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Friday Fun Thread for December 30, 2022

Welcome to the final regular thread of 2022!

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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Friday 12/30 Wordle

Remaining word count by Scoredle, par 4.

14,855

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ CHIME (577)

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ FUDGY (227)

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ PRONK (17) - only 4 were realistic guesses

🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨 MORAL (1) - darn

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOLAR

I switched my third guess from PLANK on a whim. Got the same number of right letters, oddly. It would have gone something like this:

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ CHIME (577)

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ FUDGY (227)

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ PLANK (25)

🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ LAMBS (5)

🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨 MORAL (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOLAR

Saturday 12/31 Wordle

Remaining word count by Scoredle, par 3.

Scoredle 4/6

14,855

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ CHIME (577)

⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ PLANK (3)

🟩⬜🟩🟨🟨 MONAL (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MANLY

Vocab words for the two wrong guesses:

  • MONAL: a very pretty pheasant genus.

  • MANUL: an impossibly cute wild cat, also called Pallas's cat.

Sunday 1/1/23 Wordle

Remaining word count by Scoredle, par 3.

Scoredle 4/6, and my first all-green!

14,855

⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 CHIME (9)

⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ PRONK (3)

🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ WHATS (1) - eliminate 2 of those 3 in one guess

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WHINE

Well, time to devise a new tagline. I’m committing to using β€œyesterday’s” solution as my first guess through January 31, FYI. Chime has served me well, especially today, but it’s sucked a but of fun out of the game.

Please include the date of puzzles you post here, remembering that it changes after midnight in each time zone.

Monday 1/2 Wordle

Remaining word count by Scoredle, which graded it as par 4.

Chain Wordle: I made par 4 today, playing yesterday's solution as my first guess:

⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ (433)

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 CLUBS (45)

🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ STROP (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SKIRT

Of the 45 words remaining after guess 2, words I know: agist, agism, skirt, moist, foist, joist, prism, frisk, daisy, smirk, spiky, grist, stiff, skimp, skiff

Words I think I recognize but can't define off the top of my head: ovist, ovism, spirt, roist, stirp, spiff, spitz, stirk, skirr

Words I don't know at all: odist, odism, zoist, zoism, saist, frist, maist, trist, spiry, apism, stimy, grisy, stivy, stipa, aviso, skimo, smirr, paisa, saiga, asity, skivy

Tuesday 1/3 Wordle

Remaining word count by Scoredle, which graded it as par 3.

Chain Wordle: I missed par today and got it on the sixth and final guess, playing yesterday's solution as my first guess:

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 (227)

🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ TIMED (37)

🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ITCHY (12) - vocab below

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ COULD (3)

⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ PATCH (2)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ANTIC

Words I recognized and knew: optic, antic

Words I could have recognized:

actin - one of the most important proteins in animal cells

ontic - from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος (ontos): "of that which is": physical, real, or factual existence; root of name of the branch of philosophy I love most, ontology

octic - of the eighth degree or order, as quadratic is of the fourth degree and septic is of the seventh

lotic - inhabiting or situated in rapidly moving fresh water

vatic - prophetic, from Latin vates (β€œseer, poet”)

cutin - one of two waxy polymers (along with cutan) which comprise waterproof plant cuticle, which covers all aerial surfaces of plants

octli - pulque or octli, is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant

coati - also known as coatimundis, South American members of the raccoon family

canti - plural of canto ("song"), cognate of "chant"; also the highest voice part in a given piece of choral polyphonic music

culti - British English, plural of cultus, "cult"

Wednesday 1/4 Wordle

Remaining word count by Scoredle, which graded it as par 3.

Chain Wordle: I missed par today by one, playing yesterday's solution as my first guess:

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ (2,192)

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ WOMBS (484)

⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 FLARE (17)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LAYER

Thursday 1/5 Wordle

Remaining word count by Scoredle, which graded it as par 3.

Chain Wordle: I missed par today by two, playing yesterday's solution as my first guess:

🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ (200)

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ WOUND (73)

⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 PLIES (2)

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ SLEET (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLEEK

1/2

Scoredle 3/6*

14,855

⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ ARISE (29)

🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ SWIRL (15)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SKIRT

I'll try SKIRT as an opener tomorrow and see how it goes.

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ TEARS

🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩 LANKY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MANLY

Typical third automatic guess is GLYPH (because I also do quordle and things get tight!).

14,855

🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ARISE (379)

🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ MOUNT (9)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOLAR

9 guesses are moral molar mogar morah moray mohar morra mogra mowra, if I attempted GLYPH it would be reduced to MOLAR and MORAL

14,855

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ARISE (1,010)

🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ MOUNT (9)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MANLY

9 guesses are mangy manly manky manga mandy mayan makan maban mynah, if I attempted GLYPH it would be reduced to only MANLY