Word games (wordle, quordle, etc.)

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I enjoy wordle and quordle. Anyone else play them daily?

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.
www.nytimes.com

Quordle

Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.
www.quordle.com

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Wordle 489 4/6






I'm honestly not sure how I got that one in 4 guesses.

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Always happy to get a quordle solve in 7 guesses.
 
Wordle 492 5/6







Felt so sure I had the solution starting at guess #2. Oof.

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not terrible, not great.
 
I play wordley and wordle daily. Din' know about Quordle. Will try that. I dunno how the score your Win percentage... haven't lost yet, but they only gimme 95%



Here's Wordle -- Haven't lost there either, but still get less than 100%. Oh well. At least I got the bar chart.


AHA!! I think I figgered it out. Mebbe if you skip a day, you get dinged.
 
I tried playing it.

I must be a dummy.

It made NO sense to me and I like puzzles.
 
It's easypeasy if you start with the ETAOIN SHRLDU guy. That's the letter frequency in the Englitch language. So by your second guess on any of the words, you should use letters that are mostly in that listing.

Letters that you use that are no fargin good in any of the Quordle words get greyed out on all the words. Now you use the stiil "live" letters you got left on your best layout. In my case, I had "ARTS" with the R in the right place in the middle, so I wrote STARE <-- this wuz stoopit, and caused me to have to take another shot. (Stoopit becuz I moved the R from the right fargin (middle) place.
Or I'da got STRAW (correct answer) on the second try.
 
Goldhedge said:
I tried playing it.

I must be a dummy.

It made NO sense to me and I like puzzles.
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Goldie... to limit confusion: START with Wordle or Wordley.

They do one fargin word at a time, so you doan git distracted by the other words like in Quordle.

Start with an ETAOIN SHRDLU-heavy word, like "Shine" or "Rental" or "Heard" etc...

If your letters turn up yellow, they are in the word but in some other place than where you put 'em. If green <--you got a hit. Don't move that one. Rearrange any other yellows to different places, and add some letters that have not been grayed out.

One last note: As a beginner, Do Wordley first. Why? Becuz they tell you when you pick a letter if the letter is used twice. <-- They put a "2" on the letter.

Wordle is run by a rat bastid sumbitch. The word they had yestiddy was "MUMMY" <-- five measly letters, and three of them were M's. And they din' even hint about it. I got it on the fifth -- and last -- try.

Here's the Quordle solution:
SLIMY
TUNIC
TUMOR
STRAW

NEVER create a word with a letter you know is "out of court" (grayed). It is trash.

Fun game.
 
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Goldhedge said:
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It made NO sense to me and I like puzzles.
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Newmisty said:
Looks like alien language to me too. No clue what's going on there.
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Wordle: Enter a five letter word. When you hit enter to submit, any letters that you guessed that appear in the correct position will be highlighted in green. Any letters that exist in the solution word, but are in the incorrect position, are highlighted in yellow. Letters can repeat, but you don't get any color clue if it happens.

My solution for today's wordle:
SPELT
QUILT
ADULT
VAULT
FAULT

See my earlier post to see how the letters got highlighted.

Quordle: Same as wordle except you are solving four words at the same time.

@Unca Walt - these were my wordle stats at the end of September:

 
EXCELLENT record!

Mongo impressed.

I gotta know: What did they say when you hit the word on the first fargin guess? I know you get a "Magnificent" for two tries. Never hit one.

Oh... and you get a "Whew!" for using all the tries (as in "mummy") before you hit.
 
Honestly, I never noticed the feedback word before. Maybe I'll get supremely lucky again, though I suspect chances are better that I could get struck by lightning or win the lottery.
 
I think the odds are @125:1 on that deal.
 
Wordle 493 4/6






Whoa. Got it on 4 with mostly "negative clues".

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Missed the coin flip on guess #7. Oh well.
 
SPORE
DEITY
MANGA
SNOOP

I woulda got that fargin MANGA sooner... except I din' think they'd use that as a word (it is Japanese, like sushi or mazda. Any honest word putter-downer woulda used MANGO. Oh well... dinged us both a tad.

Wordle = FOGGY
Wordley = I forget, and you cannot go back to see yer answer.
 
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@Unca Walt - please don't post the solutions unless you wrap them in the spoiler bbcode. Wouldn't want to ruin it for folks who read the thread before trying to solve the puzzle(s) themselves.
 
OH JEEZ. Never thought of that... I am so fargin dumb sumtimes -- I wuz wonderin' why you put all your thingy's in pictures. (*sigh*) Bear wiv me, I am new to this planet and its ways.
 
When you solve the puzzles, you get a pop-up than includes buttons to "share" (wordle) or "copy" (quordle). Use them to copy your results to your device's clipboard. You can then paste the results (use Ctrl-V on PC, use paste icon on mobile) into a post here. That's what I'm doing.
 
I'll just lookit yours. Our numbers are pretty much in the same area. And I failed blocks in Kindergarten.
 
Is there an ultimate first word? Only played a few times. I am picking words with at least 3 vowels as first word. Arise seems to be a good starter. I am a horrible speller.
 
Chigg said:
Is there an ultimate first word? ...
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If you want vowels, adieu gets all but 'o'. I prefer to expose consonents. Only 5 letters in your 1st guess, so no starter word is going to be perfect. Sometimes it gives good info, sometimes not. But even misses give information so...

I have noticed that solutions are usually 5 letter words proper and never plural forms of four letter words (with a 's' tacked on).
 
Wordle 494 4/6






^ Felt good about guess #3, but no dice.

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Thought I had it on 7. Oh well.
 
Chigg said:
Is there an ultimate first word? Only played a few times. I am picking words with at least 3 vowels as first word. Arise seems to be a good starter. I am a horrible speller.
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Chigg: The frequency of use of the first 14 letters in all the words in the Engritch language in order:

ETAOIN SHRLDLU <-- Think of it as a guy's name.

That said, pmbug's point about consonants is correct. Turns out, I have found a sorta middle ground:

I frequently use PARTY <-- That has three of the first 14 commonest letters, two of which are near the top.

Moreover, it sorta has an extra halfway vowel, "Y" <-- I have noted they use it fairly regularly, and where it generally goes, so it comes up a freebie more than other letters.

This did not save me from not getting "MUMMY" until the last, desperate guess. <-- Them sneeky bastages.
 
two Ls in SHRLDLU???
I'm enjoying Quordle, only 3 days in but solved 2 of them in 5 and today's in 6...
 
Evl Bnkr said:
I'm enjoying Quordle, only 3 days in but solved 2 of them in 5 and today's in 6...
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That's awesome. I'm happy to solve a quordle puzzle in 7 guesses.

Wordle 495 5/6







That was very frustrating. I generally use the same starter word and alternate between one of two words for guess #2 if the starter word misses every letter. Today I chose the wrong secondary guess. Had I used my other secondary guess, I would have got this one on 3.

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Bottom right word vexed me. Well played quordle. Well played.
 
Triple letters is cheaty.
 
Wordle 496 3/6





^ Alright, alright, alright

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Missed the coin flip on guess #7.
 
Wordle 499 2/6




Hell yeah.

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Harrumph!
 
I got a mizzable score today on Quordle. Squeaked though.

4 6
7 8

Did better on the other two.
 
Wordle 500 5/6







Poop.

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That's better.
 
Wordle 501 2/6




Awww yeah!

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Missed the coin flip on guess #7. Win some, lose some.
 
Wordle 502 3/6




So, so close on guess #2.

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Slight hiccup on guess #5 (bottom right).
 
pmbug said:
Wordle 502 3/6




So, so close on guess #2.

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Slight hiccup on guess #5 (bottom right).
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What are the black boxes ...I still have no idea what I'm looking at. Sometimes I'm slower than a whitehead in an old caddy.
 
I think the colors might be different depending upon whether you are using a light or dark mode on your browser. I'm on a PC with light mode and I see:

white - letters that are not in the solution word
yellow - letters that are in the solution word, but not in the correct position
green - letters that are in the solution word, and in the correct position
black (quordle only) - word was already solved, so N/A
 
Wordle 503 3/6





Nice.

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Missed the coin flip on guess #7.
 
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