Wordle-like apps

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This one is really for the dedicated/bored only - I spent hours on it last night and didn't get the title. It's self explanatory, I think

www.redactle.com/#


and here's one for music fans - not sure if there are any here 

www.heardle.app/


Great fun!

[DayoRemix]

I enjoy this one when in the mood..
octordle.com/

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I like doing crosswords.

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May 30, 2022 10:30:06 GMT @madcyril1 said:

I like doing crosswords.

I’ve never understood the logic of the fancy crosswords. The clues within the clue etc.

[Sneelock]

I spent the better part of a year trying to do the Cryptic Crosswords in some magazines we were getting. I didn’t solve very many clues. I did sustain some irreversible brain damage. Ask anybody.

I can’t imagine doing that again. It seemed like fun at the time.

www.pennydellpuzzles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/How-to-Solve-Cryptic-XWD.pdf

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

My dad used to do the cryptic crosswords in the newspaper every day, and he'd whip through them like they were a regular crossword. He explained that once you figure out that there are only a handful of types of clues they're pretty easy to do.

[rayge]

May 30, 2022 17:43:56 GMT Half Machine Lipschitz said:

My dad used to do the cryptic crosswords in the newspaper every day, and he'd whip through them like they were a regular crossword. He explained that once you figure out that there are only a handful of types of clues they're pretty easy to do.

That's certainly true. I rarely bother with cryptic crosswords these days - since Araucaria, the Shakespeare of the genre, died, really - but reading a book about the types of clues when I was a teenager helped enormously.

I'm also a fan of lexulous online, killer sudoku, various number puzzles and codewords, but wordle and all its relatives can FUCK RIGHT OFF.