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Daily Octordle #209




Score: 65

Daily Octordle #210




Score: 52

Daily Octordle #211




Score: 52

Daily Octordle #212




Score: 52

Daily Octordle #213




Score: 62

Daily Octordle #214




Score: 52

Daily Octordle #215





Daily Octordle #216




Score: 59

Daily Octordle #217




Score: 62

Daily Octordle #219




Score: 58

Daily Octordle #220




Score: 53

Daily Octordle #221




Score: 61

(out of town)

Daily Octordle #224





Daily Octordle #225




Score: 57

Daily Octordle #226




Score: 59

Daily Octordle #227




Score: 52

Daily Octordle #228




Score: 52

Daily Octordle #229




Score: 65

Daily Octordle #230




Score: 53

Daily Octordle #231




Score: 52

Daily Octordle #232




Score: 54

GAMER? I have 2 sons approaching 30. Too many of their friends are incessant online gamers

I see they added a new Octordle variant...

Daily Rescue Octordle #238




Score: 8
octordle.com

I love Octordle Rescue. It's my favorite. It's definitely winnable; it just takes more care and planning.

I initially assumed they were giving us randomly generated guesses. But after winning 11 of the 12 games I've played, I now think they are curating either the guesses or the answer words so that there is usually a good chance for a path to a win.

DBMiller wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 10:00 am I see they added a new Octordle variant...

Daily Rescue Octordle #238




Score: 8
octordle.com

mkmf wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:43 pm I love Octordle Rescue. It's my favorite. It's definitely winnable; it just takes more care and planning.

I initially assumed they were giving us randomly generated guesses. But after winning 11 of the 12 games I've played, I now think they are curating either the guesses or the answer words so that there is usually a good chance for a path to a win.

DBMiller wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 10:00 am I see they added a new Octordle variant...

Daily Rescue Octordle #238




Score: 8
octordle.com

Definitely a different take. I've gotten an eight every time so far, but I can see where you can get in trouble if you go after the wrong word.

DBMiller wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 1:40 pm

mkmf wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:43 pm I love Octordle Rescue. It's my favorite. It's definitely winnable; it just takes more care and planning.

I initially assumed they were giving us randomly generated guesses. But after winning 11 of the 12 games I've played, I now think they are curating either the guesses or the answer words so that there is usually a good chance for a path to a win.

Definitely a different take. I've gotten an eight every time so far, but I can see where you can get in trouble if you go after the wrong word.

Hmmm... Score of 8 whether I got it in 8 entries or 9. Must be how many you get, and doesn't take into account how few entries you need.

DBMiller wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 10:46 am
Hmmm... Score of 8 whether I got it in 8 entries or 9. Must be how many you get, and doesn't take into account how few entries you need.

I know what you mean. When I win without needing to use that extra ninth guess, it's cool. It would be nice for the stats page to keep track of it.

BTW, I'm leaning again to thinking that the given guesses are just random. If anything, maybe there is a filter on how few and how many unique letters are in the four guesses. There seems to be a sweet spot. Fewer than 12, it seems to get tricky. I haven't noticed a set with more than 15 unique letters, but I can imagine it would become harder as it approaches 20.

For fun I tried typing the Octordle rescue guesses into two Quordle daily practice games. The first one was solvable in 5; the second one in 4 (after using scratch paper to add in the info gleaned in game 1). So this leads me to think that the rescue answers maybe aren't matched with the rescue guesses to (usually) usually a path to a win after all.

@DBMiller
I noticed that Octordle Rescue is now giving folks an extra point for winning in 8 guesses. It shows up in the stats as having "9 successful words." That works for me. Thanks, Octordle!

mkmf wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:09 pm

DBMiller wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 10:46 am
Hmmm... Score of 8 whether I got it in 8 entries or 9. Must be how many you get, and doesn't take into account how few entries you need.

I know what you mean. When I win without needing to use that extra ninth guess, it's cool. It would be nice for the stats page to keep track of it.

Daily Rescue Octordle #253




Score: 9
octordle.com

Daily Octordle #273




Score: 52
octordle.com

Woohoo! New best ..

Daily Octordle #275




Score: 48
octordle.com

I just did yesterday's puzzle. Is femme now an English word? I always thought it was french

Inca wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:27 am I just did yesterday's puzzle. Is femme now an English word? I always thought it was french

I've seen femme used in English as a description of some lesbians. Haven't seen it in decades though, so either I don't get out much or it's fallen out of use. (Hope it's not offensive; I'm trusting that the wordle dictionary would not include it if it were.)

Daily Octordle #402




Score: 44

Took me forever, but I finally got a 9!

Cap'n Rick wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:08 am Daily Octordle #402
6️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 44

Took me forever, but I finally got a 9!

🥳🏆

Today's Octordle Rescue has an unique property.


The answers are gettable in order from #1 to #8

Hmm. I tried Wordlebot's new start-word TRACE on today's daily 0ctordle (#718) and scored a 50.

Daily Octordle #718




Score: 50

Holy crap...
Daily Octordle #746




Score: 44

DBMiller wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:59 am Holy crap...
Daily Octordle #746




Score: 44

Maybe I don't need to use my same three-word Wordle opener for Octordle...
Daily Octordle #746




Score: 60

hoover wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:32 pm Maybe I don't need to use my same three-word Wordle opener for Octordle...
Daily Octordle #746




Score: 60

I used to do that, but found it more of a challenge to get a low number than to almost always solve it after the first three eliminated many possibilities.

I currently start with one of SAINT/STAIN/SATIN, and if it's a complete swing and a miss, I try ROUGE/ROGUE. Today worked out and I made all the right guesses after that.