Timewasters

Steer a ship through the Suez Canal

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Aw, tried to YOLO full speed and crashed a little past halfway. Didn’t expect external winds to start coming in.

Not really a timewaster – just something a school buddy of mine made:

https://www.mdw.la/mdwos/run/

Kern it:

But the dungeon isn’t ready yet! He needs to get on that…

https://delphi.allenai.org/

screenshots from a friend who has a particular interest…

all the old farts are doing wordle, but do you think that’s too easy?

of course you do! that’s for peasants!

You want absurdle!

https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html

The game where it takes your guesses and keeps changing the target word(s) so that the greatest number of possibilities exist. But worry not, unlike the wordle-for-the-hoi-polloi, you’ve got infinite chances on this game!

So go for it!

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Speaking of which…I saw your posts on twitter(?) extolling the inordinate fun you’re having playing this game, so I searched for it in the Apple App Store (or for the French, Apple App le Store).

I didn’t see any thing that made me say, “Ah. This is the ‘official’ app right here.” So, I didn’t download anything.

Today, in the wsj, I read this, and now I know why.

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It’s not an app :slight_smile:

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Yeah, sorry, I just go to the webpage, and do it

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I just played my first game. I’m going to put that on my list of daily websites I visit. Thanks!

I just did as well. took all 6 tries and then I was there. Streak = 1, 100% success. I rule!

Wordle 207 6/6

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I am surprised y’all aren’t all over Wordle already - OddSox and me have been in hot competition for a week or two.

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I solved it on my first try!

Not with the first word, but the first time I ever played, though.

Wordle 207 5/6

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Wordle 207 6/6

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Cool game! I obviously got very lucky on my first guess here.

Wordle 207 3/6

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Ok, who is making the Wordle thread?

Wordle 207 3/6

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Wordle 207 6/6

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Wordle 207 6/6

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