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Messages - Morbius

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The Daily Quest / Re: Thoughts on playing the game
« on: October 04, 2023, 11:29:40 AM »
Sometimes the big word leaps out at me right at the start, but usually it doesn't.  It often takes quite a while to find it.  I like to begin playing systematically, looking for words starting with each consonant, then each vowel.  I usually find about 90% of the common words this way.  Then comes the mopping up, which is the time-consuming part.  I use the mix and shuffle functions a lot to give me a fresh perspective when I get stuck.

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Words / Re: Monday 25 September 7-by-many JERKINESS puzzle
« on: September 26, 2023, 06:00:06 PM »
I suggested this word a few years ago and it was accepted - it's actually spelt KEIRIN.  Perhaps KEIREN is a variant spelling.

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Whatever / Re: What seed word drove you nuts trying to find?
« on: September 22, 2023, 11:34:12 AM »
I often struggle with medical terms.  One that I remember from years ago (that I didn't get) was NEURALGIC.

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Words / Re: Wibble
« on: September 21, 2023, 05:59:14 PM »
We got Blackadder in Australia.  One of my favourite comedy series!  :)

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Words / Re: Wednesday 30 August 10-letter DESPONDENT puzzle
« on: September 01, 2023, 07:39:10 AM »
Good question!  It's certainly not common to me (and it cost me a rosette!)  >:(

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Words / Re: terrine common?
« on: July 25, 2023, 07:33:19 AM »
I know the word as a kind of meatloaf in French cuisine.  I'd have thought this definition was pretty common. 

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Words / Re: word suggestion - hotty
« on: June 16, 2023, 07:07:03 AM »
I don't have a problem with tongs being common, nor with other words ending in s that aren't really plurals (e.g. pliers, shorts, pants).  For me, part of the challenge of the game is to identify words like these.  It would be a shame if that challenge was diminished.

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Words / An anomaly?
« on: June 06, 2023, 06:34:12 PM »
Yesterday's 10 letter puzzle included the words hereof, hereon, hereto, hereunto, thereof, thereon, thereto and thereunto.  All of them were classed as common except hereon.  That seems anomalous to me.  If all the others are common, shouldn't hereon be common too?  I think it should.

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Words / Re: Vaping in yesterday’s standard Grapevine puzzle
« on: May 25, 2023, 05:59:28 PM »
The fact that 420 people got it certainly justifies its recent reclassification to common!

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Words / Re: Daily Puzzle 14 May 2023 - SPOILER ALERT!
« on: May 15, 2023, 07:48:06 AM »
I tried it too and was very surprised it wasn't allowed.

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Words / Re: INGROUND in yesterdays ten letter REBOUNDING game
« on: May 09, 2023, 10:32:56 AM »
I tried it too.  It's in a few dictionaries (Collins, Britannica Dictionary, Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary) so it's definitely a valid word.

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Words / Re: Comity in yesterday’s ten letter Mediocrity game
« on: May 05, 2023, 07:03:38 AM »
Seconded.  It's certainly not common to me.

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Words / An interesting anomaly
« on: April 15, 2023, 08:01:51 AM »
In yesterday's Challenge puzzle, only 144 players got the common seed word (creosoted), but more than twice that number got the rare seed word (scootered).  Which begs the question; should creosoted be common?

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Words / Re: AQUIVER in yesterday’s QUAVERING game
« on: April 04, 2023, 06:31:14 PM »
I didn't play it but I did recognise it when I checked the solution.  Similarly structured words like atilt, atingle and astir are all rare.  Is aquiver better known than words like these?

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Words / Re: Neuritis in the UNIVERSITY ten letter game
« on: March 26, 2023, 08:03:32 AM »
I agree.  It's certainly not common to me.

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