Saved By The Length Limit

And I was looking in a mirror, too!
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The Early Years: Can We Lift It? Probably Not!

So this week I decided to take a break from being curmudgeonly about AI to sift through the giant stack of my old papers that my folks sent me a while back; but this time, near the top of the pile, I found something that wasn’t an old bad drawing or me asking rude questions. Instead, it was a mysterious list of weights.

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Don’t Leave Midgar Without It

Life is better with a Chocobo
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Spelling Bee Minus

This week, it’s time for another set of words that weren’t in various Spelling Bee puzzles, but should have been. Or that obviously wouldn’t be, but hey, they’re still funny, right? Right? 🦗🦗🦗*

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Pardon Me, Your Fantasy Background Is Showing

Surely any random person, presented with this set of correct and/or misplaced letters:

would go straight to the word “HENGE“, right? Right … ?

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Spelling Be Like …

Since last week I posted about Wordle, I figured this week I would post about another word game I play, Spelling Bee. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Spelling Bee gives you seven letters, and you have to make as many words as you can out of them. Oh, and the words always have to include the letter in the middle. However, there are a few quirks:

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Wordles Who Live In Glass Houses

As I’ve mentioned previously (and which should surprise no one), I like word games, and so I play the daily Wordle. Everybody has their own approach and/or goals when it comes to Wordle, I’m sure; I just have two of them*:

  • I play a different starting word every day, often something outlandish, like “xylem”, “junco”, or “vinca”; and
  • The only thing I care about is how long of a streak I can keep going.
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We Don’t Die We Wordiply

So lately I’ve been playing yet another word game, Wordiply, by The Guardian. The way this game works is that they give you a short series of letters (the instructional blurb below says it’s a “starter word” but it is most definitely not always an actual word) and then you have to come up with the longest five words you can think of that includes these letters. This is a more difficult task than you might expect.

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Game On

So lately I’ve been playing a new “experimental” New York Times game on my phone, “Connections“, wherein you are supplied with a number of words. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to divide the words up into four groups of four, based on how the words are related to each other. On the results screen, your groups are displayed in the order in which you figured them out. Here is a recent example where the results, I think, sum me up pretty well.

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And All It Took Was A Pandemic

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely*—I acquired a board game called Zombies!!!

All it took to get us to finally play this game was a pandemic.
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