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

[Sason]

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Puzzle #265
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I think I see a trend. The trend is that they are getting more and more difficult. Either that, or I am becoming more and more stupid 

[southendmd]

Tied the bot today.

Wordle 987 3/6

⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜CRANE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩ORGAN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩URBAN

[Front-Ranger]

Difficult and stupid are both subjective words...but I feel your pain!

Wordle 987 4/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜     LOFTY
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜     PRIDE
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜    BRASS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩   URBAN

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Puzzle #265
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One thing that helps me is to ask, "what's an alternate use of this word?" or "how can this noun be used as a verb?"

[southendmd]

In reverse difficulty today!  I agree that this one was hard. 

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Puzzle #265
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[CellarDweller]

Wordle 987 4/6

🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ RATIO
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ CREAM
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ SWANG
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 URBAN

[CellarDweller]

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


Yes, this was a harder one, I got most of them with lucky guesses.

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I think I see a trend. The trend is that they are getting more and more difficult. Either that, or I am becoming more and more stupid 

Me too, and I'm a lifelong American. Today I got blue but missed all the others because they're becoming too obscure. I've never heard of a spy called an ASSET or SLEEPER. I guess now that I think of it I've heard of sleeper cell, but usually those two words together. I didn't know poetry had a FOOT.

So when that happens, and they don't fit with other words (FOOT and METER, for example) I don't know what to do. If I spot two names of video games, I can usually pick out which others might be names of video games and google to check. But I'm thinking if I googled "foot" I'd have to go through quite a few definitions before I got to part a poem. An ASSET, too, might be any number of different things but spy is not going to be high on the list.

However, admittedly if I reverse googled it, recognized MOLE as spy and not an animal or a Mexican sauce, and google "spy" I see both ASSET and SLEEPER.

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Difficult and stupid are both subjective words...but I feel your pain!

Agreed that stupid is subjective, but difficult can just mean more difficult than usual. And I think something could objectively be deemed more difficult than usual. Look at how often we agree here on which ones are hard or easy.

One thing that helps me is to ask, "what's an alternate use of this word?" or "how can this noun be used as a verb?"

I do that, too, but sometimes I think of alternatives and there's nothing that fits them, either.

[serious crayons]

Wordle 987 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜SHIRT
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜DRAPE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩GROAN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩URBAN

I tied with the bot, and the bot was very nice and complimentary today.

[Front-Ranger]

Fun Flashback game today.

Flashback for March 2, 2024

22 points
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Play here:
        https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/01/upshot/flashback.html