Pretty much.

Wordle by Tomash on 2022-01-25 15:25:23 UTC Reply

Since people might not have stumbled on it yet and it seems like a thing Boarders would like, have a link to Wordle. The game is effectively Mastermind for five-letter words - with each guess you learn if each letter is in the word and it it's in the right spot. The catch is, every guess also has to be a word.

And since I'm on the topic, my result for today

Wordle 220 4/6

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Today's Wordle was NOT a fun one :/ (nm) by Odysseus Nemo on 2022-01-26 21:28:27 UTC Reply
Ah, I suck at this (nm) by K. n. Shirayuki on 2022-01-26 14:54:21 UTC Reply
This game is fantastic. by strawberrybanana on 2022-01-26 03:25:39 UTC Reply

My best is 2/6. I'm hoping one day to get the legendary 1/6.

A good word to start with is Adieu because it has lots of vowels in it. (nm) by ClaireBook1 on 2022-01-26 04:48:42 UTC Reply

I've played this. It's fun! by ClaireBook1 on 2022-01-25 18:28:55 UTC Edited Reply

This is what I got for today. Wordle 220 4/6

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Not failed yet, but have an abiding hatred of repeated letters. by Huinesoron on 2022-01-25 16:29:36 UTC Reply

I am very pleased with the colour-blind mode; the green(?) and yellow(?) are pretty much indistinguishable, particularly on the keyboard, but orange(?) and blue(...?...) are lovely.

It would be remiss of me not to link to Absurdle, aka Evil Wordle. Absurdle runs on exactly the same word-lists and gameplay as Wordle, except it hasn't got a word in mind. Rather, at each step it whittles down the field of all possible answers to pick the response that will give you the least information. Heaven help you if you let it get its claws into a terminal Y; you'll be there forever.

(There's a writeup of how Absurdle works here, though be warned that it includes the canonical 4-guess game with no warning. qntm is the website that some of you may remember from waaaaay back as the host of How To Destroy The Earth - to which there is a much later but still waaay back follow-up, To Destroy The Earth.)

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Oh, so basically Hangman (nm) by K. n. Shirayuki on 2022-01-25 16:07:01 UTC Reply

Pretty much. by Huinesoron on 2022-01-25 16:22:26 UTC Reply

You guess a word instead of a letter, and it'll tell you whether each letter is a) in the right place, b) in the word but not where you put it, or c) not in there at all, but those are differences of presentation, not basis.

Someone suggested it's popular because of the whole "one puzzle per day" concept, which rings true, because... well, the big newspaper crosswords have been running for how many decades on that idea?

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I've been playing it! by Lily Winterwood on 2022-01-25 15:48:59 UTC Reply

My average seems to be 4 tries. I also did a chalkboard version with my students with unlimited guesses; they had fun competing in small groups to see which group gets the correct answer first!