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

[CellarDweller]

Blossom Puzzle, September 10
Letters: E I N R O P T
My score: 276 points
My longest word: 10 letters
 🏵 🌸 🌺 💐 🌼 🌷 🌻 🌹 💮 🏵

Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game

[serious crayons]

Connections got the better of me again.

Me too. I got to the point where literally just about every word left could fall into one category. I could swear that early on I even guessed the combination that turned out to be it, but apparently not.

Connections
Puzzle #91
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟪

Wordle took me a step longer than it should have, given that the word is a central element in my job.

Wordle 813 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[serious crayons]

Actually, #91 is an example of Connections that does one thing right and one thing wrong, IMO.

For one category, in this case there's one word among the 16 that people might, without thinking too much about it, add to the yellow category. But it doesn't belong because that one word is unlike the others in an important way.

But then the blue category is broad enough that there are at least three other words that would fit just as well as the four that are actually in it. They should give all words in any given category some distinctive trait that would disqualify other words. Make them all by Stephen Sondheim, for example, or all from the 1980s. That way, it won't be as frustrating if you guess something and the words shake their heads, it won't be as frustrating because your guess actually didn't fit.

For example, the word "train" might possibly go with either "jet, helicopter, hot-air balloon, blimp" or "tutor, instruct, coach," you'd know it should go in the second, because the first group are forms of air transportation. Then if you want to confuse people more you could add a word like "clarify" that might seem to go with "tutor, instruct," etc., but is actually a little different from those words and fits better with "brown, churn, spread."



 

[Sason]

Connections
Puzzle #91
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟨🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟨
🟦🟪🟦🟦

Stupid game

[Sason]

I accidentally came to this thread before I had finished my wordle, so it doesn't count today.

[Sason]

Blossom Puzzle, September 10
Letters: E I N R O P T
My score: 221 points
My longest word: 10 letters
 🌷 🏵 💐 🌺 🌻 🌼 🌸 🌹 💮 🌷

Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game


New highest score today! 

AND I got a Brokeback word in! ROPER!!

[serious crayons]

I accidentally came to this thread before I had finished my wordle, so it doesn't count today.

I always avoid this thread until I've done mine. And I have a friend who likes to post her results on Facebook along with a small clue, so I have to speed past those posts until I've done mine. But then I get to add my results and think of a different clue!

[southendmd]

Wordle 814 3/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨CRANE
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜TOILS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩OLDER

[Sason]

Wordle 814 3/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ OUIJA
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 ORDER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OLDER

[Sason]

Connections
Puzzle #92
🟨🟩🟨🟨
🟨🟩🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟦🟩
🟩🟩🟦🟦

Stupid stupid game