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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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RAB BIT
TIB BAR
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FLN, Really good to know, WC, that Chet has taken Neal’s message to heart & has tossed over any animosity he may have felt.
I mean towards Chet (& Nora) for assuming the planning of his and Lois’ wedding.
Now he’s in a mood to talk—and to work things out together. Wonderful!
I see how you reached your lucky Wordle answer. As I said, I couldn’t begin to guess how you led up to that.
**A*P had too many black squares for me to narrow them down.
No, I was seeking your reaction to my guesses of the preceding night (July 30) to Wordle #406 that you posted late July 29.
These were my guesses beginning FLU**, leading up to your answer, BLUFF.
That’s where I thought I had a chance!
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Hint for Wordle 408: Ends in T; a noun, a measurement; a kid may be sent to the corner store, to bring home a _____.
Par = 2
Wordle 408 2/6
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haiku background: what the southern stripper said when told her porn tapes are in low resolution…
“A Tease: (Puh-lease, the…)”
“Pixels no object!
Ah undoes mah zippuh, ‘n ya’ll
rally, rally stare!”
~ OMK
Quite a different word and letters today.
I went the wrong direction with my yellow letter in guess two.
Wordle 408 4/6*
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OMK - FLN, I should write down my Wordle guesses. Once a new day comes, I cannot go back and see my guesses . . . and I never remember them! Sorry.
"Free Speech Rallies"
Sally did not dally
at the rally held in the valley.
She did strongly reject
the goal that was its object:
they wanted free speech to zipper,
an aim that for her was a skipper.
No, their pixel did not her please
and she rejected it in a breeze.
So Sally started her own free speech rally
and now avid supporters can tally.
O.M.Keith, IMHO (since I'm not a Wordler) Your "hints" go way beyond fair! You give away a letter, you give away its position, you give away a definition (two, today, one for CLAMP, one for CRAMP) (I'm not giving anything away, since I don't know what the answer is). Any one of them would be too much! What would be fair would be warning if a letter is duplicated (tho without giving the letter), or giving your seed word without indicating which letters were correct. A very general topic, like "tool" or "body" might be okay, too.
What do wordliacs think? Am I being too hard?
Owen ~ Anyone can go back a month or two to see I was anti-Wordle from the start.
I felt they distracted from your original purpose for this site.
Worse, I found them too easy to do and, furthermore, the answers are plastered all over the web.
So are these hints. These are not ones I invent. I only reprint here the ones I use myself, usually from the Forbes or Newsweek sites. That’s how I judge the “difficulty” of the challenge.
My only inventions are the par numbers.
Why bother? Because I saw our colleagues were going to do Wordles no matter my puny objections. This is my simple (simple-minded?) way of joining in to what wasn’t up to me to prevent.
I try to make a contribution. I will be happy to quit if others wish it.
~ OMK
Anyway, as things stand, Wilbur & CanadianEh! aren’t interested in hints, so it may only be Misty and me on this side of the game.
That’s why I was hoping to try another angle—to try guessing people’s penultimate attempts. To me, that offers something of interest.
But (sigh…) I’m finding how quickly we forget our discard words.
~ OMK
Owen ~ BTW, The link to the Jumble was very slow to open for me today. It was fine yesterday, but today it led to an intro page on the Tribune site, with one of those indefinite spinning circles.
It was only on my fourth attempt that it broke through to the cartoon. Maybe others had better luck.
~ OMK
1. I get Jumble from newspaper. Maybe Sunday I'll look online until I can buy the tbtimes
2. C-EH and I solve wordle before coming here. It's available at midnight EDT
I use the first word I thunk of to start but with no E
I'd say par 4 is correct for hard mode wordle
Well, I got the Wordle on the third try today, but forgot to write down my earlier versions because I was so flustered trying to figure out the answer, even with your helpful hints, OMK. Sorry about that, and will try to do better tomorrow.
Here it is:
Wordle 408 3/6
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Misty ~ I join the supporters of your Sally in her quest for free speech (although I do think she takes some liberties in "freely" attributing her own meanings to "zipper" and "pixel"!), so am glad to see she won her own rally in the end!
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But speaking of freely interpreting language, I apologize for my not-entirely-successful haiku.
No, I am not sorry that I gave a different meaning to "rally." That was just fun.
But in my attempt at a suthin' drawl, I left out a word that might make more sense of the opening line.
As you can see, I cheated by including my stripper's first words in the 2nd part of today's title.
But then I left out the word "ain't" after "Pixels" and before "no"! See, now that makes good sense!
The reason for my omission is clear: It would have made the line SIX syllables instead of five.
Horrors...
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Three tries on your Wordle ain't no problem. It is just one over par, and you know from Wilbur what that is called!
~ OMK
For the record, Misty that's a BOGEY
Many eons ago, on my Atari ST, I developed a version of Mastermind. It was great, you could have as many or as few dots as you wanted, a couple dozen colors or patterns, and was working on adding a third dimension in addition to just position and color when I gave it up. Th ST was going out of style, and porting it over to DOS didn't seem worth the effort. One of the virtues of Mastermind was that all those those choices were made for you, you just have to play it. Too free, it was like a kite without a string. A game of Calvinball. “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily.”
If I were to play Wordle, I'd see getting it on the first try a loss. Coincidence had handed me a bye. I wasn't allowed to play that round. The best game was one that took a full 6 turns and needed every one of them!
BTW was it CLAMP, CRAMP, or ?
It was CRAMP, Owen.
A bit of a trick, I believe. Several of the published hints offered the same as I posted, their own variation on "a metal retaining device for securing stone walls or masonry."
IRL, most folk would say CLAMP, but CRAMP is "technically" correct, from "cramp-iron."
I think it's an example where no hint can be an easier approach than using hints.
Your abandoned game sounds intriguing.
Back when I did Wordle w/o hints, I thought it just too easy. I hardly ever went beyond level 4.
You need only five letters, after all. You try to use as many vowels as you can on the first round, to pin the right one(s) down and cut the rest.
In each early round, you eliminate consonants like crazy! There are only 21 of them in the English alphabet.
If it's not your lucky day, you can at least count on eliminating 50% of the wrong letters by level 3.
And so on...
I am not sure what has made it so popular. I think the ability to post that little colorful diagram is one factor.
~ OMK
START & APART are good candidates, Wilbur, for your 3rd & 4th attempts on Wordle 408.
No quaint or exotic letters in either one...
~ OMK
I had to sit and STARE at the problem.
Then I put on my princess TIARA and tried again.
Still no luck.
Okay, let’s make a CHART.
Success!
I need to buy a QUART.
OK, I see where you went, CanadianEh!. On your early Wordle layers.
You present it for us in such an entertaining fashion, I almost forget when you skip the Jumble words & don’t fuss w/ the purpose of the page.
I guess I envy you, as I sometimes feel like doing the same!
When we do things in a routine manner, we can find ourselves “locked in.”
~ OMK
I am not surprised, Wilbur, as it’s not a word we often use—
or maybe it is men who rarely use it…?
I just happen to employ it in my writings on acting, so when I saw the hint (I forget where, maybe Forbes) that I will re-print tomorrow for 409, I was pretty sure I’d get it in one.
And I did.
~ OMK
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