Has anyone tried the “Wordle” puzzle? As a stroke survivor I thought it could possibly help me. I am really struggling with the early stages. lilian
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Hi Lilian @l_platt - I’ve been doing it for a few weeks now. My sister, brother-in-law and cousin all play and we each share our ‘score’. It’s been quite competitive!
The advice given by @Ingo66 to use a word with a couple of vowels and some commonly used consonants is spot on. From there I then use the ‘qwerty’ grid at the bottom of the screen and try to work out what letters I can still use. Some days are easier than others but a lot depends on your initial word and how close it is to the solution.
I believe there are millions of people now playing worldwide. Great fun and good to keep the brain cells active.
Good luck!
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Lilian–there’s a free ap called Lumosity. It is designed for improving brain functioning. After you download it and go there, it will ask you what sorts of things you want to improve on. Check all the boxes because then you will get a lot more samples. The site will provide you sample exercises that you can use every day and as often as you want. They are games, and fun to do. They will keep tabs on how you improve and let you know. They will offer you their special membership, in which they will provide a lot more games and activities. But that has a small monthly fee. I never did that, but just kept using the free games they gave me at first. I did find that I improved in all categories, including speed. 
Jeanne
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Hi Lilian, I’ve just started doing these in the last couple of days. Be warned - they are addictive !
The thing that throws me is when you have a repeat letter - as it doesn’t indicate that this is the case.
You could have the letter ‘T’ in green or yellow - showing it is present within the word - but it doesn’t say how many times. So you can’t then discount it completely.
Happy Wordling…that’s not even a word !! LOL 
Best Wishes, Karen
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Yes, I occasionally have a go at Wordle, it’s good for deduction logic. I also like Brain HQ, which has free exercises one per day. These are designed for stroke survivors.
Lilian, you have now got me hooked. Always start with a word with more than one vowel in. I don’t think it matters if you are wrong. You’re exercising your brain cells.
Hi John. Good to see you have become involved with the word game. It certainly makes you think. Lilian
Rups. I have looked at the site you suggested and have found it very interesting. Thank you. Lilian
Wordle 1,302 6/6
Today’s attempt to see if anyone is still doing this or if they have moved onto other tings 
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Don’t do myself and just don’t understand what I’m looking at with that image. I prefer things like Sudoku, Hashi, Flow, I get them, to the point of rattling them off in minutes. But I’ve never been much good with word puzzles more complex than word search or scrabble 
Lorraine
I still do these intermittently. Quite enjoy a word game. Aleays used to love scrabble but don’t tend to play that anymore.
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Thanks for the reminder I used to do it regularly, think I’ll start again. Was wondering how to get my brain back in gear, biggest prob is “holes” in memory prior to stroke. I do Quiz Planet via face book it’s general knowledge. it’s quite affirming when you get a question right that only 20% of population know!! Some of the categories I know nothing about as US based I think.
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I am still doing Wordle every day. I average about three or four each day,. Have you tried word hurdle? It is a bit more challenging. I do lt along with quordle and octordle. Lilian.
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Hi Lilian @l_platt ,
Three or Four is a good average
I do play Word Hurdle an d find the four letter words the hardest. There isn’t much scope to apply logic after you get, for example 2 letters. The Clue Word element of Word Hurdle is proably the easiest part.
Haven’t tried Quordle or Octordle. I’ll have a look
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I must admit I’m almost addicted. I don’t make dinner until I have solved a wordle, a phrasle( my favorite game), a crosswordle, an octordle, and a sedecordle. Pretty bad, huh. I know it looks like a lot, but I’ve worked out my own “method”. 
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Hi Lorraine @EmeraldEyes ,
I understand why you don’t like the game - it seems I should have explained how it is played. Sorry about that 
Let me see if i can put that right and then maybe with a bit of luck and possibly interest, there might be few more players join us.
Wordle is a word guessing game invented by a Welsh software engineer called Josh Wardle (see what he did with the name ?). I read he did it during the Covid lockdown to entertain his girlfriend. Anyway it wenrt viral on the social media and eventually The New York TImes bought the game off him (and I think they tweaked it and Americanised it a little - just my personal observation).
Each day you get to guess a new word and you get 6 attempts, which generally is enough, but sometimes I don’t manage to guess it, but I am getting better - practise makes (did I choose the right one - English?) perfect 
I can explain this
The image is what someone shares with others without giving the answer away.
To further explain, when I played today I got the answer on the 6th guess and I shared it with the community.
What this image says is
- My first guess was wrong - all grey boxes
- My second guess had one correct letter but it was in the wrong square (orange box)
- My third guess had two correct letters (green boxes) and 3 wrong letters (grey). Note: The orange box as was is now grey because I used the letter from the second guess in the new word placing it in the 2nd or 3rd box)
- My fourth guess got me closer by giving me three green boxes
- My fifth guess was even better (four green boxes and with that I was able to correctly guess the word with my last attempt
- My sixth guess was correct (Phew!) as indicated by five green boxes.
I hope that helps.
If you want to play today’s game, here is the link
Happy guessing
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Today’s guess for Wordle was done in four. 13th
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It is very similar to Lingo which is on ITV of an afternoon. My hubby struggles to understand it too so he leaves me to sort it out.
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Wordle 1,304 6/6
6 for me today. Tough one again.
Yes, I have seen Lingo. I think Lingo is a bit more difficult due to the timed element. I have seen bits of it and if I remember right they have to get the answer within a minute or something for each guess. I guess that makes the brain even sharper
I haven’t been good with word games until I started this and now I can do “Easy crosswords”, though the cryptic ones are way too hard for me as at noe.
