Reminds of of a time between marriages, a girlfriend was helping me decorate a flat. We’d put up three strips of wallpaper and sat on a couch having a drink looking at our work when we realised the wallpaper was upside down.
It stayed that way as did the rest of the wallpaper.
Not sure if Gary has got the hang of Wordle yet but if anybody can do it, G Boy can.
Any minute now Mike will wake up and then the fun will really start! Who said, apart from Gary, that Wordle is boring??
I would have gone with “Havoc”, but I was worried that such an interesting choice might distract you too much from the pain in your leg and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
I like it very much! Couldn’t help noticing you were a bit rude to Lodey there, but as we still haven’t fully resolved the question of whether or not artistic temperament can justify unconventional morality I don’t see any need for apology.
And “💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥THREE and fuck you Lodey💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥” is, in all fairness, a fine title for such a visceral piece.
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Nurse has just had a look at Baron’s second line:
“Zut alors, how did e do that?”
Me: “He has powers of which we mortals know nothing”
Nurse: “Are you in ze pain?”
Yes, here you can have as many goes as you like. It’s where I honed my craft as a young artist, developing the skills I needed before feeling confident enough to show my work in public.
It’s 7am here. I actually sleep a great deal. I usually go to bed very early. I try to have about nine hours in bed, thus guaranteeing at least eight hours sleep. Plus an hour’s siesta after lunch. Though, having said that, I am not the lazy feck some might mistakenly assume. For though I am undeniably a workshy fop, my morning is devoted to beach (if weather nice, which I think today will be) or gym/pool if not.
I merely asked because during some of my recent sleepless nights I can’t help but notice you’re “active”. Not that I’m stalking you or anything (by the way, your garden’s looking nice)
Now, to be clear, there are no rules to art and symmetry is not always the best option. Having said that, if you had just moved that black in the second line one to the right and put a third black in the third line, I think that could have been a masterpiece. As it is… meh.
Absolutely brilliant. I see you as my protege. The only one here who is taking this seriously.
And I now noticed you did a practise one earlier. A sort of rough sketch to prepare for your definitive work. And it’s a delightful little piece in itself! If only the others here shared your level of commitment. (And talent!)
We’ve only got another 285 comments to go before someone serious like Paul H takes over and we can get back to exciting and thought-provoking comments like “Steady par”, “Lucky birdie” and best of all “That’s not proper English, bloody American!”
Woah!!! Where did you find that palette? Those colours? Protege schmotege, with this piece the mentor becomes the pupil! I bow in bewildered awe at your artistry, your talent. I feel like Q (Rula Lenska) must have felt watching Rox (Sue Jones-Davies) on stage at the end of Rock Follies. I can’t compete.
Word of advice, Hubes: don’t show all your major works (stunning as they are) on the same day. Slow leak is much better than overexposure. Blue Nile type mystique carries more cache than U2 type proliferation, trust me.
Not bad at all. I like it. And a MASSIVE step up from yesterday’s shambles. Keep up this rate of progress and you’ll be holding your own with the big boys* in no time!
Actually, now I have had time to reflect on this piece, it recalls the flower scene from Pink Floyd’s The Wall by Alison Steadman. I bet that was my subconscious doing some thinking that my brain wasn’t aware of.
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I was just reflecting on how dull the previous Wordle threads were, prior to my stewardship. And now we even have what looks like an apatosaurus. In burnt sienna. Life doesn’t get much better than this.
I’d never heard of Fuselli and would have assumed he was a type of pasta, but my computer skills have revealed he was actually a very brilliant artist, so I thank you for exposing my ignorance. In front of everyone.
My left leg is currently swathed in bandage: I am quarter Mummy, three quarters Rock God (possibly, where possibly = not a chance in Hades).
Nurse, more drugs!
Oh Hubes. I’d be the first to recognise your truly outstanding talent as a Wordle artist, but using emojis and colour-coding blobs and miniature traffic symbols looks to me like you’ve abandoned Wordle art to instead play about a bit with Microsoft Word, producing something which, quite frankly, any fool with Microsoft Word could do. Had you left just the last line I would have been impressed. As it is, I find your title sadly apt.
Very nice indeed. It conjures up all sorts of images in my mind: a well, a ditch, a picket line, a sarcophagus, an unrelenting tirade against the vacuousness of modern celebrity, a plough, a streaker, a balustrade. And more. Much more.
Your compositions always look strikingly similar to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I would say the same of Rothko, Mondrian and even Turner.
You look the same as three famous painters who look completely different from each other? I’d ask for photographic evidence but you’d think I was stalking (again)
All Members of the Afterword Wordle Society held a meeting last night (it was rammed in there let me tell you) and it was unanimously decided that you, Gary, are now Official Curator of the Afterword Wordle Thread for evermore.
Just think, before you took over it was all “Poor Mike, he’s failed again” or “Do you think The Baron cheats?”.
Just look at us now! We love you, Gary!
Thank you. I feel very proud and humbled that my stewardship of the thread is almost certainly the main motivation for @junior-wells in taking up Wordle art as a full-time hobby (and with such passion!). But at the same time I’m saddened that @h-p-saucecraft has seemingly abandoned what might have potentially been a fairly promising Wordle art career for that very same reason.
Whilst I thrive, positively thrive, on responsibility, I would eventually like to pass the baton of liability on to someone less confused once we have reached the bottom of the internet.
HP too busy on his Foam Island regaling his many (?) followers with tales of obscure hippy bands from the sixties to take part in Wordle Art. No, Gary – only you will do. Only you.
ps if not you then Paul will have to step in: let’s hope he’s not recording a new album or saving the world …
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⬛🟦⬛⬛🟦 ⬅️ Oh oh, I thought things aren’t going well.
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ⬅️ However as Grace Slick sang “When logic and proportion, have fallen sloppy dead, have a bloody good guess”
How’s that Lodey? 5 below par on the trot including a 2! Hope that open bottle of Red doesn’t go off ; – ))
You failed to appear before The Stewards yesterday.
And contrary to common belief, being incarcerated in a French hospital does not mean an endless supply of red wine and foie gras.
As Gary says, a knee replacement which, in France, means up to a month in kine learning to walk again. And the kine people are all sadistic bastards who love seeing me cry. Bastards!
Thanks, Baron, for the kind words
The Baroness has had the same op Lodey, right leg. She’s waiting for a date for her right knee. It’s not very comfortable she tells me but worth it in the end.
Hey Lodey, nearly forgot to tell you, another below par today. That’s 6 on the trot!
Can’t sleep tonight (the pain, the pain) so 3am Wordle.
I play Proper Wordle, no adieu or audio or stare for me. No sirree, why not try zebra?
A workmanlike, some might say noble, bogey.
Wordle Bot approved my play, “distinctive and logical” . I prefer “magnificent”
I’ve noticed that the bot often plays a second word that has no relation to the first, even if it’s already got some greens. I can’t ever quite bring myself to do this.
If you play the “difficult” version such skullduggery is quite rightly not allowed those on here who play difficult have a * next their score. I don’t play difficult but, of course I’m a gentleman, I abide by those rules
Bots aren’t gentlemen (the great lost Wodehouse novel). That’s what I mean really. It seems excessively devil-may-care to waste letters you’ve already found.
Say you use STARE in the first line and two of those letters are correct.
Some charlatans then ignore the correct letters and enter, for instance, GHOUL. If any of those letters are correct then obviously combining those with the first line-corrects gives a fair chance of a birdie or par.
I am certain nobody in the Afterword Wordle Club would stoop so low
This is all very confusing and, frankly, unlikely to help anyone. What I would say is this: Don’t be misled into feeling that symmetry is key. Depict what you know. Use the colours in a way that reflects the world around you. As your skill develops, introduce new patterns, not without caution, but always with more thought given to self-expression than aesthetic appeal.
Haven’t got the powers of concentration to give the new movie a go. On yours and many others recommendation I certainly shall when my powers return (somewhere in January 23).
Nice one today, by the way
With well over 272 comments on this thread, I think it’s time for me to relinquish the reins and hand over the baton of liability to a new, younger, more well-endowed aspirant Wordler. My time has come. My fingers are gnarled and warted, my mind no longer as sharp as cling film.
As curator incumbent, I believe it my duty, nay honour (but really duty), to nominate my successor. That withstanding, I hereby nominate Paul Hews(t)on. As is customary in some backward countries, I’ll start the new thread and then leave the cleaning up to him. I might continue to contribute or I might not, as whimsy and decrepitude dictate.
Good luck and God bless, @paul-hewston*
*He spelt it wrong, not me. Either a rather risible attempt at subterfuge or the man’s a fool. You decide.
That episode of The Tomorrow People fair shook you up, eh? I’ve sent it to Putin too. I hope it’ll make him come to his senses as swiftly as you have. Though I doubt it. He lacks your wisdom and integrity.
Post this over there, over there!! Over there! Are you blind? Over there! It’s called “Gary can’t be arsed”. Over there!
(I sense no shame, Gary, no shame. Yet you will forever be remembered as The Man Who Sold The World. People will turn their backs as you pass and whispers of “Him that broke the sacred Wordle” will abound. As for Bono Boy, he might as well not exist)
I was never a Kray brother. Not really. Though Violet Kray is buried in the same cemetery as my Nan (true fact).
The thread you’re looking for has (rather confusingly, I admit) the words ‘Brand New Wordle Thread‘ somewhere in its title.
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 the results of the returning from holiday and someone came coughing in the sauna and gave me their sodding cold.
Slept for most of yesterday and now am wide awake. Not sure where to post this but surely @Gary won’t want to miss his 3rd hamper.
Now for a crossword.
Gary says
“The Death of Trump” (©Chiz – title only)
Wordle 495 X/6
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Gary says
“Consider the Lilies”
Wordle 496 X/6
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Gary says
“As yet untitled”
Wordle 497 X/6
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Gary says
“The Hypocrisy of Wildlife”
Wordle 498 X/6
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Jeff says
I think that’s been hung upside-down.
Gary says
I think you’re right! But I’ll leave it that way, to avoid damaging it.
It’s in good company:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years
Jeff says
Keep up!
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Sometimes (ok, all the time) Gary is slow on the take up
Jeff says
He tries, though…and that’s what’s important.
‘God loves Lars von Trier’, as me old mum used to say, incorrectly.
Baron Harkonnen says
Reminds of of a time between marriages, a girlfriend was helping me decorate a flat. We’d put up three strips of wallpaper and sat on a couch having a drink looking at our work when we realised the wallpaper was upside down.
It stayed that way as did the rest of the wallpaper.
Uncle Wheaty says
My brain hurts.
Audio.
Gary says
I don’t think you’ve got the hang of this at all.
hubert rawlinson says
@gary the square-cut Damien Hirst of the Afterword.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Not sure if Gary has got the hang of Wordle yet but if anybody can do it, G Boy can.
Any minute now Mike will wake up and then the fun will really start! Who said, apart from Gary, that Wordle is boring??
Lodestone of Wrongness says
ps I preferred “Havoc”
Gary says
I would have gone with “Havoc”, but I was worried that such an interesting choice might distract you too much from the pain in your leg and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
mikethep says
Wordle 499 4/6
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It’s not easy being first in the world, I tell you. Setting the standard to beat. But I have broad shoulders.
Gary says
“Chill Austerity”
Wordle 499 X/6
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Baron Harkonnen says
Wordle 499 3/6*
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How’s that Gary and puzzle solved also!
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Gary says
I like it very much! Couldn’t help noticing you were a bit rude to Lodey there, but as we still haven’t fully resolved the question of whether or not artistic temperament can justify unconventional morality I don’t see any need for apology.
And “💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥THREE and fuck you Lodey💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥” is, in all fairness, a fine title for such a visceral piece.
Baron Harkonnen says
Lodey? Don’t be bothering about that it’s an up and down thing, I’m on the up he’s ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Nurse: “Are you in ze pain?”
Me “It’s five in the morning, of course I have ze pain”
Nurse: “Monsieur Mike he very nice, no?”
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Nurse has just had a look at Baron’s second line:
“Zut alors, how did e do that?”
Me: “He has powers of which we mortals know nothing”
Nurse: “Are you in ze pain?”
Moose the Mooche says
Lodey, are you living on the set of ‘Allo ‘Allo?
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Ah wee
Jeff says
Why’s La Nursey asking you about bread? Is she asking if you want toast? At five in the morning??!! Bloody hell-fire.
It’s like a different country over there isn’t it?
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Down here in Occitanie pain is peng
Jeff says
Of course…’Peng munch’.
They say that in East London too, innit.
hubert rawlinson says
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
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My first line was “Nurse”. So much for Karma, eh?
Gatz says
After my second line there wasn’t much else it could be, but it still took considerable crunching of brain cogs
Wordle 499 3/6
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chiz says
Snatched from the jaws of adequacy
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Paul Hewston says
Dead average
Wordle 499 4/6
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Junior Wells says
Is there a site or app where you can gave practise goes? One game a day could take a while to build up your chops.
Gary says
Yes, here you can have as many goes as you like. It’s where I honed my craft as a young artist, developing the skills I needed before feeling confident enough to show my work in public.
https://wordwiz.com/new
Junior Wells says
Thanks Gary
Baron Harkonnen says
Try pen and paper they’ve been around yonks.
Gary says
Or quill and parchment. Even more yonks.
hubert rawlinson says
Or sand and a stick, even more yonks.
Max the Dog says
Wordle 499 3/6*
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mikethep says
Wordle 500 4/6
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Not at all happy. Harrumph.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I’d be happy with that – impressive!
mikethep says
1. Should have been 3.
2. Not how I spell it.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
“What does this wood smell of, Mikey?”
“It’s like , you know, piney ”
“Piney?”
“Yes, piney”
“Piney?”
Baron Harkonnen says
Wordle 500 6/6*
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⬛🟦🟦⬛⬛
⬛🟧⬛🟧⬛
⬛🟧⬛🟧🟦
🟦🟧⬛🟧🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
That was a bloody struggle!
Gary says
But what a superb result! A little patchy in places, sure, but overall quite delightful.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Do you ever sleep? Or does Italy have its own time zone?
Gary says
It’s 7am here. I actually sleep a great deal. I usually go to bed very early. I try to have about nine hours in bed, thus guaranteeing at least eight hours sleep. Plus an hour’s siesta after lunch. Though, having said that, I am not the lazy feck some might mistakenly assume. For though I am undeniably a workshy fop, my morning is devoted to beach (if weather nice, which I think today will be) or gym/pool if not.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I merely asked because during some of my recent sleepless nights I can’t help but notice you’re “active”. Not that I’m stalking you or anything (by the way, your garden’s looking nice)
Gary says
I do like to wake at hourly intervals during the night to check what you’re up to. In a very sort of pervy way.
Moose the Mooche says
Active….?
hubert rawlinson says
Wordle 500 5/6*
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 a struggle indeed. I’m currently residing to the south-east of Paris according to the word having checked it up.
Gary says
“The Only Lovers Left Alive”
Wordle 500 X/6
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hubert rawlinson says
At least they can semaphore their love.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I have never heard or used this word before (except when near Paris)
Wordle 500 6/6
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chiz says
Fuck sort of a word is that?
Wordle 500 4/6
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Impressive 4. You the man
Paul Hewston says
That was tough
Wordle 500 5/6
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Gary says
Nice
drip
drip glob
drip drip drip
drip drip drip
SPLASH!
Twang says
Memories of East Texas
Wordle 500 3/6
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Gary says
Now we’re talking! Genius!
Gatz says
Excuse me? I’m not convinced the word has ever been used in a sentence.
Wordle 500 4/6
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Max the Dog says
Just about…
Wordle 500 6/6*
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Gary says
Now, to be clear, there are no rules to art and symmetry is not always the best option. Having said that, if you had just moved that black in the second line one to the right and put a third black in the third line, I think that could have been a masterpiece. As it is… meh.
mikethep says
Wordle 501 4/6
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Gary says
He zigs, he zags, he swoops, he scores. Masterful.
hubert rawlinson says
Wordle 501 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 He runs, he trips, he arcs, he falls. Pitiful.
Baron Harkonnen says
Wordle 501 3/6*
⬛🟦⬛⬛⬛
🟦⬛🟧🟦⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Bit boring today
Wordle 501 4/6
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Gary says
Embarrassing.
Gary says
“The Opposite Of”
Wordle 501 1/6
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Gatz says
A nice, deductive par. Like crosswords, Wordle is so much easier when on the letters you know is the initial.
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Gary says
Oh Gatz, I don’t even know where to start.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I feel as though I’ve been violated (been a while)
Paul Hewston says
Pretty straightforward
Wordle 501 4/6
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bigstevie says
Wordle 501 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Max the Dog says
Wordle 501 4/6*
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
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chiz says
One green -> all green
Wordle 501 4/6
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⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩
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mikethep says
Wordle 502 4/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Baron Harkonnen says
Wordle 502 3/6*
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⬛🟧🟦⬛⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
An expeditious trio.
Junior Wells says
Wordle 502 2/6
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My second time at playing the official game.
mikethep says
Nice work.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Ahead be dragons.
(Nice work)
Gary says
Art is not a game.
hubert rawlinson says
Wordle 502 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 like the Baron’s a three and just for Gar a pleasing symmetry.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
First birdie in yonks
Wordle 502 3/6
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I call it “Driving my car”
Gatz says
Likewise
Wordle 502 3/6
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Gary says
Blatant plagiarism is hardly something to be proud of.
Gary says
“Throw off your shackles and fly!”
Wordle 502 2/6
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🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
hubert rawlinson says
Garydle 502.5 5/6
🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨
🟨🟩🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟨🟨🟨🟩
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🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨 Sympathetic Symmetry just for Gary.
Gary says
Absolutely brilliant. I see you as my protege. The only one here who is taking this seriously.
And I now noticed you did a practise one earlier. A sort of rough sketch to prepare for your definitive work. And it’s a delightful little piece in itself! If only the others here shared your level of commitment. (And talent!)
Lodestone of Wrongness says
We’ve only got another 285 comments to go before someone serious like Paul H takes over and we can get back to exciting and thought-provoking comments like “Steady par”, “Lucky birdie” and best of all “That’s not proper English, bloody American!”
Gary says
285 comments you say? Well, that’s my afternoon sorted.
Paul Hewston says
From nowhere
Wordle 503 3/6
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hubert rawlinson says
Garydle 66.6
🟦🟪🟦🟪🟦
🟪🟦🟪🟦🟪
🟦🟪🟪🟪🟦
🟦🟪🟪🟪🟦
🟪🟦🟪🟦🟪
🟦🟪🟥🟪🟦 nearly there but just like a mistake in a berber carpet there is no perfection.
Gary says
Woah!!! Where did you find that palette? Those colours? Protege schmotege, with this piece the mentor becomes the pupil! I bow in bewildered awe at your artistry, your talent. I feel like Q (Rula Lenska) must have felt watching Rox (Sue Jones-Davies) on stage at the end of Rock Follies. I can’t compete.
hubert rawlinson says
Garydle extended verion
🟫⬛️🟫⬛️🟫
🟫🟫⬛️🟫🟫
⬛️⬛️🟫⬛️⬛️
⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️
⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️
⬛️⬛️🟫⬛️⬛️
🟫🟫⬛️🟫🟫 I call this Hello Darkness My Old Friend.
🟫⬛️🟫⬛️🟫
Gary says
Word of advice, Hubes: don’t show all your major works (stunning as they are) on the same day. Slow leak is much better than overexposure. Blue Nile type mystique carries more cache than U2 type proliferation, trust me.
Is that brown you’ve used there, or burnt sienna?
Paul Hewston says
Serious? Moi? A serious birdie for me.
Wordle 502 3/6
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Gary says
Not bad at all. I like it. And a MASSIVE step up from yesterday’s shambles. Keep up this rate of progress and you’ll be holding your own with the big boys* in no time!
* me and Hubes
bigstevie says
Wordle 502 4/6
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Take away the left yellow and it’s Space Invaders!
Max the Dog says
Quickest one yet…
Wordle 502 3/6*
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mikethep says
Wordle 503 4/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
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🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛
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Steady par.
Junior Wells says
A bogey after an eagle. That was gruelling. It was down to hand to hand combat at the end.
Wordle 503 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Baron Harkonnen says
Wordle 503 4/6*
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⬛🟧🟧⬛🟦
🟧🟧🟧⬛⬛
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hubert rawlinson says
Wordle 503 3/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Snap.
hubert rawlinson says
Garydle 54321
⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️
⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️
⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️
⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️
⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️
⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️
I call this my monochrome period. As dark as my mood.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
“Waiting for the painkillers to arrive”. Magnificent!
Gary says
Made me cry.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
One minute twenty seven seconds..
Wordle 503 4/6
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Gatz says
Easy easy easy …
Wordle 503 3/6
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Gary says
“Up yours, suckers!”
Wordle 503 X/6
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Gary says
Actually, now I have had time to reflect on this piece, it recalls the flower scene from Pink Floyd’s The Wall by Alison Steadman. I bet that was my subconscious doing some thinking that my brain wasn’t aware of.
Paul Hewston says
Oops – put todays in the wrong place somewhere up there, inadvertently replying to one of Gary”s musings.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Easily done, he’s a slick silver-tongued son of a gun
Gary says
“inadvertently”. Yeah, sure. Like Hitler “inadvertently” invaded Poland.
Moose the Mooche says
That was a special military operation , not an invasion .
chiz says
Not a square out of place
Wordle 503 3/6
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Gary says
Nice. It has the chiselled features of a rabid kestrel.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
You been on the weed again? Chiselled features/ rabid kestrel – oh, hang on: I see what you mean
bigstevie says
Wordle 503 4/6
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🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
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No oil painting. Much more modern.
Gary says
bigstevie says
Video unavailable?
Gary says
Cordelia: Charles… modern art is all bosh, isn’t it?
Charles: Great bosh, Cordelia.
Cordelia: Oh, I’m glad.
(name that book/programme/film?)
Max the Dog says
Wordle 503 4/6*
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🟩🟨⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
hubert rawlinson says
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟫🟫🟫
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟫⬜️⬜️⬜️
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟫⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
⬜️🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
⬜️🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ The Treachery of Images, an homage to Magritte.
Gary says
I was just reflecting on how dull the previous Wordle threads were, prior to my stewardship. And now we even have what looks like an apatosaurus. In burnt sienna. Life doesn’t get much better than this.
Diddley Farquar says
ce n’est pas en apotosaurus
mikethep says
Wordle 504 3/6
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⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This is a picture of a man at the top of his game. He doesn’t know much about art, but you can make him drink. Or something.
Gary says
His game being Tetris.
Baron Harkonnen says
Wordle 504 3/6*
🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟦🟧🟦🟦🟦
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
🍺💥🍺💥🍺
hubert rawlinson says
Wordle 504 5/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 nearly a painting by Fuselli instead.
Gary says
I’d never heard of Fuselli and would have assumed he was a type of pasta, but my computer skills have revealed he was actually a very brilliant artist, so I thank you for exposing my ignorance. In front of everyone.
hubert rawlinson says
Only doing my duty. Enjoy.
Moose the Mooche says
Fuselli? That’s almost the same as Fuseli. How confusing.
It’s like Van Dijk and Ven Eyck all over again. Stroik a loit Meery Poppins etc
Gary says
Fuselli, Fuseli, Fusilli
The spelling is treacherous and hilly
A typo, an artist, a pasta
It can only lead to disasta
hubert rawlinson says
Oh l! one l too many it was early when I did it.
Moose the Mooche says
Two l with you, as well
hubert rawlinson says
And ‘Ull and ‘Alifax.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
This is a picture of a man in pain. I want my mummy
Wordle 504 5/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Gary says
In the sense of “mother” or in the sense of Ramesses III?
Lodestone of Wrongness says
My left leg is currently swathed in bandage: I am quarter Mummy, three quarters Rock God (possibly, where possibly = not a chance in Hades).
Nurse, more drugs!
Moose the Mooche says
25% Mummy, 75% mutha?
chiz says
With a 🍒 on 🔝
Wordle 504 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Eagle putt lipped the hole
Gary says
Like a bird on the wire! Or a drunk in a midnight choir!
Lodestone of Wrongness says
You should write that down in a book, it’s like poetry
Paul Hewston says
Nice and easy does it. No symmetry though. Soz Gaz.
Wordle 504 3/6
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⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Lodestone of Wrongness says
It’s like playing golf with Bing Crosby
Lodestone of Wrongness says
ps Gary has a thing bout being called Gaz. He’ll be in a huff all day long now
Gary says
Exactly. How would he like it if people called him “Bono”?
hubert rawlinson says
Garydle 999
🔴🟠🟡🟢🟢🟡🟠🔴
🔵🟣🟤🚫⛔️🟤🟣🔵
☢️☣️🚯🚭🚭🚯☣️☢️
🚱🚷📵🔞🔞📵🚷🚱
⬛️⬜️◼️◻️◾️◽️▪️▫️ I call this vanishing hopes.
Gary says
Oh Hubes. I’d be the first to recognise your truly outstanding talent as a Wordle artist, but using emojis and colour-coding blobs and miniature traffic symbols looks to me like you’ve abandoned Wordle art to instead play about a bit with Microsoft Word, producing something which, quite frankly, any fool with Microsoft Word could do. Had you left just the last line I would have been impressed. As it is, I find your title sadly apt.
hubert rawlinson says
Frankly I’m ashamed of myself ill try harder.
bigstevie says
Wordle 504 3/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Not quite a miniature. No idea about the book/film Gary.
Gary says
It was a scene from Brideshead Revisited.
Max the Dog says
Wordle 504 4/6*
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🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
mikethep says
Wordle 505 6/6
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
This is how you do it (you got yourself into a right old pickle, didn’t you?)
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hubert rawlinson says
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🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 my usual opening word helped enormously.
A kind offer @mikethep but I’ll decline thanks.
Gary says
As the old saying goes, one man’s “help” is another man’s “hinder”.
I wholeheartedly applaud your declination of The P’s kind offer though. A wise choice at your age.
Gary says
The Ozone Layer
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
I think you’ll find that’s a direct copy of “Down In The Tube Station At Midnight”. Expect to hear from PW’s lawyers shortly
Gary says
@paul-wad? He and I have already reached an out-of-court settlement, under the terms of which I’ve promised never to mention his name in print again.
Damn!
davebigpicture says
Was thinking the other day, haven’t seen Paul here recently
Paul Hewston says
What are your thoughts on this Garfield?
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Gary says
Very nice indeed. It conjures up all sorts of images in my mind: a well, a ditch, a picket line, a sarcophagus, an unrelenting tirade against the vacuousness of modern celebrity, a plough, a streaker, a balustrade. And more. Much more.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Stare
Stave
Stake
State
then before Stale ??
Stade (French) or Stane (Scots)?
Gary says
I far preferred the pre-edit, where you called him “Bono Boy”.
hubert rawlinson says
Stage?
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Ah ha.
Bono Boy he gone
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Probably busking again
Paul Hewston says
Yep it was stage. Weirdly you got them in the right order Mr Wrongness.
Max the Dog says
A piece of old cake
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Gary says
Your compositions always look strikingly similar to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I would say the same of Rothko, Mondrian and even Turner.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
You look the same as three famous painters who look completely different from each other? I’d ask for photographic evidence but you’d think I was stalking (again)
Baron Harkonnen says
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Early night last night so I’ve done this watching a recorded MOTD and enjoying a cappuccino.
Lodey I didn’t look at your clues before posting.
However Gary continues his artistic experiments in Wordleology.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
We learned early doors not to look on here before doing it (and Wordle as well)
chiz says
Tired and bored with myself
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mikethep says
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Moral 3.
Junior Wells says
Is this a par or a birdie ?
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
That’s a birdie (it’s a par 4 course)
Baron Harkonnen says
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An 🦅 for me!
hubert rawlinson says
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🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 the return of Michael Finnegan.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
A 12.7 second bogey (Lodestone crosses, Gary scores)
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
I’m rather proud of being the Worst this morning.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I see HP is back to daily posting on his Foam Island – “taking a rest”, right
chiz says
It’s not personal, Lodes. He just hates you.
Moose the Mooche says
Perhaps he doesn’t get vile personal abuse on there…. Just a thought
chiz says
Bonfire 🔥
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Gary says
“As Yet Untitled 2”
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hubert rawlinson says
Definitely hung the wrong way up.
Paul Hewston says
I still haven’t found what I’m looking four
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
You are an enigma wrapped in a garyesque stream of (un) consciousness
bigstevie says
Poor start.
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Max the Dog says
Pleasing symmetry
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Gary says
“Pleasing” is an understatement. It’s divine.
Junior Wells says
Sometimes my ineptitude surprises even myself. Wordle 507 4/6
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mikethep says
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Don/t be too hard on yourself…
Baron Harkonnen says
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💥That’s 4 below par on the trot💥
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Can you be in the Stewards’ Room around three? No worries, just want a quick chat
Baron Harkonnen says
No need for envy Lodey. There`s nothing you can do about a superior intellect ;-))
hubert rawlinson says
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🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 terrible, like a splinter of wood beneath the skin.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Quick, painless
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chiz says
Tetris
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Gatz says
A nice, logical par
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Gary says
Слава Україні!
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Moose the Mooche says
Nazi!
Lodestone of Wrongness says
All Members of the Afterword Wordle Society held a meeting last night (it was rammed in there let me tell you) and it was unanimously decided that you, Gary, are now Official Curator of the Afterword Wordle Thread for evermore.
Just think, before you took over it was all “Poor Mike, he’s failed again” or “Do you think The Baron cheats?”.
Just look at us now! We love you, Gary!
Moose the Mooche says
*red-faced blokes in vile pinstripes bang desks*
Baron Harkonnen says
Cheat?!? You inbred wino!
Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has.
`Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of envy towards the Baron.`
`He gazed in a mixture of envy and admiration at the beauty of the Baron`s Wordle.`
Synonyms: covetousness, spite, hatred, resentment, jealousy, bitterness, malice, ill will, malignity, resentfulness.
Moose the Mooche says
Pity the inbred wino. Have you tried using a corkscrew when you don’t have opposable thumbs?
Paul Hewston says
Agreed – the wordle world salutes you.
Gary says
Thank you. I feel very proud and humbled that my stewardship of the thread is almost certainly the main motivation for @junior-wells in taking up Wordle art as a full-time hobby (and with such passion!). But at the same time I’m saddened that @h-p-saucecraft has seemingly abandoned what might have potentially been a fairly promising Wordle art career for that very same reason.
Whilst I thrive, positively thrive, on responsibility, I would eventually like to pass the baton of liability on to someone less confused once we have reached the bottom of the internet.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
HP too busy on his Foam Island regaling his many (?) followers with tales of obscure hippy bands from the sixties to take part in Wordle Art. No, Gary – only you will do. Only you.
ps if not you then Paul will have to step in: let’s hope he’s not recording a new album or saving the world …
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Today’s offering from HP starts
“Flock Rock swept the world back in (RSRCH. PSE ED) [Do ur own friggin’ rsrch – Ed.]. IT’S FLOCKMANIA! screamed the headlines in 120pt sans. Teens worldwide “flocked” to buy Flocks Merch – headbands, bongs, limited edition tarot decks, Slinky©s, steak knife sets, arch supports, chew toys, fridge magnets, Hi-Waist™ old guy underpants, Flocks Sox©, and a host of other collectible collectibles now fetching up to .01 bucks on etunes! Yessiree Bob! Or not.”
Paul Hewston says
Achtung baby
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
If you trying to stay incognito you not doing a very good job so far
Paul Hewston says
You’ll never find me. No names on the streets where I live.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
See, you’ve done it again
bigstevie says
Magic!
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Max the Dog says
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mikethep says
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Sleeping in, Junior?
Junior Wells says
I did actually and it appears to have served me well:
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Silly guess on Line 4, should have gone for the obvious. Must say I’m impressed with Junior’s progress..
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Junior Wells says
I kept a low profile when i mixed up the meaning of yellow v green and holed out.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Ah, that’s more the Junior we know and love
Gary says
“The Only Way Is Up”
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Jesus died for you
chiz says
Four seconds, surely a record
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Junior Wells says
I bow before thee.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
You’re relatively new here, Junior. Chiz has been known to ch. ..
chiz says
– Choke?
It wasn’t cheating, anyway, it was deductive reasoning. You’d all have done it if you’d thought of it.
Gary says
Not quite all.
Paul Hewston says
A steady birdie for me
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bigstevie says
Easy today.
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Both you and Bono Boy can do one
Max the Dog says
I’ll join them…
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Bastards the lot of you
Baron Harkonnen says
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⬛⬛🟦⬛⬛ ⬅️ I dreamt this word last night.
⬛🟦⬛⬛🟦 ⬅️ Oh oh, I thought things aren’t going well.
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ⬅️ However as Grace Slick sang “When logic and proportion, have fallen sloppy dead, have a bloody good guess”
How’s that Lodey? 5 below par on the trot including a 2! Hope that open bottle of Red doesn’t go off ; – ))
Lodestone of Wrongness says
You failed to appear before The Stewards yesterday.
And contrary to common belief, being incarcerated in a French hospital does not mean an endless supply of red wine and foie gras.
Baron Harkonnen says
‘Kin hell Lodey, I didn’t know you were in hospital. I truly hope it ain’t serious old bean, as they say, get well soon.
Gary says
He’s having an extra knee fitted.
Moose the Mooche says
No, they stop serving at 11pm
Lodestone of Wrongness says
As Gary says, a knee replacement which, in France, means up to a month in kine learning to walk again. And the kine people are all sadistic bastards who love seeing me cry. Bastards!
Thanks, Baron, for the kind words
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Apparently not so long ago French hospitals forced you to have a glass of red wine with every meal (including brekkie). Them days are gone
mikethep says
Back in the 50s/60s the health advice from the French government was no more than a litre of wine a day.
chiz says
To be fair, average life expectancy was 43 at the time
Baron Harkonnen says
The Baroness has had the same op Lodey, right leg. She’s waiting for a date for her right knee. It’s not very comfortable she tells me but worth it in the end.
Hey Lodey, nearly forgot to tell you, another below par today. That’s 6 on the trot!
hubert rawlinson says
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 late entry as I’ve just returned home to a damp Uk.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
You, in the corner with the rest of them
Junior Wells says
Hey, hey, hey
A slam dunk eagle in 2 minutes
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mikethep says
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You want to watch out, you’ll incur the wrath of Lodes.
Junior Wells says
The Wrath of Lodes TMFTL
mikethep says
Lodes of Wrath.
Junior Wells says
Wrathstone
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Can’t sleep tonight (the pain, the pain) so 3am Wordle.
I play Proper Wordle, no adieu or audio or stare for me. No sirree, why not try zebra?
A workmanlike, some might say noble, bogey.
Wordle Bot approved my play, “distinctive and logical” . I prefer “magnificent”
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mikethep says
I’ve noticed that the bot often plays a second word that has no relation to the first, even if it’s already got some greens. I can’t ever quite bring myself to do this.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
If you play the “difficult” version such skullduggery is quite rightly not allowed those on here who play difficult have a * next their score. I don’t play difficult but, of course I’m a gentleman, I abide by those rules
mikethep says
Bots aren’t gentlemen (the great lost Wodehouse novel). That’s what I mean really. It seems excessively devil-may-care to waste letters you’ve already found.
Gary says
I’ve no idea what anyone’s talking about.
hubert rawlinson says
@Gary twas thus everso.
Junior Wells says
Ditto
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Say you use STARE in the first line and two of those letters are correct.
Some charlatans then ignore the correct letters and enter, for instance, GHOUL. If any of those letters are correct then obviously combining those with the first line-corrects gives a fair chance of a birdie or par.
I am certain nobody in the Afterword Wordle Club would stoop so low
Gary says
This is all very confusing and, frankly, unlikely to help anyone. What I would say is this: Don’t be misled into feeling that symmetry is key. Depict what you know. Use the colours in a way that reflects the world around you. As your skill develops, introduce new patterns, not without caution, but always with more thought given to self-expression than aesthetic appeal.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Wise words – an inspiration to us all
Gary says
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Haven’t got the powers of concentration to give the new movie a go. On yours and many others recommendation I certainly shall when my powers return (somewhere in January 23).
Nice one today, by the way
Gatz says
A straightforward par
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chiz says
30 second par
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Paul Hewston says
Likewise
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Max the Dog says
And here
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Look at you all with your pars. Tomorrow choose an obscure starter. Live dangerously like what I do. On the Edge, eh Paul?
Paul Hewston says
Sounds like that could result in some unforgettable fireworks. (Sorry – best I could manage. Until I perform poorly on a Sunday anyway)
hubert rawlinson says
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So I’m happy🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 with that.
Baron Harkonnen says
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Smart arses the lot of you. Five is the magic number
bigstevie says
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Another smart arse!
Gary says
With well over 272 comments on this thread, I think it’s time for me to relinquish the reins and hand over the baton of liability to a new, younger, more well-endowed aspirant Wordler. My time has come. My fingers are gnarled and warted, my mind no longer as sharp as cling film.
As curator incumbent, I believe it my duty, nay honour (but really duty), to nominate my successor. That withstanding, I hereby nominate Paul Hews(t)on. As is customary in some backward countries, I’ll start the new thread and then leave the cleaning up to him. I might continue to contribute or I might not, as whimsy and decrepitude dictate.
Good luck and God bless, @paul-hewston*
*He spelt it wrong, not me. Either a rather risible attempt at subterfuge or the man’s a fool. You decide.
Gary says
PS. As a reminder, this is the sort of standard you should be aiming for (“Apatosaurus in Burnt Sienna ©Hubes Rawlinson)
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Paul Hewston says
He’s a fool.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Mike, Junior et al – get yourselves over to Paul’s Place
Gary says
That episode of The Tomorrow People fair shook you up, eh? I’ve sent it to Putin too. I hope it’ll make him come to his senses as swiftly as you have. Though I doubt it. He lacks your wisdom and integrity.
mikethep says
Well, while we’re waiting for Paul to wrap himself in the robes of state, I thought I’d give the bounder’s gambit a go. Didn’t work out well.
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
Post this over there, over there!! Over there! Are you blind? Over there! It’s called “Gary can’t be arsed”. Over there!
(I sense no shame, Gary, no shame. Yet you will forever be remembered as The Man Who Sold The World. People will turn their backs as you pass and whispers of “Him that broke the sacred Wordle” will abound. As for Bono Boy, he might as well not exist)
Moose the Mooche says
What is bonobo? Where is Beatles band?
mikethep says
When you put Gary can’t be arsed into the search box, it takes you to a review of a Kray Brothers movie. Hmmm…
Gary says
I was never a Kray brother. Not really. Though Violet Kray is buried in the same cemetery as my Nan (true fact).
The thread you’re looking for has (rather confusingly, I admit) the words ‘Brand New Wordle Thread‘ somewhere in its title.
Baron Harkonnen says
Wordle 510 3/6*
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7th consecutive below par or should I say 7th Heaven.
hubert rawlinson says
Wordle 510 3/6*
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 the results of the returning from holiday and someone came coughing in the sauna and gave me their sodding cold.
Slept for most of yesterday and now am wide awake. Not sure where to post this but surely @Gary won’t want to miss his 3rd hamper.
Now for a crossword.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Gary he no care bout hampers. He just wants shot of this gig.
Where’s Junior!!?!
Junior Wells says
This thread is getting longer than the obituary thread.
An unprepossessing par for me.
Wordle 510 4/6
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Lodestone of Wrongness says
To the New Wordle Thread called “Paul’s New Wordle Thread” !! Gonna get me a shepherd’s crook.
ps when a thread gets long, use Track.
Gary says