[lastofthemojito]

I briefly had the thought of creating a game where you get a bunch of those Wordle color square messages from in-game "friends", and maybe some side info - "Tim always guesses adieu as his first word", "Jane always uses one of her kids' names - Olive or Hazel", etc and then you have to guess the word. Haven't had time to experiment with it though so not sure how fun it'd be. I don't retain any rights to the idea if anyone wants to run with it and try it out.

[Symbiote]

I tried that in a single game with a friend's Octordle result. You have to solve it yourself first, then work out their initial guesses. Here's my solution to today's Octordle:

  O = incorrect (white)
  ~ = wrong place (yellow)
  # = correct (green)

  Daily Octordle #40 / octordle.com

  OOOOO ~~~OO
  OO~OO OOOOO
  ~O~O~ OOOOO
  OOOOO O~#OO
  OO~OO OOOOO
  #OOOO O##OO
  OOOOO #####
  #OOOO ·····
  OOOOO ·····
  OOOOO ·····
  OOOOO ·····
  ##### ·····

  ~~O~O O~~OO
  OOOO~ OOO~O
  OOOOO OOOO~
  ###O# OO#OO
  #OOOO OOOOO
  OO#OO #####
  OO#O~ ·····
  O~OOO ·····
  O~~~# ·····
  O~O~O ·····
  O~O~O ·····
  OOOOO ·····
  ##### ·····

  O#OOO OOOOO
  OOO~O ~OOO~
  OOOO~ O~#OO
  OO~OO #OOOO
  OOOOO #####
  #O~O# ·····
  ~O~OO ·····
  ##### ·····

  O#~#O ~#O~O
  OOOOO OOOO~
  OOOOO OOOOO
  OO~O~ ~O~##
  OOOOO ~OOOO
  O~~OO OO~~O
  #~~OO OO~O~
  O#~OO O#OOO
  O#OO~ #####
  ##O## ·····
  ##### ·····

(This one was difficult and/or arbitrary, I normally try and complete Octordle in 11 guesses, i.e. the 8 correct answers plus three extra.)

My first three guesses, base64 encoded: VEFSRUQKTE9JTlMKQ0hVTVAK

[lkbm]

That could be a lot of fun. Someone did a "guess the word based on people's tweets a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30101456

Throwing in those extra hints about the players make it feel more like a zebra puzzle, but that's not a bad thing, especially if you want mere humans to solve it. I can't easily process a thousand tweets, so giving more compact data is key.