Trouble with Octordle is you can't see them all at once. Though I think these things get easier the more words you have, because each try potentially informs them all. I'm curious why they use a clock to show number of tries greater than ten - as if you're being slow!
I find the more words to solve, the more fun the puzzle. It gets easier, in that once you've done two starter words, there is usually one word that is straightforward to work out from that, which in turn informs the other words. So, in theory, you should often be able to solve it in ten tries, but it needs a lot of patience and forethought! All too easy (for me at least) when flipping between words, to think of a word that fits and just type it in, without considering if there may be other words that fit, and waiting till there is only one possible word. Also easy, with all the switching, and long columns, to fail to notice one of the letters, or put a letter in a space which has previously been ruled out.
I'm experimenting now with trying patience and forethought, forcing myself to do it this way, and I have seven of the words in nine tries, and the last one is harder and is requiring a lot of patience!
Yes, it's possible in ten. Not always, but certainly sometimes. There were a few where I almost got in ten, but I made a careless error, so it would have been possible with more focus, and finally I kept my focus and patience.
So, in theory, you should often be able to solve it in ten tries, but it needs a lot of patience and forethought!
I've got 10 sometimes, but I think "often" is a bit strong. I usually find that my first two guesses still leave multiple options for the third row, and to get 10, you have to hit every one after that.
I've got 10 sometimes, but I think "often" is a bit strong. I usually find that my first two guesses still leave multiple options for the third row, and to get 10, you have to hit every one after that.
I find more often than not that I can get a word after my two starters, and I can fairly often get all words straight off after that, except I will easily make a careless mistake, which stops it being 10. Hence I think, for me at least, the main obstacle is not chance but focus and patience.
For those who thought Octordle was getting a bit silly, check out Sedecordle - sixteen words to solve! I quite like Octordle, but Sedecordle is properly too much - you can't even see the full column of squares for an individual word! In theory, though, if it weren't for all the fiddliness and multitasking, I'd say it should be the easiest, because you have the greatest chance of your starter word(s) revealing one of the words, at least!
Didn't get an answer on guess 11 - didn't have enough constraints to work any of them out for certain, and guessed wrong. Guess 17 was a choice of two anagrams, and I guessed the right one.
I am an idiot. Having got the first three quarters of Quordle, I had yellow squares on the second and fourth letters in the final corner, but I was seeing them as correct, rather than right letter, wrong position.
For those who thought Octordle was getting a bit silly, check out Sedecordle - sixteen words to solve!
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yeah, it's surprisingly easy to lose your place on this one. This is also where a pen and paper come in handy so you can cross off irrelevant letters for various panels. The "visual keypad" is hopeless. And I picked the wrong anagrams.
So Wordle, Quordle, Octordle and now Sedecordle - that's 29 Wordles in one day
But you can have enough. I'm not doing all these every day.
I kind of hate to post this, after posting Sedecordle, but I was googling to see the maximum size of a wordle game, and came across this Reddit discussion about
Argh, Doublethink edited my comment after I did, so it returned to its half-saved self. I was trying to add a link and somehow the comment posted when I hadn't finished, so I edited to finish it, but now it is back to what it was. So I will continue here. The Reddit discussion is about kilordle, which is a thousand Wordles in a game, but you don't do a thousand tries, because the way it works (as you'll see if you read the discussion) is similar to online logic puzzles. Once you've got all the letters in the right place for a word, then that word is counted as solved - you don't have to physically search for the green letters and type in the word. So it's more about being strategic and seeing how few tries you can do it in. My first try was 77, but now I've done it again in 47. It doesn't take as long as you'd think, and is quite fun to play strategically. It's very different from playing Wordle.
That kilordle doesn't color the letters the same way wordle does. If there's a single 's' in a word, and you put two letter 's' in your guess, it colors them both.
That's okay, you were just too quick for me! I was rushing trying to edit it within the window anyway, so this way I could explain it in a new post without rushing. I have no idea how it posted when I hadn't finished it - I don't like that drop down link thing! It keeps changing and confusing me!
That kilordle doesn't color the letters the same way wordle does. If there's a single 's' in a word, and you put two letter 's' in your guess, it colors them both.
Yes, it's totally different from Wordle. The keyboard doesn't colour the used letters, plus it has a random extra u! But the way you play is different anyway. You're not looking to solve the shown words, but to come up with strategic words that will cover lots of words.
Kilordle in 177 guesses. You only have to get five letters in their correct columns, not necessarily on the same line, to score a hit. This way you can actually get rid of a batch without even seeing them. It didn't take that long, but it did become a bit mechanical by the end. The simpler ones have more of a fun element and you have to think more; it's too easy to type word patterns into Kilordle.
Kilordle in 177 guesses. You only have to get five letters in their correct columns, not necessarily on the same line, to score a hit. This way you can actually get rid of a batch without even seeing them. It didn't take that long, but it did become a bit mechanical by the end. The simpler ones have more of a fun element and you have to think more; it's too easy to type word patterns into Kilordle.
Yes, that is what I was trying to explain. Once you've got all the letters in the right place, it's counted as solved without you having to type them in all together. Same as online logic puzzles. So the challenge is more to think of words that use letters that cover a wide variety of words - to me that was the fun part, and required thought. You can get it in far fewer guesses than 177 if you play strategically. But if you are just solving the words they show you, then it will be boring and mechanical, and take more guesses.
Yes, that is what I was trying to explain. Once you've got all the letters in the right place, it's counted as solved without you having to type them in all together. Same as online logic puzzles. So the challenge is more to think of words that use letters that cover a wide variety of words - to me that was the fun part, and required thought. You can get it in far fewer guesses than 177 if you play strategically. But if you are just solving the words they show you, then it will be boring and mechanical, and take more guesses.
I twigged the "batch" idea fairly early on, but that's what became mechanical. It just wasn't fun. For me, anyway. I quite like figuring out the puzzle of an individual panel. Also the downside is that Kilordle doesn't give you the option of a physical keyboard, you have to actually click on the letters of the virtual one, and I normally use a physical keyboard as I can type more quickly that way (self-taught touch typing). Each to their own, I guess.
Yes, that is what I was trying to explain. Once you've got all the letters in the right place, it's counted as solved without you having to type them in all together. Same as online logic puzzles. So the challenge is more to think of words that use letters that cover a wide variety of words - to me that was the fun part, and required thought. You can get it in far fewer guesses than 177 if you play strategically. But if you are just solving the words they show you, then it will be boring and mechanical, and take more guesses.
I twigged the "batch" idea fairly early on, but that's what became mechanical. It just wasn't fun. For me, anyway. I quite like figuring out the puzzle of an individual panel. Also the downside is that Kilordle doesn't give you the option of a physical keyboard, you have to actually click on the letters of the virtual one, and I normally use a physical keyboard as I can type more quickly that way (self-taught touch typing). Each to their own, I guess.
Ah okay, fair enough. I'm a touch typer too, but I don't mind a screen keyboard for individual words, plus I was going fairly slowly anyway, as I was thinking and comparing which words would be the most strategic, so fast typing wouldn't have worked so well. I wonder if you might not have got the hang of how the strategy worked, because 177 is a very high score, but it sounds like you wouldn't have enjoyed the strategy anyway.
I'm the opposite, in that I soon got bored of Wordle, just solving individual words, and I guess I'm more interested in the statistics and logic behind these sorts of games, and exploring which letter combinations are most common. Though after playing Kilordle a couple of times, honing the strategy, now I wouldn't want to keep playing it - it's like a one-off thing, where you figure it out and it's interesting, but I don't think I could get my score much lower now.
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I think I'd have to be exceptionally lucky do do an octordle in less than 10.
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I can't help thinking that Octordle is, to paraphrase Monty Python, Getting A Bit Silly.
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I agree, but it hasn't stopped me spending half the afternoon playing successive rounds of it.
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I'm experimenting now with trying patience and forethought, forcing myself to do it this way, and I have seven of the words in nine tries, and the last one is harder and is requiring a lot of patience!
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I've got 10 sometimes, but I think "often" is a bit strong. I usually find that my first two guesses still leave multiple options for the third row, and to get 10, you have to hit every one after that.
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I find more often than not that I can get a word after my two starters, and I can fairly often get all words straight off after that, except I will easily make a careless mistake, which stops it being 10. Hence I think, for me at least, the main obstacle is not chance but focus and patience.
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Didn't get an answer on guess 11 - didn't have enough constraints to work any of them out for certain, and guessed wrong. Guess 17 was a choice of two anagrams, and I guessed the right one.
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yeah, it's surprisingly easy to lose your place on this one. This is also where a pen and paper come in handy so you can cross off irrelevant letters for various panels. The "visual keypad" is hopeless. And I picked the wrong anagrams.
So Wordle, Quordle, Octordle and now Sedecordle - that's 29 Wordles in one day
But you can have enough. I'm not doing all these every day.
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Yes, it's totally different from Wordle. The keyboard doesn't colour the used letters, plus it has a random extra u! But the way you play is different anyway. You're not looking to solve the shown words, but to come up with strategic words that will cover lots of words.
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Not my best day by any means!
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Yes, that is what I was trying to explain. Once you've got all the letters in the right place, it's counted as solved without you having to type them in all together. Same as online logic puzzles. So the challenge is more to think of words that use letters that cover a wide variety of words - to me that was the fun part, and required thought. You can get it in far fewer guesses than 177 if you play strategically. But if you are just solving the words they show you, then it will be boring and mechanical, and take more guesses.
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I twigged the "batch" idea fairly early on, but that's what became mechanical. It just wasn't fun. For me, anyway. I quite like figuring out the puzzle of an individual panel. Also the downside is that Kilordle doesn't give you the option of a physical keyboard, you have to actually click on the letters of the virtual one, and I normally use a physical keyboard as I can type more quickly that way (self-taught touch typing). Each to their own, I guess.
Ah okay, fair enough. I'm a touch typer too, but I don't mind a screen keyboard for individual words, plus I was going fairly slowly anyway, as I was thinking and comparing which words would be the most strategic, so fast typing wouldn't have worked so well. I wonder if you might not have got the hang of how the strategy worked, because 177 is a very high score, but it sounds like you wouldn't have enjoyed the strategy anyway.
I'm the opposite, in that I soon got bored of Wordle, just solving individual words, and I guess I'm more interested in the statistics and logic behind these sorts of games, and exploring which letter combinations are most common. Though after playing Kilordle a couple of times, honing the strategy, now I wouldn't want to keep playing it - it's like a one-off thing, where you figure it out and it's interesting, but I don't think I could get my score much lower now.