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#Worldle #412 X/6 (98%)
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Within 500 for guess 6, with guess 3 closest.

#Worldle #413 5/6 (100%)
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I didn’t want to put this in at first. I knew it was roughly in the area but by the name I didn’t think it was a set of islands. I ran out of other islands that sounded like they were in the area

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The other islands in that area aren’t independent nations, so once i got d/d from first guess it was guess 2.

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#Worldle #413 X/6 (77%)
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Similar, except I didn’t know it was islands or know where it was, so I continued with known islands even though I felt sure they were too far away.

Same

Except my first guess was so far afield it took guess 2 to get region. Then I followed the same logic.

#Worldle #414 5/6 (100%)
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Little embarrassed I didn’t think of this sooner. My sense of distance was not great today. I didn’t think Chile was that narrow

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It is known, Khaleesi

#Worldle #414 1/6 (100%)
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slightly embarrassed that it took maybe 2 minutes before I guessed. I knew long and narrow, but was it that long and that narrow? Finally decided nothing else was, plus it was only my first guess if wrong.I think I had this map before, one of the first games I played, and answered more quickly.

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#Worldle #415 6/6 (100%)
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OK, firstly it’s very sad that I’m still awake after midnight doing this, but I wanted to see if it would go to the new one at midnight. Secondly, very lucky to get this - I knew it was southwest of Ethiopia, northwest of Malawi and inland. I tried Niger first and then this because I knew they were inland.
Edit. Looking at the map, not all of it is inland. Central African Republic could have been another guess and Uganda just appeared a couple of weeks ago.

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#Worldle #415 4/6 (100%)
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Lucky guessing is often a strategy. Occasionally it works.

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#Worldle #416 3/6 (100%)
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#Worldle #416 2/6 (100%)
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#Worldle #417 X/6 (98%)
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Whoops! I thought we’d already done Bulgaria recently so I was avoiding it. There are only 200 odd countries so maybe I shouldn’t care if it’s already come up before.

#Worldle #417 6/6 (100%)
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All guesses within 1100 miles, but the key to getting it? It was early in the alphabet, and after guess 5 I started scrolling through the list of countries to come up with another conceivable guess. Bulgaria was early in the alphabet,so I took it. (On my own, I had already come up with and tried BELARUS, ARMENIA and ALBANIA, so BULGARIA was the earliest plausible left.)

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I can’t remember more than a day or two, so that’s on my side. Initial thoughts were eastern coastline very probable.
Not an African east coast nation, nor Arabian peninsula, nor E Asia, so Bulgaria/Romania. Bulgaria is squatter.

#Worldle #418 X/6 (95%)
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2 misses in a row. I might need to study a bit.

#Worldle #418 X/6 (90%)
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not surprising

It is shaped like SA (without inclave) or India if parts were chopped off.

How did you know my first two guesses? India first, even though I thought it too fat. Then SA based mainly on distance/direction. Then still didn’t get with 1000 in 4 more guesses

#Worldle #419 X/6 (96%)
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I used to think I was good at this game. Now not so much. I’ve been listening to the podcast History of Rome, then the History of Byzantium for the last 9 months, which features Armenia heavily (I think I guessed it three times before) and still couldn’t get it.