News, views AND some Clues re Wordle - Connections

[Donnywolf]

Nice to see Tommytoes and his good lady today


He ribbed me re my mesmeric Posts ( I don't think it was a complement  - but he and I go way back so I knew he didn't mean it )


I said it's because its hard to talk about Wordle and / or Connections without talking in code for fear of spoiling them for others and if you sit on something it's hard to look back or perhaps nobody is bothered


So I said we ought to have a Thread where players could swap news , views but no Clues on the day of the playing


He said good idea , give it a go . So we will , it might bomb it might not and who knows it may be useful so here we go


Stick stuff on here before during or after playing either game BUT remember only look when you want to and remember don't look if you don't want to spoil your Game

[knockers]

Not sure I’m keen on that but usually do them both early 

[Donnywolf]

It may bomb , but we'll see how it pans out


May be an early bath for this idea 

[tommy toes]

Well done Wolfie!
I even understood all that!
I’ll certainly post my thoughts and have a rant when I’ve cocked up and blame those pesky Americans.

Remember lads and lasses dont open this topic until you’ve completed (or failed) or are stuck and have had enough, of the Wordle or Connections.

[Donnywolf]

Couldn't better I have put myself it 

[SydneyRover]

Nice to see Tommytoes and his good lady today


He ribbed me re my mesmeric Posts ( I don't think it was a complement  - but he and I go way back so I knew he didn't mean it )


I said it's because its hard to talk about Wordle and / or Connections without talking in code for fear of spoiling them for others and if you sit on something it's hard to look back or perhaps nobody is bothered


So I said we ought to have a Thread where players could swap news , views but no Clues on the day of the playing


He said good idea , give it a go . So we will , it might bomb it might not and who knows it may be useful so here we go


Stick stuff on here before during or after playing either game BUT remember only look when you want to and remember don't look if you don't want to spoil your Game

When wordle was first posted up there was a little bit of chatter and I decided not to do it here for that reason, then I found that the wordle word in oz was different anyway so that put paid to it. We did it in the privacy of our own home for quite some time before it petered out, for us anyway.

[tommy toes]

Wordle today
PASTE
TRAIL
GRANT in less than a minute.

Connections
I thought bye cheerio later etc were what they seemed so lost two lives buggering about with that.
Then got the Y.
Then thought about breakfast cereals and didn’t include Pebbles. Why would you for f***s sake?
Then thought about a tennis tournament, bye, round. But not Bracket so bang that was it.
That’s two or three fails in a row!

[IDM]

I often struggle with connections as it’s full of “Americanisms”..  other days it falls straight out.

For wordle I always start with TRADE ie use most common letters and 2 vowels, then my second guess adds as many new letters and vowels as I can.  If none of TRADE is there, my second guess is LIONS.

Only fails if there’s a -XX-X word where there are too many choices for the - - letters, even after I’ve got the XX X second guess.

[tommy toes]

Seems a good plan IDM.
I just put any random word that comes into my thick head, usually has an A E or O in it, sometimes all 3.
And go from there, sonetimes I get lucky, like today. sometimes not, but usually solve it.
Dont keep score nowadays, but cant renember my last fail.
Unlike connections where there seem to be more fails than wins lately.

[tommy toes]

Couldn't better I have put myself it 

Very good Wolfie lol!

[Donnywolf]

Kicking myself as yesterday higher DOD than today but failed

Yesterday I'm guessing some had one of each colour as Quarter Penny Dime and Nickel all fell in.different Groups ?

[Donnywolf]

I spied the Round Tie Seed but looking for a 4th didn't involve bracket at any time

[Donnywolf]

Suggested people would get P pretty quick

I was dumb , because after seeing Prime and Kindle I saw answer "Rainforest" and River and thought I haven't heard of either of them as I was STILL thinking Amazon and software    not River effin Amazon


Plank , no wonder I CANT get past 8 in a row

[tommy toes]

I had all sorts going round my head

Kindle prime plastic charge…set an explosion
Flop turn river card….poker
Then there were at least 5 that could have been cards…plastic credit charge river turn
Wooden…rainforest card amazon

Had me all confused, but worked it out in the end.

[IDM]

The strands game today is a pisser if you don’t know world foods and “dumplings”.. since when is a samosa a dumpling.????

[mugnapper]

Today's Wordle will have a few grumbling for sure.

[Donnywolf]

I had 6 choices incl the one it was with 2 guesses left

I guessed wrongly on 5 but then that certain word made it the favorite (sic) and luckily home in 6

[tommy toes]

Was lucky that I had a mug 4 on the wordle otherwise I’d have struggled.

[Donnywolf]

Connections not too bad. As soon as I saw Madden it fitted in with provoke etc but I fancied it as a Computer game as he is a famous NFL commentator who had a Game named after him

He " famously" goes game to game by Train as he hates flying

I had 2 more but had to find the 4th by eliminiation

[Mike_F]

Today's Wordle will have a few grumbling for sure.

Yep. Stupid bloody American spellings.

[Donnywolf]

Wordle today

I actually took ages to get this right

After 0 4 0 4 I finally came up with a word where the letters all fitted

DICED and as the first D went Green I celebrated and went to report on usual Thread

While writing up the "win" I looked back to see if I had any Mugs but found DICED only produced
4 0

Only 1 letter fitted , and I won but had I not looked back my 150+ would have gone

PLANK ( not tomorrow's word  but my nickname for myself )

[tommy toes]

Had a total of 11 greys after 3 guesses.
So with what was left thought ICE were probably the middle letters, so bingo.
As for connections, got my lovely homophones straight away and the rest were so simple.

[tommy toes]

Trying to work out what your mug 3-2 was Wolfie.

Edit
Ah. I think I’ve worked it out.

[mugnapper]

From a King to a clown in 2 puzzles today.
Wordle in 3 after a 2nd guess that gave me one vowel in the wrong place and then got it next go.
At this point I'm thinking about setting up my own Quizzing Agency that I could eventually franchise out, become a millionaire, and live off the annual franchise renewal fees.
Then onto Connections where I was on a run of 5 successes, but today failed spectacularly with not a single correct guess.
There are chuffing amoebas that did better than me on Connections today.
So with my dreams of riches dashed, I'm off for a 6 mile walk to try and get the bitter taste of failure out of my mouth.

[Donnywolf]

Trying to work out what your mug 3-2 was Wolfie.

Edit
Ah. I think I’ve worked it out.

As we are on here I went for Snoop in Row 3

Double Mug . I like them as even a Plank can't (shouldn't) get the next guess wrong

Spoon , gotcha

[Donnywolf]

From a King to a clown in 2 puzzles today.
Wordle in 3 after a 2nd guess that gave me one vowel in the wrong place and then got it next go.
At this point I'm thinking about setting up my own Quizzing Agency that I could eventually franchise out, become a millionaire, and live off the annual franchise renewal fees.
Then onto Connections where I was on a run of 5 successes, but today failed spectacularly with not a single correct guess.
There are chuffing amoebas *** that did better than me on Connections today.
So with my dreams of riches dashed, I'm off for a 6 mile walk to try and get the bitter taste of failure out of my mouth.

*** THAT would be me , though I did lose 2 lives

[tommy toes]

Who are you calling an ameba er ombama, i mean umbongo, noooo ambera.
Oh sod it!

[Donnywolf]

Connections ....I hope this compiler has a long career 

[tommy toes]

Git the wordle in 5, nowt to shout about is it?

[Donnywolf]

Anyone looked up Marco Polo , the game

Have a laugh and do so