The great WORDLE topic (Part 1)

Bite me, no wait, way to go, good job.

I used my first 4 tries eliminating letters and then I got hung up guessing one word and forgot to leave enough guesses for the last word.

Hopefully I do better tomorrow.

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Oooh, fun!

Daily Octordle #39
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I solved my first “croword” puzzle today. On the 7th try, iirc.
I think I ended up giving up the first 2 times I tried.
That puzzle is some serious next level thinking! Fun, though!

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See comment above.

It is fun but I wonder what words they’re going to have to come up with using 8 times as many 5 letter words daily.

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I feel like today’s Worldle would only be solvable with a map for most people, and, even then, I didn’t get it because my globe labeled it differently.

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Its italy with the boot removed

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Yeah, I honestly thought for a moment that it was a negative image glitch, before I realized it had to be an atol.

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There have been a few times where they’ve been random islands. Not having a sense of scale doesnt help, plus the orientation makes a huge difference.

Diego Garcia

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I got it only because I started with the Marshall Islands then went to the Maldives, which led me to DiegoGarcia.

Not as easy as yesterday’s Panama.

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Woo hoo!
Wordle 259 2/6

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Daily Quordle #40
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Nice! I thought I had a chance, too, but guessed wrong. Wordle 259 3/6

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Daily Quordle #40
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Seems a fine start to the day!

Speaking of word games, does anyone else here play Spelling Bee? I’m hooked.

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Slow process of eliminating words.

Wordle 259 6/6

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Nice one, and here I was happy with my lucky 2nd and 3rd guesses.

Wordle 259 3/6

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That was my rough route as well, but my globe labels it as “Chagos Arch,” which didn’t come up, and then Diego Garcia in tiny letters, which for some reason I missed when typing in because my brain somehow ignored the parentheses after “British Indian Ocean Territory.”

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Wordle 259 3/6

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Nice job, @anon87143080!

Daily Quordle #40
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I did, and was hooked, until Wordle and Quordle came along. I just don’t have time for all of it, and the ordles seem more interesting. I’ve been sometimes feeling a little guilty for being fickle and untrue to Spelling Bee…

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That’s what the alarm clock is for!!!

JK. I know how you feel. Now with croword in the mix I’m starting to feel like I might be on the edge of going too far. Like when you go from “it’s okay as long as we don’t have more cats than people,” and then it becomes, “well, as long as we don’t have twice as many cats as people,” and then there just are no rules.
I think my saving grace is that I kind of rush through all of them while having a cup of coffee. Mr. Linkey has to set a timer or he’ll fret over just Quordle for 20 minutes :laughing:

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Wordle 259 4/6

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Probably could have got it in 3 if i’d guessed differently, but I’m not too upset. Four guesses is by far my most common result. :woman_shrugging:

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Wordle in three today but Quordle…

I got hung up on the bottom right, I guessed poorly. Who knew there were that many words with that combination. I started out so good

Daily Quordle #40
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