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Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« on: April 02, 2024, 05:19:28 pm »
New York Times app Wordle is a daily game where you try to guess
the five-letter word with real time hints they provide you.
The twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary reportedly has 171,000
five-letter words. You get six tries in Wordle.

I did it in two today, starting with HEART and got the answer on
my second try. It will knock you over.

Your brain is like a muscle. It too needs exercise to stay strong.


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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2024, 06:20:48 pm »
I got it in two starting with HEART. It took me a bit before I made my second try, though.
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« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2024, 01:12:21 am »


Six on third try, one on second try this month.

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The trick is to place X in unknown after picking most logical places for yellow letters.

Today I put SXIEX and could only think of SKIER which worked.  SHAVE was just a lucky guess starting with very common letter S and A in the middle.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2024, 01:15:57 am »
Queue is a pretty tough word for that game.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2024, 01:30:34 am »
I don't play every day. I did today. Can't post the screenshot on this device.

NOISE
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SKIER
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2024, 01:38:01 am »
How do you play?

Nevermind.  I looked it up.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2024, 01:43:22 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on May 28, 2024, 01:38:01 am
How do you play?

Pick any five letter word to start and hit enter. The letters render in three colors.  Brown - that letter is not in the word. Yellow - that letter is in the word but out of place. Green - correct letter and place. @Hoodat
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2024, 01:48:21 am »
Quote from: bigheadfred on May 28, 2024, 01:43:22 am
Pick any five letter word to start and hit enter.

Hit enter where?  Is there a link to the puzzle?
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« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2024, 01:50:16 am »
I did this one.  Got it in four steps.

https://powerlanguage-wordle.github.io/
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« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2024, 01:51:56 am »
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« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2024, 03:30:43 am »
Thanks.  Now here's something else I can be addicted to.  As if killer sudoku isn't bad enough.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2024, 06:20:54 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on May 28, 2024, 03:30:43 am
Thanks.  Now here's something else I can be addicted to.  As if killer sudoku isn't bad enough.

I'm kinda scared to try it. I'm already a cryptogram-aholic. I don't need another addiction.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2024, 12:50:27 pm »
Quote from: AllThatJazzZ on May 28, 2024, 06:20:54 am
I'm kinda scared to try it. I'm already a cryptogram-aholic. I don't need another addiction.

Yes you do!  Admit it!  You WANT another addiction. Go ahead.  We'll all clap.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2024, 01:33:57 pm »
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Too much schooling ... too many text books ... too many technical information documents ... too much change, too fast ... my brain is drowing in information ... at this point, I prefer to lose it ... stupid people seem so much happier.




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« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2024, 07:34:54 pm »
Quote from: ChemEngrMBA on May 28, 2024, 12:50:27 pm

Yes you do!  Admit it!  You WANT another addiction. Go ahead.  We'll all clap.

@ChemEngrMBA

No, I didn't really WANT another addiction, but I may have gotten one.  :facepalm2:  I couldn't leave well enough alone, so I sashayed over and thought I'd take a look. Then I thought I'd try my hand at just one puzzle. After solving it (4 attempts), I thought that maybe I'd try a second one. To my relief, a new puzzle wouldn't be available until the next day. Will I return?  :shrug: Am I hooked?  :shrug: Am I glad I tried it?  :shrug: Maybe so, but I can't have another puzzle that causes me anxiety like cryptograms do if I can't find one to solve. I've been working cryptogram books that caused me to panic when I got down to my last 25 or so. How crazy is that? Rhetorical. Don't answer.  888mouth

So, while I enjoyed working the Wordle puzzle, I may have a love-hate relationship if it grips me as cryptograms do.

Gonna go make a call to my therapist. I'll tell her that it's your fault.

 
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #16 on: May 28, 2024, 08:38:18 pm »
Me: Hi, I'm Berdie. I'm a word puzzle-a-holic.

Group: Hi Berdie

Me: Jazzy will be telling her story this evening. Please feel free to help yourself to coffee and cookies.
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« Reply #17 on: May 28, 2024, 08:50:08 pm »
psssst .... don't look now, but there's also a daily dordle (2 words), quordle (4 words), octordle (8 words), and sedecordle (16 words).
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #18 on: May 28, 2024, 08:50:23 pm »
Quote from: berdie on May 28, 2024, 08:38:18 pm
Me: Hi, I'm Berdie. I'm a word puzzle-a-holic.

Group: Hi Berdie

Me: Jazzy will be telling her story this evening. Please feel free to help yourself to coffee and cookies.

Hi, @berdie!


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« Reply #19 on: May 28, 2024, 08:52:22 pm »
Quote from: Polly Ticks on May 28, 2024, 08:50:08 pm
psssst .... don't look now, but there's also a daily dordle (2 words), quordle (4 words), octordle (8 words), and sedecordle (16 words).

@Polly Ticks

Hush your mouth, girl! I need time for sleeping, eating and carousing going places.
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« Reply #20 on: May 28, 2024, 08:55:35 pm »
Quote from: AllThatJazzZ on May 28, 2024, 08:52:22 pm
@Polly Ticks

Hush your mouth, girl! I need time for sleeping, eating and carousing going places.

LOL - fair enough!  :laugh:
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #21 on: May 28, 2024, 09:00:38 pm »
The series probably deserves a descriptive thread, but these games are my regular brain-stretcher, https://res-games.com/ .
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« Reply #22 on: May 28, 2024, 09:30:31 pm »
Got it in three today.
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« Reply #23 on: May 28, 2024, 10:00:28 pm »
Okay all you thinkers, here is a riddle for you:

A prison was overcrowded and the warden decided to free a prisoner.  But he wanted someone to earn their way out.
So he brought in three prisoners to his office and said, "Behind you is a guard with a duffel bag containing five hats.
Three are black, and two are red.  He will put one on each of your heads at random.You will not be able to see the hat
on your own head but you can see the hats on other prisoners. If you can tell me the color of your hat, I will pardon you
immediately.  But you must not guess.  You agree that if you guess and are wrong, you will be shot immediately.

All agree.

First prisoner:  I can't tell. 
Second prisoner:  I don't know.
Third prisoner who is blind:  I know.

Does he?  Explain.

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Old English Riddle

As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, hats, wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

No cheating.  Don't look it up.
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« Reply #24 on: May 28, 2024, 11:10:55 pm »
Quote from: AllThatJazzZ on May 28, 2024, 07:34:54 pm
@ChemEngrMBA

No, I didn't really WANT another addiction, but I may have gotten one.  :facepalm2:  I couldn't leave well enough alone, so I sashayed over and thought I'd take a look. Then I thought I'd try my hand at just one puzzle. After solving it (4 attempts), I thought that maybe I'd try a second one. To my relief, a new puzzle wouldn't be available until the next day. Will I return?  :shrug: Am I hooked?  :shrug: Am I glad I tried it?  :shrug: Maybe so, but I can't have another puzzle that causes me anxiety like cryptograms do if I can't find one to solve. I've been working cryptogram books that caused me to panic when I got down to my last 25 or so. How crazy is that? Rhetorical. Don't answer.  888mouth

So, while I enjoyed working the Wordle puzzle, I may have a love-hate relationship if it grips me as cryptograms do.

Gonna go make a call to my therapist. I'll tell her that it's your fault.

Your therapist has made bank on me already.  She loves me!

Got another call from a reader of my book.  Loved it!
Read it.  If you don't like it. I will buy it from you.
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