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Whether or not NYT keeps Wordle free, I suggest a cultural byway version the Afterwordle.

!, Use ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ to offer a puzzle in a comment (5 is a suggestion – your choice of AW-appropriate texts – nouns, names, acronyms)
2. Offer answers in replies to comment
3. Mark replies in ‘replies to replies’
(Edit – cannot get green or yellow boxes to appear. I suggest green=G, yellow=Y, Blank=⬜)

Let’s see if this runs or fades…

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        • You are probably right. He had explained that he has different setting because of colour blindness and I was trying to be inclusive. Maybe that was a misjudgment.

            • I don’t know what to say. I was “trying to be funny” and once again find myself causing hurt. I have many colourblind people as friends – at least they dress that way – and understand the very real challenges they face. My apologies. It is a measure of my chronic disconnectedness that I found both your replies amusing, thinking you were “in on the joke” – until the awful realisation dawned that I had created a feeling of awkwardness. Perhaps your tolerance for those with perception difficulties might be extended towards those who “think they’re funny”? It is a terrible burden in life.

              • Enough is enough. I would like to demand that all my previous posts are removed from the Afterword forthwith.

                I am doing this because the Afterword is spreading whimsy about colour-blindness – potentially causing Wordle defeat to those who take seriously the light comedy being spread by them.

                Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule. I want you to let the Afterword know immediately TODAY that I want all my posts off their platform.

                They can have Saucecraft or Little. Not both.

            • My father-in-law, son and colleague are colourblind.

              We always double-check my colleague’s wiring gather round to watch the sparks and flames before he powers anything up.

  5. I got off to a bad start because when I posted, half the guidelines didn’t show, so i had to frantically re-edit. As a result the answers to Afterwordle 1 -/6 are all over the place. I’ll gather all the answers above and hope further responses to that one are put as replies to this comment.
    Thanks for your forbearance

    Afterwordle 1 -/6
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    FORUM (mikethep)
    ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
    PARSE (H.P. Saucecraft)
    ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨
    FARCE* (mikethep)
    ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨
    BRINE (Leedsboy)
    ⬜🟧⬜⬜🟧

    Whoever gets it right can set the next one, if you like.
    *I know – but we can’t all be Reddit engineers with hot partners who like word puzzles.

  15. Following the NYT acquisition of Wordle, it is reported by GBNews that a UK publishing magnate, a Mr. Thep, is poised with building society book at the ready, to snap up The Afterwordle as it goes viral.

  16. I think this is the current state of play – 2 suggestions (from BC and HPS) to be scored:

    Afterwordle 2 -/6
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ (fentonsteve)
    TMFTL (Gary)
    🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
    TOMMO (hubert rawlinson)
    🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜
    THJHM (salwarpe)
    🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
    THBHM (Black Celebration)
    THGHM (H.P. Saucecraft)

  21. I have read this entire thread and can only conclude that it makes about as much sense as Nadine Dorries when she’s trying to defend Boris Johnson (or offer an opinion on anything at all, to be honest).

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