Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

connections: never heard of threading or b-school. i'd say vitamin b but there is this so okay i guess... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_vitamins

I got the first one as part of my first group, it's pretty well-known I'd say? The second, I only got that group by what was left at the end and thought the same.

Yeah, thought purple was pretty crap today.

Purple was a shrug emoji. glad didn’t actually need to name the category

Purple was very dumb today but yellow was pretty straightforward, I thought

ok connections tomorrow's purple will be D -

I'm hoping one of the words tomorrow will be Beat.

I got purple but my connection was places where men flex

I did have to laugh at this Connections category yesterday: Feeling Some Type of Way

today's purple was very esoteric, what "cross" might mean, I only got it because it was left over

Today's Connections was a bit of a head-scratcher but I got it with 2 mistakes left.

I thought the Connections was very straightforward today; my only hesitation was one category initially seemed to have six members so I had to ignore it at first while I built a couple of the others.

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I've gotten into the habit of reading the comments after I do the NYT crossword, and the boomers do get testy when there's a contemporary pop-culture reference or bit of slang they've never heard.

Was a little surprised at MANGA as a clearly not English word in yesterday's wordle.

yeah I tried it expecting to see "Not a word" but I couldn't think of anything else

pretty lucky first guess I must admit

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― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:48 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's enough to put me off Wordle, not that anyone will notice, or, if they
did, care.

something poignant about this one

Was a little surprised at ***** as a clearly not English word in yesterday's wordle.

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It's a fairly recent loanword, but it's in the dictionary, so it's an English word as much as "coffee" or "pundit" or sth like half of our language is.

Thinking about Nikki now saving herself two hours a night xp

What the hell was her process for doing Wordle?

TY to the person that mentioned WordAll, it's a fun extension of the wordle concept.

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I admit I was a little surprised that NYT editors selected it, but it's absolutely valid. Certainly no less so than SUSHI, which was the word back in November.

The "lol" at the end kills me

https://i.imgur.com/uxYVbnN.png

my 70-something year old father in law had never heard of it but managed to suggest it through a process of elimination (and a series of non-words).

he doesn't use a phone or laptop so my MIL does it first then he does it in pencil and she marks up each turn. He's really good, and determined with it. when I was staying there, I think it was VOILA which he also struggled with but got eventually in a similar way ("is there such a word as....?")

I feel like manga as a word gets more use in the USA than Adieu does.

Connections fun today - found it easy when I stopped thinking about the actual films . I got the yellow group last because I hadn't realised one of those was one of that.

i got them in perfect order (purple first, etc) without trying and yep same with yellow.

I didn't get any of them because I kept making wrong guesses based on thinking about the actual films. You lot are too clever for me.

I did spend a while thinking what could possibly connect them as films, and coming up with nothing.

oops spoiler alert

Enh, that’s not much of a spoiler imo. I thought today’s was a fun gimmick.

Some people hate being confronted with things they don't know because they don't like the idea of their ignorance being exposed (though they still might complain loudly about it and thus remove all doubt thereof). I know that I've done something similar in the last with crosswords.

Connections today purposely designed to drive film buffs crazy

I am stunned I've made it to nearly 50 and didn't realise Dumbo was a place name in NYC.

Some people hate being confronted with things they don't know because they don't like the idea of their ignorance being exposed

And likely more so when they think of themselves as a smart, cultured person who reads the New York Times.

They 100% should have inverted the colors on the Connections today

xps yeah, Dumbo was the main reason I didn't get a perfect score today ... had no clue how that one slotted

(Also, I was today years old when I learned that the Connections colors are ranked by difficulty.)

I got the last one by process of elimination and was like “that’s not a thing!” for an indignant five minutes before some dormant synapse fired off a dim memory and I went “oh yeah, that is a thing”

it still annoys me that the colour order is essentially arbitrary?

Another very US-centric entry today.

yeah would never have got 2 of that group. luckily it was the last one left

Can you easily get the full range of 20 EU pencil grades in the US or is it generally limited to #0-#4? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Grading_and_classification

^ unless you buy a pencils specifically for drawing, pretty sure all the US pencils are #2 (whatever that equates to in the EU)

re todays purple (#369) i had 3/4 early (jeter gave me a good guess, found deputy and silver) and then spent about 30 seconds looking for some variation on the word "poo" to close it out

don't think I can properly see the last 3 spoiler tag text

Said out loud by me earlier: what the fuck is a Derek Jeter? I'm fine with the article in there. Figured it was as likely to be a donut or a burger as anything else.

Yeah I only got that group by elimination and I really wish all of these puzzles would stop using fiercely US-centric sports examples all the damn time.

i understand the complaints, but . . . it *is* an american newspaper based in nyc (where derek jeter played for 20 years)

i mean if the sydney morning herald runs a puzzle featuring the late shane warne that's honestly to be expected?

i do wonder what proportion of the nyt games subscriptions are international tho. i'm sure they'll be happy to adjust if it means more money

Yeah thats a fair point.