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Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:22 pm
by vandono
rosiegirl wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:04 am
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.

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:25 pm
by LadyBird
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Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:50 pm
by rosiegirl
boharr wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:49 am
Joe Ross wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:43 am
boharr wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:32 am The secret to getting Wordle in two steps is.......Luck.
PSHAH!

If I Zelle you some coin, will you buy some multi-state lottery tickets? You may have half of our winnings.
I would totally suck at

https://nerdlegame.com
OH MY! I just looked Nerdle up. I may have to try it once...when I have about an hour of free time!

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:39 pm
by MikeMillerwsj
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.!

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 2:29 pm
by escapeartist
Not great odds of winning the coveted mug - but always worth the try!

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 2:30 pm
by michaelm
Winner surname almost kinda approaching a palindrome.
That would have been cool.
Any palindromic muggle names / screen names feeling Karma-slighted?

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 2:59 pm
by Dplass
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.

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:18 pm
by Colin
LadyBird wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:25 pm Screenshot_20220222-112417_Facebook.jpg
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?

Re: "Back and Forth" February 18, 2022

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:32 pm
by BarbaraK
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.

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:47 am
by Ergcat
rosiegirl wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:50 pm
boharr wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:49 am
Joe Ross wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:43 am

PSHAH!

If I Zelle you some coin, will you buy some multi-state lottery tickets? You may have half of our winnings.
I would totally suck at

https://nerdlegame.com
OH MY! I just looked Nerdle up. I may have to try it once...when I have about an hour of free time!
Turns out I’m better at Nerdle than Wordle! I play both everyday…. Trying to keep the brain cells fit for the WSJCC! 😂

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:53 pm
by woozy
Octordle seems to be just the write amount of verbal deductive reasoning for me.

My big problem is I'm that type of person when asked "think of a ******" on demand will draw blank.

Re: "Back and Forth" - February 18, 2022

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 7:33 pm
by Dplass
woozy wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:53 pm Octordle seems to be just the write amount of verbal deductive reasoning for me.

My big problem is I'm that type of person when asked "think of a ******" on demand will draw blank.
"Given any word find one that matches the following 40 conditions" is a nonstarter for this small brained person.