Wordle and its Children - Solved in 12 minutes!

Mark tries Wordle, Quordle, Octordle, Sedecordle and Worldle - check out this string of results!
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[@drstkova]

Is failing octordle and then not spotting you failed octordle a double-fail?

[@derekjc777]

Mark did get SPERM but ran out of guesses due to being a bit rubbish with WITTY. So is that a half-fail?

[@drstkova]

@@derekjc777 It’s a fail. When the screen goes red, you lost.

[@JBobbyB]

@@derekjc777 ditty was terribly because he already knew about no D's in the word

[@derekjc777]

@@JBobbyB I’ve done it myself and wondered why I wasted a guess when I knew a letter was wrong. Today’s Sedecordle I got down to the last word, last guess and two possible answers. Chose the wrong one! But I’m sure if I looked through my other answers they’ll be one I wasted somewhere…

[@NFSHeld]

@@derekjc777 Well you have to guess 16 words in 21 tries, and with the common opening strategy of "3 words with 15 letters" you basically only have 2 misses unless one of the first three words is already a match.

[@gurrutvurstug8779]

That Rajah guess was incredible

[@AFastidiousCuber]

Rajah? What a word. I never would have guessed that. His crossword experience is clearly paying off.

[@rklammer]

It looks like you missed the 4th one on Octordle

[@MisuVir]

Yep. He correctly guessed it to be "sperm" but never entered it. :D

[@emilywilliams3237]

@@MisuVir I noticed that and count it as a win.

[@Shawn4168]

@@emilywilliams3237 But entering that would have cost him one of his tries, meaning he wouldn't have guessed the 1st word in time.

[@emilywilliams3237]

@@Shawn4168 I suppose that might be correct, but if he had entered it when he said it, he might have made different brain synapses when working on that last word ... I totally don't mind in any way, I watch this to be amazed and impressed.

[@anirudhgovada2753]

He wasted a guess with ditty. He could've tried sperm first as he had all 5 letters.

[@Jaddas]

I assume it's a lot easier as a native speaker, but damn, Mark is an absolute beast.

[@derekjc777]

The American spellings can trip up us Brits though! Six letter words become five because they miss out a U!

[@selinakyle4776]

I'm so glad that we're able to get some word based puzzles back on the channel. I initially came to CTC for the Crossword solves so I'm delighted by the shorts.

[@Treasier]

Mark may I just say you are a BEAST in these word games. Holy moly. I have finally found my perfect way to for cracking the cryptic. Solving sudokus with Simon and just admiring Mark doing word puzzles.

[@jamesthomson13]

I do agree but this is a bad video to comment that on xD he literally failed octordle because he guessed very bad guesses at the end, and then didn't even notice he failed

[@tiagomarques9822]

Nerdle is a nice one, with math equations, although it becomes repetitive after a few times when you find a good set of two guesses that use all digits and symbols. But I’d wager Squardle would be a game you would really enjoy, Mark: it mixes Wordle with crosswords puzzles.

[@derekjc777]

Squardle is quite fun. Plus if you get a word you get an extra guess, so you never get in a situation where you know you can’t complete: one last guess is always enough!

[@lilysowden4035]

Nerdle is quite easy, I usually get it in three with: 4*5-2=18 63/7+0=9

[@tiagomarques9822]

@@lilysowden4035 Mine are 6*9/3=18 and 4+5-02=7, and that also makes me get many of the answers in 3 tries. (In the second try the 0 can go behind the 7 if in the first try the equal sign is in the correct position.)

[@Jonnysh]

mathler is better I find - you start with an answer and have to come up with the correct equation - varying difficultly options as well

[@bogdanbotezan7162]

By the way you did not finish Octordle because you did not put in the third word “sperm” you said it so you were correct but you did not guess it, which means you would have had one less guess for witty and wouldn’t have gotten it.

[@RMGiroux]

You're definitely not going to make a short out of it, but I think you'd enjoy Semantle. My best run at that took 20 guesses.

[@miran248]

There's a channel on twitch, called IntarEctive, where you can play semantle with others. Spent quite some time there :)

[@antebellum1776]

Only took me 263 tries!

[@swingardium706]

@@antebellum1776 That's astonishing, it took me 263 tries too!

[@Shenaniganschalbeezy]

I just tried it because of this post and I got it in 187 guesses lol I'll be trying to get it everyday now!

[@bearcubdaycare]

@@miran248 Ransk also does senantle cooperatively live on his channel, along with other Wordle variants and Geoguesser.

[@jamaicanbutter]

Omg. This was extremely satisfying to watch.

[@Shenaniganschalbeezy]

I am absolutely loving this new wordle series!

[@jenniferk4336]

I adore the word games and never get enough Wordle from you!

[@BladedEdge123]

Plus one for this! I have enjoyed the shorts, but having a longer video with some harder/larger concepts is very nice. It's even about the right length in terms of video for something like this I think. I'd love to see this become a regular recurring series for however long playing these word puzzles are enjoyable for you Mark! Thanks for the content.

[@wosc]

Your word-expertise is simply astonishing, it looks like clairvoyance to layfolk like myself. Very entertaining!

[@CyborgX7]

Loving the wordle et al. content. It's so much fun to guess along and then marvel at how quickly your mind works on these.

[@LeLu1616]

After Sudoku, word games are my favorite. Really enjoy the new content.

[@Posiadam.]

Globle, Numberle, Flaggle, Mathler, Evil wordle - this is what I recommend, it’s a nice start of a day ;)

[@StewartForsyth]

I'd like to see more of these videos, as its interesting seeing the thought process for the larger puzzles.

[@jitik]

Semantle is great variant!! Hard to do in a minute though. sometimes it takes me the whole day, and if not then i just end up not doing it. also tip for sedecordle: you can click on the top, the gray numbers so it takes you to that number puzzle, if you prefer that to scrolling. also the top right number (x/21) tells you how many guesses you have left!

[@SkilledArrow]

Looking forward to the next longer wordle video like this

[@n8style]

I'd love to see you try Semantle, it gives you how close in meaning the word is

[@longwaytotipperary]

Mark, you are amazing!! 🤩

[@miguelberganza6193]

I’m from El Salvador, loved to see you solve it so fast!

[@Yahula1edits]

I love watching these !

[@Isee-vn4go]

INCREDIBLE

[@tallrapp]

You are amazing at these.

[@amirsperling7242]

BLIND THUMP CAGEY FROWS if anyone needs four words that cover 20 of the most common letters. Thanks for the great videos!

[@elbee2324]

I do enjoy the daily in a minute types, but this longer form with the bigger puzzles is nice too. ;-)

[@DrBiscotti]

I've loved this!

[@orosma868]

I loved that. I'd love to see how you approach nerdle or mathler, especially hard mathler which includes brackets. I always get them right but often have to resort to pen and paper!

[@pimanrules]

I'll second all the people pitching Semantle! I'll also take the opportunity to shill myself and pitch PImantle, which is like Semantle but with a fun graph. (my favorite Wordle clone is "Mahjong Handle," but that might be a bit out of scope lol)

[@jameskollinger5488]

Squardle is my favorite right now. Good balance of clues to difficulty. April 1st's puzzle was particularly great.

[@mclovin8297]

a good trick I came across when u're stuck in a situation with one consonant.. it's more efficient to pick another word that has as many of the possible choices to save tries..

[@MartinFindon]

Very impressive Mark!

[@stevewithaq]

05:31 "Witty! That's clever." (!!)

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Once you get past quordle, they get easier because there are more words, but not more letters. Squarodle is a good variant through. I think you'd like that.

[@Anne_Mahoney]

This was so fun! I've been enjoying Quordle (in English and French, which is cool) but I don't always get it right; the larger varients look really hard. And Worldle, too. I'd love to see more of these occasionally.

[@flitlis]

Lovely video!

[@wossaaaat]

I got Heardle in one today, and I'm not sure how happy I should be about it.... especially considering it's the first time I've got it in one. Shame about octordle on this one Mark. You said the word too, just didn't put it in. Awesome run otherwise. Good job.

[@FleckerMan]

If he had, it'd have told him no P in the other one, so he'd have got that one guess earlier - close enough :)

[@emilywilliams3237]

I love these videos that you are doing of these various games. I do all of the ones you did today along with (sometimes) Squardle or whatever it is called. Don't try that for your maiden voyage on a video, though, because it is counter-intuitive (for me, anyway) about how the guessing works. Though that could be entertaining for us ... Very fun, thanks for taking the time and effort to do these in addition to your sudoku videos and all of the other things you do for this channel. Very appreciated, Mark.

[@NFSHeld]

Here's a challenge - play "Word Master" (basically Wordle but unlimited puzzles per day) on Hard Mode, and for every new puzzle advances the first letter of the first guess by one in the alphabet (so the first guess has to start with A for the first puzzle, B for the second, C for the third, etc.) It's a very enjoyable challenge because it sometimes forces you to leave the well-known guess orders. Spoiler alert for 3-word-start solving technique (do not expand/read on if you don't want to know): "CRANE" "GHOST" "BUILD" instead of "FIELD" "COURT" "PANSY", which gets you BGH instead of FPY. I feel "Y" is something you can anticipate when there's not enough other vowels, and "H" is more useful than "F".

[@TheHunterMPG]

Have you tried Semantle? Very different and challenging!

[@iabervon]

The multiple ones really ought to give you an additional guess when you get a word right (and give you correspondingly fewer guesses at the start, so you can't lose on a correct guess (but lose when you would have made it unwinnable).

[@cramias1]

Dordle is my favorite of the multi-word variants. More words than the base game, but still small enough in scale that I'm not tempted to use a standard set of starter words.

[@nonagrey3422]

I love these

[@zogannstorm6044]

Please add Squardle to the mix!

[@v3lojt]

Damn. That was fun to watch.

[@parallelcircuit]

I'd like to make another suggestion of Squardle. I find it to be the most interesting variant so far.

[@andrewmiller617]

For the big multi puzzles, I start with BLOCK FIGHT NAMED SYRUP, which use 20 unique letters (all but JQVWXZ)

[@WylemRotMG]

In a very different vein, Tradle's a really interesting one. Guess the country based on its exports.

[@kelperdude]

Revertle is a fun word game.

[@tymon5349]

this is better than the shorts

[@michaelpdawson]

I had never heard of Sedecordle, but I find it rather easy: with so many possibilities, the first couple of guesses are bound to make at least one answer obvious, and it snowballs from there. On the other hand, my first try of Worldle was impossibly hard. I'd never even heard of the place.

[@marikatannahill1422]

Absurdle (the game tries to prevent you from getting the word) and nerdle (maths).

[@wickedcherub]

I also do Squardle, Nerdle and Mathler every day, as well as Heardle but not sure Heardle is appropriate for this channel nor do I think it has good game mechanics

[@sfumato8884]

I agree… I like the idea of Heardle but I feel it needs to offer parts of the song other than the intro. Some songs just start with 30 seconds of some drums or chords on a keyboard. If you don’t know it you never will.

[@wickedcherub]

@@sfumato8884 yeah like i need more hints towards the artist or something, like how Worldle gives you a distance and a direction so you can get closer to the country

[@tugabooga]

Dordle as well

[@johnydl]

Can't do Heardle my IPA isn't strong enough... but I love Squardle glad I'm not the only one

[@HappyMonkeyYT]

Another recommendation for squardle; it has a lot more logic than most wordle-likes.

[@ryfors]

Love it

[@rickk9897]

Looks interesting, but please explain the rules for everything beyond Wordle. Thanks!

[@andrewhyde8934]

My morning 'ablutions' take in worldle, wordle, quordle, octordle and octordle sequence. At 6 am in the morning it gets me in to the day. (Octordle sequence where you have to solve the first before they give you clues for the second and so on) I just can't do it at your speed!

[@kylecoleman6221]

I recommend Globle over Worldle. Thanks for the video!

[@facundoolmos8349]

love it

[@TheFreeBro]

Squabble Royale would make a nice edition to this or a separate video. Would suit your competitive nature

[@linggao2602]

Wordle, dordle, quordle, octordle, sedecordle. Would be a nice marathon.

[@sebastienlecoq3956]

The worldle feels so much "guess: again".

[@garrettsmith9788]

Nerdle is fun. It is a math challenge that has a Wordle feel about it.

[@wroth]

You should try nerdle (wordle but you're guessing a simple maths equation) and crosswordle (you're given a completed wordle puzzle and have to work backwards to determine the guesses

[@myname3931]

Add Dordle for the full 1,2,4,8,16 sequence (extending to 32 with Duotrigordle). Scoring each variant golf-style with par being n+3 guesses, this day's set gave me my first 'perfect round' (ie birdie on every hole/variant, so Wordle in 3 guesses, Dordle in 4, Quordle in 6, Octordle in 10, Sedecordle in 18 & Duotrigordle in 34). I find it's more interesting to aim for fewest guesses than fastest time on these. For a speed challenge, Seven Wordles is the place to go.

[@wickedcherub]

Yes I agree less guesses far superior to quickest time

[@MaxRoderbourg]

You gotta try crosswordle! A real fun puzzle that's based off of wordle, but necessitates a completely different way of thinking!

[@SirBradiator]

I do Wordle, Quordle and Squardle most days.

[@DerAlex86]

Octordle has the great bonus over Sedecordle that you can have all eight words next to each other on your screen if you have a normal FullHD screen, which makes it easier to spot which word to start on after the "initial setup". I usually setup with "Angry Flock Spied Thumb" for Octordle, which gives me the 20 most common letters out of 4 words, with Y in the fifth position (where it usually belongs). Still got to try Wordle on hard mode, though.

[@AlignToDeliver]

You could consider Dordle and Hexadecordle - and, if you want some numbers in there, Nerdle. With all the 5-letter word ones, I play a rule of the same first 2-3 words across all boards (while it reduces some choice, does speed it up).

[@onijester56]

"Cater" ended my Wordle streak, because I didn't get it right.

[@TheSpazattack540]

I also do the "three words back to back" strat on octordle. My three words are Stick, Ghoul, and Pared.

[@freddiekb1004]

"No, it's not going to begin with a T. That's nonsense" 😂

[@TheRunicorn]

Another one to recommend is absurdle. It's slightly different but very entertaining. I expect you'd be much better than me at it

[@samuelcappi5205]

I can get it in 5 i feel like it gets boring pretty quickly

[@landonkryger]

My recommendations are: absurdle, semantle, and nerdle.

[@noitallmanaz]

i heard you thank god then quickly change to goodness.... that made me laugh.

[@julkip]

Primle is also always good for a laugh

[@15schaa]

If you like Quordle, Octordle and Sedecordle, you'll absolutely curse the existence of their logical extreme, Kilordle! Literally 1,000 Wordles at once!

[@matthewryan4844]

You should try absurdle. The puzzle changes to stop you solving it. Try to solve in the fewest guesses

[@UnlucksMcGee]

Flaggle, Nerdle and Squardle are good ones

[@wickedcherub]

Ooh I didn't know about Flaggle, thanks!

[@finnishguy2127]

May I recommend Absurdle?

[@juhakorhonen3251]

Where can you play these? Worldle would be most interesting one

[@isabellns]

Try the one with 32! Duotrigordle

[@katersgonnakate]

don’t forget about dordle and hexadecordle!

[@AdmiralBud]

"sperm" "let's see if any of the others are even more appealing"

[@leomezzina9835]

Last two days I have tried duotrigordle

[@leomezzina9835]

Even try bardle a Shakespeare take on wordle

[@josephrobertson1724]

I like to do the Globle, It is a bit like worldle but a bit more visual.

[@Jonnysh]

i hate having to remember the spelling of countries for that - but it is quite fun

[@louisana]

Have you tried semantle yet? I think your crossword skills would come in handy with that one!

[@HarleyMaebry]

You never put in SPERM in the Octordle. I think it’s fair to request another Octordle in a video, but solved correctly.

[@anirudhgovada2753]

Please try duotrigordle (32 wordles at once)

[@chipsounder4633]

On the KZbin app, your videos and playlists are no longer there but are on android phone 🤔 edit as soon as I commented they re-appeared 🧐

[@LixLorn]

...if you've ever been into pokemon, I'd recommend Squirdle, but I understand that might be a bit outside of your normal style!

[@d4r4butler74]

YAY!!!

[@johnydl]

So my three word start is DWARF PLUCK MONEY it leaves out SIGHT as a fourth if I have nothing to go on but I feel like I cover most of the bases

[@dliessmgg]

You have yet to do a Squardle.

[@wickedcherub]

I enjoy squardle a lot

[@allisonroggen7773]

Globle is fun

[@melacine34]

What about duotrigordle?

[@metamoof]

You might want to try a numbers game: nerdle