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Ouch!

An extension would be useful to me too, if possible. I only managed to make a start on a story today, and didn’t get very far. But with an extra couple of days, I stand a chance of finishing it.

This is looking great. Keep it up.

I’m not sure if this is real but it’s funny if it is:
https://twitter.com/ihaveahat2/status/1514973672120848388?s=20=6W1bTifAGc83x7-D5_ZcaA

He didn’t so much say you had the wrong game, but the wrong name. They’ve probably just decided on a different title.

It was a tricky one for such a normal word. Or perhaps because it’s such a normal word.

Not until after pasting the below grid did it occur to me that my setting would have reset to easy mode (if someone’s on hard mode, it shows an asterisk).

Spoiler

I thought I’d go with a word with lots of vowels. Turned out to be a bad idea, especially as none of them were ‘E’.

Wordle 300 X/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ouija
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ after
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 plane
⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 chase
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 shade
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 shake

By the time I got to the 5th guess, it was just a lucky dip between shade, shave, shake and shame. I had two shots, and missed them both.

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That’s true. I didn’t really intend to use the words 1st and 2nd. I meant ‘winners’ and ‘runners up’, which is I think how I referred to them in the ceremony.

They’re looking for Four Yorkshiremen. 

I’d love to give this a go but I’m not confident I can deliver an accurate Northern accent without being too cartoony. Everyone can do a generic ‘oop North’ accent but they probably want something a bit more authentic.

As for the posh southerner? I’m not particularly well-spoken myself but can turn it on when the occasion arises.

Noooooo. Can it get any worse?

My first game after clearing my cache ended in total disaster and I had my first ever fail. (#300)

I won’t yet post what the grid looked like because it could give something away. I’m pretty gutted right now.

Bad news. I had a panic last night when my phone was on less than 1gb remaining. Went through deleting clearing data, deleting apps and, unfortunately, clearing my Safari cache.

I’m proud to say that after 82 games I still had a 100% record and a fairly decent average, but now I have to start from scratch.

Truly fun and well worth the 4am start.

Apologies for my slow typing while announcing the MAGGIES. I wasn’t trying to be overly dramatic. I was just trying to be respectful to the devs and capitalize the titles properly, but the right-hand shift key didn’t work and apparently I just found out I don't used the left-hand shift key nearly as much because I kept having to retype words.

Was that a bug, a feature or just me?

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Japan have pretty much lifted all restrictions. Numbers were starting to come down but have recently begun to stabilize, much like in Khris’s graph.

The difference is that in Japan people are still wearing masks in pretty much every situation except for in their homes and in bars/restaurants (even then masks are worn until to get to the table and start eating/drinking).

The other difference is (I’ve said this before but it bears repeating): there NEVER was a mask mandate in Japan. People just did. And still do. My only worry is that I can foresee Japanese people simple adopting the mask as standard and that means people with a bit more common sense will never again be able to take their masks off in public without being made to feel ashamed about it.

One of my observations earlier in this thread was about people wearing masks even when they were walking alone in a non-crowded open space, and how ridiculous that seemed to me (I will often pull my mask off when I’m not near people because frankly cars and hedges can’t catch covid-19. But even now, even after the rest of the world has made mask-wearing a LEGAL requirement, and then lifted those requirements, I’m still seeing practically everyone, no matter how much personal space and fresh air they have around them, wearing a mask.

Nobody wants to be the first to take it off and admit they don’t always need it.

This is a common thing in Japan. You may have heard that people here will always wait for the green man at a pedestrian crossing, even when it is clearly safe to cross. Maybe this is to be admired, but here’s an interesting observation.

Whenever you have a group of people at a crossing. The man is red, but there are no cars coming, it’s a narrow road and everybody knows they could all cross and no one is going to even see a car, let alone get hit by one. But… *IF* one person does break the rule and start crossing, then others will usually follow. Like the just needed permission from the strangers around them that they’re not going to be judged badly for breaking this rule.

I think it’s the same with masks. People are just waiting to see when other people around them stop wearing masks… but nobody wants to be first. And it doesn’t count if I do it because I’m a foreigner. If I break a social rule (or pedestrian code) then that’s because I’m a stupid gaijin.

Sorry for the rant, but I’m basically going to be stuck wearing masks forever unless I move my family out of this country, so it’s kind of a pain in the arse.

Here is mine:(I will release this module once it's complete in few days probably)
https://i.gyazo.com/2b8bf4a264d26feff7d79067bbcd7cae.png

And the AGS Award for ‘widest monitor’ goes to…

[4.025]

My average took a bit of a hit in the past ten days, but it's not as bad as I was expecting.

No. guesses	No. of times	Points
1	0	0
2	5	10
3	20	60
4	32	128
5	14	70
6	9	54
	Total	322
	/80 days	4.025

Great topic. I've been working on something for the past week. Should be ready for release in the next couple of days.

Great to hear, Davey. I look forward to seeing it.

[RESULT]

RESULT

This year, there were two joint winners and two joint runners up:

Joint 1st place
Breakfast on Trappist-1 by FormosaFalanster and Lorenzo
Santa Claus in: A Flight to Remember by OneDollar

Joint 2nd place
One More Fathom by WHAM
I Rented a Boat by eri0o

Well done to all of you and to everyone who participated in MAGS throughout 2021.

That’s a cool bot. It’s a bit buggy on my phone but really clever little tool.

I’m not having a very good week.

Wordle 293 5/6*

⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[DOWNLOAD:]

DOWNLOAD:
Click here

When I first tried downloading I got an error message saying it could not download securely.
I solved it by changing "http" to "https".
Perhaps you want to change this in the link and future links so that no one else has the same issue on the day.

Edit: I edited out the link to prevent people from downloading an out-of-date version. â€"Snarky

I think that’s because ‘Latin’ is a proper noun. My guess is they also won’t accept ‘Suomi’, but I’m going to try that as my starting word tomorrow, just in case they do.

In other news, I’ve had two 6-ers since my last post so my average is doomed.

[update] ‘Suomi’ wasn’t allowed.