Daily, I play Wordle and 7 Little Words when I first get up, but I was wondering what other types of quick games like that that people play regularly.

    • OOFshoot@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      I play Mech Arena every day. Usually only a couple of games. I never played Overwatch so I can’t compare them, but I’m enjoying Mech Arena so far.

  • HalJor@beehaw.org
    11·
    2 years ago

    I like Waffle – you get five stars if you optimize your moves (leaving 5 swaps remaining when you’re done)

    • Kichae@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      My girlfriend and I do like 10 of these every night.

      Turns out I don’t know anything about music before the 1980s, nor after the 1990s.

      • Skullvalanche@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Ha! I play every night with my wife, and routinely quip that the 1970s are my kryptonite. I don’t know shit about them.

        Oddly, I’m decent at the 60s and 50s cuz of my mom.

        There’s a #TeamHeardle group on Mastodon that’s pretty active daily comparing notes and commiserating about losses.

        Also worth knowing: the person who runs heardledecades.com is in the UK, so a lot of the games skew heavily towards UK charts.

  • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
    8·
    2 years ago

    I do NY Times crosswords. quite challenging as an ESL, but very satisfying. so far I’ve only been able to solve Monday or Tuesday ones, and I still use the “check puzzle” helper to see how many words I got wrong when I’m stuck, but I don’t have to look up stuff online anymore!

      • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
        5·
        2 years ago

        there’s another layer of difficulty when you’re not from the US, as it often requires you to know stuff from US history and culture that you don’t learn and know about abroad. like tHE FUCK KIND OF A THREE LETTER ORG DID NIXON CREATE, WATERGATE IS LONGER THAN THREE LETTERS

        • Pleb@feddit.de
          3·
          2 years ago

          I actually know that one, I’m not from the USA either but read it somewhere. It’s apparently the EPA.

    • ianw@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, they’re tough. My wife and I do them together and can usually do up to Wednesdays without too much help, then things get ugly.

    • Catra@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Thank you for pointing me to framed. I love the concept.
      Actually got today’s in a single guess!

      • themadcodger@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Same. Had they started with scenes 2-4 I probably wouldn’t have though. Usually get it pretty early or not at all 🤷🏻‍♂️

        • Catra@beehaw.org
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          2 years ago

          Oh! I didn’t realize you could still look at the other frames after guessing! 2 is very difficult for sure.

    • Sun-Spider@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Thanks I just lost a good 40 minutes sleep to Framed. 😾

      I will have to pick that up daily I guess.

      • themadcodger@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        You’re welcome 😅 I usually do it first thing over my morning hot beverage. Less thinking before bed that way.

  • limeaide@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Recently I’ve been learning crosswords and I do the daily Newsday and USA Today puzzles since they’re pretty easy, but near the end of the week the Newsday one gets kinda difficult.

    I also want to shout-out Forkyz on F-Droid. It’s by far the best crossword puzzle app I’ve used. Pulls from multiple news sites and you can import puzzles as well

    • lonnez@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      Forkyz* it seems. Spent a minute trying to find this. I’ve been trying to find a good crossword app, thanks!

    • Deebster@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      I learnt Cryptic Crosswords the other year, which are somewhat mind bending. The moment you figure out the answer is often alongside a groan of aaah like you’ve just got a bad pun.

      • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgM
        3·
        2 years ago

        I tried to get into cryptics a few years ago and was really frustrated. It seemed like you really needed to just know the conventions around the clues rather than relying on general knowledge or vocabulary. I probably aught to try again.

        • Deebster@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Yes, you definitely do, and there’s a lot of them too (e.g.). Some of it is stuff you could conceivably know, even if it’s because it’s (often outdated) general knowledge, but plenty of it is very cryptic-specific. It does end up being like in-jokes and, I suppose, part of the pleasure.

          The Guardian do a fairly accessible crossword for beginners: Guardian Quiptic, as well as the series Cryptic crosswords for beginners.

          You can find the answers and explanations on fifteensquared.net which you will need at first! When I started I would do as much as I could then try to read as little of the answers as possible to get myself unstuck. Sometimes the answer would elicit a “well how the f was I supposed to get that?” but less so nowadays.

    • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      is there a source for NY Times ones? I’m currently using https://downforacross.com/ which is pretty good on both mobile and desktop, but I’d like something that doesn’t require constant internet connection, and this one freaks out when you’re in spotty area and disconnect for a second.

      • limeaide@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Not that i know of, but you can use something like the crossword scraper extension them import it to the app.

        If you find a source, please let me know!

        • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          downforacross has them available for free, I was just looking for something more convenient. I’ve just found a script that scrapes the puzzles and converts them to .puz, so perhaps someone else out there is maintaining a downloadable collection somewhere.

          edit: of course there’s collection of the ones that NYT used to publish in that format https://tedd.it/r/DHExchange/comments/p1tzor/_/

  • bread@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’m starting to play this game called Guessdle that you can guess an object/place/food. It uses AI to determine if what you asked is right or not until you finished guessing the thing. It’s pretty much cool though.

    • walkingears@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      I love worldle, it’s really helped me sharpen up on geography as someone who’s already geeky about geography.

      The island nations, and trying to guess their “border countries,” are really a struggle though.

  • rubiiA
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    2 years ago

    I try to get in a game of Contexto every day at work when things are slow.
    The goal is to find a secret word based on how similar the words you have already guessed is. You do get unlimited guesses though which is nice. it’s pretty challenging but very rewarding when you finally get it.