WORDLE

[Letters]

just took a look at nerdle - f*****g hell that looks complicated

do you do the 6-character one or the 8-character one?

8. I didn't actually know there was a 6 character option. I got pretty lucky with my first guess today - it had 4 characters in the right place. That made the rest fairly easy.
It does take a bit of thinking about, I don't like it as much as Wordle but I'm doing it each day for now.

[Mac76]

the 6-character version is under settings as 'mini-Nerdle'

i might give that a go first before trying the bigger one ...

[Letters]

This is how I did it today:

 

32+46=78
10+48=58
50+48=98


The first row told me it was an addition between two 2 digit numbers which made a result which ended in 8
It couldn't be 1 and 7 because 7 isn't in the correct answer, same with 2 and 6 and 3 and 5. Could have been 4 and 4 or 0 and 8. (Could have been 9 and 9 but I couldn't make it work like that for reasons I now can't remember!)
Went with 0 and 8 and the second guess told me that 5 was in the wrong place - there's only one other place it could be and the rest was trivial

[Mac76]

ok, using addition is easy than using multiplication whiich is what they do in their example.

i guess i can try that

[Mac76]

ok, had a go using addition - i genuinely hadn't really clocked which numbers you used so was baciaslly guessing

nerdlegame 19 6/6

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- i was stuck with my original first line but even that gave me some clues

[Letters]

Today's was quite easy, it's not always going to be an addition. There was quite a hard one over the weekend which had a division in.
It's quite good fun, bit of a different way of thinking from Wordle but it's similar in that you can rule stuff out which gets you to the right answer.

[Mac76]

today's felt like a bit of a lottery once you had the core letters in place

Wordle 234 5/6

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[Letters]

I got a 4 but yeah, I know what you mean. And I'm annoyed I didn't get a 3, the word I tried 3rd is much less common than the one than the actual answer.
The Nerdle was the same today. I got most of the pieces in place and the final 2 were pure guesswork, there was no way to work it out.
I saw a geeky video about Wordle which went in to the theory of the optimal way to play it and...TL;DR - it's not possible to do better than an average of between 3 and 4 guesses. Even if you play optimally you can't get enough information to narrow it down to a single possible word in 3, so anything better than a 4 has an element of luck to it.

[Mac76]

I got a 4 but yeah, I know what you mean. And I'm annoyed I didn't get a 3, the word I tried 3rd is much less common than the one than the actual answer.
The Nerdle was the same today. I got most of the pieces in place and the final 2 were pure guesswork, there was no way to work it out.
I saw a geeky video about Wordle which went in to the theory of the optimal way to play it and...TL;DR - it's not possible to do better than an average of between 3 and 4 guesses. Even if you play optimally you can't get enough information to narrow it down to a single possible word in 3, so anything better than a 4 has an element of luck to it.

i was thinking that 1 or 2 was pure luck but 3 was (depending on the word in question) a bit more skilful, i think it does depend

[Letters]

I heard someone describe 4 as "par" and 3 as a "birdie". I reckon that's about right.
Often you get to something like:

XGGGG and the X could be multiple things like LIGHT, SIGHT, FIGHT etc. Then getting the right one is basically just luck.