Wordle - Query re different words on same day

[ajprice]

Out of Wordle and the other versions, the one I fail most is Octordle. I usually get a decent run between fails in Wordle, I get most Quordles and I haven't lost a Sedordle yet. Octordle is iffy though. It might be the number of rows to get all the boards working out as being less, it might be me, but I'm definitely more likely to fail an Octordle.

Wordle, 1 board, 6 rows
Quordle, 4 boards, 9 rows
Octordle, 8 boards, 13 rows
Sedordle, 16 boards, 21 rows

[ajprice]

James Gunn who does the films like The Suicide Squad does Wordle, and yesterday was a bad day

[Desiderata]

Really pissed off this morning.
I "discovered" Wordle 26 days ago and it has become part of my daily routine . I've been pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud of myself that I've got them all with an average of about 3.5...until today... my first failure ... what a kick in the guts ...not sure if I want to play anymore.

[48k]

Desiderata said:

Really pissed off this morning.
I "discovered" Wordle 26 days ago and it has become part of my daily routine . I've been pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud of myself that I've got them all with an average of about 3.5...until today... my first failure ... what a kick in the guts ...not sure if I want to play anymore.

That's a shame.

[Dave.]

Is it ironic that the answer is what you're feeling right now?

[Desiderata]

48k said:

Desiderata said:

Really pissed off this morning.
I "discovered" Wordle 26 days ago and it has become part of my daily routine . I've been pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud of myself that I've got them all with an average of about 3.5...until today... my first failure ... what a kick in the guts ...not sure if I want to play anymore.

That's a shame.

That's exactly the comment I got from Wordle when I failed... bds!
I had it down to a choice of two words on my last go, I did an eeny meeny and got the wrong one.

[Nimby]

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

[Desiderata]

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

I had 3 green on my first go then worked out I had at least twenty possibilities to choose from. Took three more goes to get the 4th green, so one guess left for the last which I got wrong.
I play it on the "hard" setting, don't know if I would have got it on the "easy" setting either though.

[ajprice]

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

Last line guess here too.



Why is the last letter left always the one that could be anything? I've had the same thing a few times now, I had a fail a few weeks ago (I think) when I had STO*E, that blank could make it store, stoke, stole, stove, stone... It annoyed me at the time and I can't remember which one was the right word now

[Turtle Shed]

Wordle is fun, but it's also frustrating under some circumstances.

Today a good ecample. Many would have gone green/grey/green/grey/green with their first guess, then it's just throwing darts at a board.

I got in five, could equally have been two.

[RacingPete]

Do you all play with hard mode on so you have to play previous letters that are in the word? If I get to two lines to go and there is possibility of 3 letters I just play a word with those 3 letters to make sure I get it. For example I played MOVED today

[ajprice]

RacingPete said:

Do you all play with hard mode on so you have to play previous letters that are in the word? If I get to two lines to go and there is possibility of 3 letters I just play a word with those 3 letters to make sure I get it. For example I played MOVED today

Yes I turned hard mode on, when I started playing Wordle I had no fails for a month, turned on hard mode and had a fail within a few days, and I like it that way.

[anonymous-user]

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

Same for me. I was confident I’d get it in 3 but there’s about 7 words that got the 4 letters I had (second to last one missing )

[yellowjack]

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

I got it OK. My two "openers" (OPINE and MAUVE) netted me three letters. By guess No 3 those three were in the right place, and I suppose I was lucky that guess No 4 was correct. I've had several attempts recently where I've only just got it with my last guess because there have been more possible answers than Wordle lines for a given partial answer.

I'm still annoyed that it breaks my "streak" on days when I can't access it. I know it's deliberate - to push people into opening the site every day - but it's annoying when I didn't get it wrong, I just didn't get to open the puzzle.

Chuffed to get Worldle in one guess the other day though. A country made up of loads of islands came up, and I slung PHILIPINES in as a guess, expecting to have to zero in on the answer somewhere more obscure, but right first time. I don't think that's happened since one of the big, obvious countries like Australia came up..

[ajprice]

yellowjack said:

Chuffed to get Worldle in one guess the other day though. A country made up of loads of islands came up, and I slung PHILIPINES in as a guess, expecting to have to zero in on the answer somewhere more obscure, but right first time. I don't think that's happened since one of the big, obvious countries like Australia came up..

I don't play Worldle but I saw a lot of stuff one day a few weeks ago when it was Monaco, and it's basically the shape of the track and docks

[Mr_J]

I was disappointed today because I got it in 3 guesses. I quite enjoy spending time over my morning coffee trying to get the answer. It was only when I sat there proud of myself that I realised I'd got lucky because there were a lot of potential answers.

It makes up for 35 days ago when my streak came to an end despite having 4 letters early on.

[Rh14n]

Not sure how many languages it's in but I have double the pain/pleasure doing it in Welsh as well - somehow more difficult as we have (despite popular belief) two extra vowels (W and Y) but fewer consonants (no Q, X, Z, K and V).

[FiF]

yellowjack said:

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

I got it OK. My two "openers" (OPINE and MAUVE) netted me three letters. By guess No 3 those three were in the right place, and I suppose I was lucky that guess No 4 was correct. I've had several attempts recently where I've only just got it with my last guess because there have been more possible answers than Wordle lines for a given partial answer.

I'm still annoyed that it breaks my "streak" on days when I can't access it. I know it's deliberate - to push people into opening the site every day - but it's annoying when I didn't get it wrong, I just didn't get to open the puzzle.

Chuffed to get Worldle in one guess the other day though. A country made up of loads of islands came up, and I slung PHILIPINES in as a guess, expecting to have to zero in on the answer somewhere more obscure, but right first time. I don't think that's happened since one of the big, obvious countries like Australia came up..

Lucky to get it in 4 today. Had letters 1,3,5 after two, so many options at that point.

Sometimes Worldle is difficult even cheating with a map.

[Alex@POD]

Desiderata said:

Really pissed off this morning.
I "discovered" Wordle 26 days ago and it has become part of my daily routine . I've been pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud of myself that I've got them all with an average of about 3.5...until today... my first failure ... what a kick in the guts ...not sure if I want to play anymore.

First fail in 81 days today... one of the classic ones where I can't think of another word it can possibly be until I find it's not that...

Failed Worldle too, I knew exactly where it was but could not remember what it was called. I've managed 18 on the first guess out of 57 attempts so far, can't complain.

[Hub]

A lucky 6 today, with another option left!

Heardle in one though