Didn’t have my shit together today.
Daily Quordle 422
This one was stressful.
Daily Quordle 422
Daily Quordle 422
Start Words: STORE and LAUGH
Started with: COUNT RAISE
Daily Quordle 423
It’s all about to start word
Daily Quordle 423
Starters- ABIDE and SOUTH
Daily Quordle 423
Daily Quordle 423
Start Words: STARE + CLOUD
By the hair of my chinny chin chin.
Started with WAIST and COUGH.
Daily Quordle 423
Daily Quordle 424
Starting words: plant score
Not sure I’m fully understanding how this is supposed to work. It seems like the best strategy is to spend three guesses checking 15 different letters, and then solving all four with a couple guesses to spare.
How do you judge what’s “good” in terms of how you did? The average number of guesses of your four words? How quickly you get your first word? How long it takes to get all four?
Clearly there is no hard mode concept here, which makes it feel like it’s all about your openers. Which letters you choose and how many words you choose to have in your opening. Much moreso than traditional Wordle, at least, where a good chunk of my strategy is based on avoiding traps.
Yeah, after struggling out of the gate, this certainly seems to be the case. I made the initial mistake of picking a starting word and trying to solve the first word based on that and then moving on. This is a bad tactic.
Seems like picking two words with 5 different letters to start is the best balance between process of elimination and keeping enough turns in your back pocket to complete the puzzle.
Skimming through the thread to get a feel for this, I think it’s clear that a “perfect” game would be 3456. In any order, obviously.
Also, I’m not sure why the convention here isn’t to list out all your guesses. It would only be slightly more work than in the standard Wordle thread. It’s not like you use different words in the different puzzles; instead of listing up to six words in the wordle thread, here you’d be listing up to nine words. Doesn’t seem onerous to me.
Anyway, I think I’m going to start playing this on the regular with three openers, aiming for a 4567. Not sure how long it will hold my interest, but I’m interested now.
Turns out I need to slightly modify the program I wrote to generate openers because the 15 letters I want to use ends up spitting out more options than the textbox can hold. (Surprisingly.) I’ll just dump it to a text file instead.
Starting with NOISE and LAUGH
Daily Quordle 424
I play in hard mode, though with four words it’s not quite the same, as the word I pick to solve one section will likely duplicate in another….
Daily Quordle 424
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Looking at your current puzzle, it appears that you did hard mode in the bottom right until solved, then bottom left until solved, but then after the bottom two were solved you broke hard mode rules with both top puzzles, top left with guess 6, top right with guess 7.
(Quite the impressive run-on sentence if I do say so myself.)
How do you choose which puzzle to apply hard mode rules to? I’m genuinely curious because I try to abide by hard mode rules in regular Wordle despite not playing in actual hard mode. I’m open to doing something similar here, but I honestly don’t understand how.
No, looking at the puzzle, the sequence was that I tried the upper right on turn 6 and missed on three new letters (but got one), and then switched to the upper left to finish, and then back to the upper right.
Here are words five and six:
BROTH
VAPOR
As for process, I’m looking each turn at which of the four puzzles presents me with the fewest optional words to plug in, which means that I do move around the page.
Daily Quordle 424
I play in “hard mode” with whatever word I’m working on at the time. I’m guessing it would be impossible to play the entire puzzle in hard mode overall since it most often contains many of the same letters but in different arrangements.
Ah, that’s the piece of the puzzle I wasn’t getting.
Saturday, March 25th
Daily Quordle 425
CHAMP
TENDS
GLORY
THESE (top right)
LEASE (bottom left)
ABOVE
AWOKE (top left)
DITTO (bottom right)
That stupid above/awoke trap cost me my 7. I want to say the three-word opener made the 8 easy, and technically it did, but boy was ditto tough to see. Overall not a bad first go using this method.
I actually ended up with 61 different “common word” openers covering my 15 chosen letters, so I have plenty of options to rotate through:
A E O Y C D G H L M N P R S T
I’ve grown very comfortable leaving I and U unchecked; they fill in by inference easily enough once the other vowels are eliminated.
EDIT: On reflection, I was getting an 8 no matter what. If I had correctly guessed awoke without first trying above, I would have 100% guessed doubt before ditto.
Daily Quordle 424
Today was not my day. And I made a stupid error on the 4th word by not putting a letter where I knew it was supposed to be. At least I didn’t fail!
Start Words: STARE + CLOUD
Guesses in Solve Order:
Cough
Couch
Broth
Manor
Apron
Thief
Tithe
Putting in my guess words now…thanks to the suggestion by @EllisDee.