h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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.

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.

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".

Aha! I noticed that one, too! Reassuring that it is not just a UK/US difference

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.

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

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.

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

If you solve one of their sudokus there's a little piano flourish to celebrate.

I did well on today's Strands, because the theme was Maths Great fun

So exciting! Today two of the geography games had the same country as their answer!

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

I've found this on University Challenge & Mastermind where a random question pops up on one that has just been on the other.

Deb

Another coincidence today! Globle and Worldle both had the same country as their answer (France).

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