Wordle

[TimmyTee]

My friend pointed out to me recently that I needed to go to the gear icon and select "hard" for the difficulty level. I did that. I don't find it harder, just peskier.

I've adopted the practice of using "yesterday's" word for my first word "today." That essentially eliminates my chance of ever getting a "One." It also has me using weird, unfortunate words as my first word. So I'm probably giving up perhaps a turn-and-a-half every day. I get skunked every now and again, but my streaks are usually in the low hundreds.

And I've selected the "hard"difficulty level.

[LLapp]

Wordle has been around a long time as a two-person game with pen and paper, each taking turns guessing the word chosen by the other one.

Rasbury - Late response, but I recall this paper version very well. It was called Jotto, or that's what my sister and I called it. We used to play it in the backseat on long car rides. I think it was my first fun exercise in deductive reasoning.

[skeeter]

My friend pointed out to me recently that I needed to go to the gear icon and select "hard" for the difficulty level. I did that. I don't find it harder, just peskier.

[hrossa]

Solving on the sixth try is, if course, whew!
I started keeping a spreadsheet of my Wordle stats because browser kept resetting (deleting cookies maybe, I may have set it that way). So NYT would start my stats over! Now I just update the spreadsheet.

[skeeter]

My friend and I exchange screen shots whenever we get the Wordle word on the second try. It's a fun way to start the day.

[2cute]

2cute, you can find it just by searching for Phrazle. I think there is more than one site that has it, but here is one: https://solitaired.com/phrazle

I've been enjoying it. Thanks again, LLapp.

Oh, so wordle in phrase form. Oooh, sounds tougher. Thanks skeeter.

[skeeter]

2cute, you can find it just by searching for Phrazle. I think there is more than one site that has it, but here is one: https://solitaired.com/phrazle

I've been enjoying it. Thanks again, LLapp.

[2cute]

Has anyone played my game, Squaredle? It's another daily word game, but it's more like Wordtwist than Wordle.

No, I haven't tried it. You created it? How unique. How is it like Wordtwist?

Could you provide a link?

[skeeter]

Ooooh, thanks. I'll go take a look.

[LLapp]

Skeeter, thanks for that recommendation. I just tried Quordle -- nice!! The simultaneous solve is fun at the 4-puzzle level.

I also recommend Phrazle, where you solve multiple words in a single phrase, with the added clue that the phrase will always be some common English idiom.

[skeeter]

Along with my daily Wordle, I've lately been enjoying Quordle.

[LLapp]

CarpeLanam - OMG

Edit some time later....

Okay, I tried both. The 64-wordle puzzle is actually fun! I wouldn't want to do it on my phone, though. My wide-screen computer monitor was perfect for seeing many simultaneous wordles in one scrolling view. It was kind of like working in air traffic control, monitoring many screens at once.

The 1,000-wordle puzzle was a bit much, though. For one thing, you never get to see the solved word! The individual puzzles just disappear from view as soon as they are solved, so it became a game of hitting every possible letter order and watching the unsolved-wordle count drop to zero. Not very satisfying.

Thanks for the links!

[CarpeLanam]

How about sexaginta-quattuordle - https://64ordle.au/ - I've really been enjoying it for a few months. 64 wordles at once, with pretty colored squares and hearts to track your progress.

Edited to add... Oh dear, I have just stumbled upon https://jonesnxt.github.io/kilordle/ It has, you guessed it, 1000 5-letter words.

[Squaredle]

Has anyone played my game, Squaredle? It's another daily word game, but it's more like Wordtwist than Wordle.

[2cute]

I wish I could quit Semantle - there's a point after about 150 guesses that it ceases to be fun. But I got my wife into it, so now we sort-of compete. I will quit Wordle once the win "streak" ends. It's funny that it got into the news because of its word-choice yesterday (fetus). People were going on about how triggered they were and how offensive it was. It's just a word. Now if they added some notable racial slurs, I'd understand. But it seems that taking offense to anything and everything has become our national pastime. So they changed the word. Really tough one, too. Not for number of guesses, but it took me 15 minutes just to come up with a third guess that fit the first two.

I was considering dusting off my handheld-OS skills and writing my own. I'd call it "Girdle" and it would be just like Wordle, only without the letters A, I, L, O and T. And if you guessed certain "offensive" words, it would pop up a snarky message and threaten to report you to the government.

Yep, overdramatization seems to not be going away. What really irritates me is when they do that w/the weather. The weather doesn't need to be dramatic. Just report it. Then they wonder why people don't listen to evacuation orders. If they just stuck to the facts & stop trying to make it more exciting I think that would be best.