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.
- erbs ( @erbs@lemmy.org.uk ) 10•1 year ago
- azerial ( @azerial@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
Fun game thanks!
- backseat ( @backseat@beehaw.org ) 10•1 year ago
Heardle. Like Wordle but for music.
- Kichae ( @Kichae@kbin.social ) 6•1 year 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 ( @skullvalanche@lemmy.world ) 0•1 year 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.
- Skullvalanche ( @skullvalanche@lemmy.world ) 1•1 year ago
I just created !heardle@lemmy.world for posting daily scores and other discussion type things. :)
Hooked. Immediately. Great recommendation.
- SparkIT ( @SparkIT@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Nice! Last time I heard about it Spotify was shutting it down.
- SpacemanSpiff ( @SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
First time I’ve heard of it! But it looks likes it’s using soundcloud now so maybe that’s why.
- Catra ( @catra@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
This is fantastic for my love of 80s music, thank you!
- Kamirose ( @Kamirose@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
I’m working on getting better at world geography so I play globle daily.
- Cheeky ( @Cheeky@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
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. 👍
- noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year 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!
- KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX ( @KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
The NYT crossword is challenging enough as a native English speaker.
- noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year 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 ( @pleb_maximus@feddit.de ) 4•1 year ago
I actually know that one, I’m not from the USA either but read it somewhere. It’s apparently the EPA.
- ianw ( @ianw@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year 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.
- themadcodger ( @themadcodger@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
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.
- Catra ( @catra@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Thank you for pointing me to framed. I love the concept.
Actually got today’s in a single guess!- themadcodger ( @themadcodger@kbin.social ) 3•1 year 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 ( @catra@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Oh! I didn’t realize you could still look at the other frames after guessing! 2 is very difficult for sure.
- Sun-Spider ( @sunspider@lemmy.world ) 2•1 year ago
Thanks I just lost a good 40 minutes sleep to Framed. 😾
I will have to pick that up daily I guess.
- themadcodger ( @themadcodger@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
You’re welcome 😅 I usually do it first thing over my morning hot beverage. Less thinking before bed that way.
- Risk ( @Risk@lemmy.world ) 7•1 year ago
Travle! It’s X country to X country, randomised daily.
- limeaide ( @limeaide@lemmy.ml ) 7•1 year 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 ( @lonnez@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
Forkyz* it seems. Spent a minute trying to find this. I’ve been trying to find a good crossword app, thanks!
- limeaide ( @limeaide@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
Whoops haha sorry that was a typo but i fixed it now. Hope you like it!
- Deebster ( @Deebster@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year 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 ( @TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year 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 ( @Deebster@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year 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.
- TheRtRevKaiser ( @TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- Deebster ( @Deebster@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Good luck!
- noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year 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 ( @limeaide@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year 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!
- Jacob ( @Jacob@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
I just lost a streak of 250+ yesterday on wordle :(.
Oof. That hurts.
- samaxe72 ( @samaxe72@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
- Randall_Potato ( @Randall_Potato@lemmy.one ) 3•1 year ago
My first day on this site and it’s already paying off. Ha!
Thanks for the recommendation. Loved this and shared it with my dad. I’m sure we’ll be sharing scores soon.
Welp, there went an hour. This game is fantastic!
- Gabtraf ( @Gabtraf@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
This is great fun, thank you!
- bread ( @bread@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year 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.
- rothaine ( @rothaine@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Oh that’s a fun one!
- idiotexe ( @idiotexe@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•1 year ago
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.
- rubii ( @rubii@lm.inu.is ) 5•1 year 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.- SoaringFox ( @SoaringFox@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Just tried it, it is fun!
- Domiku ( @Domiku@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
This is really good. After getting the answer, it’s fun to try and follow the path of logic to the answer.
- lonnez ( @lonnez@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
I really enjoy squareword.
- worldcitizen101 ( @worldcitizen101@sopuli.xyz ) 5•1 year ago
Does Duolingo count as a game?
- Spzi ( @Spzi@lemmy.click ) 1•1 year ago
Depends on your approach. I considered creating a community ‘competitive duolingo’, but since we already have two duo comms I decided against that:
- hadrian ( @hadrian@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
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.