Octopus Overlords

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 7:39 pm this game is ok, but what's the point of this thread? there's really not much to discuss about it, other than 'how few turns i solved it' bragging

MHS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:40 am

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 7:39 pm this game is ok, but what's the point of this thread? there's really not much to discuss about it, other than 'how few turns i solved it' bragging

I like when people include their guesses, I find that interesting to see how people's minds work.

stessier wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:00 am Playing on Hard mode and was struggling to even find words after the third guess.

Wordle 208 5/6*

Spoiler:

ADIEU
AFTER
ASPEN
ALLEY
ABBEY

AWS260 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 8:09 am I love the fact that Wordle just one word a day. It gives me something to look forward to, but doesn't become a grind. Today's was hard.

Agreed.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:25 pm Wordle 208 6/6

Spoiler:

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:05 pm
Also: why not use a letter you know is in the word after your first guess in your 2nd and 3rd guesses? Just trying to suss out what other letters might be in the word?

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:56 am

MHS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:40 am

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 7:39 pm this game is ok, but what's the point of this thread? there's really not much to discuss about it, other than 'how few turns i solved it' bragging

I like when people include their guesses, I find that interesting to see how people's minds work.

This... Or how much better they work than mine.

Silly, maybe, but so what? Everyone is playing, it seems, and the obsession makes sense — not because the game is exceptional but because it’s exceptionally suited to the moment.

A lot of us are feeling A L O N E this season, even though the loneliness was supposed to end last spring. That variant after variant after variant insists on barging in to interrupt our return to normal engenders a sense of defeat — and exhaustion. About a year ago, “pandemic burnout” entered our vocabularies, and now we’ve stumbled upon the consummate burnout game.

But what if Wordle mutated into a much more confrontational, brain-burning trial? What if Wordle became evil? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Absurdle.

Absurdle is the invention of a designer who goes by the alias “qntm”. Consider it an alternative ruleset to Wordle – a game that sharpens the original premise into a horrific machiavellian scheme. The gambit is heady, but I’ll try to explain it the best I can.

Wordle is circled around a single word the player is trying to deduce by eliminating the letters on the board. Absurdle, on the other hand, never picks a specific answer, and instead pares down the list of potential solutions as little as possible with each entry.

So, for instance, if the player starts off with “PRUNE” Absurdle will identify a bucket of words composed of letters that do not appear in that five-letter combination and take refuge within it. Counter with “ADIEU” and the list gets smaller. The more guesses you make, the smaller the answer list gets, until a resolution is forced from the thick matrix of logic. The goal is to back Absurdle into a corner, where, through all of your guesses and potential letter arrangements, there is only one word in the dictionary that fits the algorithm that you and the game have created. Voila, you’ve beaten Absurdle at its own game.

coopasonic wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:53 pm These games have served to inform me that my vocabulary is inadequate.

stessier wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:17 pm Only bummer with Absurdle is if you use the same words, it follows the same path. By cool if it was randomized.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:20 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:17 pm Only bummer with Absurdle is if you use the same words, it follows the same path. By cool if it was randomized.

Do you mean it decides the word based on choices you make, so you are looking for a path to by eliminating letters, words?

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 1:20 pm