Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

[CellarDweller]

Connections
Puzzle #515
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

[CellarDweller]

Strands #249
?Extremely online?
🔵🔵🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵🔵

https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

[Sason]

"BIPE ME"

 

That's exactly how useful a verb it is!!

[Sason]

Wordle 1 237 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ OUIJA
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ TYRES
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 FLEET
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EVENT

[Sason]

Strands #249
?Extremely online?
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🔵🟡🔵🔵

[Sason]

Connections
Puzzle #515
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟪🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

Have to admit though that the blue category was a total guess.

[serious crayons]

Hi all, I guess I'm going to reluctantly take a break from Wordle, Connections and Flashback to avoid crossing a picket line for the duration of the NYT Tech Guild strike. I avoided the NYT site on Election Day and the day after, which was not easy. This is even harder! (I didn't think about the strike when I played earlier this week.)

If anybody else feels like it, Clarissa posted a link on Facebook (below) to a site the Tech Guild made with similar games. I tried the Connections one and it was a little too easy but worked the same way. The Wordle one was pretty much the same difficulty, once you realized that lime green squares actually meant yellow squares.

I hope they'll switch them up every day but I don't know if that's their plan. The Connections one I would think would be tricky to compose. The Wordle one is relatively easy -- I suppose you just need a 5-letter word and the technology.

https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/index.html

[Front-Ranger]

Wordle 1,237 5/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜      SHUSH
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜      PLEAD
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩    TWEET
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩    ERECT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  EVENT

[Sason]

Hi all, I guess I'm going to reluctantly take a break from Wordle, Connections and Flashback to avoid crossing a picket line for the duration of the NYT Tech Guild strike. I avoided the NYT site on Election Day and the day after, which was not easy. This is even harder! (I didn't think about the strike when I played earlier this week.)

If anybody else feels like it, Clarissa posted a link on Facebook (below) to a site the Tech Guild made with similar games. I tried the Connections one and it was a little too easy but worked the same way. The Wordle one was pretty much the same difficulty, once you realized that lime green squares actually meant yellow squares.

I hope they'll switch them up every day but I don't know if that's their plan. The Connections one I would think would be tricky to compose. The Wordle one is relatively easy -- I suppose you just need a 5-letter word and the technology.

https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/index.html

I didn't know there was a strike going on. What is it about?

So who are making the (original) games now? Scabs?

I usually support strikes, but I want to know what it's about.

[CellarDweller]

I didn't know there was a strike going on. What is it about?

So who are making the (original) games now? Scabs?

I usually support strikes, but I want to know what it's about.

Hello Sonja,

I hadn't heard about the strike either, I found this online.


The New York Times Tech Guild asked the publication's readers not to play its games, including Wordle and Connections, in solidarity when it announced that it was going on strike on November 4. Now, the guild has released its own versions of the The Times' games so that readers can still play without crossing its digital picket line. Of course, the workers' versions won't be able to keep your Wordle streak running, but they're pretty much the same games you've been playing on the publication's website.

The guild is made up of over 600 unionized tech workers that include software engineers, product managers, data analysts and designers ? the people behind the publication's games, as well as The Times' Cooking app. In the guild's GoFundMe for the strike, it said it's been bargaining for its first contract over the past two years, but the The Times' management "dragged its feet" and even allegedly committed unfair labor practices by implementing return-to-office mandates without bargaining and trying to intimidate members who were going on strike.


https://www.engadget.com/general/nyt-tech-workers-on-strike-made-their-own-versions-of-wordle-and-connections-130047922.html