2022 April
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I am ending my daily Wordle+variants runs. No special reason, I just felt it was time. The number of us who have been doing them daily had been dwindling for a while, and I was at the point where I would occasionally almost forget to do them and at one point I crammed all of them in 5 minutes before midnight. Rather than waiting for the daily habit to slowly fade away, I'll just end it now so at least I get to do a wrapup! (When I announced to our Discord Wordle thread that I would be ending my
2022 March
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Statistical analysis of publicly available Wordle play data
2022 February
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@roswellwrites https://sweardle.com/
https://edjefferson.com/letterle/
https://saltong.carldegs.com/ (filipino; with 3 variants)
https://taximanli.github.io/kotobade-asobou/ (Japanese)
https://kuan.vercel.app/ (bisaya, a filipino dialect)
@roswellwrites https://chaaklau.github.io/zidou/ (cantonese)
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I've still been playing Wordle since the last time I wrote about it. Still 100% win rate, and currently on 24-day streak (would have been longer, except in early January, I decided to test what would happen if I set my system date to the future since the game uses the client's date). Aside from the OG Wordle, two variants have also made their way into my daily routine (technically four variants, depending on how you count them): Saltong, the Filipino version which I already mentioned in the last post. This one actually has three different variants: there's normal Saltong
2022 January
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I first wrote about Wordle back in November. Back then I thought it was neat and played it a few times, but not with any regularity. The past couple of weeks, it's kind of gone viral. Seems like people everywhere of all shapes and sizes are playing it! I've also started playing it regularly, though I don't post the results on social media, a couple of my chat groups are active early in the morning when the new Wordle comes in. The game itself is simple and clever. Difficult enough so that solving it feels good yet not too complicated
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If you set your system date to the future, you can play future wordles:
Wordle 210 4/6
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So idk if this is rigged or I was just ridiculously lucky or what
Letterle 1/26
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https://edjefferson.com/letterle/
Quoted kottke's tweet:Forget Wordle, Letterle is the new hotness. https://edjefferson.com/letterle/
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Wordle 201 3/6
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2021 November
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I've mentioned this before on the weeknotes, but a couple of months ago I availed of a New York Times games subscription, mostly for access to the NYT crosswords, since the trivia team have been enjoying some coop crossword nights over Discord. Aside from the NYT crossword, the subscription also gives us access to some other games. The other one we've been enjoying so far is the NYT Spelling Bee. It's basically one of those anagram puzzles where you have to form words from a set of letters. Each puzzle has seven letters, with one letter highlighted in yellow in