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Baron Grim Posted May 1, 2024
Yeah, I think we had a wheelbarrow in our set too, but I can't be too sure because if it wasn't the doggie or the racecar I didn't want to play with it.
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SashaQ - happysad Posted May 4, 2024
Funny how we have Monopoly favourites - the dog was my sister's, and mine was the top hat
Today's NYT Connections was hard - homophones are difficult, because there are so many differences between accents...
I like Strands - a bit of a challenge, but not too much that it takes me ages. Very clever how the words are entwined.
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Baron Grim Posted May 5, 2024
I don't know if it was today's or yesterday's, but I had no idea what a "sample sale" was since I don't live in, according to wikipedia "Los Angeles, New York, or other prominent places".
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You can call me TC Posted May 5, 2024
Strands is a beta version, according to the page. I think they could do one more tweak, and that would be to reduce the available hints to one only. I find I am still just jabbing out words and when I've got three I just let the game do the work.
The Spangram yesterday was "yardwork". That sounds to me like a job that convicts have to do (picking up stones/sweeping the exercise yard). Apparently it means "gardening". Now I know which word I think sounds nicer....
Then I remembered a discussion somewhere on the web recently about the American use of the word "yard". It got quite heated. I came away having realised that Americans might have a garden in their yard, while a Brit might have a yard in their garden.
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SashaQ - happysad Posted May 5, 2024
Strands is good - you can use as many clues as you can get, but it gives you a score accordingly - if you don't use any clues, you get 'Perfect!' It's like Connections - if you get it without using up spare guesses then that gives you 'Perfect!' too, so that's the challenge
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You can call me TC Posted May 6, 2024
Ah, that's the point of it!??
I never wait to look at the scores. I just do the puzzles for the sake of them. Probably the wrong attitude.
I haven't signed up to any of them.
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SashaQ - happysad Posted May 11, 2024
Yes, better to slow down a little bit and try to do the puzzle rather than just going straight for the 'cheat mode'
I like the little fanfare that you get when completing the mini crossword! A bit disappointing that we don't get the same fanfare on all the NYT puzzles, but at least we get the gradings, and the animations are good
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You can call me TC Posted May 12, 2024
If you solve one of their sudokus there's a little piano flourish to celebrate.
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You can call me TC Posted Jun 2, 2024
So exciting! Today two of the geography games had the same country as their answer!
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SashaQ - happysad Posted Jun 2, 2024
Haha! That is good. I find similar watching gameshows on TV - on iPlayer I'm watching series from 2018, 2023 and 2024 and sometimes the same answer comes up in two of those on the same day
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Deb Posted Jun 3, 2024
I've found this on University Challenge & Mastermind where a random question pops up on one that has just been on the other.
Deb
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You can call me TC Posted Aug 10, 2024
Another coincidence today! Globle and Worldle both had the same country as their answer (France).
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Deb Posted Aug 25, 2024
I play Thrice, and a couple of weeks ago one of the questions was Which country has Suva as it's capital. Whilst playing I was Whatsapping with my best friend, who was at that time in Fiji
Deb
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