Meet Nerdle; Wordle for Geeks (No spoilers here either!)

[Tafkah]

Starting to get then hang of this thing.

Nerdle 16 4/6

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[N02L84ER]

Nerdle 16 3/6

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[ERD50]

Wasn't sure this was my thing, but I played again today (2nd time), and got it in 5.

The start still seems kinda vague to me, but gets more interesting once things have narrowed down a bit after a move or two or three. At that point I feel more like I'm thinking through possibilities instead of just throwing a dart in the dark.

Not sure I'll play everyday, but I've been getting faster at Wordle and the archive (I limit myself to one/day, which is enough anyhow), so maybe this will fill the time I was using on those.

-ERD50

 

[Out-to-Lunch]

Pet Peeve: if you interchange two numbers in an equation under addition or multiplication, the result is the same. But Nerdle wants to see the numerals in the spots that *IT* wants to see them. For words, getting the exact order correct seems important. For numbers, I am unconvinced.



Nerdle 17 5/6

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[JoeWras]

Pet Peeve: if you interchange two numbers in an equation under addition or multiplication, the result is the same. But Nerdle wants to see the numerals in the spots that *IT* wants to see them. For words, getting the exact order correct seems important. For numbers, I am unconvinced.

Yeah, mathematically it is bogus, but for your brain, it gives you a chance to do process of elimination. I had every number correct, just in the wrong order. By looking at past guesses, I was able to get them all correct without rote guessing.

It throws a warning, see below:

 

[Gumby]

I go the same message this morning. Hence it counts as three tries, not two.

Nerdle 17 3/6

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[sengsational]

Nerdle 17 5/6

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My two starting equations have all operators and all but 2 numbers. So I "had it" with my third guess, but then I went down the rabbit hole of finding the right order.

 

[Tafkah]

Nerdle 17 3/6

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Really enjoyed figuring this one out.

 

[N02L84ER]

Nerdle 18 2/6

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My DH told me 2 green positions to use in the first guess.

 

[conversationalphrase]

Nerdle 18 6/6

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Tough one for me.

 

[JoeWras]

Once I had all the numbers and operators, my 8th grade math came into use.

nerdlegame 18 4/6

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[Out-to-Lunch]

nerdlegame 18 4/6

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[sengsational]

Strategy Analysis

There's some people who think analysis takes the fun out of it, but I'm the odd duck that enjoys the analysis more than do the daily puzzle. I also was very interested in brewing, as long as I was upgrading and changing my brewing system, but once I settled on a process, it became less interesting.

Concerning, Wordle, I engaged in a bit of a strategy analysis based on expected frequency of letters and trying to get 'coverage'. I did the same with Nerdle, just for fun. I let it run all last night and have my results: there are more than 10,000 pairs of equations that include all numbers and all operators.

As proof, I'll post a pair, but to avoid something you might not want to see, I'll put the example in white, at the bottom.

My program was pretty simple...it filled an array of size 9 with integers, dropped-in the equals sign in a random location, then dropped-in operators (or not), as needed. For example an expression of length 3 was half as likely to become [# op #] as it was to remain [# # #]. Then I went through and removed leading and lone zeros by detecting and replacing with random 1 through 9 (leading and lone zeros are not valid as defined by the game). If each side of the equation evaluated to the same number, I kept it, otherwise tossed it.

And a quick running program took all valid equations and paired them with each other, adding up the coverage. To my surprise, there was no shortage of "complete coverage" pairs.

Even with complete coverage in two equations, I had to resort to a spreadsheet to get this in 3. I guess that's cheating.

nerdlegame 18 3/6


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4+2*3=10
96/8-5=7

 

[Tafkah]

Felt more challenging today

nerdlegame 19 5/6

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[conversationalphrase]

nerdlegame 19 5/6

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[JoeWras]

There's some people who think analysis takes the fun out of it, but I'm the odd duck that enjoys the analysis more than do the daily puzzle. I also was very interested in brewing, as long as I was upgrading and changing my brewing system, but once I settled on a process, it became less interesting.

I don't think you are odd. I think you are duck flying in a familiar formation many of us have seen.

This happens in all sort of endeavors. I see it in camping sometimes. Each trip becomes a reason for new gear. You start with a tent and end up with a $400k shiny Class A. Then what?

It happened to me with time-speed-distance road rallying. You start with dead reckoning, move up to computers, then end up dropping back to seat-of-the pants rallying without any electronics. (This analogy is old, the sport is dying or dead.)

I've decided with both Wordle and Nerdle to "use the force" to guide me to first word or equation. Sometimes my first word may be dumb like "beech". So what.

 

[Out-to-Lunch]

nerdlegame 19 3/6

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[sengsational]

Even with complete coverage in two equations, I had to resort to a spreadsheet to get this in 3. I guess that's cheating.

Yesterday's puzzle is in the can, so specifics...

After the first two equations, I had a 3 digit number divided by "thirty something" equals a single digit number.

The only numbers allowed were 1, 3, 7, and 9.

I could have gotten out a pencil, but I was sitting at my computer, so made this table, below. It couldn't be two digit, it couldn't be 200 anything (those are grey. Then it was easy to see which was the only thing that fit. I suppose I could have done that in my head, but that did seem like it aligned with some of the early comments in this thread, where people were saying it seemed too much like w*rk.

 

[sengsational]

Question: Equals Position

Has anyone see an answer that wasn't in the form of "... = #" or "... = # #"?

In other words, is the right side always a number and never an expression?

 

[Zathras]

I don’t enjoy Wordle very much.
I have always enjoyed math and am having a lot of fun with Nerdle

 

[conversationalphrase]

Has anyone see an answer that wasn't in the form of "... = #" or "... = # #"?

In other words, is the right side always a number and never an expression?

In the Faqs they state the right side is always a number not an equation

 

[Gumby]

In the Faqs they state the right side is always a number not an equation

Well, that greatly simplifies things.

 

[conversationalphrase]

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Four tries to get the last space!!!!

 

[JoeWras]

Has anyone see an answer that wasn't in the form of "... = #" or "... = # #"?

In other words, is the right side always a number and never an expression?

It is always a number and so far I've only seen 1 or 2 digits. Maybe this will eventually change.

Today's nerdle had me sweating. Because I guessed too well, and due to the associative property of simple math, you literally just have to wing it and hope you don't run out. I came close. There were other solutions that would have fit. (This also happens with Wordle.)

nerdlegame 20 6/6

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[Out-to-Lunch]

Although encountering similar problems as conversational phrase and JoeWras, I got luckier than them due to fortuitous (?) eliminations.


nerdlegame 20 4/6

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