Words and Mathimatical puzzles

I enjoy the simple puzzles that anyone using their everyday intelligence and average education can solve.
Unfortunately the puzzles that find their way into this forum usually rely on university-level mathematics, statistics, probability, calculus for their solution, so I'm a non-participant.

@Kewpie
I don't feel the same way about it. Calculus problems are really seldom. Often it is artithmetics.

@mwmiller
Why did you remove the links?

@ponderable said
@mwmiller
Why did you remove the links?

Here is an updated list:

WORDLE: guess the 5 letter word in 6 guesses
: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

NY TIMES page & some of their other games
: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

WORDLE ARCHIVES:old wordles you missed
: https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/

QUORDLE:four wordles at a time in 9 guesses
: https://www.quordle.com/#/

MATHLER: find math solution used to arrive at a number
: https://www.mathler.com/

WORLDLE: identify a nation from it's silhouette
: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

@kewpie said
I enjoy the simple puzzles that anyone using their everyday intelligence and average education can solve.
Unfortunately the puzzles that find their way into this forum usually rely on university-level mathematics, statistics, probability, calculus for their solution, so I'm a non-participant.

Here are the solutions for a few earlier ones, Kewpie. You may be expecting them to be more complicated than they actually are. 🙂

MATHLER
8 * 4 – 1 7 = 15
18 – 2 * 5 = 8
49 / 7 + 5 = 12
40 – 2 + 9 = 47
169 – 41 = 128
28 / 7 * 6 = 24

The hardest part is that there are usually many different ways to write out a combination of numbers and operators to arrive at the same answer, and you have only a limited number of tries to find the same combination that they actually used. The clues used are colored tiles after a guess, the same as wordle.

It includes three levels of diffuculty, and I think you are allowed to work all three levels each day.

@kewpie said
I enjoy the simple puzzles that anyone using their everyday intelligence and average education can solve.
Unfortunately the puzzles that find their way into this forum usually rely on university-level mathematics, statistics, probability, calculus for their solution, so I'm a non-participant.

I have the opposite view.
I prefer problems which have an "elegant" solution by applying algebraic formulae.
Even though i often fail to solve them I get a buzz from the beauty of the mathematics.
The weekly puzzles in the newspaper have been rubbish again recently by the way.

@mwmiller said


WORLDLE: identify a nation from it's silhouette
: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

Here's some more info on WORLDLE in case you're interested and have not tried it yet.

You are shown a silhouette of a nation.
You have six tries to identify it.
When you enter a guess and it isn't correct, you are shown clues consisting of an arrow and a distance. (in miles or kilometers)
This is telling you which direction and distance you must go to find the correct nation, using your last guess as the starting point.
I don't know if this is totally fair, but you probably will need something like google maps or a real world atlas to find the answer, unless you are really a very seasoned world traveller.
GOOD LUCK!!

I didn't get it today. This isn't a game of vocabulary, it's geography, and i would not have got it in 50 tries without looking at a map. Back to school ...

@kewpie said
I didn't get it today. This isn't a game of vocabulary, it's geography, and i would not have got it in 50 tries without looking at a map. Back to school ...

Good point Kewpie! Nothing to do with words or math, and in reality it sux.

If you happen to live in or near that nation you will probably recognize it. Otherwise it is just an oddly shaped 'thing'.

It's more like a solid black piece of a solid black jigsaw puzzle where each piece is a nation, and you have to figure out where it fits. No edge or corner pieces, and no visual help such as variations in color to give a hint of what part of the puzzle it may go to.

Then after making a quess, the clues given make it too easy to zero in on the nation if you have a world map.

@mwmiller said
Good point Kewpie! Nothing to do with words or math, and in reality it sux.

If you happen to live in or near that nation you will probably recognize it. Otherwise it is just an oddly shaped 'thing'.

It's more like a solid black piece of a solid black jigsaw puzzle where each piece is a nation, and you have to figure out where it fits. No edge or corner pieces, and n ...[text shortened]... r making a quess, the clues given make it too easy to zero in on the nation if you have a world map.

#Worldle #33 1/6 (100😵
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

@mwmiller said
Here is an updated list:

WORDLE: guess the 5 letter word in 6 guesses
: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

NY TIMES page & some of their other games
: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

WORDLE ARCHIVES:old wordles you missed
: https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/

QUORDLE:four wordles at a time in 9 guesses
: https://www.quordle.com ...[text shortened]... //www.mathler.com/

WORLDLE: identify a nation from it's silhouette
: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

You can add this one to the list:

OCTORDLE: 8 wordles at a time in 13 guesses.
https://octordle.com/

OK, I'll quit now. 🙂

OK, I lied! I found another one.
I'll post this last one, and then quit. 🙂

https://lazyguyy.github.io/survivle/

In Survivle it is your goal to lose by not guessing the word!
It's much harder than it sounds, since you cannot re-use any wrong letters, and also you must use all of the correct letters you discover.

@mwmiller said
OK, I lied! I found another one.
I'll post this last one, and then quit. 🙂

https://lazyguyy.github.io/survivle/

In Survivle it is your goal to lose by not guessing the word!
It's much harder than it sounds, since you cannot re-use any wrong letters, and also you must use all of the correct letters you discover.

Quit?! Never quit. This is forum is sloooow. Post all the links you want.

@BigDogg
OK. Here's a Wordle spin-off for 16 words in 21 guesses!

http://www.sedecordle.com/

And one more! Adverswordle
https://adverswordle.doteye.online/

You pick a valid 5 letter word and write it down on paper.
Then go to the above link.

The computer AI will try and guess your word.
(Their first guess will be there already when you open the link.)

Use the Wordle color codes to mark their guess against your word.
(click each tile to cycle the colors until it's correctly marked up)

The goal is to use a word that the AI does not guess right away.
The more guesses needed by the AI, the better your score.
As with the original Wordle, it's just one per day.