I think I've a relatively good strategy for quordle that doesn't need much thinking. I did 8 consecutive practice quordles and got 77X87877 where the X failed because I forgot that CORER is a word!

For the failed attempt, all cases can be handled in 9, so this strategy (STARE HOUND FILMY) takes 7.5 tries on average.

Does anyone see any way to improve the 3 words for such a strategy that just starts with 3 fixed words?

And in case anyone wants to check the list of allowed words/guesses for wordle, someone posted them on github: words, guesses. I suspect quordle uses the same lists.

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@user21820 Wow!

@amWhy Do you have a strategy for quordle, and have you ever tried to measure its performance? =P

@user21820 Not really; I've played all of three games. I should probably work in the archive awhile.

@amWhy Ah I see. I find quordle interesting. The idea can also be applied to the original mastermind, yielding a game that seems much more challenging than the usual mastermind.

And then from a mathematical point of view, one wonders whether there are asymptotic results...

@leslie You around today?

a little bit.

@leslietownes No problem. Duck pond day? Et al.?

munchkin only wanted to walk to a park near our house today, no ducks.

@leslietownes How's the weather?

some kid was having a birthday party and his parents had rented some kind of electric 'train,' almost the size of two cars, and were driving it down a sidewalk next to the park. this caused a commotion among the kids in the park.

pretty summery today. lower 70s right now.

@leslietownes I bet it did!

I'm pretending you didn't mention summery. ;P

We're soaking up 28 degree sunshine.

we've had chillier weather for about a week before this. highs in the 50s or low 60s and into the low 40s, sometimes 30s, at night. today is a break from that.

With lot's of wind... The sunshine is always nice.

that was something that surprised me about iowa. how brilliantly sunny it could be in the winter, especially after big snowstorms.

@leslietownes Yes, indeed. To some extent, I think snow everywhere adds to the brilliance in that it is reflecting sunlight.

where i grew up, winters were not that cold, but they tended to be cloudy.

that's even true to some extent here in the land of palm trees.

The bitter coldest days of winter here, are actually sunny. Snow is more prevalent in a warmer range, and when cloudy. Kind of weird but clouds can insulate the what is below it. The coldest is when it's night, and the skies are clear.