"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1)

Wordle 250 4/6

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Interested to see how you lot go with this one.

I feel like it’s getting a bit harder and I don’t mind at all.

Wordle 249 5/6

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Wordle went fine for me this morning. I had a 50% chance of getting it in three, but chose the wrong option so it took four. I can live with that. But quordle kicked my everlovin’ arse. :exploding_head: I had no idea there were so many possibilities for this configuration. If I had realized, I would have solved the other two in hopes that they would provide me with more clues. But each time I thought surely there could only be this one other possibility.

Bottom left:
Daily Quordle #30
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Quordle spoiler:

stout
scout
snout
spout
shout
And then I did. I shouted for a little bit afterwards. It took up all my guesses so the other two went unsolved.

Possible wordle/quordle spoiler:

I got the first one in two because it was the same as the wordle. Weird, right?

wordle:
Wordle 249 4/6
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adieu
tries
trope
trove

Wordle 249 4/6

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Thought I had it early and then ran into the “just keep plugging in multiple endings until one finally fits” wall.

Wordle 249 5/6

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THORN
TROLL
TROUT
TROPE
TROVE

Wordle 249

My results aren’t particularly interesting, but I too went for TROPE before I got to TROVE like many others.

Wordle 249 3/6*

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BEARD
GRIPE
TROVE

Weird !

My first ‘two’!!

Wordle 249 2/6*

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IRATE
TROVE

I had also thought of TROPE, but I just liked a ‘trove’ so much more than a ‘trope’. So I went with it. Lucky. :slight_smile:

My experience was very similar to @Fiendish_Astronaut’s.

Wordle 249 3/6

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STARE
TRIPE
TROVE

I was somewhat pleased with myself getting it in three, as it’s a less common word, but I see many others did just as well.

Wordle 249 4/6

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Grumble, grumble trope grumble grumble…

Share button not working again. That’s driving me nuts. Oh, and hard mode got turned off when I got redirected to the NYT.

ADIEU
MINTS
THERE
TROVE

Wordle 249 5/6 2/23/2022

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THORN → Good start, but some danger…
TROMP → Not TROOP/TROPE either. 6 letter spaces left to guess from 19 letters remaining…
TROUT → Not that… Oh, should I try the double letter now?
TROLL → 16 letters & 4 spaces. I would treasure some more guesses now… but wait…
TROVE

Tough one. Almost a victim of my early success

this is why I don’t like hard mode. Just test a bunch of other letters in guess 3. I don’t find it fun to have to decide “which of these 16 legal words left should I guess in the remaining 3 guesses?”

Yeah, I know. I was thinking I should put the R somewhere other than where it obviously went on guess 2, just to see if I gained more information that way (double letter or somesuch). But I could think of no fitting words.

However, if I had been thinking more clearly, I should have used TROPE instead of TROMP on 3, where I would have KOed either TROOP/TROMP or TROVE (or all 3) depending on the actual answer. I tend to shoot from the hip rather than analyze carefully, but hard mode does make some strategy worthwhile in the two letters left endgame.

Wait so these are not the actual game?



It is essentially the same game, but not the “official” version, and not what we discuss on this thread.

The NYT version gives everyone the same word each day. I’m guessing this app just throws up words at random. Still fun to play, but then we can’t compare notes here.

Sometimes I just enter weird words to see if they will be accepted and my second word bit me this time because while it gave me a lot of info there was no way it was going to be the actual word.

PANTO
TROCK…apparently it is a word, probably referring to “Timelord Rock” rather than a sock/troll as I had intended. But anyway this was an informative guess even if it will never actually be the word.
TROUT
SLIDE - there were so many choices and I was on my 4th guess so I’d try to use common yet unused letters.
TROVE

Wordle 250 5/6*

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STARE
COUPE
GLOVE
ELOPE
BLOKE

I wanted to try the eventual answer at four, but thought “Nah, they probably won’t include words like that” Lesson learned

Same! Doggone curve ball.

Wordle 249 5/6*

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