It’s like Wordle times five, or ten: Squareword. You guess five across-words, which also form five down-words. One play per day.
Wordle is forever hit or miss, but I think it’s possible to get better at Squareword.
[Speaking of hit or miss: I missed yesterday’s Wordle after getting stuck with _O_ER. BOXER? COVER? FOYER? JOKER? LOWER? No, HOMER.]
Friday, May 6, 2022
Squareword
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Interesting game.
ReplyDeletesquareword.org 95: 11 guesses
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The squares didn’t come through, Joe. I wonder if these will:
ReplyDeletesquareword.org 95: 9 guesses
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I got today’s in 9, which is really good for me. I’m happy with 11 or under, though I’m often over.
Huh — it must be a matter of different operating systems.
ReplyDeleteWhen I previewed my comment, the squares showed. Weird. Good job with 9 guesses.
ReplyDeleteGood with 11 too.
ReplyDeleteI've been playing pretty consistently, and have mostly given up on Wordle. Through yesterday, with 61 plays, my average is 9.05, with the majority being between 8-10 guesses. I've been pleased to get it in 7 guesses 3x and once at 6 guesses. Thanks for discovering this game.
ReplyDeleteI’m averaging 10.13, with a handful of 7s. I think they’re less selective than Wordle about the words that appear, as with the fourth word across in today’s puzzle. Granted, it can be a common noun, not proper, but a pretty obscure one. I assume proper nouns aren’t allowed, but I might be wrong.
ReplyDeleteDo you have favorite starting guesses? On today's puzzle, my favorite first guess was one of the words, helping me solve in 7.
ReplyDeleteI always start with STARE. I usually try to guess a CH word after that.
ReplyDeleteI used to start with SMEAR. I've switched to what happened to be the 3rd word today, followed by CLOUD.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter, who studied linguistics, starts with CHAIR.
ReplyDeleteI decided on STARE by remembering “etaoin shrdlu,” the Linotype arrangement of most commonly used letters.