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

[Front-Ranger]

There's still Blossom, which is not a NYT game!

Blossom Puzzle, November 9
Letters: G I N E S T V
My score: 240 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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[Sason]

Connections
Puzzle #517
🟨🟨🟨🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟪🟪🟦🟪

🟪🟪🟪🟦

🟪🟪🟪🟪

🟦🟦🟦🟦

 

[serious crayons]

🟨🟨🟨🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟪🟪🟦🟪

🟦🟦🟪🟦

🟦🟪🟪🟦

🟪🟦🟪🟪

🟦🟪🟦🟪

🟦🟦🟦🟦

🟪🟪🟪🟪


I finally just randomly guessed the blue and purple. Real Connections would not have had the category "movies scored by Hans Zimmer." But then, nor would they allow this many guesses.

Strikle took me 5 guesses, but it's not letting me copy and paste the squares.

[Sason]

Connections
Puzzle #518
🟨🟨🟨🟨

🟦🟩🟩🟩

🟦🟪🟩🟩

🟦🟪🟩🟩

🟪🟩🟪🟪

🟦🟪🟪🟪

🟪🟪🟪🟪

🟦🟦🟩🟩

🟦🟩🟩🟩

🟩🟦🟦🟩

🟦🟩🟩🟩

🟦🟦🟩🟩

🟦🟦🟩🟩

🟦🟦🟦🟩

🟦🟦🟦🟩

🟦🟦🟩🟩

🟦🟦🟩🟩

🟦🟦🟩🟩

🟦🟩🟩🟩

🟦🟦🟩🟩

🟦🟩🟩🟩

🟦🟩🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟦🟦🟦🟦

 

I think I like this version of Connections better, where you get as many chanses as you need! 

[serious crayons]

I went to the site, but I see the games have not refreshed since yesterday. They must take weekends off. Hopefully they'll be back. This is probably not their highest priority.

Confession: Today I did what I do every Sunday morning: went to the NYT Magazine, NYT Book Review and NYT opinions (three different tabs), and called up one story from each that looked good.

Then I remembered the strike.

I reasoned that the stories I pulled up would already have counted as "page views" by the site, so with the damage done I might as well read those, but I won't go back and find more.

The people who are virtuously boycotting the NYT and the Washington Post (I don't consider the latter a virtuous boycott but people who do it intend it to be and mean well) -- where do those people get their national news? I mean, of course there's plenty of news available in their local paper and on NPR, CNN, the Guardian, etc. And left-leaning but highly accurate sites like the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate. And, I suppose, right-leaning sites, although I don't consider them as reliable, and not just because of my own political inclinations.

NYT Management, please give the union everything it's asking for by next Sunday.

[Sason]

I went to the site, but I see the games have not refreshed since yesterday. They must take weekends off. Hopefully they'll be back. This is probably not their highest priority.

If you click on "today" on the top left, the site will refresh.

[southendmd]

Connections
Puzzle #519
🟦🟦🟩🟦

🟦🟨🟨🟨

🟨🟨🟨🟦

🟪🟨🟨🟨

🟨🟨🟨🟦

🟨🟨🟨🟩

🟨🟨🟨🟩

🟪🟨🟨🟨

🟨🟨🟨🟨

🟦🟦🟦🟦

🟪🟪🟪🟪

🟩🟩🟩🟩

[southendmd]

Has anyone figured out how to work strikle?  I can't enter any letters!

[Front-Ranger]

We aren't asked to boycott the news, only the games and cooking.

[Front-Ranger]

Blossom Puzzle, November 11
Letters: E G H T O R U
My score: 227 points
My longest word: 10 letters
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