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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 14 Jan 2022 11:54

Does anyone else play it?

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 14 Jan 2022 12:15

I had to google it, Maggie, as I had never heard of it.

It could be fun but it could be addictive.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 14 Jan 2022 12:43

The glory is, you can only play it once every 12 hours :-D

Island

Island Report 14 Jan 2022 12:56

had to google.
It looks to be on similar lines to the games with coloured pegs - Mastermind? That was a while ago!

Got it in four words :-D Now I have to wait until 1.am :-\
That's a bit rubbish!

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 14 Jan 2022 14:42

Ah ... another thing to get hooked on.

It's like Lingo, which I found on TV one afternoon.

Makes a change from online jigsaws, for which I set myself target times for completion.

Caroline

Caroline Report 14 Jan 2022 15:27

Good thing is you don't have to pay for it and they're not harvesting your details!! Bad thing is American spelling :-)

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 14 Jan 2022 16:48

Only occasional American spelling!

SheilaSomerset

SheilaSomerset Report 15 Jan 2022 09:57

I've done it in 4 twice in a row, more luck than anything else probably. Have been doing number games on a free site recently so this made a change!

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 15 Jan 2022 11:26

I hadn't heard of this game until Maggie put up this thread. Tried it last night and didn't get it but just tried this morning and got it in 4. Glad you can play this game online because I don't have a smart phone so can't use apps.

Kath. x

JustGinnie

JustGinnie Report 15 Jan 2022 12:12

Yes I played it because of a post on fb and the 1st one I didn't get but tried again after seeing this thread ,have got the word in 5 both times.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 31 Jan 2022 09:18

As thought, this is addictive!

2 daughters, grandson and I are all hooked and usually 'play' early in the day and they share their scores.

My score has not been 100%, but now improved since I choose my starting word to contain at least 2 vowels.

Love the comments, when the game is completed, ranging from Phew, after many attempts to Magnificent, when I guessed in 2 words.

Grandson doesn't use 'correct' letters for his next word, but chooses different ones to eliminate them.
I tend to use correct letters in the following word.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 31 Jan 2022 10:23

I think the first word is the most important. :-D

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 31 Jan 2022 12:04

Anyone who enjoys codebreaker puzzles should be good at Wordle.

I'd heard of Wordle but not tried it until this morning. Got the word in 2.


Try these (but there are lots of online codebreaker sites) :
https://puzzles.takeabreak.co.uk/index-codebreaker.html

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 31 Jan 2022 16:08

Thank you (I think) Argyll Gran - another game to play! :-D

JustGinnie

JustGinnie Report 31 Jan 2022 19:26

There is a Wordle2 now with 6 letter words.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 1 Feb 2022 10:25

Wordle has just been sold to the New York Times for a 7 figure sum.

Hope they don't mess about with it!

Kath. x

SheilaSomerset

SheilaSomerset Report 1 Feb 2022 10:38

There's a site called 'East of the Web' which is primarily a writing site but has a load of word games. I enjoyed using it, but since the demise of the Flash plug-in, the games no longer work.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 1 Feb 2022 13:31

A family friend got yesterday's Wordle in 1.... wonder what the site's comment was for that ?

An element of luck for me this morning getting 4 correct letters in my starter word... and 2 of them being in the correct position.

Like Kath, I hope the site doesn't change too much.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 1 Feb 2022 14:28

I, by chance, got todays in 2 - apparently 'magnificent' :-D

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 1 Feb 2022 14:33

2 for me too, Maggie :-D

As long as I can reasonably keep up with the younger family members, they will hopefully think I'm not past it just yet ;-)