A Few Words About Wordle
Feb. 2nd, 2022 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerMost of the time I don’t seem that fast at getting around to “the latest thing online.” This might go all the way back to the apparent paradox of when I volunteered to “connect a Macintosh” to the first Internet Service Providers to start up in my home town... if in the summer of 1995, two years after references to the Internet as available in bigger communities started popping up in computer magazines I could notice. Sometimes, perhaps, it pays off in a certain way, as when I never got around to signing up for Facebook the first time I saw it mentioned because I was too lazy to “select a profile picture.”
This is just an extended way of getting around to saying I noticed a few references to Wordle before looking up its web site. References to the coloured pegs of “Mastermind” aside, one of my thoughts was of “Jumble” in my newspaper, and how I keep looking at its scrambled letters without them reshaping into words in my head; I’m more likely to solve the final puzzle just by looking at the comic and letting familiar sayings bounce around. I did have a bit more luck with Wordle, and being limited to one puzzle a day is downright refreshing given some of the mobile games I’ve installed. I haven’t yet got around to “playing every day,” though, and while the option to “post your squares” to Twitter would mean something other than links here on my months-old account it might only amount to an “either-or” alternation I’m not quite enthused about either. The reports of the game being sold for a handsome sum to the New York Times have generated some uncertainty (and a comment about “the strains of success”), but as it turned out today I did see a suggested way to “save the game to your computer.”
This is just an extended way of getting around to saying I noticed a few references to Wordle before looking up its web site. References to the coloured pegs of “Mastermind” aside, one of my thoughts was of “Jumble” in my newspaper, and how I keep looking at its scrambled letters without them reshaping into words in my head; I’m more likely to solve the final puzzle just by looking at the comic and letting familiar sayings bounce around. I did have a bit more luck with Wordle, and being limited to one puzzle a day is downright refreshing given some of the mobile games I’ve installed. I haven’t yet got around to “playing every day,” though, and while the option to “post your squares” to Twitter would mean something other than links here on my months-old account it might only amount to an “either-or” alternation I’m not quite enthused about either. The reports of the game being sold for a handsome sum to the New York Times have generated some uncertainty (and a comment about “the strains of success”), but as it turned out today I did see a suggested way to “save the game to your computer.”