"leachy" = "lychee"? fuck off.
― ledge, Monday, 20 May 2024 07:42 (three weeks ago) link
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― Alba, Monday, 20 May 2024 08:34 (three weeks ago) link
is leachy pronounced lie or lychee prounced lee? google tells me the fruit is lie in both uk & us english.
― ledge, Monday, 20 May 2024 08:35 (three weeks ago) link
also who has ever in their lives used the word leachy?
― ledge, Monday, 20 May 2024 08:36 (three weeks ago) link
Leechy is a word I have used… Leachy sounds like a person’s name
― sarahell, Monday, 20 May 2024 12:31 (three weeks ago) link
I pronounce lychee "lee-chee."
― jaymc, Monday, 20 May 2024 12:54 (three weeks ago) link
ok that's last time i take pronunciation advice from google.
https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/lychee-15199
i'd like to see a US map of lie vs lee.
still mad at the puzzle though.
― ledge, Monday, 20 May 2024 13:00 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah that was dumb
― kinder, Monday, 20 May 2024 19:48 (three weeks ago) link
I mean why didn’t they just go with plumb
― sarahell, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 05:16 (three weeks ago) link
rip my babby
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 07:29 (three weeks ago) link
Lol mookie otm
― sarahell, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:22 (three weeks ago) link
Connections today: fucken "buzzy things" now, is it?
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 09:46 (three weeks ago) link
Ha I got that one
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 10:59 (three weeks ago) link
Connections feels kinda arbitrary and half-assed.. Like, in the instructions, they show easy at the top and purple at the bottom. Why not put the rows in order spatially, once you've solved them? If you solve purple it should appear at the bottom.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:02 (three weeks ago) link
so you can see that you guessed purple first, and bossed it.
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:03 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah but I don’t remember what the colours are.. yellow? Green? Huh?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:05 (three weeks ago) link
I don’t think showing the rows in the order you solved them is arbitrary. You’d also get the cognitive dissonance of having a blue or green row breaking up the playing field if you solve them out of order rather than keeping all of the words still in play together.
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:05 (three weeks ago) link
Hmm yes
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:06 (three weeks ago) link
yesterday's had steal, deal, buy, value but, unless it's another AmE thing, they're not all synonyms just more or less words in the same area.
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:07 (three weeks ago) link
those all mean “bargain”
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:10 (three weeks ago) link
i would say "that's a steal / deal" but not "that's a value" - maybe mario would - i'd say "that's good value" but it's not a noun on its own. as for buy, i've never heard it used anything like that.
― ledge, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:14 (three weeks ago) link
It's more of a semantic field thing, I guess.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:16 (three weeks ago) link
yeah it’s true value doesn’t work the same way grammaticallythis is what i mean by half assedbut i have heard “that’s a great buy” plenty of times
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:23 (three weeks ago) link
though even then you need to put "great" or "good" in front of it for it to work the same way
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:25 (three weeks ago) link
i have never heard of "gossip" being described in such a way. stupid group, that one (had them left at the end)
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:02 (three weeks ago) link
Connections definitely makes me appreciate the art of Only Connect walls
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:03 (three weeks ago) link
WordAll today was one of the hardest I've seen. Took me 20 mins according to the page (though I obviously wasn't staring at it that entire time)
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:04 (three weeks ago) link
I did today's WordAll in 3m27 - it wasn't easy though
― ailsa, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:58 (three weeks ago) link
kinder have you never seen Jesus Christ Superstar?
the broader point is solid though ("buy" definitely a pretty wack stretch). I think of Connections as a kind of training ground for the half-assedness of crossword clues. maybe mentally append a "sometimes" or "in a way" or "?" after all their categories
― rob, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 14:24 (three weeks ago) link
Had to chuckle today at the name of the yellow category in connections. For purple I had 8 things left and just picked the ones that looked kinda random and that worked.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 14:41 (three weeks ago) link
Xps the wall was always the one I struggled with on only connect and connections has massively helped my game improve
― nxd, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 15:58 (three weeks ago) link
I'd forgotten to do the Wordall today! yes it was a headscratcher.
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:09 (three weeks ago) link
I just learned about Wordall thanks to this thread today, what a fun game
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 18:40 (three weeks ago) link
Tried Wordall but the inability to backspace using the keyboard is a non-starter for me.
― Bottom Cruise (Leee), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 22:10 (three weeks ago) link
managed to shave 1 sec off my best Wordall time today. even with a mistake.
― kinder, Thursday, 23 May 2024 12:48 (three weeks ago) link
yesterday I had never heard of Ovula; today on the Wordall another word I've never seen and one I was iffy about.
― kinder, Sunday, 26 May 2024 08:03 (three weeks ago) link
Anyone's Connections not working today? The other games seem OK
― kinder, Thursday, 30 May 2024 09:02 (two weeks ago) link
Works for me, got it with no errors.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Thursday, 30 May 2024 09:16 (two weeks ago) link
Wordle seems like it's down to just words with two of the same letter now.
― nashwan, Thursday, 30 May 2024 09:18 (two weeks ago) link
Connections came back for me, got it no errors woohoo
― kinder, Thursday, 30 May 2024 09:42 (two weeks ago) link
today's wordle sucked
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 May 2024 10:23 (two weeks ago) link
My 16 year old son beat me at Wordle today (him 4 me 5) - a disgusting development
― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Thursday, 30 May 2024 11:10 (two weeks ago) link
3 for me today, I don't see the problem. :) I've also been enjoying Order Up lately.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 30 May 2024 17:43 (two weeks ago) link
if you get a hit on the “wrong” greens first there could be like 20 different possibilities
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 May 2024 17:45 (two weeks ago) link
so plan two steps ahead and pick a word that maximally reduces the number of possible words?
― flopson, Thursday, 30 May 2024 18:20 (two weeks ago) link
wordle ate my streak between yesterday and today for some reason
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 May 2024 18:23 (two weeks ago) link
Today’s connections was v ilx-y
― sarahell, Friday, 31 May 2024 13:40 (two weeks ago) link
yes!
xp I think I had two of my lowest-ever wordle luck scores yesterday and the day before (18/99 and 19/99)
― Dan S, Friday, 31 May 2024 22:30 (two weeks ago) link
for Connections, today's was the first of those I've done where there was definitely a group of four that neatly fit into a category but which wasn't an answer: Fuji, Canon, Polaroid and Olympus are all brands of cameras
― silverfish, Saturday, 1 June 2024 01:55 (two weeks ago) link
yeah that was my first guess as well, i was not pleased
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 1 June 2024 01:57 (two weeks ago) link