Wordle, daily word-guessing game

[agate]

This turned up on another site, and I tried it a couple of times. People here might enjoy wasting a few minutes each day guessing each day's word. The instructions are found by clicking on the question mark in the upper left.

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[Lazarus]

Thanks!

[agate]

I didn't get today's word.

[Ikoiko]

Yay, I got it!

[Lazarus]

Not sure how to play…..my screen just stays open but I do not see what to do to start. What am I missing.?

[Ikoiko]

Just type in any word to start.

[Lazarus]

Ok. I typed in a word and 2 more words using the color enhanced letters. But I thought that wordlegave the word each day. Still not clear on how to play or how to know if I am playing!

[agate]

Each day there's a new 5-letter word. If you go to that link you should be able to start entering your guesses at the word. When you've used up all of your 6 guesses, it will tell you what the word is if you haven't figured it out. Today I used up all my guesses without getting it right.

Green letters are letters you've guessed right and are in the right place, and tan letters are letters you've guessed right but they're in a different place in the word. The other letters are wrong and won't be in the word--so as you keep guessing, you keep finding out more and more letters that aren't going to be in the word. I don't know if I've explained this very well. I had to use trial and error.

There are a couple of other options you can choose if you click on that icon in the upper right--one is the "color-blind mode" (high contrast) with different colors for the letters, and the "hard mode" seems to be a somewhat harder version of the game. (I haven't tried that yet.)

[Ikoiko]

Don't use the letters in the example. When you start with a blank grid, just type a random word in the top row. Hopefully, you will get some colored letters to get you started, but maybe they will all be grey and you will have to type a random word in the second row.

[Earth Mother 2 Angels]

((((((Hugs to All)))))) ~

In my first word, I use the letters A, E, and I. That eliminates vowels, leaving O, U, and sometimes Y.

Then I use S, D, T, or N. Based on the outcome, I can eliminate other consonants.

So far, this system has worked for me.

Thank you for sharing this game with us, Joan!

Love & Light,

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Rose

[agate]

I got one of them on the third guess but today's was beyond me. I didn't get it at all.

[Lazarus]

Thanks Agate…I finally figured out what to do and it is fun!

[agate]

I got today's word on the 4th try. And I found out that a letter can occur twice in a word but you need to guess it a second time.

[Lazarus]

Yes Agate,
I discovered you can use a letter twice. I got the first 2 on three tries and the third on the last try where when I got it a “whew” pops up! Made me chuckle.

[SuzE-Q]

I've been enjoying this, I've gotten all in 4 or 5 tries.

Here is a site, they suggest, much like Wheel of Fortune that gives the most popular letters to start the person off, that you use the first two tries with words that contain these most popular letters:

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• If you start with NOTES, ACRID
• If you start with RESIN, LOATH
• If you start with TARES, CHINO
• If you start with SENOR, DUCAT

I've begun to start them all using resin/loath, then it has taken me two more guesses to correctly identify the word. It's been fun! A couple days ago, I would have gotten "point" in 3 tries except I guessed "joint" incorrectly first!