Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

I mean why didn’t they just go with plumb

rip my babby

Lol mookie otm

Connections today: fucken "buzzy things" now, is it?

Ha I got that one

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.

so you can see that you guessed purple first, and bossed it.

Yeah but I don’t remember what the colours are.. yellow? Green? Huh?

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.

Hmm yes

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.

those all mean “bargain”

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.

It's more of a semantic field thing, I guess.

yeah it’s true value doesn’t work the same way grammatically

this is what i mean by half assed

but i have heard “that’s a great buy” plenty of times

though even then you need to put "great" or "good" in front of it for it to work the same way

i have never heard of "gossip" being described in such a way.

stupid group, that one (had them left at the end)

Connections definitely makes me appreciate the art of Only Connect walls

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)

I did today's WordAll in 3m27 - it wasn't easy though

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

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.

Xps the wall was always the one I struggled with on only connect and connections has massively helped my game improve

I'd forgotten to do the Wordall today! yes it was a headscratcher.

I just learned about Wordall thanks to this thread today, what a fun game

Tried Wordall but the inability to backspace using the keyboard is a non-starter for me.

managed to shave 1 sec off my best Wordall time today. even with a mistake.

yesterday I had never heard of Ovula; today on the Wordall another word I've never seen and one I was iffy about.

Anyone's Connections not working today? The other games seem OK

Works for me, got it with no errors.

Wordle seems like it's down to just words with two of the same letter now.

Connections came back for me, got it no errors woohoo

today's wordle sucked

My 16 year old son beat me at Wordle today (him 4 me 5) - a disgusting development

3 for me today, I don't see the problem. :) I've also been enjoying Order Up lately.

if you get a hit on the “wrong” greens first there could be like 20 different possibilities

so plan two steps ahead and pick a word that maximally reduces the number of possible words?

wordle ate my streak between yesterday and today for some reason

Today’s connections was v ilx-y

yes!

xp I think I had two of my lowest-ever wordle luck scores yesterday and the day before (18/99 and 19/99)

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

yeah that was my first guess as well, i was not pleased

I made that mistake too, it was annoying. Anyway, 'shake it like a polaroid' is a very outdated term referring to the past with Fuji peel-apart films, today's polaroids are integral films with the film development occurring between protective layers, and with much more painterly results, and there is no shaking, just initially shielding from light

the Fuji peel-apart films in decades past were referred to as polaroids, but only because the Polaroid company (and its very different process) became synonymous with instant film

The US-centric nature of Connections continues to be the most infuriating thing about it. 'stat' meaning 'don't delay' isn't something I've heard of .

what do they say in UK hospitals?

also, it's Latin:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/statim

I've never heard it used so not sure what it's equivalent to.

if i was a real head i’d come up with a name for when you solve the hardest tier first and then get the rest in descending order of difficulty but actually i don’t give a shit

I'm British and I've heard of it so I got that line, however I had never heard of any on the blue line so crashed out.