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 ā€œcrowordā€ 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 theyā€™re going to have to come up with using 8 times as many 5 letter words daily.

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I feel like todayā€™s Worldle would only be solvable with a map for most people, and, even then, I didnā€™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 theyā€™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 yesterdayā€™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? Iā€™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 ā€œChagos Arch,ā€ which didnā€™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 ā€œBritish Indian Ocean Territory.ā€

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Wordle 259 3/6

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Nice job, @NukeML!

Daily Quordle #40
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I did, and was hooked, until Wordle and Quordle came along. I just donā€™t have time for all of it, and the ordles seem more interesting. Iā€™ve been sometimes feeling a little guilty for being fickle and untrue to Spelling Beeā€¦

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Thatā€™s what the alarm clock is for!!!

JK. I know how you feel. Now with croword in the mix Iā€™m starting to feel like I might be on the edge of going too far. Like when you go from ā€œitā€™s okay as long as we donā€™t have more cats than people,ā€ and then it becomes, ā€œwell, as long as we donā€™t have twice as many cats as people,ā€ 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 heā€™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 iā€™d guessed differently, but Iā€™m not too upset. Four guesses is by far my most common result. :woman_shrugging:

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Wordle in three today but Quordleā€¦

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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