I was thinking Jersey Shore as well which was partially why I was vague on the type of fiction. Now I'm thinking Jersey Girl? Kinky Boots? Merrily Ever After? Fiddler on a Hot Tin Roof?
As you are getting towards the end of the Wordle list, how about this for a future challenge list. Each day, the word starts with the last letter of the previous day until all the letters in the alphabet are used (as far as I know, all of the strange words below are accepted by Wordle). Aflaj - Joust - Thumb - Bayou - Umiaq - Quirk - Knoll - Lingo - Ollav - Venom - Month - Helix - Xylic - Crimp - Place - Elbow - Waltz - Zesty - Yearn - Nomad - Defer - Rabbi - Icing - Grief - Floss - Salsa I was originally going to try to have first word starting with A and ending with B, next starting B ending in C, etc, but there were too many gaps with words that don't follow this pattern.
I also had wordle in 4, upper, cleat, echos, decoy. Strands was super easy. When I was a kid, if we left the outside doors open, my mom would ask us if we were born in a barn! Sonshiwing a lack of manners. I also failed in naming the blue.
Before other-Miles gets here... the probability of getting four selected words in a row top, bottom, left or right is calculated as follows. The total possible arrangements of 16 words in 16 positions is 16 factorial, 16! With four given words in a specified order, the number of ways they can be placed in the left-hand column is exactly 1. But the four given words can be in any order, of which there are 4! And the remaining 12 words can be placed arbitrarily in the 12 remaining places, giving 12! possibilities. So there are 4! x 12! out of 16! possibilities to get the four words in the left-hand column. Left, right, top and bottom are mutually exclusive so the probabilities add to... 4 x 4! 12! / 16! = 1/455. 455 expected shuffles, that seems rather a lot.
Miles and Miles: I hit “shuffle” before I started. I chose the blue (“Broadway”) and then yellow (I called it “grumpy”) categories. Then the words for green (“experimental”) were perfectly lined up, as were the words in the next row for the last category, purple (“Peter blank”). This is the first time this ever has happened for me!
I did exactly the same as you today, Art. I said "Fiddler on the Roof" at one point but had no clue of the overall category. Not Broadway literate enough I guess.
Vetch is a climbing legume with a blue flowers that form little pods of seeds. It's grown in cereal mixtures ( oats say) along with peas and the whole lot is harvested as forage or arable silage for livestock.
UPPER SHALE BEGIN JETTY DECOY Vetch is part of the pea family. Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #401 🟨🟨🟨🟨Irritable 🟩🟩🟩🟩Beginning stage of a project 🟦🟦🟦🟦Start word of a Broadway musical 🟪🟪🟪🟪Peter ____
Worlde in 4 UPPER LEAST DEMON DECOY Connections: 1 mistake and no order, but I got all the categories and time bonus. 8/10 The musicals, btw, are "Fiddler On the Roof", "Kinky Boots", "Jersey Boys", and "Merrily We Roll Along". I'm a big musical theater fan. Strands: Perfect Score! First 10/10 in a while.
Wordle 1,123 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ upper 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ elate 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 chewy 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 decoy Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Very very quick today Connections Puzzle #401 🟪🟪🟪🟪 fictional Peters 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Broadway musicals (only knew Kinky and Fiddler, but it was enough to get me there) 🟨🟨🟨🟨 a bit cranky 🟩🟩🟩🟩 a test run Also very quick- the Peters is one of the easier purples to spot.
If an event has a probability p of happening, then it's a geometric distribution, and the expected number of attempts until it happens is 1/p. So I'm afraid if something has a probability of 1/227, then on average it will take 227 attempts before it happens. In this video you specified that the four selected words end up on the top or bottom row or left or right column, which is half as likely, ie 1/455, so expected 455 clicks! But I noticed today you were quite happy with the four words being on the side but going round the corner, so if you add in those configurations, that improves it to about 1/152.
Were you raised in a barn is classically asked by a parent to a child whose left a door open so there's a draft. Which is weird because obvs the parent should know where their child was raised ! I also can't recall what upper has to do with plants 😂 but vetch is definitely a plant. And witch is for witch hazel.
Wordle: Went with an alternate plant word with 5 uniques (this took me a while to find: Urena for Urena Lobata aka Caesarweed) URENA ITCHY DECOY (skipped my planned 3rd word PLODS) ----------------- STRANDS 135, 10 Bit slow at the start, I was looking at the two Fs for something with FARM for the spangram, but eventually I found it. Failed super hard mode on the last word. I thought it was something obscure I never heard of called a GLIPET. Total solve time 1:53. ------------------------ CONNECTIONS 401, 9.5 Peter ___ (1) First Word of Some Type of Fictional Work (0.5) First version (1) Irritable (1)
STARE BEECH CELLO DECOY Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Cute! Connections Puzzle #401 🟩🟩🟩🟩 An early version, a prototype or test 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Rude, ill-tempered 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Peter _____ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 First word of Broadway musicals
Wordle 1,123 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨SAUCE 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩CHEWY 🟩⬛🟩🟨🟩DICEY 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩DECOY Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #401 🟨🟨🟨🟨NASTY/FOUL MOOD 🟩🟩🟩🟩TESTING PERIOD 🟦🟦🟦🟦BROADWAY MUSICALS, FIRST WORDS 🟪🟪🟪🟪PETER____
Wordle 1,123 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 louse (for o, u and e) 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ overt (o and e look to be the only vowels) 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ demon (xexox structure) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 decoy (tough to even find a fit)
Connections Puzzle #401 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Pop culture Peters 🟦🟦🟦🟦 First word of movie musicals [I’m giving myself half here.] 🟩🟩🟩🟩 words that imply a testing phase 🟨🟨🟨🟨 WTCM “grumpy” RIOT: 4, 3.5, 1, 1. 9.5/10 Time: 4:39 DIFFICULTY, as reported by NYT testers: 2.6/5 There actually is a movie version coming out of Merrily We Roll Along, but I didn’t know that. I was making an educated guess.
Wordle 1,123 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ alien ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ sutor 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 duchy 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 decoy I would like to have had a shot at getting it in 3, but there were too many possibilities left. DUCHY nailed down 3 letters at once! NYT Spelling Bee: GABM: 1:57!
xxx,decoy,Tom Cee,4 Wordle 1,123 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛upper ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨stone 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛coded 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩decoy This took a long time to filter into my brain Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 No, but I visited grandpa a bit. Connections Puzzle #401 🟪🟪🟪🟪Peters’ surnames 🟩🟩🟩🟩experiments 🟨🟨🟨🟨bad mood 🟦🟦🟦🟦first word of Broadway plays This is a relatively hard one, I just happened to catch the purple first. Kinky boots stuck out as Broadway, along with Fiddler on the Roof and Jersey Boys. I had to look up Merrily We Roll Along. (1934 play to 1981 Musical).
Well done, Art! Connections Puzzle #401 🟩🟩🟩🟩EARLY VERSION 🟨🟨🟨🟨UNHAPPY 🟪🟪🟪🟪PETER ____ 🟦🟦🟦🟦FIRST WORDS OF MUSICALS Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Wordle 1,123 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨TRACE 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨CELLO 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩DECOY
Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡🔵 9 - I expected "Farm" instead of "Baby" for the Spangram. Wordle 1,123 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 . ADIEU - SNORT - GLYPH - DECOY. 🦆 Connections Puzzle #401 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 PETER______ = 1 BEGINNING WORD OF BROADWAY PRODUCTIONS = 1 (I said all the names of the musicals.) TEST RUN = 1 GRUMPY = 1 🟪🟦🟩🟨
