I’ve been doing Wordle for > 600 days according to my stats. And although I cant help myself and do it everyday – its become a little jaded. My mate and I have started adding a bit of extra fun by developing a cryptic clue for each daily wordle word, and I wondered if folks here might be interested in getting a similar thread going.
A cryptic clue in my mind means a cryptic crossword clue broadly in the style of the Guardian daily cryptic, the SMH or the Everyman with, usually, a cryptic part and a definition (and sometimes and &lit). There is a round of applause for the best/cleverest/funniest.
As an example my attempt for today was “Big Rap homie overwhelms chart.”
My mate’s was “Winemaker drops an Ecky, picks up heroin trace.”
My favourite this week was ” topless nun with bottomless clergy. Includes relative”.
Im sure you get the idea. Anyway post yours here if you feel like it, and I will gladly admire it.
I really like cryptic word puzzles and I very much like that topless nun one.
I hesitate to join in with a current Wordle because spoilers – but previous days’ ones are OK I’d think.
I’m with BC because you’ve wrecked it for today’s Wordle.
I think I’ll stick with cryptic crosswords, success rate 40% but I can only get better.
Here’s my go at yesterday’s:
A little bit angry before a litmus test result.
The answer was GRAPH.
I do love a cryptic crossword although I think you have to get used to the style of the setter. I typically do the Everyman in The Observer and generally complete most if not all of it (but sometimes I just can’t get into it and get very little).
The recent clue I liked that sticks in the mind was “Educates boy wizard, one seen on King’s Cross platform? (12)”.
My all time favourite though has got to be “gegs (9, 4)”
I find cryptic crosswords completely incomprehensible so never bother with them but Mrs. T is a fan.
Ha! I just read up on cryptic clues and for the first time understand how they work. Mrs. T is rolling her eyes.
I like cryptic crosswords, but can’t be doing with Wordle (which seems to be so much the only game in town that the mods might as well rename the site Afterwordle).
What should I do?
Scroll past all things Wordle, simple.
I do – believe me
It’s an observation, not a criticism – this is what the Afterword has become – a place for people who like Wordle and music from the seventies. Something like that was predicted by a departing Afterworder sometime ago, and it’s maybe inevitable, despite the best efforts of Bingo. Kid and others of a younger generation. It becomes more and more like what people think it is – a comfort zone, a safe space for well-rehearsed Aftermemes.
Slightly reductive there Sal if I may say so. I just scrolled back a month and yes there were one or two 70s bands but the vast majority of threads were totally random.
Deliberately and teasingly provocative, Twang. As someone recently commented – waiting for each week’s review of a Dark Side of the Moon review. I guess it’s going to be 50 years since many classic albums were released, so we can look forward to seven more years of golden greats from the decade that taste forgot.
Clickbaiting again, @salwarpe ? Although, I suspect, like you, I too have no interest in reissues and rereissues. As to whether anyone is listening to any new, well, we get closer to the season of the AW top 100 for the year. It when more votes get cast for the reissues than the new that worry is best kept for. This year has been as exciting for new as I can remember, even if my personal tastes are a little niche to the mainstream.
Trolling, not clickbaiting, @retropath2, though I can imagine the posts now:
“Six things you never knew about Roger Water’s’s’ plectrum technique”
“The real story behind those saxophone and female singer bits”
“Pictures of the original glass prism left on the lunar surface by Harrison Schmitt”
This place is getting to be overloaded with Wordle threads. Lots of fun I am sure but aren’t there other more specific websites?
And before someone says you don’t have to read them, all posts appear on “Updates” which I use all the time.
If they have to be on here maybe a separate section and remove these threads from the Updates section or maybe those who play can form a specific WhatsApp group or something?
All posts don’t appear in the updates thread.
https://theafterword.co.uk/garys-wordthingy-thread/ doesn’t, well sometimes it does, but that’s not the point most of the time it doesnt. It doesn’t show gameplay.
It can get lonely there.
I keep seeing posts from there
I object! Usually no more than three daily appearances in Recently Updated, very rarely in Updates and a regular blink-and-you’ll miss it cameo at the end of Most Commented (Last 30 Days). And despite such a low profile it has become, with a predicted 1,300 comments by the end of today, The Afterword’s most popular thread ever!
Objection sustained!
But I agree with you, Dai, all the Wordle results every morning is boring. Irksome even. And no one likes being irked. Especially not first thing in the morning. So I suggest we should split into two distinct camps, both accessible on the one site. Those who like thought-provoking discussions, insightful cultural analysis and hilarious humour in one camp, those who like pretending to play golf in the other. This is, coincidentally, also my solution to the divisions within the Labour Party. I’m not sure if it could also be applied in the Middler East. (For one thing, I don’t know if they play golf.)
All sorts of things appear on “Updates” which I also use all the time. I am an absolute master at ignoring things I’m not interested in. It’s a gift, he says modestly.
I find it to be clutter, have to wade through it to find things of more interest. When I get up in the morning the first 10 posts are sometimes all Wordle related. If people here don’t mind that then fine, but interested to hear what other non players think
@Dai
Agreed.
The five top threads just now were all Wordle-related
This place is fast becoming the internet equivalent of those puzzle mags that fill up the book shelves in the shops you find in hospitals.
And before anyone says “why not start some different threads?”, I’ve started and contributed to plenty
Wordle 847 Oct 14: Civilised chap takes an income cut.
Ah well: the answer to Wordle 847 was AGENT. I was pleased with it anyway.
Oddly I haven’t noticed it at all.
To answer the question in the OP in cryptic crossword style:
Sex act in a cul de sac, it’s simply not on (2, 7, 3)
Ho ho!
coy fan UK wing
Well it was just an idea
My problem is that I forget the word a day later. My wife will ask if I have done it and I say yes, 20 minutes ago, and I can’t for the life of me remember what it is.