Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

Just did quordle for the first time. Was sweating a bit at the end but got over the line. Not a bad performance for an over caffeinated wet-brained old div with hangover. I found it much easier than today's semantle.

thats right xp

I find quordle really easy and octordle and secordle easier still as after 12 guesses or whatever you can usually work out what all the words are

Has anyone ever used ‘eared’ as a standalone adjective, without ‘dog-‘ or ‘long-‘ or something preceding it? Because fuck you fake Wordle.

from reading the eiki on taonte ching yesterday i know that 'dan' means long ears fyi

got nothing else

wiki of tao te ching that is but

The commentary about today's Quordle made me go check it out:

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I just solved an entire Octordle for the first time.

i don't tweet the score and while the tweeting is obviously what made it viral i don't really see any communal aspect to it bc no one seems to interact with each other's wordle tweets they just post them into the void. having said that a friend texts me his score every morning and it's such a trivial thing but it's brought us closer

― flopson, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 4:17 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, this is the weird thing about the social-media virality: Because there's also a (socially enforced) prohibition against spoilers, it's impossible to do anything more than just post the score. There have been days when I have wanted to talk about the word or how I solved it, and the fact that it's such a communal activity makes me think that others would be interested, but the only permissible way to do that is to wait until the next day, when it no longer feels relevant.

We post scores in a channel on my work Slack and people discuss spoilers in threads; seems to work fine in a closed group, not so fine in a cowboy free-for-all environment like Twitter

I lost interest in Wordle, but like flopson there was a period where a couple friends were also doing it and we would group chat about it, it was nice (xp)

I just tried Worldle for the first time--looks fun in general, though today's was dead easy

So in the two weeks I've been doing worldle there have been about 4 I've known straight off the bat, and 3 or 4 I haven't got so there is a big variation.

Islands are tough, I've found, despite them being the ones that don't have any straight (ish) lines.

yeah yesterday was an island and I was completely lost and guessing pacific islands at random

Today's was easy, possibly the most distinctive small country shape on the globe.

Often I don't "know" it but I have a vague recognition that at least leads me to the right continent/region and then I get it in a couple more guesses.

I could see it being impossible at times. Today's was funny because I've seen map representations of that country probably more times than any other I don't have a personal connection to

Often I don't "know" it but I have a vague recognition that at least leads me to the right continent/region and then I get it in a couple more guesses.

That was me today, I knew what part of the world it was but not which country.

This one's quite fun. Try and go as many rounds as possible without guessing the word (you have to stick with greens and use yellows and can't reuse incorrect letters already guessed)

https://lazyguyy.github.io/survivle/

today’s Heardle is so easy/famous/iconic, and yet it took me several skips. for some reason the answer was buried in my brain beneath “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover”.

The 1-second clip immediately triggered the artist for me, but then I played it again and it sounded less familiar, and I wondered why I'd had that initial thought. It took a couple of skips before I realized I'd been right all along.

seems to me that the octordle is actually easier than the quordle because of the extra guesses.

i've found that pretty much any quordle is solvable if you just burn your first 3 guesses on 15 common letters. i imagine octordle is even easier if you do that. but that's no fun.

I think these kind of games are more fun if you're not being too strategic about it. Just enter whatever 5 letter word pops into your mind and go from there. I was listening to the new Ghost album so started with 'devil'.

Yeah I saw some people trying to work out the best first guess and to me that takes the fun out of it

Finally missed one today, got the last 4 letters in 3 but guessed wrong on the first three times

same tbh

First guess, I just wing it too--maybe try to get an 'e' or 'a' in there.

same, had the last 4 letters on guess 3, but picked the wrong choice every damn time.

I immediately went into letter elimination mode and still had to guess in order to get it in 6

if your goal is to get some 2's then you're better off using different and arbitrary first guesses every day rather than sticking to one optimal one, a stopped clock is only right twice a day whereas a clock thats completely freaking out could be right more often. this is more fun than using something like RAISE to optimize getting it in 3 every time

Heardle is not exactly trying to make things difficult, its database seems to consist of 21st century smash hits only, but I’m still pleased I got my first one-go answer today.

Heardle annoyed me when I hit a few songs I only knew from the radio and they played the intro that I hadn't ever heard before (like the Ariana Grande one from several days ago).

I am planning a new game that just makes you guess Roger McGuinn songs

Byrdle

A game where you have to identify the species of faeces - Turdle

A game where you have go guess how many days the milk is past its use-by date - Curdle

No doubt these all actually exist

I am reliably informed there is one just for hockey player names and it is called Gordle

Would definitely play a game where you have to jump over a number of obstacles in order to discover the name of an American film producer whose illustrious Hollywood career was responsible for The Terminator, Aliens and Dante’s Peak among others

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so, today’s Worldle…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc

Haha I guessed right first try today! (For one of the quordle words, that is, but still) feeling like my luck is finally in

great synergy between Heardle and Wordle today

was playing the solution to Heardle and feeling inspired, I entered “shoes” in Wordle. that wasn’t it, but I did get it in two

Heardle's list of possible guesses continues to irritate me. They have zero Beyonce songs (yet several Destiny's Child songs?), zero Maroon 5 songs, zero Weezer songs... there is like no rhyme or reason as to what's in there.

zero Maroon 5 songs, zero Weezer songs... there is like no rhyme or reason as to what's in there.

I am planning a new game that just makes you guess Roger McGuinn songs

Byrdle

― jenny from the blockchain (Ye Mad Puffin)

I missed this at the time but there is a spinoff called Byrdle already, it is wordle for choral geeks and I love it.

There's definitely some Beyonce songs as Halo was the answer the other day xps

Huh, I searched for Beyonce and zero songs came up

Might have been the only one as looks like songs are removed from the song list once they've been the song of the day (yesterday's song no longer appears in the search for example)

two heardles in a row in the first second, i am a sad man

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It's funny how Worldle will jump from painfully obvious to virtually impossible. Like when it was brazil recently, I was like "come the fuck on." But then another recent one was BOUVET ISLAND, which I had never even heard of and basically just looks like a little, smooth, round bump.

today's was much more in the painfully obvious category

I'm usually not so good at this kind of stuff but somehow for a movie I saw once in the theatre years ago:

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