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Unlike some time sinks, Wordle is a great way to stay connected with people, because its the same for everyone. I can’t stop playing Wordle! by Bill Gates
I liked that letter-doubled words trip him up. This explains much about Microsoft, generally, but I suppose it also humanizes him to some degree, which I didn't think possible.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 3:52 PM on August 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 3:52 PM on August 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
LikeWordle is a collection of wordle-like games.
posted by aniola at 3:57 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by aniola at 3:57 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
Noordle: pasta shapes
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 4:02 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 4:02 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
I stopped playing at some point over the spring/summer. Up to then I was doing wordle, quordle, and sedequordle and then there was a weekend where I was busy and didn't do it and with all my streaks ended I didn't feel any need to start them up again. It's a fun game and doesn't take up too much time but for whatever reason I'm just done with them all.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 4:03 PM on August 30, 2022 [7 favorites]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 4:03 PM on August 30, 2022 [7 favorites]
I wish I could return to a time when I didn't have a daily flurry of wordle updates from friends and family every morning.
posted by forbiddencabinet at 4:11 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by forbiddencabinet at 4:11 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
Ironically, the last Wordle I failed to guess was IRONY.
posted by SPrintF at 4:19 PM on August 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by SPrintF at 4:19 PM on August 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
I use Wordle as a warmup for Squardle, my fav. The rhyme problem in Wordle spoils it for me.
posted by charlesminus at 4:26 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by charlesminus at 4:26 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
Wordle, Squardle, Redactle - I can never remember all those Pokemon characters.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:30 PM on August 30, 2022 [11 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:30 PM on August 30, 2022 [11 favorites]
Good post, but regarding the title I just wanted to note that MeFites who use screen readers have indicated this use of Unicode characters can cause accessibility issues for them. Just a friendly heads-up/reminder!
posted by biogeo at 4:38 PM on August 30, 2022 [8 favorites]
posted by biogeo at 4:38 PM on August 30, 2022 [8 favorites]
I liked that letter-doubled words trip him up. This explains much about Microsoft, generally, but I suppose it also humanizes him to some degree, which I didn't think possible.
It's also striking the he doesn't seem to realise that in the case where one has four correct letters IGHT it's possible to use some of the remaining guess to eliminate possible first letters e.g. FIRST. The puzzles don't restrict you to using already guessed letters.
It's also striking the he doesn't seem to realise that in the case where one has four correct letters IGHT it's possible to use some of the remaining guess to eliminate possible first letters e.g. FIRST. The puzzles don't restrict you to using already guessed letters.
The worst thing is when you have four of the five letters—IGHT for instance—and the answer could be LIGHT, TIGHT, FIGHT, SIGHT, RIGHT, and so on. It’s just a matter of luck whether you get the correct word before you run out of guesses. It’s especially frustrating when you’re doing Quordle or Octordle, because all you’re doing is just eliminating one letter with each guess. You’re not adding any new information for the other words.posted by roolya_boolya at 4:41 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Depends on whether you play hard mode, which requires you to use all your known letters in subsequent guesses.
posted by obfuscation at 4:54 PM on August 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by obfuscation at 4:54 PM on August 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
It’s amusing to learn that even the ultra-rich have their own wordle strategies and they’re just as wrong as everyone else’s.
Except mine, which is correct:
Wordle - SLATE
Quordle - SLATE CRONY and sometimes HUMID
posted by turbowombat at 4:56 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Except mine, which is correct:
Wordle - SLATE
Quordle - SLATE CRONY and sometimes HUMID
posted by turbowombat at 4:56 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
redactle is the One True Knockoff
This is terrible and I hate it and I might very well just play it daily.
posted by meese at 4:58 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
This is terrible and I hate it and I might very well just play it daily.
posted by meese at 4:58 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
I do have to point out that the squardle guy is semi-evil, his April 1 puzzle in particular ....
posted by mbo at 5:04 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by mbo at 5:04 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
SLATE CRONY? I go with TRIES DOULA on quordle and start with TRIES on wordle. And definitely hard mode.
I also really like Worldle Bc I learn something from that one. Laos is the most shaped-like-a-palm tree.
posted by janell at 5:10 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
I also really like Worldle Bc I learn something from that one. Laos is the most shaped-like-a-palm tree.
posted by janell at 5:10 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
Not long after I wake up, I grab my phone or laptop and solve Wordle...
And I bet I know which room he is in while he does it!
posted by TedW at 5:17 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
And I bet I know which room he is in while he does it!
posted by TedW at 5:17 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
And if he thought "tryst was hard, I wonder how he did with "nymph". Big Wordle fan, and have also worked Worldle, Duotrigordle (it seems to hit a sweet spot for me in the number of boards to solve) and Waffle into my daily routine.
posted by TedW at 5:23 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by TedW at 5:23 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
My wife and I start every day with wordle and end it with the NYT mini crossword
We’re separated by 82 miles. A podcast-and-a-half, is my joking way to explain my every-other-week journey north, out of my sturdy industrial town into my other home, in Iowa’s gorgeous driftless region.
I pick a different starter word every day. Going with the flow feels better than ADIEU every day.
We’ve noticed our guesses make little poems, sometimes.
REACT
RIVER
RHYME
We’ve played around with the variants, but the classics endure. I don’t think we’ve missed a day in over a year. Somehow feels right, given wordle’s origin story.
My favorite is when when one of us is stumped and the other shares a little clue.
posted by Caxton1476 at 5:29 PM on August 30, 2022 [6 favorites]
We’re separated by 82 miles. A podcast-and-a-half, is my joking way to explain my every-other-week journey north, out of my sturdy industrial town into my other home, in Iowa’s gorgeous driftless region.
I pick a different starter word every day. Going with the flow feels better than ADIEU every day.
We’ve noticed our guesses make little poems, sometimes.
REACT
RIVER
RHYME
We’ve played around with the variants, but the classics endure. I don’t think we’ve missed a day in over a year. Somehow feels right, given wordle’s origin story.
My favorite is when when one of us is stumped and the other shares a little clue.
posted by Caxton1476 at 5:29 PM on August 30, 2022 [6 favorites]
I see the public relations firm for Mr. Gates has decided to turn up the 'folksy charm' dial for a bit.
posted by MrVisible at 5:39 PM on August 30, 2022 [13 favorites]
posted by MrVisible at 5:39 PM on August 30, 2022 [13 favorites]
My wife and I have a friendly, encouraging, competition going with Wordle. Just a “did it in three” “did it in four” thing at the end of the day.
I like Wordle quite a bit, and have found all the newcomers to be unappealing. They all seem to trade on some sort of “regular Wordle isn’t hard enough for my big brain” attitude, at least that’s how they seem to me. Complication for the sake of complication. Wordle’s nice and simple. It does what it does and nothing more.
My biggest beef with Wordle is it allows plurals and past-tenses. That's its only real touch of evil.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:48 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
I like Wordle quite a bit, and have found all the newcomers to be unappealing. They all seem to trade on some sort of “regular Wordle isn’t hard enough for my big brain” attitude, at least that’s how they seem to me. Complication for the sake of complication. Wordle’s nice and simple. It does what it does and nothing more.
My biggest beef with Wordle is it allows plurals and past-tenses. That's its only real touch of evil.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:48 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
My biggest beef with Wordle is it allows plurals
Are you sure about that? Can you provide an example? I can't recall a plural noun used as a solution.
posted by SPrintF at 6:06 PM on August 30, 2022 [9 favorites]
Are you sure about that? Can you provide an example? I can't recall a plural noun used as a solution.
posted by SPrintF at 6:06 PM on August 30, 2022 [9 favorites]
It's funny to see the comments throwing shade at Bill Gates. I'm a millenial, and while I vaguely know of his ruthless reputation in his Microsoft era, I've really only known him as a philanthropist. Of course, I know you don't get to be a billionaire by being a good person, but he just seems relatively harmless compared to our current crop of tech overlords who are busy undermining democracy and enabling hate speech.
It just makes me think that in 20 years, gen alpha will see Zuck as some nerdy, benign philanthropist. :/
Anyway, thanks for reminding me to play Wordle! I've become very inconsistent recently.
posted by catcafe at 6:18 PM on August 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
It just makes me think that in 20 years, gen alpha will see Zuck as some nerdy, benign philanthropist. :/
Anyway, thanks for reminding me to play Wordle! I've become very inconsistent recently.
posted by catcafe at 6:18 PM on August 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
Duotrigordle, which I found through Metafilter, is the one that I'm addicted to.
Wordle is ruined for me. I think most people have favourite starter words that they use for every game. I always started with "alien". Then I added a second routine starter word, then a third, and finally a fourth.
I haven't lost a game since, but because my first four entries are always the same, most of the play is now effectively automated, and the fun is gone.
I use those four words as the starters in Duotrigordle, but since I'm playing on 36 boards simultaneously, there's still a challenge involved.
posted by bcarter3 at 6:21 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Wordle is ruined for me. I think most people have favourite starter words that they use for every game. I always started with "alien". Then I added a second routine starter word, then a third, and finally a fourth.
I haven't lost a game since, but because my first four entries are always the same, most of the play is now effectively automated, and the fun is gone.
I use those four words as the starters in Duotrigordle, but since I'm playing on 36 boards simultaneously, there's still a challenge involved.
posted by bcarter3 at 6:21 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Surely if you're going to do the multi-wordle thing sexaginta-quattuordle is the place to be ....
posted by mbo at 6:27 PM on August 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by mbo at 6:27 PM on August 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
I've scored just one ace.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 7:00 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 7:00 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
I never want to score a solution in one. If I do, that might be my last game
posted by Caxton1476 at 8:36 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Caxton1476 at 8:36 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Of course, I know you don't get to be a billionaire by being a good person, but he just seems relatively harmless compared to our current crop of tech overlords who are busy undermining democracy and enabling hate speech.
It's important to be precise when talking about Bill Gates and what he's done, since he's the focus of multiple misinformation campaigns by the right, who absolutely hate rich people only if they're not on their side.
But, Bill Gates was instrumental in limiting access to the COVID vaccines to poor nations in the early days of COVID (warning: New Republic, paywall after 3 articles in a month). He was also an early backer of commercialization of software and stridently against open source, and we really have no way of knowing what harm his ruthless treatment of Netscape did in the early days of the internet. His philanthropy in no way makes up for any of those things, and in the COVID case it may actually have made it worse.
See Behind the Bastards on Bill Gates, part one and part two. Although BtB is sometimes a bit libertarian in outlook, and I think it's a little hard on his behavior as he grew up and how he treated his (by all accounts doting) parents, a lot of teens had trouble growing up, even rich (somewhat spoiled?) ones.
As far as billionaires go, he is probably about average? He's no Warren Buffett or George Soros, but neither is he a Koch or Murdoch. I don't think he deserves his reputation as a tech visionary, which I believe came about due to a basic incuriosity among non-techies about tech things. He founded Microsoft, good enough! He was in Silicon Valley when microchips became big, and crucially, his school had access to computers at a time when that meant timeshare, when only a handful of kids in the whole world did. As a teen he was a member of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club in freaking 1976, which also counted among its members Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, among other early tech luminaries. That has to be counted as a huge factor in his success.
A direct line can be drawn between the access he had to that early mainframe and his membership in the Homebrew Computing Club to us reading about his Wordle addiction now.
posted by JHarris at 9:31 PM on August 30, 2022 [8 favorites]
It's important to be precise when talking about Bill Gates and what he's done, since he's the focus of multiple misinformation campaigns by the right, who absolutely hate rich people only if they're not on their side.
But, Bill Gates was instrumental in limiting access to the COVID vaccines to poor nations in the early days of COVID (warning: New Republic, paywall after 3 articles in a month). He was also an early backer of commercialization of software and stridently against open source, and we really have no way of knowing what harm his ruthless treatment of Netscape did in the early days of the internet. His philanthropy in no way makes up for any of those things, and in the COVID case it may actually have made it worse.
See Behind the Bastards on Bill Gates, part one and part two. Although BtB is sometimes a bit libertarian in outlook, and I think it's a little hard on his behavior as he grew up and how he treated his (by all accounts doting) parents, a lot of teens had trouble growing up, even rich (somewhat spoiled?) ones.
As far as billionaires go, he is probably about average? He's no Warren Buffett or George Soros, but neither is he a Koch or Murdoch. I don't think he deserves his reputation as a tech visionary, which I believe came about due to a basic incuriosity among non-techies about tech things. He founded Microsoft, good enough! He was in Silicon Valley when microchips became big, and crucially, his school had access to computers at a time when that meant timeshare, when only a handful of kids in the whole world did. As a teen he was a member of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club in freaking 1976, which also counted among its members Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, among other early tech luminaries. That has to be counted as a huge factor in his success.
A direct line can be drawn between the access he had to that early mainframe and his membership in the Homebrew Computing Club to us reading about his Wordle addiction now.
posted by JHarris at 9:31 PM on August 30, 2022 [8 favorites]
...could be LIGHT, TIGHT, FIGHT, SIGHT, RIGHT, and so on. It’s just a matter of luck whether you get the correct word before you run out of guesses.
No, that's when you guess FURLS, which pegs the first letter, and then you're guaranteed to get it on the next round. Or the one after that if it's MIGHT. Well, you're screwed if it's BIGHT....
posted by gurple at 10:25 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
No, that's when you guess FURLS, which pegs the first letter, and then you're guaranteed to get it on the next round. Or the one after that if it's MIGHT. Well, you're screwed if it's BIGHT....
posted by gurple at 10:25 PM on August 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Just to add, on the subject of Gates being relatively harmless: the man worked closely with Jeffrey Epstein even though Epstein’s atrocities had become a matter of public record. Epstein plead guilty to sexually trafficking a minor in 2008. Gates began partnering with him in 2011.
Given that Gates’s relationship with Epstein was all over headlines about his divorce a few months ago, it’s hard for me to look at this article and see it as anything other than a public relations push to whitewash his image back into that of a friendly philanthropic word-game-playing nerd next door.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 10:58 PM on August 30, 2022 [11 favorites]
Given that Gates’s relationship with Epstein was all over headlines about his divorce a few months ago, it’s hard for me to look at this article and see it as anything other than a public relations push to whitewash his image back into that of a friendly philanthropic word-game-playing nerd next door.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 10:58 PM on August 30, 2022 [11 favorites]
Yeah, the Gates-Epstein connection soured me on him permanently.
As far as Wordle goes, it’s cute to see the same vowel-heavy words like adieu being used. Some of us like to play for fun and amusement, rather than just grinding as hard as possible every time. I start with words like “squid” and “jazzy” and they work out just fine.
posted by Slinga at 11:06 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
As far as Wordle goes, it’s cute to see the same vowel-heavy words like adieu being used. Some of us like to play for fun and amusement, rather than just grinding as hard as possible every time. I start with words like “squid” and “jazzy” and they work out just fine.
posted by Slinga at 11:06 PM on August 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
I had actually forgotten about his associating with Epstein, but yeah.
posted by JHarris at 12:11 AM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 12:11 AM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
Plus allegations of sexual harassment at msft, turning a blind eye to sexual harassment at msft, and so on. But hey, he plays wordle.
It's also striking the he doesn't seem to realise that in the case where one has four correct letters IGHT it's possible to use some of the remaining guess to eliminate possible first letters e.g. FIRST.
It's funny that "hard" mode doesn't let you do this, because imo that's the most (only? 🙃) challenging/creative part of the game - thinking of ways to eliminate more possibilities than the number of guesses you have left.
posted by trig at 12:40 AM on August 31, 2022 [5 favorites]
It's also striking the he doesn't seem to realise that in the case where one has four correct letters IGHT it's possible to use some of the remaining guess to eliminate possible first letters e.g. FIRST.
It's funny that "hard" mode doesn't let you do this, because imo that's the most (only? 🙃) challenging/creative part of the game - thinking of ways to eliminate more possibilities than the number of guesses you have left.
posted by trig at 12:40 AM on August 31, 2022 [5 favorites]
This is a beautiful thread, juxtaposing Wordle strategies with a skewering of Bill Gates. OUIJA is my contribution to the former, and I always love spreading the word that Gates was one of the first to lock software behind DRM (but I'll probably need a cite on that).
What really got me was this:
Finally, I check my email to see how I stacked up against the friends and family who share my obsession.
Email??? He's telling us he emails his scores around, not texting them in a group chat like a normal person? This guy is a total fraud.
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 2:13 AM on August 31, 2022 [4 favorites]
What really got me was this:
Finally, I check my email to see how I stacked up against the friends and family who share my obsession.
Email??? He's telling us he emails his scores around, not texting them in a group chat like a normal person? This guy is a total fraud.
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 2:13 AM on August 31, 2022 [4 favorites]
Of the word games released in the post-Wordle explosion, I think my favorites are squareword and TwentyLetters.
I do go through Dordle, Quordle, Octordle, and Sedecordle earlier in the day. I save Wordle itself for a time when my wife is available because she likes to do it together. I play in a "hard mode"-esque style for each of the -ordles, where I only make a play if it would be a valid hard mode play for at least one of the words in the set.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 2:22 AM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
I do go through Dordle, Quordle, Octordle, and Sedecordle earlier in the day. I save Wordle itself for a time when my wife is available because she likes to do it together. I play in a "hard mode"-esque style for each of the -ordles, where I only make a play if it would be a valid hard mode play for at least one of the words in the set.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 2:22 AM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
Thank you, JHarris. These uncritical buy-ins for a billionaire's public image campaign always put me ill at ease. Gates is also stridently against teacher's unions. He's just as bad as Bezos or Musk, but just a bit more subtle.
posted by AlSweigart at 2:47 AM on August 31, 2022 [9 favorites]
posted by AlSweigart at 2:47 AM on August 31, 2022 [9 favorites]
Glad I finished the puzzle before revisiting the thread, lawrencium
posted by Caxton1476 at 4:32 AM on August 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Caxton1476 at 4:32 AM on August 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
The only wordle i ever missed was SHAPE. I had SHA_E and it could have been filled by D, K, L, M, P, R, or V. I had not thought about the trick where you write (e.g.) MILKY and PROVE to narrow it down :(
posted by cubeb at 7:45 AM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by cubeb at 7:45 AM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
As a teen he was a member of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club in freaking 1976
Gates wasn't a teenager in 1976.
his school had access to computers at a time when that meant timeshare, when only a handful of kids in the whole world did
I think too much is often made of Gates's early access to computers. I'm not sure what year he started college, but in 1972-73 many US universities had mainframe computers that students studying computer science could use.
Probably access to important people via family connections, and of course access to capital through a well-off family were much more important. Plus a willingness to break the law when it was advantageous.
posted by Umami Dearest at 7:47 AM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
Gates wasn't a teenager in 1976.
his school had access to computers at a time when that meant timeshare, when only a handful of kids in the whole world did
I think too much is often made of Gates's early access to computers. I'm not sure what year he started college, but in 1972-73 many US universities had mainframe computers that students studying computer science could use.
Probably access to important people via family connections, and of course access to capital through a well-off family were much more important. Plus a willingness to break the law when it was advantageous.
posted by Umami Dearest at 7:47 AM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
I always love spreading the word that Gates was one of the first to lock software behind DRM
Who called it a paywall when the word billgate was there for the taking?
posted by acb at 7:59 AM on August 31, 2022 [10 favorites]
Who called it a paywall when the word billgate was there for the taking?
posted by acb at 7:59 AM on August 31, 2022 [10 favorites]
My current obsession is Squaredle. It's more like Boggle than Wordle, which is weird, since I kind of hate Boggle. That's Squaredle with two Es. Now, Squardle is excellent, too, and of the Wordle-esques, I think it's the most fun once you get past the considerable slog of learning how it works. I love the little down and side arrows, and narrowing down, especially when I luck into arrows on the three-letter rows and columns. Also, the colors are good.
I forgot about Redactle! That is a fun one.
Semantle
Pimantle
and... perhaps best of all... The OG...
Guess my word
(Daily Alice is consistently heroic in Guess my word.)
posted by Don Pepino at 8:05 AM on August 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
I forgot about Redactle! That is a fun one.
Semantle
Pimantle
and... perhaps best of all... The OG...
Guess my word
(Daily Alice is consistently heroic in Guess my word.)
posted by Don Pepino at 8:05 AM on August 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
BTW, how weird is it that we're hearing about Bill Gates enjoying a computer thing that became extremely popular because it was entirely free and intended to stay that way?
posted by JHarris at 1:03 PM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 1:03 PM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
Guess My Word is the third thing I do every day (after NYT Mini and NYT Crossword, before Wordle and Spelling Bee.) I usually use a word from my Guess My Word guesses as my Wordle seed.
posted by Daily Alice at 1:32 PM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Daily Alice at 1:32 PM on August 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
When I got kilordle in 36 I felt like I achieved everything I needed to in the world multiverse. I'm.never going to do better than that. That was the last time I played
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 6:18 PM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 6:18 PM on August 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
My biggest beef with Wordle is it allows plurals
Are you sure about that? Can you provide an example? I can't recall a plural noun used as a solution.
posted by SPrintF at 6:06 PM on August 30 [8 favorites +] [!]
I always wanted to use this tag!
posted by Dotty at 5:25 AM on September 1, 2022 [2 favorites]
Are you sure about that? Can you provide an example? I can't recall a plural noun used as a solution.
posted by SPrintF at 6:06 PM on August 30 [8 favorites +] [!]
Hm...
Today, for instanceI always wanted to use this tag!
posted by Dotty at 5:25 AM on September 1, 2022 [2 favorites]
Yep, Dotty, you're right! I stand corrected.
posted by SPrintF at 5:55 AM on September 1, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by SPrintF at 5:55 AM on September 1, 2022 [2 favorites]
I moved from Squardle to Duotrigordle, but the thing I like about Squardle is that you can solve it without actually using the target words.
Just tried a sexaginta-quattuordle, and once you get all the letters out it doesn't seem as much of a challenge. I approached it very casually (stupid guesses) and still won with guesses to spare.
I didn't think it was as challenging as Duotrigordle.
Guess I'm off to try kilordle...
posted by MtDewd at 10:33 AM on September 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
Just tried a sexaginta-quattuordle, and once you get all the letters out it doesn't seem as much of a challenge. I approached it very casually (stupid guesses) and still won with guesses to spare.
I didn't think it was as challenging as Duotrigordle.
Guess I'm off to try kilordle...
posted by MtDewd at 10:33 AM on September 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
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