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 Classic Octordle #1417

🔟9️⃣

8️⃣4️⃣

5️⃣6️⃣

3️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

There was a dangerous patch of three guess-the-words.

Spoiler

TRACE

POLIS <- eliminator

FRUIT 🎯

PRONE 🎯🍀 could have been prove, probe

BLAND 🎯🍀 could have been blank, gland

BAGGY 🎯🍀 could have been byway

DODGY 🎯

AMONG 🎯

HAPPY 🎯

USHER 🎯

That cluster of three “could have been”s didn’t feel as risky as they were while I was solving. I barely hesitated with prone, but logically I should have. I spent a little more time on bland; gut feeling drove the choice. And I thought byway less likely than baggy.

After that trip of guesswork, it was a relief that the rest was straightforward. In retrospect, bipod would have been a better eliminator.

Daily Classic Octordle #1417

USHER 🔟9️⃣ HAPPY

AMONG 8️⃣4️⃣ PRONE

BLAND 5️⃣6️⃣ BAGGY

FRUIT 3️⃣7️⃣ DODGY

Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1417

5️⃣🔟

3️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣6️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

Score: 52

Quick and simple! This was NOT extreme.

Spoiler

TRACE

SOILY <- eliminator

FANCY 🎯

SHUCK 🎯

COCOA 🎯

TUBAL 🎯

LEFTY 🎯 <- abominable word

PRUNE 🎯

STEEP 🎯

GRASP 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1417

COCOA 5️⃣🔟 GRASP

FANCY 3️⃣4️⃣ SHUCK

STEEP 9️⃣6️⃣ TUBAL

PRUNE 8️⃣7️⃣ LEFTY

Score: 52

[springyzone]

😂🤣I don't like lefty either, but it has been out a couple of times before, so I just thought... Not lefty again.