today's is ridiculous...got in 6 and guess-learned a whole new word en route
― nashwan, Monday, 13 May 2024 23:59 (four months ago) link
Wait did we have the same puzzle? Because I thought it was average
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 00:47 (four months ago) link
Yeah I got it in 4, was pretty straightforward once I had 4 letters
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 01:24 (four months ago) link
I had a lucky combination of things in the second word and got it in 3. Hitting the right consonant early makes such a huge difference.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 01:32 (four months ago) link
are we talking about today's wordle? they told me I had higher skill level but worse luck, like often, and that I didn't even solve it as well as the NYT average person, which is insulting.
these wordlebot comments and NYT averages are depressing and I'm coming think are meant to intimidate
if we are talking about today's connections, I only got the blue tier because it was the only category left
― Dan S, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 01:38 (four months ago) link
lol wordlebot can be so enraging but I can't help myself.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 01:55 (four months ago) link
I got today's in 4. Might've been able to get it in 3 if I hadn't spaced and played that move as if my last two letters were yellow instead of green.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 02:13 (four months ago) link
I got it in 4 -- might have gotten it in 3 but I perversely tried PUBIC for that guess.
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 02:44 (four months ago) link
Xp DanS … that was me except the green tier … I had 3 of the 4 at first and then moved on to a different connection because I didn’t want to waste guesses on figuring out the fourth… my initial 4th included “duck (duck goose)”
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 03:41 (four months ago) link
spoiler for today's...never had this happen before
https://i.imgur.com/13pA9t1.png
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:02 (four months ago) link
Nice!
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 22:00 (four months ago) link
7 words to find on WordAll today! luckily I got the main format quickly.
― kinder, Thursday, 16 May 2024 10:11 (four months ago) link
xpost was that word association football, there?
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 May 2024 10:22 (four months ago) link
"leachy" = "lychee"? fuck off.
― ledge, Monday, 20 May 2024 07:42 (four months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31+479fhOqL._AC_.jpg
― Alba, Monday, 20 May 2024 08:34 (four months ago) link
is leachy pronounced lie or lychee prounced lee? google tells me the fruit is lie in both uk & us english.
― ledge, Monday, 20 May 2024 08:35 (four months ago) link
also who has ever in their lives used the word leachy?
― ledge, Monday, 20 May 2024 08:36 (four months ago) link
Leechy is a word I have used… Leachy sounds like a person’s name
― sarahell, Monday, 20 May 2024 12:31 (four months ago) link
I pronounce lychee "lee-chee."
― jaymc, Monday, 20 May 2024 12:54 (four months ago) link
ok that's last time i take pronunciation advice from google.
https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/lychee-15199
i'd like to see a US map of lie vs lee.
still mad at the puzzle though.
― ledge, Monday, 20 May 2024 13:00 (four months ago) link
Yeah that was dumb
― kinder, Monday, 20 May 2024 19:48 (four months ago) link
I mean why didn’t they just go with plumb
― sarahell, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 05:16 (four months ago) link
rip my babby
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 07:29 (four months ago) link
Lol mookie otm
― sarahell, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:22 (four months ago) link
Connections today: fucken "buzzy things" now, is it?
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 09:46 (four months ago) link
Ha I got that one
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 10:59 (four months ago) link
Connections feels kinda arbitrary and half-assed.. Like, in the instructions, they show easy at the top and purple at the bottom. Why not put the rows in order spatially, once you've solved them? If you solve purple it should appear at the bottom.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:02 (four months ago) link
so you can see that you guessed purple first, and bossed it.
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:03 (four months ago) link
Yeah but I don’t remember what the colours are.. yellow? Green? Huh?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:05 (four months ago) link
I don’t think showing the rows in the order you solved them is arbitrary. You’d also get the cognitive dissonance of having a blue or green row breaking up the playing field if you solve them out of order rather than keeping all of the words still in play together.
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:05 (four months ago) link
Hmm yes
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:06 (four months ago) link
yesterday's had steal, deal, buy, value but, unless it's another AmE thing, they're not all synonyms just more or less words in the same area.
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:07 (four months ago) link
those all mean “bargain”
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:10 (four months ago) link
i would say "that's a steal / deal" but not "that's a value" - maybe mario would - i'd say "that's good value" but it's not a noun on its own. as for buy, i've never heard it used anything like that.
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:14 (four months ago) link
It's more of a semantic field thing, I guess.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:16 (four months ago) link
yeah it’s true value doesn’t work the same way grammaticallythis is what i mean by half assedbut i have heard “that’s a great buy” plenty of times
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:23 (four months ago) link
though even then you need to put "great" or "good" in front of it for it to work the same way
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:25 (four months ago) link
i have never heard of "gossip" being described in such a way. stupid group, that one (had them left at the end)
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:02 (four months ago) link
Connections definitely makes me appreciate the art of Only Connect walls
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:03 (four months ago) link
WordAll today was one of the hardest I've seen. Took me 20 mins according to the page (though I obviously wasn't staring at it that entire time)
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:04 (four months ago) link
I did today's WordAll in 3m27 - it wasn't easy though
― ailsa, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:58 (four months ago) link
kinder have you never seen Jesus Christ Superstar?
the broader point is solid though ("buy" definitely a pretty wack stretch). I think of Connections as a kind of training ground for the half-assedness of crossword clues. maybe mentally append a "sometimes" or "in a way" or "?" after all their categories
― rob, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 14:24 (four months ago) link
Had to chuckle today at the name of the yellow category in connections. For purple I had 8 things left and just picked the ones that looked kinda random and that worked.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 14:41 (four months ago) link
Xps the wall was always the one I struggled with on only connect and connections has massively helped my game improve
― nxd, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 15:58 (four months ago) link
I'd forgotten to do the Wordall today! yes it was a headscratcher.
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:09 (four months ago) link
I just learned about Wordall thanks to this thread today, what a fun game
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 18:40 (four months ago) link
Tried Wordall but the inability to backspace using the keyboard is a non-starter for me.
― Bottom Cruise (Leee), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 22:10 (four months ago) link
managed to shave 1 sec off my best Wordall time today. even with a mistake.
― kinder, Thursday, 23 May 2024 12:48 (four months ago) link
yesterday I had never heard of Ovula; today on the Wordall another word I've never seen and one I was iffy about.
― kinder, Sunday, 26 May 2024 08:03 (four months ago) link
Anyone's Connections not working today? The other games seem OK
― kinder, Thursday, 30 May 2024 09:02 (three months ago) link