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#deluxewaffle46 3/5
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Wordle 665 5/6*

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No need to pity me, Jude!
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https://squaredle.app 04/15:
22/22 words (+9 bonus words)
📖 In the top 37% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 6

Also chipping away at some of the "special" Squaredle puzzles.

https://squaredle.app/?puzzle=uk:
157/157 words (+91 bonus words)
📖 In the top 16% by bonus words
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Wordle 666 5/6*

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Jude ain't got nothing on me today!

Wordle 666 6/6

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ETA: I didn't realize until after the fact that this was Wordle 666. No wonder I had such a hard time.
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Lol!
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Wordle 666 5/6

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Not as much fun as Voronwë, but still fun.
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Oh, woe is me. No fun for me today. *sigh* (I changed my strategy/went back to an older strategy today)

Wordle 666 2/6
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Eldy, I've done many of those special Squaredle puzzles. They'll keep you busy for a good long while. :D
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Eldy wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:46 am Also chipping away at some of the "special" Squaredle puzzles.

https://squaredle.app/?puzzle=uk:
157/157 words (+91 bonus words)
📖 In the top 16% by bonus words
Impressive! I noped out of that one when I saw the word count.
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I've done the 10x10 Squardles.. both around 900 words. The 'Abandon all hope' one is awfully hard and took me weeks. I just kept plodding along...
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I glanced at the 10x10 puzzles and decided that was a challenge best postponed, given how obsessive I can get when I want to push through and complete something. But we shall see. :P

Wordle 666 4/6

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https://squaredle.app 04/16:
60/60 words (+38 bonus words)
📖 In the top 7% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 7
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I agree Eldy. Do some of the other special puzzles, they are hard enough. Unless you REALLY REALLY REALLY want an all consuming, head-banging, totally frustrating distraction-from- everything-else-challenge, I'd not recommend 'Abandon all Hope'. I thought today's puzzle was challenging, but fun.

Speaking of challenges, I've been trying to set up recipe pages for my daughter's (custom made) recipe book. I'd like to print both sides so it needs to be off set and the page size is odd. It's driving me bonkers. I think I'm almost there. :pullhair: I suppose I should be doing constructive things rather than playing puzzles all day. :P
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Wordle 667 5/6

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My change in strategy didn't work so well with today's word, but I probably wouldn't have done any better with my regular starter words either.

Wordle 667 4/6
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A Wordy game by the Oatmeal just for a month:

https://theoatmeal.com/wordy
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Wordle 667 4/6

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This was a fun one, even if I only got it in four
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Nice Jude!

Inanna, at first I thought that game was like Spelling Bee/SpellsBee (which I also play every day) but I see the word doesn't necessarily use all of the letters and you can't use a letter twice. That's a new challenge for me.
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No fun today. :(

Wordle 668 X/6

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:(

Heads up: *There is a misplaced letter in today's waffle
Hidden text.
(double yellow 'T')
which makes it seem like it is unavailable for in the word that it is in.
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That's odd - I didn't notice that. I had 4 guesses to spare.
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