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I LOVE quordle. found it on an HN post. I enjoy it because it's much more (in my opinion) about reducing unknown information about all the letters than it is about guessing for each possible word.

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Quordle, for me, quickly turned relatively stale. I'm quite convinced it's optimal (in terms of human play) to have a fixed set of 4 words to cover 20 letters, at which point you have 5 guesses to solve 4 words based on that information. Fun for a while, but not very deep.

I just choose not to play it like that, and it remains fresh. I try to get all vowel information fairly quickly, but as far as possible I am using existing information to drive me forward rather than going fishing for arbitrary new information.

Octordle is definitely like that. I think you want to do a 3 to 4 word opening sequence of some sort unless you get very lucky earlier. That said, going beyond 3 words I found turned it into more of an anagram solving game but not really improving my typical score. (I find it's very hard to have more than one or two guesses left given you pretty much have to use 8/13 for the final guesses unless you luck onto an answer you weren't shooting for.)

I aim to solve Octordle in 3+8 guesses. I did so yesterday (#82), but today's (#83) needed a 50-50 guess which I got wrong, so took 12.

If it takes more than 12, it usually means I've been too casual.

I’m at my worst in Octordle when I get my first word in the 3 guess. Then I feel pressured to get 2 + 8 guesses. However that usually doesn’t work out and I end up wasting the 4th guess with unoptimal letter coverage.

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