MGWCC #726 - “One of These Things Is Not Like the Others”
- Meg
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If I deduced green, yellow and grey (highly improbable), my first association would be mucous you cough up in various stages of having a cold. Gross, but true. I’m thankful it didn’t work. Are there MGWCC solvers who don’t do Wordle? Pretty sure there are. OTOH, Matt's a big chess fan and I’m not. We all have still managed to solve his chess metas. Successfully transported.
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- HunterX
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That would be me. Vague knowledge about it. Know that you're guessing words with feedback something along the lines of the old "Mastermind" game I used to play as a kid. Although that one just used colored pegs.
- Amanda Hugginkiss
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Correct me if I’m wrong, please, but I don’t think 37-down is right.
I’m so relieved this is a week 1. Thank you, Matt!
I’m so relieved this is a week 1. Thank you, Matt!
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According to Wiki, the county seat is Nevada, which I bet in Iowa is pronounced nih vey duh.Amanda Hugginkiss wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 6:05 pm Correct me if I’m wrong, please, but I don’t think 37-down is right.
I’m so relieved this is a week 1. Thank you, Matt!
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I sent you a PM.Amanda Hugginkiss wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 6:05 pm Correct me if I’m wrong, please, but I don’t think 37-down is right.
I’m so relieved this is a week 1. Thank you, Matt!
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I liked the magpie shoutout. I also think @benchen71 or @madhatter5 could fill that Week 5 Wordle grid.
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Ha! In at #132 and lovin' it! Thanks to the muggles who got me started on wordle!
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- BarbaraK
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That's how I felt about the the Simpsons week 1 last month:)HunterX wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 5:38 pm Oh geeze. Is this going to be another double-failure week for me? I get that that would happen last week. But everyone's saying these are so easy.
But I've never played Wordle, though obviously I've heard about it.
Must be the $#%@& allergies and/or head cold I've got. Yeah... That's the reason...
Tried this one with downs only, but didn't get very far. Did manage to figure it out without the prompt though.
Had a nice giggle at 59A.
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I’m in. If I were to ever just make a blind guess based on instructions without opening the puzzle, this would have been it. My entire family does Wordle daily and we’ve had discussions about the merits of various first guess words, whether to stick with the same first word each day or rotate, etc. If you haven’t found them, quordle (4 words), octordle (8), and sedecordle (16) are a bunch of fun too. Having lots of crossword experience definitely helps all flavors of *ordle.
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- Joe
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I am officially completely and utterly stumped on a Week 1
Happy to give nudges. If you notice I've solved, please tell me about avenues you've explored so I can nudge you in the right direction and not off a cliff.
- benchen71
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Waiting for the tractor beam. I didn't finish the grid, so I'm hoping I didn't jump the gun!
Edit: #174. I had a nasty moment when I scanned the list of successful solvers and somehow missed mine! Checked the "Overall" tab and found my name almost immediately. Fortunately, when I double-checked, there it was. Whew!
Edit: #174. I had a nasty moment when I scanned the list of successful solvers and somehow missed mine! Checked the "Overall" tab and found my name almost immediately. Fortunately, when I double-checked, there it was. Whew!
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Cool idea but why matt why would you reveal such an awesome idea when you could have figured out some way to do it in the future??
I would have tried rhyming entries with those colors like this (see below) but not interested enough to try to get it to work entirely
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- MMe
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Hard to pronounce it more incorrectly than Nevadans themselves do.
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Beamed up. Happy to see a Week 1. Now back to the WSJ!
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Beamed at #198. This falls in the category of "ones I got the answer to before I knew why it was the answer."
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Pre-emptive congrats to a bunch of solvers for unlocking that elusive "High Five" achievement this week
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This is really week 1? I'm lost and I play Wordle. I'm also lost on the WSJ. Not my weekend so far.
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Taken aboard at #209. Fun idea, Matt.
Actually TAKEN might be a decent one to start Wordle with. (Though not a usual one).
We Muggles who are taken with Wordle have great fun over on that thread here on the forum by posting our grid color results and a picture to match the pattern of our efforts.
As always, @whimsy is a star at this.
Yesterday’s Wordle was LARVA. Hard one!
Check it out
viewtopic.php?t=1381&start=2180
Actually TAKEN might be a decent one to start Wordle with. (Though not a usual one).
We Muggles who are taken with Wordle have great fun over on that thread here on the forum by posting our grid color results and a picture to match the pattern of our efforts.
As always, @whimsy is a star at this.
Yesterday’s Wordle was LARVA. Hard one!
Check it out
viewtopic.php?t=1381&start=2180
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You prompted one of my favorite jokes.
Guy arriving in Boston for the first time, hops in a cab, asks the driver where he can get scrod.
Driver says wow, I've been asked that question many times, but never in the past pluperfect subjunctive.
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I think I lost at least 20 IQ points watching that Drew Barrymore clip (just to hear the Gaffney reference).