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  • Wrong guess so took 6 today on wordle
    Wordle 245 6/6

    🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜
    🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Ariel wrote: Β»
    [...] I've also tried some of the other NYT free games in their side menu, and Tiles and Letter Boxed are two I always look forward to.
    I've got a games subscription for the NYT, and one I occasionally play is Spelling Bee.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Star Wordle! Who knew!
  • Wordle 245 5/6

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
    🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜
    🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    Daily Quordle #26
    8️⃣7️⃣
    9️⃣4️⃣

    Not a great day today...

  • OK, this is starting to get a bit silly...

    Octordle
    πŸ•›πŸ• BRIEF - CURVE
    7️⃣9️⃣ WOULD - RIVER
    πŸ”ŸπŸ•š RUMBA - POPPY
    5️⃣4️⃣ YACHT - IDYLL
    octordle.com
    ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
    ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
    🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    🟨🟨🟨🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
    🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
    🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
    🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
    ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
    🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
    ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Piglet wrote: Β»
    Wordle 245 5/6

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Grrrr - changed a right to a wrong!

    But not in Byrdle!

    Byrdle 39 1/6

    🟒🟒🟒🟒🟒

    :grin:
  • Wordle 245 6/6

    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›
    πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›
    πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›
    πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Sweating bullets there
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    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!

    Daily Octordle #26
    9οΈβƒ£πŸ”Ÿ
    4️⃣5️⃣
    6️⃣7️⃣
    πŸ•š8️⃣
    octordle.com
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
    🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
    ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  • quordle
    57
    34

  • Daily Octordle #27
    8️⃣9️⃣
    5️⃣6️⃣
    πŸ”Ÿ4️⃣
    3️⃣7️⃣
    octordle.com

    I think I'd have to be exceptionally lucky do do an octordle in less than 10.
    Wordle 246 4/6

    ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
    🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
    ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Daily Quordle #27
    5️⃣8️⃣
    7️⃣3️⃣

    Probably should have been 7 - made a stupid guess.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Wordle 246 2/6

    🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩


    Best ever.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Gar and away my usual score is four, and after that three. Should logic enable me to do better in a regular basis or is it just luck after that?

    Wordle 246 4/6

    β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›
    β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›
    πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I did Wordle in 3 today - still to do Byrdle and Quordle.

    I can't help thinking that Octordle is, to paraphrase Monty Python, Getting A Bit Silly. :mrgreen:
  • Wordle 246 3/6

    β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›
    πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    My method worked again today, after a couple days of doing it the hard way.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: Β»
    I can't help thinking that Octordle is, to paraphrase Monty Python, Getting A Bit Silly. :mrgreen:

    I agree, but it hasn't stopped me spending half the afternoon playing successive rounds of it.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    Octordle
    7️⃣3️⃣
    5️⃣4️⃣
    8️⃣9️⃣
    πŸ”ŸπŸ•š
    octordle.com
    🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜(etc)
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    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!
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    The fours were really with me today!
    Wordle, Byrdle and Nerdle all in four.
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    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.

    Octordle
    8️⃣2️⃣ DROWN - DEVIL
    πŸ”Ÿ9️⃣ SLOOP - DRIER
    6️⃣7️⃣ STAGE - SCARY
    4️⃣5️⃣ FEIGN - REIGN
    octordle.com
    ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩
    🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜
    🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
    🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜
    🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

    ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
    🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
    🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  • fineline wrote: Β»
    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.

    Octordle
    3️⃣4️⃣ ALERT - MEDIA
    9οΈβƒ£πŸ”Ÿ NINNY - MAXIM
    5️⃣8️⃣ PLUCK - PEDAL
    6️⃣7️⃣ NASTY - MANGY
    octordle.com
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    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.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Three on Wordle today

    Wordle 247 3/6

    πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›
    β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    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!

    Daily #8
    0️⃣8️⃣⬛0️⃣9️⃣
    1️⃣2️⃣⬛1️⃣0️⃣
    1️⃣7️⃣⬛2️⃣1️⃣
    1️⃣6️⃣⬛1️⃣5️⃣
    1️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣3️⃣
    1️⃣8️⃣⬛0️⃣7️⃣
    0️⃣5️⃣⬛1️⃣9️⃣
    0️⃣3️⃣⬛2️⃣0️⃣
    sedecordle.com
    #sedecordle
  • DardaDarda Shipmate
    My first attempt at Wordle so quite pleased to have got it all, even if it took all 6 attempts!
    Wordle 247 6/6

    ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Wordle 247 3/6

    ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
    🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Byrdle 41 4/6

    🟑🟑βšͺβšͺβšͺ
    βšͺ🟑🟒βšͺβšͺ
    🟑βšͺ🟒🟒βšͺ
    🟒🟒🟒🟒🟒
    https://www.byrdle.net

    Today's Nerdle was very tricky!!!

    nerdlegame 33 4/6

    πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ⬛πŸŸͺπŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸͺ
    🟩🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›
    🟩🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  • fineline wrote: Β»
    For those who thought Octordle was getting a bit silly, check out Sedecordle

    I hate you so much! There goes my afternoon :wink:

    Daily #8
    1️⃣3️⃣⬛0️⃣3️⃣
    1️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣5️⃣
    0️⃣5️⃣⬛1️⃣8️⃣
    0️⃣6️⃣⬛0️⃣9️⃣
    0️⃣7️⃣⬛1️⃣2️⃣
    0️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣0️⃣
    1️⃣7️⃣⬛1️⃣6️⃣
    0️⃣8️⃣⬛1️⃣9️⃣
    sedecordle.com
    #sedecordle

    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.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Both Wordle and Byrdle in 3 today. I might have a go at Quordle after I've done the Grauniad crossword; I had a Quordle fail yesterday. :(
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    edited February 2022
    I like Worldle - β€˜tho I’m not very good at it!

    It’s a geography-guessing game that shows a silhouette of a country or territory and gives users six chances to work out the answer.

    πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬œβ¬œβ¬œβ†—οΈ
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨➑️
    πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŽ‰

    Spoiler alert, the link takes you to today’s answer.
  • Definitely a bit trickier on nerdle today
    nerdlegame 33 4/6

    β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ⬛
    🟩πŸŸͺ⬛⬛πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸ©β¬›
    πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩


    wordle on 5

    Quordle
    53
    87
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    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.

    Fail again. <brickwall>
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    fineline wrote: Β»
    For those who thought Octordle was getting a bit silly, check out Sedecordle - sixteen words to solve!

    Hee hee hee
    oh God
    aargh
    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 :sunglasses:

    But you can have enough. I'm not doing all these every day.
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    edited February 2022
    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

    (ETA fixed link, Doublethink, Temporary Hosting)
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    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.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    Sorry, I was trying to be helpful :(
  • 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.
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    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. :smile: 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!
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    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.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    Wordle 248 2/6

    🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Kilordle?!
    KILORDLE?!

    ...will look at this later...
  • DardaDarda Shipmate
    Wordle 248 3/6

    🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
    🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  • Wordle 248 3/6

    ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
    ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    looks like today was fairly easy
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    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.
  • Wordle 248 3/6

    πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨
    β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Got all the letters in 2, then just had to put them together.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I think Kilordle ought to be a place in County Tipperary. :mrgreen:
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    Yes, I was predisposed to like it for similar reasons πŸ˜†
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Wordle in three,
    Byrdle in six.
    Nerdle in five.

    Not my best day by any means!
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    96
    57 In Quordle.
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Ariel wrote: Β»
    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.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Wordle 249 6/6

    ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
    🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩
    🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Byrdle 43 3/6

    βšͺ🟑βšͺβšͺβšͺ
    🟑🟑βšͺ🟒βšͺ
    🟒🟒🟒🟒🟒

    Rubbish Wordle, not too bad Byrdle.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    fineline wrote: Β»
    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.
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Ariel wrote: Β»
    fineline wrote: Β»
    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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