Wordle-like Games—general discussion

[Pifanjr]

Wordle 1,795 5/6

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Hunch
Classic
May 19, 2026
✔️ 7️⃣ ✔️

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12,667 in Geoguessr today. There were a couple of difficult ones today.

 

[Frindis]

11,062, got a couple of bad guesses. I thought one was in Gdańsk, but I turned out to be on the wrong continent.

 

[Pifanjr]

Wordle 1,796 4/6

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Hunch
Classic
May 20, 2026
✔️ 4️⃣ ✔️

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This was insane luck.

5,754 in Geoguessr today, I only got the right country once.

 

[Frindis]

10,5K in Geoguessr, but I actually thought this one was more difficult than the last one. I felt that I had very little clue about at least three of the countries' locations, but somehow I managed to squeeze out something.

 

[Pifanjr]

Wordle 1,797 3/6

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Hunch
Classic
May 21, 2026
✔️ 3️⃣ ✔️

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Even better luck than yesterday.

And great luck on Geoguessr today as well, as I finally breached the 20k with a score of 20,458.

 

[Pifanjr]

Wordle 1,798 4/6

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Hunch
Classic
May 22, 2026
✔️ 5️⃣ ✔️

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⬜🟪⬜⬜⬜ 1️⃣0️⃣
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🟩🟪🟨🟦⬜ 4️⃣0️⃣
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13,035 in Geoguessr today, which isn't amazing, but I did get my first 5,000 score!

 

[Zed Clampet]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/why-play-wordle-when-you-could-be-playing-this-new-word-puzzle-game-that-rewards-you-with-frogs/

 

[Frindis]

18,345 in Geoguessr today, so happy with that one. Slowly sneaking towards @Pifanjr's score of 20,458

 

[Pifanjr]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/why-play-wordle-when-you-could-be-playing-this-new-word-puzzle-game-that-rewards-you-with-frogs/

's finished Ribbit #951

Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo

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This was trickier than I expected

 

[Pifanjr]

Wordle 1,799 4/6

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The green letter for line 3 was the same as the yellow one in line 2. I was running out of letters to try.


Hunch
Classic
May 23, 2026
✔️ 6️⃣ ✔️

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[Pifanjr]

Wordle 1,800 5/6

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I got stuck on this one for way too long.


Hunch
Classic
May 24, 2026
✔️ 3️⃣ ✔️

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Insane luck once again

 

[Zed Clampet]

I completed this in 7 minutes 59 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-26/medium

Um, didn't realize I was somehow working yesterday's puzzle

today's

I completed this in 7 minutes 22 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-27/medium

I completed this in 8 minutes 48 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-27/hard

 

[Pifanjr]

I completed this in 7 minutes 22 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-27/medium

I completed this in 8 minutes 48 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-27/hard

I completed this in 20 minutes 33 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-27/medium

I completed this in 46 minutes 23 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-27/hard

Did you do that without any pausing?

I resorted to guessing on the hard one because I couldn't think far enough ahead. I got it wrong and had to undo it and try the other possible solution.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I completed this in 20 minutes 33 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-27/medium

I completed this in 46 minutes 23 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-27/hard

Did you do that without any pausing?

I resorted to guessing on the hard one because I couldn't think far enough ahead. I got it wrong and had to undo it and try the other possible solution.

I didn't know you could pause. I got very good at Sudoku when they first became popular. I was absolutely obsessed with it, so I'd say I've probably worked a few thousand more than you have--at least a few thousand. You could tell me it was almost any number and I wouldn't be surprised. I had a lot of nights in hotel rooms to pass.

Edit: Ah, and I'm also naturally good with numbers. My wife tells people I'm like the Rain Man. I've pointed out that the Rain Man was extremely autistic, but she still does it. 🤣

 

[Pifanjr]

I didn't know you could pause. I got very good at Sudoku when they first became popular. I was absolutely obsessed with it, so I'd say I've probably worked a few thousand more than you have--at least a few thousand. You could tell me it was almost any number and I wouldn't be surprised. I had a lot of nights in hotel rooms to pass.

Edit: Ah, and I'm also naturally good with numbers. My wife tells people I'm like the Rain Man. I've pointed out that the Rain Man was extremely autistic, but she still does it. 🤣

I just tried it again with yesterday's and got 20 minutes 51 seconds. I'm obviously missing some strategy here and I once again got stuck with trying a solution because I couldn't narrow any of the options down without going several steps deep.

I do feel like I used to be better at these though, because now I find myself writing out every possible number for each square but I definitely didn't use to do that when solving sudoku's.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I just tried it again with yesterday's and got 20 minutes 51 seconds. I'm obviously missing some strategy here and I once again got stuck with trying a solution because I couldn't narrow any of the options down without going several steps deep.

I do feel like I used to be better at these though, because now I find myself writing out every possible number for each square but I definitely didn't use to do that when solving sudoku's.

That's a huge improvement over yesterday. Not that yesterday was bad. I have no idea what is good or bad on these.

Used to be these puzzles were made by people, and they could make some very hard ones, but these have obviously been computer generated.

 

[Pifanjr]

I completed this in 4 minutes 57 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-28/easy

I completed this in 15 minutes 37 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-28/medium

I completed this in 30 minutes 56 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-28/hard

It's getting better, but I still don't know what to do when I get stuck. At some point I'll have crossed off every number that's already in a row, column or 3x3 square, but every square that remains will have multiple options still available, even if I account for numbers where I'm not sure in which square they are but I do know which column or row they are. There must be some other thing I could do to cross off one more possibility for one more square besides just trying one and seeing if it works or not.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I completed this in 4 minutes 57 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-28/easy

I completed this in 15 minutes 37 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-28/medium

I completed this in 30 minutes 56 seconds, can you beat me? - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/sudoku/2026-05-28/hard

It's getting better, but I still don't know what to do when I get stuck. At some point I'll have crossed off every number that's already in a row, column or 3x3 square, but every square that remains will have multiple options still available, even if I account for numbers where I'm not sure in which square they are but I do know which column or row they are. There must be some other thing I could do to cross off one more possibility for one more square besides just trying one and seeing if it works or not.

There are many strategies, but the fact that you are completing the puzzles shows that you have enough strategies to finish the game.

What you need to do now is make a mental note, or a written one, of every time you were stuck and of what got you unstuck. Don't worry about the timer. It's going to be much harder to improve if you are quickly moving from one thing to the next without actually remembering what it was, exactly, that you just did. If you have to reinvent these strategies every time you play, then it's going to be hard to get anywhere.

 

[Zed Clampet]

It's getting better, but I still don't know what to do when I get stuck. At some point I'll have crossed off every number that's already in a row, column or 3x3 square, but every square that remains will have multiple options still available, even if I account for numbers where I'm not sure in which square they are but I do know which column or row they are. There must be some other thing I could do to cross off one more possibility for one more square besides just trying one and seeing if it works or not.

Oh, and I'm 100 percent sure that you already know this, but cutting down the options in what to a beginner would seem like an unrelated sector is very helpful. For a very basic example if you are working in the top left sector, and the bottom middle sector has four open slots for the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and you can narrow that down to saying that 1 and 2 can go in these two spots and 3 and 4 can go in these two spots, then you can cross reference that with the all the sectors the bottom middle influences, which includes two of the primary sectors everyone knows to look at. It may not even help immediately, but if you can remember it while looking at other things, it's a huge time saver. For instance, you give up on the top left sector and move to the middle of the third row, you need to still remember what you figured out in the bottom sector of the second row. That can end up being useful information in every sector you work.

 

[Pifanjr]

Wordle 1,806 3/6

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[greatest.games]

If you want one that isn't word-based, I made a daily called Rotato: greatest.games/g/rotato (disclosure, it's mine). You rotate 2x2 blocks of a scrambled number grid until the whole thing reads in order, left to right, top to bottom. There's a par to beat, and the grid sizes go up to a brutal 6x6. Quick once the trick clicks, but the bigger boards will get you.