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Title: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on January 27, 2022, 11:48:42 PM
Anyone else been doing these? I've not been spamming them across Twitter, but I think they're enjoyable enough little puzzles - I've not failed one yet, and I think it's a bit random how "well" one does, but I do quite like things that make me think through my own vocabulary a bit.

In case anyone hasn't come across it, it's a word guessing game based at:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

They post one puzzle a day, you guess a word, it gives green (right letter and place), yellow (right letter wrong place), and black (wrong letter) designations, you get up to six guesses. I think I once had to use all six, mostly I'm getting them in about four.

Today's I managed in three due mainly to luck (it gives you a little readout to show your guess pattern, but not what your words were so as not to give the game away):

Wordle 223 3/6

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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Spritelady on January 28, 2022, 07:48:20 PM
I hadn't actually tried one until today though I had seen a lot of people posting about them.

I was quite pleased with three guesses though, yes, I do think there's a certain degree of luck involved!

Wordle 223 3/6

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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on January 28, 2022, 11:51:06 PM
Today's took four, which I think is more average:

Wordle 224 4/6

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⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on January 31, 2022, 10:39:37 AM
Another four:

Wordle 226 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
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My guess distribution is now zero ones, one two, two threes, nine fours, three fives and a six, so four seems to be very heavily the average here.
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Spritelady on January 31, 2022, 05:41:19 PM
Wordle 226 2/6

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I forgot to do yesterday's one, but today went well!
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on January 31, 2022, 09:19:40 PM
Oh that's impressive :) Also, wait, how did you get it to do it with white boxes, it always gives me black from the automatic readout?
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Spritelady on January 31, 2022, 10:55:05 PM
I'm not sure, it just seems to do that when I click share and it copies the pattern for me to paste
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on February 01, 2022, 04:57:20 PM
Aha - I'm getting dark boxes because I was using it in dark mode :)

Here's today's:

Wordle 227 4/6

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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Spritelady on February 02, 2022, 02:50:18 PM
Here's today's!

Wordle 228 4/6

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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on February 03, 2022, 12:19:56 AM
Had a couple of threes in recent days :) Though four guesses remains the norm by a mile.

Wordle 229 3/6

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What I actually guessed (conveniently, unlike other social media, we have the joys of spoiler tags here so we can share without spoilering people who've not done it yet:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I feel like playing Wildermyth might've put me in an agrarian mood.
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Spritelady on February 03, 2022, 11:10:32 AM
Here's mine! Three and two seem to be my most common number of guesses so far but that may just be luck!

Wordle 229 2/6

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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on February 03, 2022, 11:30:38 AM
I wonder if I partly overthink these things - like, I'll take strategic guesses to try and work out letter positioning rather than jumping straight for the most likely answer - which then reliably gets fours but rarely shoots for twos.
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Spritelady on February 04, 2022, 08:52:41 PM
Wordle 230 3/6

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Three guesses today!
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on February 04, 2022, 10:01:31 PM
Another four for me:

Wordle 230 4/6

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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: pinky on February 05, 2022, 09:54:29 PM
Wordle 231 6/6

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⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩
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T_T;;
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: pinky on February 05, 2022, 10:36:14 PM
Status: playing wordle
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on February 05, 2022, 11:22:48 PM
Yeah, I found 231 tricky too.

Wordle 231 5/6

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⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
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Then another four for today's, rescued it a bit after a really bad start:

Wordle 232 4/6

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Edit 08/02: I have also discovered that Lordle of the Rings exists, with its word set being every five letter word in the trilogy: https://digitaltolkien.github.io/vue-wordle/

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Lordle of the Rings #39

Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Spritelady on February 08, 2022, 10:06:39 PM
Wordle 234 4/6

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Not too bad today! Definitely going to have to give Lordle of the Rings a go!
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on February 11, 2022, 12:33:17 PM
Did not do well at today's :(

Wordle 237 6/6

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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on February 17, 2022, 11:25:54 PM
Been continuing to do horribly, keep getting fives and sixes of late.

Wordle 244 6/6

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🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on February 24, 2022, 11:08:21 PM
Rare to get two guesses with no letters (and then only one on the third!)

Wordle 251 4/6

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Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on March 19, 2022, 11:04:53 AM
Another rarity - got it in two!

Wordle 273 2/6

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Details:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Wordles
Post by: Jubal on April 19, 2023, 11:10:16 PM
Wordle 669 3/6

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Symmetry!