… Then I’ll tackle today’s.

Yesterday’s

Wordle 1,610 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The eliminator thankfully reduced the possibilities to two.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,610 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ SHINY <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLUNG 🎯

Just a yellow C - not terribly encouraging. But by virtue of the C being definitely not in 4th position, it was actually a surprisingly small pool of possibilities! I’d say around 60-65.

It wasn’t strictly logical to use shiny as the eliminator. There were better words I could have used. But I went with a combination of gut instinct and logic.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1391

9️⃣8️⃣

🔟5️⃣

4️⃣3️⃣

7️⃣6️⃣

Score: 52

Same old, same old. This was decidedly not the most exciting Octordle.

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL  <- eliminator

PLANT 🎯

ULTRA 🎯🍀 could have been altar

REBUS 🎯

MARCH 🎯

BIRCH 🎯

MAGMA 🎯

CHAFF 🎯

COVEY 🎯

Ultra, rebus, birch, magma, chaff - they have shown up too often. 

Daily Octordle #1391

CHAFF 9️⃣8️⃣ MAGMA

COVEY 🔟5️⃣ REBUS

ULTRA 4️⃣3️⃣ PLANT

BIRCH 7️⃣6️⃣ MARCH

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1391

🕚7️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣6️⃣

3️⃣4️⃣

Score: 53

Not the old wrong-but-logical-final-word-guess trick! Darn it…

Spoiler

TRACE

SPOIL <- eliminator

POUCH 🎯

DOULA 🎯

PURGE 🎯

FUROR 🎯

PARKA 🎯

CLUCK 🎯

UNSET 🎯

WOOZY 💣

BOOZY 🎯

It was all proceeding in a very rewarding way until the booby/boozy/woozy dilemma.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1391

BOOZY 🕚7️⃣ PARKA

UNSET 9️⃣5️⃣ PURGE

CLUCK 8️⃣6️⃣ FUROR

POUCH 3️⃣4️⃣ DOULA

Score: 53

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,611 5/6

⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Absolute pain today.😜

Spoiler

alien

The trouble then was the position of the i, it cuts out a lot of possibilities so I decided to be strategic. Well, try to, in any case.

I was thinking words such as devil, bilge, field, liege. The trouble was the placement of the i & e.

A 2/4 pattern? An ie pattern? a 2/5 pattern?

I went for fudgy as my second word.

Then devil.

At that point, I was wondering if I should have just gone with shout for second eliminator.

My next  guess was tilde and at last I had a green.

But field and yield were not possible, otherwise I can promise you I would have preferred them over wield.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1392
5️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣🔟
4️⃣🕚
Score: 55

I think this game may suit you, I expect to see you solve on turn 2.

Spoiler

A few traps in this game. So much depends on when you can solve different words.
I was lucky in that I tried crimp for #2, rather than crick, simply as it exposed more letters.
I thought cower would be it for #8, on the basis the V was out of contention.
Had I guessed #4 before that, I would have avoided that trap, but at the time, I was thinking maybe refer for #4.
Realistically, this was about as good as I was ever going to do.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1392
5️⃣6️⃣
🔟9️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

This wasn't too bad. I did wonder if #7 might be spick but spicy seemed more likely.
I jumped in confidently with piper for #5, but looking at it now, it could have been riper or viper. So that was lucky. But I was feeling piper.
PS or wiper! I don't know why I jumped in so quickly with piper but I think it was because I saw the P.

[countessalmirena]

I so badly wanted to give a helpful vote to your  “absolute pain” list… as it made me laugh.

Here’s my Wordle for today. I got caught up in trying to help a client, and I’m wrung out now.

Wordle 1,611 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨

🟨🟩⬛🟨🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It was a one-in-three. Nothing but kind fortune could guide me.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,611 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE

🟨🟩⬛🟨🟩 LINED <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WIELD 🎯

It could have been field or yield. I don’t think I could have narrowed it down any further than this at row 2; the eliminator was the most efficient I could use.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1392

8️⃣5️⃣

6️⃣🕚

7️⃣2️⃣

3️⃣9️⃣

Score: 51

Hmm. I did make a wrong guess, but the score did not suffer as badly as I thought it would.

Spoiler

TRACE

CRATE 🎯

GREAT 🎯

LOUSY  <- eliminator

CRIMP 🎯

GUILD 🎯

VOGUE 🎯

SAVOR 🎯 wretched US spelling

CORER 🎯🍀 could have been cower

NEWER 💣

FEWER 🎯

Ah well, it could have been worse. 

Daily Octordle #1392

SAVOR 8️⃣5️⃣ CRIMP

GUILD 6️⃣🕚 FEWER

VOGUE 7️⃣2️⃣ CRATE

GREAT 3️⃣9️⃣ CORER

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1392

2️⃣5️⃣

8️⃣9️⃣

🔟6️⃣

7️⃣3️⃣

Score: 50

I essayed a guess (50/50) for the second row, and had another 50/50 on row 7 (but I didn’t think the 2nd possibility was as likely as my choice).

It was mainly the final word that could have brought me down - another of those could-be-this, could-be-that dilemmas (1 in 3 chance of getting it right).

Spoiler

TRACE

REACT 🎯

CRUST 🎯🍀 could have been crypt

LINGO <- eliminator

TEETH 🎯

USUAL 🎯

SPICY 🎯🍀 could have been spick

SMOKY 🎯

AXIOM 🎯

PIPER 🎯🍀 could have been wiper, viper

I so nearly tried wiper…

Daily Extreme Octordle #1392

REACT 2️⃣5️⃣ TEETH

SMOKY 8️⃣9️⃣ AXIOM

PIPER 🔟6️⃣ USUAL

SPICY 7️⃣3️⃣ CRUST

Score: 50