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.
I like Waffle – you get five stars if you optimize your moves (leaving 5 swaps remaining when you’re done)
This one is wild. Starting to get the hang of it.
Well, this has just been added to my Daily Games tab group!
I played Overwatch daily for about 5 years, but Blizzard had to go and fuck that up
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.
Heardle. Like Wordle but for music.
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.
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.
I just created !heardle@lemmy.world for posting daily scores and other discussion type things. :)
Hooked. Immediately. Great recommendation.
This is fantastic for my love of 80s music, thank you!
Nice! Last time I heard about it Spotify was shutting it down.
First time I’ve heard of it! But it looks likes it’s using soundcloud now so maybe that’s why.
I’m working on getting better at world geography so I play globle daily.
Then you got to try https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
So I really enjoy this one. Sent it to two of my buddies and now it’s a thing. 👍
Fun game thanks!
I’ve been playing https://duotrigordle.com/. It’s like 32 wordles at once. But despite how that sounds, it’s actually easier than Wordle.
The other one I’ve been playing with a friend is https://framed.wtf/ for figuring out movies by scene.
Thank you for pointing me to framed. I love the concept.
Actually got today’s in a single guess!Same. Had they started with scenes 2-4 I probably wouldn’t have though. Usually get it pretty early or not at all 🤷🏻♂️
Oh! I didn’t realize you could still look at the other frames after guessing! 2 is very difficult for sure.
Thanks I just lost a good 40 minutes sleep to Framed. 😾
I will have to pick that up daily I guess.
You’re welcome 😅 I usually do it first thing over my morning hot beverage. Less thinking before bed that way.
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!
The NYT crossword is challenging enough as a native English speaker.
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
I actually know that one, I’m not from the USA either but read it somewhere. It’s apparently the EPA.
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.
Travle! It’s X country to X country, randomised daily.
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
Forkyz* it seems. Spent a minute trying to find this. I’ve been trying to find a good crossword app, thanks!
Whoops haha sorry that was a typo but i fixed it now. Hope you like it!
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.
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.
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.
Alright, well you’ve convinced me to at least give the Guardian beginner’s puzzles another try. I’ll report back if I throw my PC through a window.
Good luck!
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.
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!
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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/_/
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.
Oh that’s a fun one!
I just lost a streak of 250+ yesterday on wordle :(.
Oof. That hurts.
I like to play the NYT mini crossword every day. I like asking other people for advice on it when I get stuck so it’s both a fun daily game and a good way to do a bit of socializing.
Worldle is fun - you get a country outline and need to guess which country it is, plus its neighbouring countries, capital, etc.
Also Wheretaken, which is similar but you get a photograph rather than the country outline.
Another fun twist on wordle I recommend is fusele. Each word you enter has its own rule you need to follow, for example maybe the first word has to repeat a letter, or you get orange hints instead which mean the letter you entered is within 3 letters of the alphabet of the correct letter.
I actually pay the $2/month for squaredle.app for the extra features. I play this game while in boring meetings so that my mind doesn’t wander and I can keep my concentration on what people are saying.
I’ve lost 30 minutes of my life to Squaredle now. Thanks a lot lol
I really enjoy squareword.
