Oh no! Not another Wordle spin-off!

[Armchair Cyclist]

Someone has found 1700 cyclists with 5 letter surnames, and have created a Wordle variant on which only those 1700 names are in the dictionary.

BIKLE 🚲 - Guess the names of past and present pro cyclists

Guess the names of past and present pro cyclists in 6 tries. A new cyclist will be avaible each day!

giop98.github.io

The grid doesn't seem to paste here: I got it in 5.

 

[tobydawq]

Someone has found 1700 cyclists with 5 letter surnames, and have created a Wordle variant on which only those 1700 names are in the dictionary.

BIKLE 🚲 - Guess the names of past and present pro cyclists

Guess the names of past and present pro cyclists in 6 tries. A new cyclist will be avaible each day!

giop98.github.io

The grid doesn't seem to paste here: I got it in 5.

Jeez, I already have my daily Wordle, Quordle, Worldle and Nerdle curriculum...

 

[RedheadDane]

I think I got hit by an April's Fool prank...

Spoiler: Answer to riddle!

The answer was "Bidon". I'm pretty sure there's no rider called "Bidon"...

 

[sir fly]

I think I got hit by an April's Fool prank...

Spoiler: Answer to riddle!

The answer was "Bidon". I'm pretty sure there's no rider called "Bidon"...

What's your overall score there, Ginger?

 

[RedheadDane]

What's your overall score there, Ginger?

I don't really keep track.

 

[sir fly]

I don't really keep track.

It keeps itself.

 

[RedheadDane]

It keeps itself.

I don't really keep track of its track-keeping.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Started four days ago, this is a fun game! Why didn't I check it out before? Probably as I had no idea what wordle was.

 

[sward]

They could have called it Pedle

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Wasn’t today’s name the same as the one just a week ago?

 

[RedheadDane]

Wasn’t today’s name the same as the one just a week ago?

Yes.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

More than one rider of the same name?

 

[RedheadDane]

More than one rider of the same name?

How many Unzues are there?
If you go to the "previous guesses list", it frequently lists several riders under the same name:

Bikle #4: Luzia, Beat and Markus ZBERG (SUI, 1970, 1971, 1974).
Three siblings from Altdorf, Switzerland. All of them represented their country at the Olympic Games.

Bikle #28: Erik and Rick ZABEL (GER, 1970, 1993).
Father and son, both professionals. Erik won more than 200 races in his career.

And then there's this:

Bikle #32: Juraj SAGAN (SVK, 1988).
Winner of 4 Slovakian Road Championships.

We all know Juraj is the important Sagan.

(And recently they have just stopped updating the list.)

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Unless they're counting Enrique Sanz as also being an Unzué from his maternal surname (he's Eusebio's nephew) then it isn't a matter of picking two riders with the same name. There's also a Basque junior women's rider called Lourdes Unzué but since she hasn't done any UCI-accredited racing yet I wouldn't expect her to be in their database.

 

[RedheadDane]

I might have at one point remembered Ebras - not in their database - before I remembered Evans...

In my defense; I tend to focus more on the present. Also; my memory is strange.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Seems to be down, or is it just me?
Had great fun with it, hope it’s only a hiccup.

Edit: found another link for it. But all my past results & stats are gone unfortunately.

 

[RedheadDane]

It's been hiccuppy for me too. Though, tbf, they do seem to have frequently needed to re-use riders, so maybe the game just... ran its course...