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osebo's avatar

Over the weekend, my partner and I built a daily word chain guessing game called http://couples.game. If you're into Wordle, you may enjoy this. Share your score :)

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Mommadillo's avatar

Oh, you bastards.

Wordle 1,231 4/6

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Kimmy's avatar

I got it in three - I took a random guess thinking that it might be a theme word and started with Spook. Nope. Second guess was Tried. That got me close enough to guess it

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rc_blair's avatar

I used to use three words to cover 15/26 letters. Tired of it so now I do connections, killer soduku and waffle plus a puzzle

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Put my first word in, then I got a heads-up notice of your Substack post, read your Wordle story and first-word hit, and yeah, went back to Wordle and cheated my arse off...felt good to get it in two...lol!

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

I live to give!

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William McF's avatar

Nailed it!!

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🐝 BusyBusyBee 🐝's avatar

Nice! The one word WORDLE answer is the best. I usually start with SUITE/AGONY. On the daily, I do Spelling Bee, Connections, Shards (cuz I’ve been a dork for a tricky word search since I was like 3 years old) and occasionally WORDLE. I got super pissed because I had a massive streak going before NYT bought it and it got nuked and while my wins are still 100%, the streak was the whole enchilada, man! I am a professional crossword starter. If only there were only one per week, I’d probably have the time to do it daily. Thankfully there’s the MINI quick fix.

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻

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SallyJG's avatar

I’ve had the Games subscription for many, many years (for the crossword) and have loved all the games they’ve added. I also do them all every day!

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Pamela's avatar

I am Usually a word puzzle junkie!! But for some reason when Wordle became a major “thing” I said nope- not this time.

I play Scrabble any time I can - against people, my phone anywhere I can. I guess I must be a Scrabble Snob -Good on you for the crossword puzzles- they are my first love. Daddy taught me some of the How - my Sister taught the rest after he passed away.

He died a couple of months shy of my 13th birthday- I finished my first newspaper crossword puzzle after coming home from his funeral. Thank you Daddy for making me love Thinking!!

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SPW's avatar

I’m with you. Wordle was just not my cuppa. I’ve always loved crosswords and the occasional Wordfind but anymore, I’m strictly a Words With Friends fan on my I Pad now. My 78 year old brain still enjoys a challenge.

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Pamela's avatar

✌🏻

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🐝 BusyBusyBee 🐝's avatar

My grandfather was the crossword guy in the family. I swear the man had every crossword dictionary (remember when they came in actual BOOKS?) and when he passed away in 1992, I got them all. They served me well until the internet took their place. Thanks for jogging that memory loose! ✌️

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Pamela's avatar

✌🏻

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Elaine Barr's avatar

My husband beat me to it and got it with ALIEN.

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