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#Worldle #289 6/6 (100%)
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Successes are so rare for me, even successes in 6.

#Worldle #291 X/6 (99%)
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:swear: Within 100 miles on guess 5. Even started typing the correct answer in for #6, then switched. Close, but ended up just under 200 miles away.

#Worldle #299 4/6 (100%)
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Success! First post since game 291 8 days ago. Played each intervening day. Sometimes close, but never getting the country. If they gave credit for getting the right continent in 6 guesses, I would have been right on all of them.

:swear: Should have gotten today’s.

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I think the puzzle creator’s fault, not mine. I concluded after guess 2 that the country was near the bottom of Africa, but unfortunately there are tons of countries in Africa and I have no idea were in Africa most of them are. I knew it must be South Africa or a neighbor. But one thing I was positive of: Lesotho is an enclave in South Africa, and this map shows no enclave. So I guessed only countries without enclaves (eliminating maybe only South Africa in Africa). Then South Africa was right.

#Worldle #301 6/6 (100%)
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Took 6, but I got there

#Worldle #303 3/6 (100%)
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A rare victory in 3, and only 2 days after my last win.

#Worldle #305 2/6 (100%)
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And a victory in 2! After only 1 day of failing.

Got a 1 shot today, which makes that my modal result once again

#Worldle #307 1/6 (100%)
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Also got all the neighbors without a miss

I was curious about the capital question this time so I tried it

Spoiler

Bolivia has 2 capitals. I wondered if it would accept both as valid. It did not…

I reinforced our modal combined guesses at 7 today, without getting it right. I did get a neighboring country on guess 6.

#Worldle #309 2/6 (100%)
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Only 6 days since my last victory. OK, not very impressive. This sounds better: β€œonly 6 days since my last victory in 2”.

#Worldle #309 1/6 (100%)
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Sure, but you miss most of the educational value of the game if you don’t use the distance and direction clues.

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#Worldle #310 1/6 (100%)
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Rare success in 1. But with that shape, should be 1 for many

I don’t usually do the neighbors, but I did today and it was hard.

#Worldle #312 2/6 (100%)
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Success, after only one failing day

#Worldle #314 4/6 (100%)
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Is it a pattern? 50% would be much better than my long term average

#Worldle #316 1/6 (100%)
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And the string (alternating losses and wins) continues. Not such an impressive win; most people would get it in 1.

#Worldle #317 6/6 (100%)
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Two successes in a row, even if it took all 6 tries. What’s this world coming to?

#Worldle #318 3/6 (100%)
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Three successes in a row. Unprecedented.

It’s a small world, after all.