Quordle, for people who find Wordle to be too easy!

[chiliwillybing]

Weekly Quordle Challenge 35

RAISE
COUNT
SHOUT - 3
BEECH - 4
PERKY
JERKY - 6
FLUME - 7

[Robot_Arm]

@Balance

I can understand the frustration, but I think it arises from habits we’ve picked up from the other Wordle-likes, where “more letters matched” is really the only metric for a good guess. With Qwordle, “more letters matched” is good, but so is “fewer letters, but known to be in same/different word”. The optimal solution path involves some of both, while relying solely on “more letters” is a trap.

It leads to different strategies, like taking two letters from a batch of mixed matches and trying them together in a guess with deliberately rare letter combinations. If you can get two isolated letter matches in a guess, it will tell you for certain whether those letters are in the same word or different words–either of which can help more than, say, identifying one more letter out of 10 in the set.

Yeah, I can see that qwordle would require a slightly different strategy than wordle, et al. I’m not sure that finding that strategy interests me as much as the others. Perhaps it seems that it rewards luck a little too much. Match two letters that happen to be in the same word and it’s a big help, match two that are in different words and not so much.

[Robot_Arm]

Daily Quordle 759

CHEAT
ROUND
SLIMY
BRICK - 4
ASHEN - 5
METER - 6
GNOME - 7

I was a little worried to not have any green after the first two guesses, but it worked out.

[SeaSun]

Daily Quordle 758

SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
ELATE (4)
SWEAT
STEAK (6)
RADAR (7)
FOAMY (8)

Dumpy to the rescue again, for more than I expected! But I didn’t see Steak and was sure it was Sweat (after eliminating Stead and Steam).

[SeaSun]

Daily Sequence Quordle 758

SLATE
CHOIR
QUITE (3)
HILLY (4)
BOAST
TOAST (6)
STIFF
STINK
STING (9)

I was too quick to toss up Stiff without thinking it through…a sleuth word would have been better, but I just wasn’t thinking things through enough.

@chiliwillybing Congrats on your first 10! At least you didn’t fail…that G saved you.

[SeaSun]

Weekly Quordle Challenge 35

SLATE
CHOIR
SHOUT (3)
FLUKE
FLUME (5)
JERKY (6)
BENCH
BEECH (8)

Flume Another uncommon word, at least to me. I am aware of it, but I felt Fluke was more likely. Beech, on the other hand, is common enough, but I just resisted it and went for the more common Bench. That’ll teach me…don’t go with the most likely common words.

Good thing I didn’t see Perky…may have chosen that over Jerky too - lol.

[SeaSun]

@Robot_Arm

I’ve tried qwordle a few times now, but I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it.

Yeah, me either. I gave it a chance though, and I did enjoy a few of the games, but I’ve failed twice now and that’s just not fun. I might play it now and again though for something different, but I don’t feel the game is set up very well for success, at least not for the average person. Or maybe I’m below average…some of the games just hurt my brain. The playing field really is too wide open: British spellings, plural words, and maybe past tense words too, plus obscure connections, and uncommon or niche words I’d never know or get.

I thought I was playing the 2/21 game, but turned out to be past midnight…so this below is for 2/22’s game #785,

I failed this one. I’d never know the word Servo, much less connect it with Handy (still can’t figure out how they are connected). Handy was a more obtainable word, but I was getting too overwhelmed trying to figure out which letters went with which word, and I was trying to solve the S word mostly, so I just didn’t see it.

ETA - hope I didn’t spoil anyone…fixed now.

[chiliwillybing]

Daily Quordle 759

RAISE
CLOUT
BRICK - 3
THREW
METER - 5
ASHEN - 6
GNOME - 7

[chiliwillybing]

Daily Sequence Quordle 759

RAISE
OUTRE
THERE - 3
BAGEL
LABEL - 5
PLIER - 6
VIGOR - 7

[Robot_Arm]

Daily Quordle 760

CHEAT
ROUND
BORNE - 3
WHACK
SHACK - 5
STORE - 6
MINOR - 7

[SeaSun]

Daily Quordle 759

SLATE
CHOIR
ASHEN (3)
DUMPY
METER (5)
GNOME (6)
BRICK (7)

[SeaSun]

Daily Sequence Quordle 759

SLATE
CHOIR
THERE (3)
BAGEL
LABEL (5)
FLIER
PLIER (7)
VIGOR (8)

[chiliwillybing]

Daily Quordle 760

RAISE
CLOTH
STORE - 3
STACK - 4
FORGE
BORNE - 6
MINOR - 7

[chiliwillybing]

Daily Sequence Quordle 760

RAISE
SHOUT
BLING
DUSTY - 4
TILDE - 5
KNAVE - 6
CHILL
CHILI - 8
You’d think I’d guess chili right, but nope, I never do

[Robot_Arm]

Daily Quordle 761

CHEAT
ROUND
SLIMY
SCALE - 4
BLAST - 5
FLUNG - 6
FUZZY - 7

FLUNG could have also been PLUNK, but I got lucky, and that gave me the F for FUZZY.

I wonder if the double-Z will cause problems for anyone.

[SeaSun]

Daily Quordle 760

SLATE
CHOIR
STORE (3)
SHACK (4)
ROUGE
BORNE (6)
MINOR (7)

[SeaSun]

Daily Sequence Quordle 760

SLATE
CHOIR
MIDGY
DUSTY (4)
TILDE (5)
AWAKE
KNAVE (7)
CHILI (8)

Look who made a guest appearance!

MIDGY to sleuth out Musty, Dusty, Gusty. I could have done Midge too, as the Y had to go there, but I was curious if it’d take Midgy. I didn’t even see Knave and thought I had it with Awake. And then faced with Chill or Chili, I had to go with Chili.

[chiliwillybing]

@SeaSun

I had to go with Chili.

LOL

Daily Quordle 761

RAISE
COUNT
SCALE - 3
BLAST - 4
FLUNK
FLUNG - 6
FUZZY - 7

@Robot_Arm

FLUNG could have also been PLUNK

or flunk Fuzzy jumped right out at me, it’s very much a quordly word.

[chiliwillybing]

Daily Sequence Quordle 761

RAISE
TONED
FELON
ENJOY - 4
TREAT - 5
RALLY - 6
PROXY - 7

[SeaSun]

Daily Quordle 761

SLATE
BLAST (2)
SCALE (3)
FLUNK
FLUNG (5)
FURRY
FUZZY (7)

Livin’ life on the edge without Choir today. And got lucky with choosing the correct letters for the #3 word. Not so lucky with the 50/50, but I’ll happily take the 7.