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I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not

I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not be able to proceed, I realized that it wasn't worth trying to guess before the clue came up so I quit out.

ryhanshannon 2mo ago
Same thing here happened with 'irks' and 'risk'
shshsjsj 2mo ago
wtf is kiters?
- what 2mo ago
  People flying kites?
- luipugs 2mo ago
  kiters = kiteboarders. Welcome to Australia, the country where the words are made up and meanings don't matter.
  - saghm 2mo ago
    All words are made up
    - fjlunky 2mo ago
      That’s what luipugs said. An interesting twist on this game might be that spelling is enforced to be non-standard. Here are letters, here’s the meaning, make the word but it must not be spelt right.
      - saghm 2mo ago
        No, they said that in Australia words are made up. I'm not disagreeing, but I'm saying that it's not specific to Australia! Tangentially, it's funny to me that you happen to use "spelt" here; I've always felt that it doesn't look like a "real" word and choose to use "spelled" instead, but I also recognize that this is entirely my own personal thing and not reflective of anything other than my own issues. It's a great example to me though of how trying to push personal feelings about words against a wider consensus mostly just leads to frustration without any real gains, so it's less frustrating in the long to be able to live with the fact that they won't always match up. Language is weird and wonderful and despite often being inconsistent and sometimes outright annoying, it's also extremely powerful, and it works well maybe because of the resiliency it needs to withstand the very real limitations it has, and I choose to embrace it all and enjoy it! (I also suspect is why I enjoy puns way more than average; to quote one of my former coworkers, "words are toys")
iambenm 2mo ago
Spoiler alert, it seems to be like Wordle in that the same puzzle is given to everyone for that day.

ryhanshannon 2mo ago

Same thing here happened with 'irks' and 'risk'

shshsjsj 2mo ago

wtf is kiters?

what 2mo ago
People flying kites?
luipugs 2mo ago
kiters = kiteboarders. Welcome to Australia, the country where the words are made up and meanings don't matter.
- saghm 2mo ago
  All words are made up
  - fjlunky 2mo ago
    That’s what luipugs said. An interesting twist on this game might be that spelling is enforced to be non-standard. Here are letters, here’s the meaning, make the word but it must not be spelt right.
    - saghm 2mo ago
      No, they said that in Australia words are made up. I'm not disagreeing, but I'm saying that it's not specific to Australia! Tangentially, it's funny to me that you happen to use "spelt" here; I've always felt that it doesn't look like a "real" word and choose to use "spelled" instead, but I also recognize that this is entirely my own personal thing and not reflective of anything other than my own issues. It's a great example to me though of how trying to push personal feelings about words against a wider consensus mostly just leads to frustration without any real gains, so it's less frustrating in the long to be able to live with the fact that they won't always match up. Language is weird and wonderful and despite often being inconsistent and sometimes outright annoying, it's also extremely powerful, and it works well maybe because of the resiliency it needs to withstand the very real limitations it has, and I choose to embrace it all and enjoy it! (I also suspect is why I enjoy puns way more than average; to quote one of my former coworkers, "words are toys")

iambenm 2mo ago

Spoiler alert, it seems to be like Wordle in that the same puzzle is given to everyone for that day.