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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: Today at 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: Today at 01:15:57 am »
Queue is a pretty tough word for that game.
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« Reply #4 on: Today at 01:30:34 am »
I don't play every day. I did today. Can't post the screenshot on this device.

NOISE
TRIES
SKIER
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #5 on: Today at 01:38:01 am »
How do you play?

Nevermind.  I looked it up.
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« Reply #6 on: Today at 01:43:22 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on Today at 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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« Reply #7 on: Today at 01:48:21 am »
Quote from: bigheadfred on Today at 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: Today at 01:50:16 am »
I did this one.  Got it in four steps.

https://powerlanguage-wordle.github.io/
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« Reply #11 on: Today at 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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« Reply #12 on: Today at 06:20:54 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on Today at 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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« Reply #13 on: Today at 12:50:27 pm »
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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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« Reply #14 on: Today at 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: Today at 07:34:54 pm »
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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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« Reply #16 on: Today at 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: Today at 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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« Reply #18 on: Today at 08:50:23 pm »
Quote from: berdie on Today at 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: Today at 08:52:22 pm »
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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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Hush your mouth, girl! I need time for sleeping, eating and carousing going places.
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« Reply #20 on: Today at 08:55:35 pm »
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@Polly Ticks

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

LOL - fair enough!  :laugh:
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« Reply #21 on: Today at 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: Today at 09:30:31 pm »
Got it in three today.
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