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Inanna wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 12:18 am Do you have adblocker installer,Scribe? I know Rose does.
Yes, I'm running the most current version of Firefox on Windows 11 and it has UBlock Origin - I think this is the new defalut. Since the "chat bar" isn't technically an "AD" it might be slipping by due to that. I need to go get and re-install the updated version of AdBlock Plus for Firefox which I remember being both very robust and easy to use. Hopefully, it will still have the feature that allows blocking the "frame" that the chat bar displays in. =:) More than one way to skin a varmint . . .

Ain't technology grand? :P :D

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Yes, Pelé was the GOAT.

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Wordle 559 3/6

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Wordle 559 3/6
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Wordle 559 5/6*

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I can’t believe it accepted my third word.
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:hug: Rose

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#waffle343 5/5

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Inanna wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:29 amI can’t believe it accepted my third word.
Out of curiosity, what was it?
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Eldy wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:40 am :hug: Rose
Thanks. Even though you don't need it.. right back at ya! :hug:
Eldy wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:40 am
Inanna wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:29 amI can’t believe it accepted my third word.
Out of curiosity, what was it?
Yes, inquiring minds want to know. :D
Hidden text.
FYI: According to a Scrabble dictionary there are 6 options. Based on the Wordle dictionary there are only 3)
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It was DOWAR.

How I came up with that instead of say polar or molar remains a mystery.
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Wordle 560 4/6

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Huh. Can't say I was familiar with DOWAR before looking it up just now, either.

Doing Waffle early again, just to be on the safe side:

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I had only seen it spelled as "douar".
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Inanna wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:08 pm It was DOWAR.

How I came up with that instead of say polar or molar remains a mystery.
Ah.. in my earlier comment I was looking at your 4th guess. :D Dowar is an islet of Australia, I believe. Douar is a village in Lebanon? Both are proper nouns and wouldn't be a wordle solution

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According to Wiktionary, dowar/douar means "a camp or village of tents in an Arabic country." Merriam-Webster gives a similar definition but without listing the alternate spelling.
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Eldy wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:17 pm According to Wiktionary, dowar/douar means "a camp or village of tents in an Arabic country." Merriam-Webster gives a similar definition but without listing the alternate spelling.
Huh. It's weird that my dictionary doesn't list it. It combines several large dictionary sources in addition to Apple, Thesaurus, and Wikipedia. When I tried looking it up under Merriam-Webster it says: The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above.

edited to add: Oh.. it's because they're spelling it Douar. My online dictionary does not have that either. It's let me down!!
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Hurdle 364
https://hurdle.games

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WOW! Getting that last one on your first try is quite the feat Voronwë! Good for you!
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Yeah, I've never done that before in the occasional times that I have played.
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Nice one, V!

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Wordle 561 4/6

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Wordle 561 4/6*

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Didn’t manage to solve yesterday’s without using the wordle solver.
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