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I got Wordle in 5 with this very interesting pattern. ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 Broke ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 Plate ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 White ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Suite 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Quite

I can see it now: TRUMPET. BUSHY. GRANTED. POLKA. 🙂

Wordle was in 6!!! At least I didn't fail. Strands was pretty straightforward once you dismissed Monopoly. I thought thenpurple was dirty pool even if I did get it. Bide was also the key for me.

In 6, started with Viola Being Skier Chime Twite Quite

Immediately got the US president one on connections and got a perfect solve today. Pretty proud of it as a non-native, non-american English speaker who always struggles with connections.

Connections Puzzle #402 🟦🟦🟦🟦 collective nouns for animals, 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩 impede, 1 🟪🟪🟪🟪 US presidents without some final letters, 1 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Main Street locations (it's probably more specific). Nope, 1 4 + 4 + 0 + 0 = 8 Total to July 17 7.5+7+7+6.5+2 +1+5+8+7+8 +7+2+8+8+6 +8+7 = 105 Averages to date July 2024 6.2 June 2024 6.0 May 2024 5.5

If it was the Monopoly Park Place both words would have been capitalized. That was a 1 minute solve

Screw it. I've posted my results 3 times and they disappeared immediately. I did okay today. There. done. bye.

I didn't even know of the existence of the "Strands" game until I came across one of these videos of yours that just randomly showed up on my youtube homepage yesterday, so today I went and found it online and tried playing it, and not to rub it in, but yeah, I actually found it almost absurdly easy. I didn't even know how to go about playing this game, but "Park Place" immediately made me think about stuff found in your local neighborhood park, so I looked for "slide" and found it, then "seesaw", then realized that what I was really thinking about was a "playground" which sure enough turned out to be that real long yellow one which I guess is supposed to be a kind of more specific description of the puzzle's theme? The only slightly questionable thing for me was "climber", which i found easily enough but don't know the term, I assume it's the NYT's word for what I always called a "Jungle Gym" or "Monkey Bars", which someone on twitter has probably decided are somewhat problematic terms now. ON THE OTHER HAND...Actually recognizing those partial Presidential names, especially so early on, is just amazing to me. Dumb-ass word tricks like that are why I never let myself worry *too* much whether those last four leftover Connections words actually make any thematic sense to me or not. Oh, and I got Wordle in three, almost entirely due to my second guess happening to be "UNITE" which all by itself told me the answer was definitely "?UITE" (and my first guess eliminated the "S", the only other valid guess). Truth be told, the answer would Have to be that blatantly obvious for me to ever even consider a Q word.

Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡🔵 9 - I expected "Farm" instead of "Baby" for the Spangram. Wordle 1,123 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 . ADIEU - SNORT - GLYPH - DECOY. 🦆 Connections Puzzle #401 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 PETER______ = 1 BEGINNING WORD OF BROADWAY PRODUCTIONS = 1 (I said all the names of the musicals.) TEST RUN = 1 GRUMPY = 1 🟪🟦🟩🟨 <5 minutes. TOTAL: 10. Finally, it's been a long time. 😊

I got the Wordle in 1 today!

I didnt see purple at all today. Connections Puzzle #402 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

COURT GUSTY QUITE, smooth sailing in Strands, but connections tripped me up a bit though I eventually brought it home.

Wordle in 4 VETCH LATER STONE QUITE Connections: No mistakes and time bonus, but I goofed up. For some reason I can never remember what the word "Curb " means. Named the Green category wrong, and didn't get the order. 8/10 Strands: Perfect score. Under 3 minutes with the Spangram first. No hints.

Vetch poets glute unite quite Not bad I think I played that pretty well 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Perfect strands today saw slides and swing and got everything from there 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪presidents missing their ending letters 🟦🟩🟩🟦 🟦🟩🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟩🟩hinder(had I gotten this category) I’m not sure if I misclicked or there was a glitch but I’m almost certain I clicked the green category cause I named it exactly. Also wasn’t there a president named packer or something similar? Not entirely sure but it did eat my first guess

Wordle 1,124 2/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩SAUCE 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩QUITE (#35) [So happy I got a two after losing my 503-day streak] Strands #136 “Park place” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 [I was thinking of Monopoly squares too Connections Puzzle #402 🟪🟪🟪🟪STARTS WITH NAMES OF PRESIDENTS 🟩🟩🟩🟩TO SLOW DOWN USE 🟦🟦🟦🟦GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS 🟨🟨🟨🟨(I did think of Public Places/Buildings but I thought that was too simple...) PLACES WHERE YOU FIND MONEY/COINS

Well done Art! Nice finish! 🎉

VETCH SLATE ROUTE UNITE QUITE (Only 2 possibilities after ROUTE; so just a bit unlucky) Long but fast run. Qualifies for Wordle in a minute (easily). NOTE: in my view, avoiding a so-called ER trap is often achieved by avoiding testing the R - as many other letters tested first, and then solution may appear easier if it is an ER word. Try it.)

I was disappointed because Peter Principle was conspicuous by its absence - if you pardon the terrible cliche!

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Wordle 1,123 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ UPPER ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 AGILE 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩 EBONY 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DECOY Good, not great. Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 No, but I did watch a lot of Hee Haw growing up. Connections Puzzle #401 🟩🟩🟩🟩 proof of concept 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Peter ___ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 irritated 🟦🟦🟦🟦 first word of broadway shows

"Were you raised in a barn " is what is said by parents to a child who comes into a room and doesn't close the door !

Vetch is a climbing legume with a blue flowers that form little pods of seeds. It's grown in cereal mixtures ( oats say) along with peas and the whole lot is harvested as forage or arable silage for livestock.

SOARE CLINT EPOCH DECOY Wordle 1,123 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

UPPER SHALE BEGIN JETTY DECOY Vetch is part of the pea family. Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #401 🟨🟨🟨🟨Irritable 🟩🟩🟩🟩Beginning stage of a project 🟦🟦🟦🟦Start word of a Broadway musical 🟪🟪🟪🟪Peter ____

Connections PPPP - Peter _____ YYYY - Irritable GGGG - Test-run BBBB - Words in musicals Under five minutes

I did exactly the same as you today, Art. I said "Fiddler on the Roof" at one point but had no clue of the overall category. Not Broadway literate enough I guess.

Well done, Art! Connections Puzzle #401 🟩🟩🟩🟩EARLY VERSION 🟨🟨🟨🟨UNHAPPY 🟪🟪🟪🟪PETER ____ 🟦🟦🟦🟦FIRST WORDS OF MUSICALS Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Wordle 1,123 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨TRACE 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨CELLO 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩DECOY

Were you raised in a barn is classically asked by a parent to a child whose left a door open so there's a draft. Which is weird because obvs the parent should know where their child was raised ! I also can't recall what upper has to do with plants 😂 but vetch is definitely a plant. And witch is for witch hazel.

STARE BEECH CELLO DECOY Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Cute! Connections Puzzle #401 🟩🟩🟩🟩 An early version, a prototype or test 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Rude, ill-tempered 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Peter _____ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 First word of Broadway musicals

The NY Times just announced the release of the Wordle Archive, which means you can now play every official Wordle puzzle ever created, going back to the very first one (June 19, 2021.) That's more than 1,100 puzzles. I didn't discover Wordle until a few months after it launched, so it's nice to be able to "go back in time" and catch up on the ones I missed. The only negative (as far as I can tell) is that this site is for subscribers only. 😐

I also had wordle in 4, upper, cleat, echos, decoy. Strands was super easy. When I was a kid, if we left the outside doors open, my mom would ask us if we were born in a barn! Sonshiwing a lack of manners. I also failed in naming the blue.

Thought of DECOY,CHOKE,GECKO,CHEMO and went with the right one.

I have a feeling Connections may somehow prevent you from shuffling clues so that all 4 connections are on the same line.

Wordle 1,123 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ upper 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ elate 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 chewy 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 decoy Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Very very quick today Connections Puzzle #401 🟪🟪🟪🟪 fictional Peters 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Broadway musicals (only knew Kinky and Fiddler, but it was enough to get me there) 🟨🟨🟨🟨 a bit cranky 🟩🟩🟩🟩 a test run Also very quick- the Peters is one of the easier purples to spot.

Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Connections Puzzle #401 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

UPPER, STALE, FIEND, DECOY Wordle 1,123 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Extremely lucky! Upper Steam DECOY!

Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵

Wordle 1,123 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨WHOLE ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜FOYER 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩DECOY

Connections Puzzle #401 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Pop culture Peters 🟦🟦🟦🟦 First word of movie musicals [I’m giving myself half here.] 🟩🟩🟩🟩 words that imply a testing phase 🟨🟨🟨🟨 WTCM “grumpy” RIOT: 4, 3.5, 1, 1. 9.5/10 Time: 4:39 DIFFICULTY, as reported by NYT testers: 2.6/5 There actually is a movie version coming out of Merrily We Roll Along, but I didn’t know that. I was making an educated guess.

Being short with someone

Wordle: Went with an alternate plant word with 5 uniques (this took me a while to find: Urena for Urena Lobata aka Caesarweed) URENA ITCHY DECOY (skipped my planned 3rd word PLODS) ----------------- STRANDS 135, 10 Bit slow at the start, I was looking at the two Fs for something with FARM for the spangram, but eventually I found it. Failed super hard mode on the last word. I thought it was something obscure I never heard of called a GLIPET. Total solve time 1:53. ------------------------ CONNECTIONS 401, 9.5 Peter ___ (1) First Word of Some Type of Fictional Work (0.5) First version (1) Irritable (1)

Upper steal chime decoy Decent with the starting word 🔵💡🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵🔵 I just don’t know animals not my day 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 test run 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Peter ___ 🟨🟨🟦🟦 🟨🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟨🟨 Just couldn’t get it today. Only heard of short tempered for yellow and I’ve seen a select number of musicals so definitely not my categories. This day wasn’t meant for me

Wordle: TULIP CORNY SHADE SWOON ------- STRANDS 134, 10 Successful super hard mode solve today. TEMPLE/DUKE down at the bottom were the key to figuring out the spangram. Total solve time 1:54. ------- CONNECTIONS 400, 8 Order bonus Have Faith In (1) Something False (1) Things to Secure a TV With (1) Second and Third Letter Make a Two Letter Word (0) Took me like 18 hours to come up with that attempt at the purple and I couldn't think of anything better in the remaining 6 hours. :p

If an event has a probability p of happening, then it's a geometric distribution, and the expected number of attempts until it happens is 1/p. So I'm afraid if something has a probability of 1/227, then on average it will take 227 attempts before it happens. In this video you specified that the four selected words end up on the top or bottom row or left or right column, which is half as likely, ie 1/455, so expected 455 clicks! But I noticed today you were quite happy with the four words being on the side but going round the corner, so if you add in those configurations, that improves it to about 1/152.

As you are getting towards the end of the Wordle list, how about this for a future challenge list. Each day, the word starts with the last letter of the previous day until all the letters in the alphabet are used (as far as I know, all of the strange words below are accepted by Wordle). Aflaj - Joust - Thumb - Bayou - Umiaq - Quirk - Knoll - Lingo - Ollav - Venom - Month - Helix - Xylic - Crimp - Place - Elbow - Waltz - Zesty - Yearn - Nomad - Defer - Rabbi - Icing - Grief - Floss - Salsa I was originally going to try to have first word starting with A and ending with B, next starting B ending in C, etc, but there were too many gaps with words that don't follow this pattern.

"Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily Life is but a dream" It's an American song but it's well-known over here and had a long life before it was a musical. Connections Puzzle #401 🟨🟨🟨🟨 annoyed, 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩 try-out, 1 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ???, 0 (holding out for a style point) 🟪🟪🟪🟪 peter ------, 1 3 + 4 + 1 + 0 = 8 Total to July 16 7.5+7+7+6.5+2 +1+5+8+7+8 +7+2+8+8+6 +8 = 98 Averages to date July 2024 6.1 June 2024 6.0 May 2024 5.5

I didnt see the blue category, I could guess some of them once I knew the category but not all! Connections Puzzle #401 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦