When you start playing one of the fast -speaking games of one new York Times, it’s easy to eventually play others. (Heck, I originally ordered their application crosswords.) But maybe you play one of the games right now and look at others suspiciously. So it is broken up: What each of these three popular games has to offer, and what is needed for each?
Wordle
Internal- Wordleguess one The word, and you will not be given anything to continue at the beginning. You have to bring your own starting word: I like the rise but All have favorites. Greens and yellow squares will guide you after every guess. Green means you guessed the letter in the right place; The yellow letters are in the word, but the location is wrong.
Time: Minimal. Most days take me less than a minute, but a difficult word (or a few bad guesses) may mean that I stare at it for several minutes. Sometimes I put the phone off and come back later.
The skills required: This game rewards people who have spent a lot of time when thinking about words are being built. If you play a lot of other word games (and you are a good writer), you get a lot of enjoyment from Wordle and you are probably good at it. If you just guess words without much thinking or strategy, it is not so rewarding.
Skills that help you solve Wordle are:
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Knowledge of which letters are most common in short words, and how words are usually built.
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An idea of what words journalists want to include. Simple plurals, no. Current words on vacation, no. Rare or strange words, not usually. Words with double letters or ending “y”: hell yeah, they love them.
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Strategically making guesses (testing general letters, without having to know the information you already know).
Frustration: Medium. The game is quite straightforward, but there are some scenarios that can become hard and often depend on your happiness. If you guess most Word, but there are many options for these last empty spaces (sadly, “-ound”), you may end the guesses before you have tried all the words. Strategy can help But sometimes you just don’t have enough guesses to find out. In other words, if you are good in this game, you can almost always win. Personally, I have lost only four times in over 1000 games.
Is an archive of past puzzle– Yessubscribers.
Is a bot that can analyze your guesses and tell you how well you did– Yessubscribers.
Where to find our daily hints– Here.
Connections
Internal- ConnectionsYou will be given sixteen words (or sentences or names) and you need to divide them into four groups … Well, no matter what the puzzle creator thought, the groups should be. Often they are each other’s synonymous or class members (such as baseball teams). But some may be incredibly awkward (“units of measurement homophones” – it was carrot, hurt, jewel, om).
Time: A few minutes. I drove myself and made the easier puzzle in about a minute, tighter in about five. Of course, real head scratches may take a little longer.
The skills required: You don’t have to be the word nerd to succeed well in convenience, but it will help:
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Feel a lot of vocabulary – sometimes there is an unusual word.
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Be in a pop culture, so you can identify the names of bands or movie directors or sports teams.
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Be ready to think outside the box in a randomly strange wording.
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Identify subtle spelling differences and similar details. Genius is not related, and why would the families be listed? (Look above the strange wording – that one was in the list “Spell -to -the bees are located less with one letter”.
Frustration: High, because red herring is often thrown in obvious groups. You’d think about The guitar, the neck and the springs go together, but they both belonged to different classes of the puzzle of that day. There are also the strange wording I mentioned, names that look like dictionary words and vice versa, and other unexpected groups.
Is an archive of past puzzle– Yessubscribers.
Is a bot that can analyze your guesses and tell you how well you did– Yessubscribers.
What do you think so far?
Where to find our daily hints– Here.
Strands
Strands There is a word -of -a -range bubble with cute mechanics. The words are all in the theme, and there is a “aha” moment that (ideally) makes you laugh and/or kick yourself, and there are free clues when you are stuck.
Time: About two minutes easy, five or more if it’s awkward.
The skills required: Tips make this a much easier game than it would be otherwise. If you find three words that are real dictionaries but you are not the words you are listed You will find a free hint. You can use clues at any time, and it outlines the letters in one theme – but you still need to make the letters in order.
In other words, you are good in the threads if you can do these things well:
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Identify the words when their letters are out of order.
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Stop well (if you write a word when you find it, it’s “wrong” even if the letters are there in front of you and you know what word it should be).
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Find out what the theme, spangram and words have to do with each other. There is often a difficult connection, and it is much easier to identify it.
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Keep a good vocabulary, including some pop culture information. Sometimes the word or phrase is a bit unclear.
Frustration: Low, usually. Sometimes you end up with letters, you know they have to make a word, but there is no idea how to connect letters. This is particularly problematic if you simply do not know the word or expression. At that point, there is nothing to do, but swipe your fingers in random directions until something lasts.
Is an archive of past puzzle: No. (At least not yet!)
Is a bot that can analyze your guesses and tell you how well you did: No
Where to find our daily hints– Here.
