Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions

[RoseMorninStar]

The ones that require pop culture knowledge are the ones I don't get, and I'm also terribly annoyed when a category is something that depends on the structure of the word rather than its semantics ("bird names minus the final letter"), but otherwise I love it.

This. Agreed.

[RoseMorninStar]

Wordle 1,036 3/6




Strands #48
“Walk this way”

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Wordle 1,037 6/6








That was fun!

[RoseMorninStar]

Wordle 1,037 5/6
I had a symmetrical game.






Strands #49
“That’s life!”

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Wordle 1,038 3/6

[RoseMorninStar]

Oi, I had a rough day.

Wordle 1,038 6/6







Strands #50
“Character class”

[Jude]

Rough day for me too.

Wordle 1,038 3/6

[RoseMorninStar]

[RoseMorninStar]

Either I'm having a really horrible game day or there is something wrong with the Waffle puzzle today.

Edited:
I made it with 4 to spare, but FYI, there were issues with the yellow tiles on today's puzzle.
#waffle822 4/5





#wafflecenturion

[Maria]

I was distracted by the yellow tile malfunction, made a couple of stupid moves and ended up quitting when I didn't have enough moves left to solve it.

[Alatar]

Strands #51
“As easy as pie”



Wordle 1,039 4/6

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Wordle 1,039 5/6

[RoseMorninStar]

eeehh.

Wordle 1,039 5/6






Strands #51
“As easy as pie”

[Inanna]

Eeep

Wordle 1,039 6/6*









Strands #51
“As easy as pie”

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Eeeep!

Wordle 1,040 6/6

[Maria]

Wordle 1,040 4/6

[Dave_LF]

I don't know if today's puzzles were especially hard, or if I'm just not all there, but I struggled with all of them. In all cases I got there eventually, but it took forever (in my defense, I'd never even heard of a <spoiler>). I'm gonna blame it on donating blood yesterday evening.

Hidden text.

poodle skirt

[RoseMorninStar]

Wordle 1,040 4/6





Strands #52
“This is a puzzle”



Dave, I flopped connections. Too many potentially interrelated words.

Hidden text.

Poodle skirt was a 1950's fashion, think 'Grease' or 'Happy Days'.

[Alatar]

Strands #52
“This is a puzzle”



Wordle 1,040 4/6






Connections
Puzzle #318









Barely, and by guessing a few

[Dave_LF]

(Connections spoilers to follow)

Rose; yeah, I was aware of the thing, just not the name.

There were multiple false leads too. I spent way too many brain cycles (and mistakes) trying to construct a "blind" category from mole, faith, and mini (pencil blinds are a thing, right?? ), and a "dome" category from Capitol and onion.

I got Wordle in 3, which sounds good on paper, but I already had letters 3-5 nailed down after guess #2, and it still took me minutes to come up with #3--I had to resort to mentally enumerating combinations of the remaining letters.