• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Maybe one for the cruciverbalists

Ooooh the Trimble household enjoys that very much.

This was our first go.

0820c791395382c17cb9bd4129ee1a8f.jpg


10377f0d6458be3ba26e90f1bdffc756.jpg
 
I didn't see Trim's answer before giving it a go, but I got it on my first try and in four words, at least it's not lupus!

Screenshot 2022-01-06 at 20-13-30 Wordle - A daily word game.png
 
I have failed even to understand how to do it. If W is the right letter in the right place then how do you get banal ?
 
Best not to post the solutions to today's puzzle ... there's only one a day, and everyone gets the same word.

I got today's in 3 :cool:
 
RogerS":3fovvmhj said:
I have failed even to understand how to do it. If W is the right letter in the right place then how do you get banal ?
Click to expand...

That’s just the example Roger, to show you how it works.

You start with six rows of empty boxes so your first go is a complete guess.
 
Sheffield Tony":3ltchx49 said:
Best not to post the solutions to today's puzzle ... there's only one a day, and everyone gets the same word.

I got today's in 3 :cool:
Click to expand...
yeah I realised that after Trevanion’s reply, D’oh! Won’t post it again. Maybe we do it a day in arrears…
 
Maybe I am not so stupid after all. Not only did I work out how to do it I also resisted the temptation to publish my result. :)
 
Took me longer to work out how to play it than to solve it :lol: I thought I could just do random letters instead of words. Then got it in 5
 
Cross between hangman and Mastermind(the board game based on bulls and cows). When I first read about it online I wasn't really inspired, but I like it
Has anyone played King's Cribbage? It's a cross between Cribbage and Scrabble(both family favourites), and I thought it would be neither fish nor fowl, but it's surprisingly good.
 
I’m going to like this, it’ll help to get my little grey cells going in the morning
 

Attachments

  • 45EC3BBF-6886-4430-A310-7754B99F8404.jpeg
    45EC3BBF-6886-4430-A310-7754B99F8404.jpeg
    78.1 KB · Views: 4,545
Never heard of this before. Took 3. Surely this puzzle type responds to logical reasoning quite fast as there are only 5 letters? I like word puzzles and crosswords usually. This needs to be more of a challenge to be addictive I think. Partly a game of chance re first word hitting at least one correct letter and place. So any word with high vowel variety is a good starter?
 
Words which feature letters high on the English language letter frequency table. Morse went with e, t, I, a, n as first few, but that's skewed by the words a, an, the, I etc. Nonetheless, I reckon "rates" would be a fairly good first try.
 
I’m normally crap at word games so I was quite pleased to get it in four. ;)

389-BC474-DDA6-4-CD6-8-D58-D504-BA2-CB6-EC.jpg
 
Thanks so much guys! :evil: You've just ensured that I waste yet more time each morning before I do something useful!
 
There's always an element of luck in it. For example, today I easily got the first three letters and could think of three words using non-eliminated letters in the last two positions. I put the right word in after trying a wrong one but could just as well have put it in first or third.
 
I'd say the element of practice is quite an important one, just like most of these things. You get to know a good word to start with and follow up with, your vocab of five letter words will be increased so you can come up with alternatives more quickly, etc. It's like with crosswords - if you're not in practice with them, you see a clue with "Flower" and start thinking of tulips or daisies. If you are in practice, you start thinking rivers.
 
John Brown":2oyfqar7 said:
Andyp":2oyfqar7 said:
certainly elements of guesswork, luck and deduction needed. I'm beating my girls at the moment!
Click to expand...
Is that still acceptable in France?
Click to expand...

:text-lol:

They have all now completed at least 2 more years at school than I did, and they are nowhere near finished. So anything that I can achieve like this I make the most of.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top