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[scriver]

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So I wrote in GRAME just because and who would have thought it was an actual word

[Aoi]

Wordle 237 6/6

Freakin'...

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Gave me one in the process...

[Criptfeind]

This is a little bit outside word/letter games, but since I saw this game here first I thought it'd be okay to post a little comment on it.

nerdlegame 19 3/6

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https://nerdlegame.com #nerdle

So this is a neat variant.

I've been enjoying this one more then wordle, probably because it's easier. Todays nerdle was a heck of a thing though and was funny enough I thought I'd mention it.

Spoiler: Todays Nerdle (click to show/hide)

nerdlegame 25 6/6

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https://nerdlegame.com

The second and final digit were the same and totally interchangeable since the rest of the equation cancels itself out so any number would work in the equation in that spot and I was forced to guess. Luckily there were few enough allowed numbers left that even if I used all my guesses (as I did) I'd be able to cycle though all the numbers allowed in the equation but it was pretty mean and a close thing!

[Aoi]

I've been doing my Nerdles without a calculator and it's been a bit of a headache for me... Wordle's much easier for me.

I'm kind of curious about your mode of attack though-- my third line is the same as yours, but the way I went about it, I'd run out of all rational combinations by the 5th attempt.

Spoiler: My guesses, with numbers. (click to show/hide)

[Criptfeind]

Sure.

Spoiler: my attempt (click to show/hide)

From what I can tell the difference is that because I got 2 correct numbers in the first attempt and moved towards attempting to place them instead of wringing out the possibilities I didn't eliminate all incorrect numbers on the second guess like you did, specifically I had the 4 still in my pool, and eliminating that was what took me an extra attempt. Your way is probably better overall, I don't tend to pay that close attention to efficiency this is the first time it's (almost) mattered so maybe I'll do so in the future.

I've been doing my Nerdles without a calculator and it's been a bit of a headache for me... Wordle's much easier for me.

I'm probably just bad with words . Well, not probably, I have dysgraphia, I am bad with words. So that might be why Wordle is so hard for me.

[Aoi]

Spoiler: my attempt (click to show/hide)

From what I can tell the difference is that because I got 2 correct numbers in the first attempt and moved towards attempting to place them instead of wringing out the possibilities I didn't eliminate all incorrect numbers on the second guess like you did, specifically I had the 4 still in my pool, and eliminating that was what took me an extra attempt. Your way is probably better overall, I don't tend to pay that close attention to efficiency this is the first time it's (almost) mattered so maybe I'll do so in the future.

Ooooh, you go for multiply/divide off the top? Interesting. I prefer adding, because... I have fingers!  (On a more serious note, I think determining the position of the equals sign acts as an indirect indicator of what kind of operations you're looking at-- a three digit answer is likely to include multiplication; a single digit, division. Two digits, addition/subtraction. I don't know if this is actually correct, but it feels right?)

I'm not too happy with the amount of slack I have in my second row (two zeroes, two multiply), but I didn't see a good way to make it more efficient without staring at it for far too long.

[Criptfeind]

I like to get the larger digits out of the way first since... I don't recall my exact reasoning for doing so. I think it was something to do with telling me the likely operations based on my access to large digits and the size of the answer. I guess getting the smaller ones can do so as well in some opposite fashion though probably . And this was just the first equation I could think of that gives access to 6 7 8 9.

I think you're probably generally right on the location of the equals sign being important. I don't know for sure but what you said makes sense to me!

[Aoi]

And this was just the first equation I could think of that gives access to 6 7 8 9.

98-67=31 if you'd rather use a minus instead of a divide, and test a 1 instead of a 2.

I suspect there's an actual 'best' answer to minimize the amount of waste in the second line, but it's utterly beyond me.

[Laterigrade]

There’s an app called Letterpress, which is a pretty good word game, although it’s two players against each other, which may not be to the people of this thread’s taste. It’s on both the Apple and the Google Play stores, I believe, and it’s free.

[scriver]

Wordle -- i fuckin hate dubble letters

[Uristides]

Wow, today's word really caught me off-guard

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"Y" as the second letter? What's this? And it isn't "DYING" or any other gerund form? Surely must be something of celtic origin then, some welsh loanword? No, wait, it could also be a latinized greek root. But what's it after all?

In the end I had to cheat in order to discover. Welp, it's just the name of one of the bands I've been listening to the most these past few months 🤦

Also, since we've started branching out to other games as the wordle hype dies down, I think this is the perfect thread to plug CodyCross. It's a crosswords variant for android(and I think iOS too, but not sure) and it's terribly addictive, it's also available on lots of languages so it's nice to use as study tool.

The only downside is that it has become kinda bloated throughout the years. I think the devs noticed that as fun as it was, it just wasn't very profitable as a product and didn't have(and IMO didn't need either) many avenues for expansion besides adding more puzzles. Now there are too many ads, distractions, and side-activities going on, but the core gameplay is still fine.

[scriver]

Fuck off that is not an English word >:(

[Mephansteras]

No, but the English language collects words the way the British museum collects artifacts.

[scriver]

Yah sure except that ain't one it has collected even

[Mobbstar]

Turns out the NYT changed the word rolls, so our offline-versions and clones do not match with the "official" wordle.

Fuck off that is not an English word

Out of curiosity, which version do you play?  I find the NYT ones for 14th and 15th to be on the normal level of difficulty, while the original one for 14th is objectively obscure.