Nerdle (Wordle with math!) 🤓

That was not the game I played yesterday!
The solution I played was ^#, not **! (Look at the top row on your keyboard to see the numbers I’m referring to)
Do they have the same game for everybody?

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Good question! I assumed so. I distinctly remember the final two digits of that equation. Maybe it was the previous day’s game, since I played at night (until right after midnight) on that day.

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Nice one for today!
A bit challenging, but fun!

nerdlegame 51 4/6

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It didn’t look so bad according to the graphic below, but I truly screwed this one up.

The operators used in the first guess came up purple, but I absentmindedly took that as meaning they were NOT in the puzzle. Might have had it in two guesses if not that idiotic oversight. Your claim that is was difficult may have influenced me in terms of the right side number of digits (which was helpful), but that’s not an unusual format for my random equation building.

nerdlegame 51 3/6

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Another game played too quickly and carelessly. Forgot to include a purple number element from the first guess in the second attempt. :chart_with_downwards_trend:

nerdlegame 52 4/6

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Today was easier than yesterday!

nerdlegame 52 3/6

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Definitely! Still required a bit of work (one green and three purples to start), but the second guess left only one obvious?? answer. There could have been other feasible options, but my brain didn’t conjure them up. Computer says nooooo.

cough

nerdlegame 54 3/6

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I think the hardest ones are when math operations don’t change the results.

nerdlegame 55 5/6

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I might have got this one on a fluke. The equation is in a format I’ve tried before, but it’s never worked. I guess persistence can yield benefits.

nerdlegame 55 3/6

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Yay! Back to guessing in three!

nerdlegame 56 3/6

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Nice! I got stuck with a set of numbers and operators with several possible arrangements. The third guess left only one solution that I could quickly compute. Well, I would choose the first that worked anyways, right? It would be inefficient to ponder multiple solutions, given the probabilities of all feasible permutation being equal.

nerdlegame 56 4/6

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My first guess helped a lot!

nerdlegame 57 3/6

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Looking back, my first guess also helped, but in a different way.

nerdlegame 59 3/6

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I thought I couldn’t make it in three, but I was wrong!

nerdlegame 60 3/6

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50/50 chance of getting it on the third guess…

Oh well, not bad!

nerdlegame 60 4/6

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It took me a while to notice the purple hints :joy:

nerdlegame 61 3/6

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Fortunate first guess left only one (obvious) solution.

nerdlegame 62 2/6

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I wasn’t so fortunate as you, @KongTaigi , but still okay!

nerdlegame 63 3/6

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Dumb luck to get it in three.

nerdlegame 63 3/6

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I had several options for the last guess. Luckily I chose the correct one :grin:

nerdlegame 64 3/6

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