I definitely find this sort of target word harder than one with unusual combos. The fact that my usual first guess gave me three in position narrowed the problem but not the possibilities enough. Did debate making an impossible guess to get info about more letters. Even after my third guess it took luck. Feel lucky it didn’t take more guesses.
Got so bad I was putting in random combos that fit with the three letters in place which I knew without using the eleven letters I had eliminated. When I finally considered what turned out to be the correct fourth letter it was easy since I could only think of two possible first letters. That is a familiar enough word but one I can only imagine coming out of a British character’s mouth in a movie.
It's a common enough word to hear coming out of a British character's mouth in real life.
But uncommon enough for the average American anywhere other than screen or stage that even when I had all but the first letter correctly placed, it still took an embarrassingly long time for me to figure out that first letter.
and the oddity about the combo of wordle and quordle today.
Yes, that was very bizarre. I didn't want to mention it at the time for fear of spoilers, but for Wordle and Quordle to both use the same word on the same day was...just weird!
Yeah my mind insisted they wouldn't (I played one in the morning and one in the evening so though quordle was using the same word two days in a row) so I tried a slight variant instead of the right word
Walked away from it twice but then it occurred to me. I probably do better on the ones where it is hard to think of anything that works than those for which there are so many possibilities you risk running out of guesses.
Didn't help that I successfully spent the first three eliminating letters!
That's a tough call tactically: at what point do you start guessing two occurrences of one (or more) letters, as opposed to eliminating as many options as possible?
Didn't help that I successfully spent the first three eliminating letters!
That's a tough call tactically: at what point do you start guessing two occurrences of one (or more) letters, as opposed to eliminating as many options as possible?
Well, in Karl's case, he didn't have any correct letters
More generally, "hard mode" doesn't give you the choice - it forces you to make guesses that are compatible with what you already know.
Otherwise, I think you usually do best to pick a completely different set of letters on round 2 (unless you got 4 or 5 right on round 1). It's easily modelable, of course.
Didn't help that I successfully spent the first three eliminating letters!
That's a tough call tactically: at what point do you start guessing two occurrences of one (or more) letters, as opposed to eliminating as many options as possible?
When you've only got one vowel left you have to start assuming there's some doubling.
I needed one more guess for Quordle. I really thought my Guess #8 would be right for Lower Left....but I was wrong. So I decided to solve Lower Right instead.
I needed one more guess for Quordle. I really thought my Guess #8 would be right for Lower Left....but I was wrong. So I decided to solve Lower Right instead.
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I'm always amused by the different orders people do the same puzzle in.
I needed one more guess for Quordle. I really thought my Guess #8 would be right for Lower Left....but I was wrong. So I decided to solve Lower Right instead.
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I'm always amused by the different orders people do the same puzzle in.
Nothing too mysterious. My starter word had two hits (wrong locations) in the Upper Right. That was more hits than any of the other blocks, so it made sense to try to solve it first.
Unfortunately, I botched it badly. Still, by botching it, it made solving Upper Left easy. As I said, I thought Lower Left would be easy too, but I guessed wrong. I then had the choice: One guess left and, since I was ticked at Lower Left, I decided to solve Lower Right. Just to prove that, if I had one more guess, I would have had all of them.
My second guess was very lucky. With four correct letters locked in place on the second guess I wasn’t able to think of any alternative to the correct answer.
For those who like to try something different, I just discovered Quardle (not Quordle). It's like a crossword of four words, with two of them backwards. Took me a little bit of time to get used to how it works, but I solved it, and it was more straightforward than it initially seemed! Though the copy paste thing doesn't seem to show the symbols here as it does on FB, so is a bit meaningless.
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⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 249 4/6
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
quordle
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and the oddity about the combo of wordle and quordle today.
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
4 was a hail mary
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 250 6/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 250 5/6
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 250 5/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
agreed. I was lucky on my third guess which narrowed the possibilities down
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I was going to put that at guess 4, but then thought "nah - NYT is American: they won't chose this word!"
Wordle 250 5/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Same here!
Wordle 250 5/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I had better luck with Byrdle though:
Byrdle 44 2/6
⚪🟢⚪🟢⚪
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
Wordle 250 6/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Byrdle 44 5/6
⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
⚪🟡🟡⚪⚪
⚪🟢🟢⚪⚪
⚪🟢🟢⚪⚪
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
https://www.byrdle.net
Sad, sad, sad!
Nearly lost quordle today
69
48
Wordle 251 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 251 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 251 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Almost snap! (my yellow was the letter that goes in last place)
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
definitely felt like one people could have trouble with
nerdlegame 37 3/6
🟪🟪🟪⬛⬛🟪⬛🟩
🟪⬛🟪🟩🟪⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 251 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
1️⃣2️⃣⬛1️⃣1️⃣
2️⃣0️⃣⬛1️⃣3️⃣
1️⃣0️⃣⬛1️⃣4️⃣
1️⃣5️⃣⬛0️⃣4️⃣
1️⃣6️⃣⬛1️⃣7️⃣
1️⃣8️⃣⬛0️⃣9️⃣
0️⃣8️⃣⬛1️⃣9️⃣
0️⃣6️⃣⬛0️⃣5️⃣
sedecordle.com
#sedecordle
Wordle 251 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Didn't help that I successfully spent the first three eliminating letters!
Byrdle was marginally better:
Byrdle 45 4/6
⚪⚪⚪🟢⚪
🟡⚪⚪🟢⚪
⚪⚪🟡🟢⚪
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
Well, in Karl's case, he didn't have any correct letters
More generally, "hard mode" doesn't give you the choice - it forces you to make guesses that are compatible with what you already know.
Otherwise, I think you usually do best to pick a completely different set of letters on round 2 (unless you got 4 or 5 right on round 1). It's easily modelable, of course.
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I made sure that my first three words used up every possible vowel, so one of them had to be at least a partial hit
When you've only got one vowel left you have to start assuming there's some doubling.
7️⃣6️⃣
🟥9️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I needed one more guess for Quordle. I really thought my Guess #8 would be right for Lower Left....but I was wrong. So I decided to solve Lower Right instead.
Daily Quordle #32
3️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I'm always amused by the different orders people do the same puzzle in.
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
That was a toughie!
Nothing too mysterious. My starter word had two hits (wrong locations) in the Upper Right. That was more hits than any of the other blocks, so it made sense to try to solve it first.
Unfortunately, I botched it badly. Still, by botching it, it made solving Upper Left easy. As I said, I thought Lower Left would be easy too, but I guessed wrong. I then had the choice: One guess left and, since I was ticked at Lower Left, I decided to solve Lower Right. Just to prove that, if I had one more guess, I would have had all of them.
Daily Quordle #32
6️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I must say that eliminating more than half the alphabet with the first three guesses simplifies the task immensely.
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Lucky third guess - it could have been several.
Wordle 252 2/6
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Byrdle 46 3/6
🟡🟡⚪⚪🟡
🟡🟡⚪🟢⚪
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
Well, that's the best I've done on Byrdle for a while!
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟨⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Sedecordle in 19, which wasn't bad - just one guess that went wrong when there were two possibilities.
Daily Octordle #33
4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
🕚🔟
Daily Quordle #33
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
quordle.com
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
quordle.com
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
What the hell was that last word?!?!?
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My second guess was very lucky. With four correct letters locked in place on the second guess I wasn’t able to think of any alternative to the correct answer.
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Failed on quordle
Daily Quordle #33
3️⃣5️⃣
🟥8️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Method worked
Quardle SP 3 12/15 (28 pts.)
2️⃣⬛🟡🟡🟨⬛
3️⃣🟡🟢🟨⬛🟨
2️⃣🟡🟨🟡⬛🟩
4️⃣⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
4️⃣🟩🟢🟢🟢🟩
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