A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
Nlobb wrote: Sun Feb 20, 2022 9:11 pm
Has anyone gotten the wordle in 2?
3 is the best I have done…
Was away all weekend and just got to the chat this morning. I love Wordle...my friend in England and I do it every day and compare how we have done and how we got to the answer.
I have gotten the answer in 2 three times. I only can find one screenshot I took of my path. I went from DREAM to SHARD. I have always wondered if anyone picked the word on their first try?
I've tried a few starting words but have settled on one just for this reason. Not because it is superior, but because if I bounce around between two or three different starting words and miss the opportunity to have guessed it in one... I'll be kicking myself.
Of course, if there will be no repeats until all words in the list have been used, I should probably look at the history.
The contest answer is PALINDROME. Each of the five long Across answers contains a three-letter chunk that appears both forward and back (like the MIR and RIM of MIRROR IMAGE), with two letters in between. The in-between letters, in order, spell the contest answer.Another blockbuster response this week.
We had 2971 responses, with an impressive 94% correct. If you solved this puzzle, take a moment to imagine how ingenious it is to come up with a symmetrical set of five entries that each have 3 mirror-image chunks containing the letters of PALINDROME spelled out in pairs!
Incorrect entries included REFLECTION (29), DISCUSSION (7), VACILLATED (2), and several others.
Congrats to this week's winner: Douglas Waddelow of Grayslake, Ill.!
michaelm wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 2:30 pm
Winner surname almost kinda approaching a palindrome.
That would have been cool.
Any palindromic muggle names / screen names feeling Karma-slighted?
All the Bobs (e.g., @Bob cruise director, etc.) I'm sure.
LadyBird wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:25 pm
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And for us Brits, today is 22022022… a palindrome and an ambigram (depending on your handwriting). I guess that is why this last puzzle and meta was used this week?
M and M wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:10 pm
So the prompt has been fixed from the "major world city" foolishness - whew - but now the WSJ page also displays the crossword puzzle for NEXT WEDNESDAY. Somebody is in big trouble.
I’d forgotten all about this. Then this afternoon, I went to do tomorrow’s puzzle and it said it was already done. Oh, right, that one.
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, I’ll be especially delighted.)
