Games @sh.itjust.works nanoUFO @sh.itjust.works 2 mo. ago

Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games

www.polygon.com Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games

The Guild is asking people to break their Wordle streaks

Technology @beehaw.org Scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 mo. ago

www.polygon.com /news/474209/new-york-times-strike-wordle-connections

Technology @lemmy.ml Scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 mo. ago

Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games

www.polygon.com /news/474209/new-york-times-strike-wordle-connections

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My friends and I are all giving up our streaks. One is over 650. We don't cross picket lines.
- In the wordle world, this is almost a big enough deal to make an x, formerly known as twitter, burner account and post on the NYT page. Just a little jab in the stomach that other ppl will see
  
  Nah won't catch me dead using Musk's platform.
- damn that's dedication! I'm not sure if I could give that streak up.
  
  It's a dumb number on a screen versus these peoples' livelihoods. Not even a hard choice.
It's a bummer today of all days; I could really use any distraction. But you don't cross a picket line, power to the striking workers.

A plug for the other lovely daily games: !dailygames@lemmy.zip

And for my favorite one: https://travle.earth/
- My current favourite is https://metazooa.com
  
  Super lucky :)
  
  🐐 Animal #463 🐀 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟧🟥🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.5
  
  https://metazooa.com #metazooa
  
  I thought I was going to hate this and I absolutely love it
  
  This is awesome.
- Puzzmo.com is great
- I finally got my first perfect on travle, it was super easy tho
Play the Britannica Octordle instead? https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/
- I saw someone share this earlier today also as another option!
  
  Periodic reminder in light of the #nyt strike that #wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the nyt, and I packed it into a single html file that you can download and run offline or from any site, like this: https://jon-e.net/wordle.html
  
  https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle
  
  https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113426201830722841 (link to the mastodon tweet quoted above)
  
  If anyone has an alternative for the connections game I really liked that one :)
  
  This site has an archive of all the NYT Connections games:
  
  https://connections.swellgarfo.com/archive
  
  Connections shits me. I hate how they will put in clear connections but you're aiming for more obscure ones.
  
  Strands and the Mini is where it's at.
  
  I played so much wordle, I own the app and everything but I lost interest in it
  
  https://categories.clevergoat.com
- I tried to play this but no idea how it works. I tried the daily and I wrote a word that gave me all colored letters and didn't let me keep writing. Did I guess the word? No idea....
  
  In this you’re solving 8 wordles at the same time. So green letters are in the correct place, and yellow letters are in the word but in the wrong place. It may help to focus on one at a time like a normal wordle, and see how many you can get solved before you run out of guesses.
Another fun one to try is contexto.me. You guess a word, and an AI gives a score on how close it deems you are to the word.
- Why the fuck dinner is closer to brunch then breakfast or lunch??
  
  Spoilers bruh...
  
  Haha, you'll have to ask the AI about that...
- Spoilers bruh...
As long as they don’t ask me to break my Duolingo streak it’s all good. I‘m scared of that owl
https://redactle.net/ is a fun one
LARGE was an absolutely terrible guess if you already know that R can’t be in the third spot
- terrible only if you want to minimise guess number, pretty good if you want to gather more information (and not lose altogether)
  
  LAGER would give the same information but also have a shot at being correct

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