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I can see a wordle winner of the week emerging here 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Difficult to enforce ... Too easy to "cheat", particularly if you have a PC and a phone I think.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Ok , I thought we were honest citizens on here
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I suspect most are - but there are always some ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Took me six lines - and I still had multiple possible words, so I count myself lucky I didn't get (my first) failure...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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This is the kind of word that can put you beyond 6 if playing the hard variant.
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Indeed.
I don't have hard mode enabled, but I play as if I did. I don't see the point in not using the letters I have right, or in reusing letters that I know aren't in the day's word.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Being able to do those things is useful for eliminating and finding other letters.
Since I downloaded the Wordle clone that Ravi posted[^], I've played a lot of hard mode games. It takes longer to come up with your next guess, and a lot of common words aren't allowed because they're not in The List, which is a pain. I'd rather that the list simply contain all 5-letter words that aren't archaic or obscure, but whatever.
My average score is a bit higher in hard mode because having to repeat known letters makes it harder to narrow the possibilities when dealing with a word like today's. So I've lost twice, which has never happened in the standard game. But I've also found that having to repeat known letters, and learning their correct positions, is more useful than I previously thought.
An even harder mode would be disallowing letters that are known not to be in the solution.
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Greg Utas wrote: My average score is a bit higher in hard mode because having to repeat known letters makes it harder to narrow the possibilities when dealing with a word like today's. But I've also found that having to repeat known letters, and learning their correct positions, is more useful than I previously thought.
Exactly why I play that way. Yes, it's harder to narrow down the possibilities and takes longer, but I'm in no hurry to finish the game, and I do not like to waste guesses using letters I know aren't in the word. I've only failed once, and that was on a word like this one, with more than six possible values for a single letter, and I've only gone to six guesses once. Otherwise my score is 1: 0, 2: 2, 3: 9, 4: 17, 5: 12, 6: 1.
An even harder mode would be disallowing letters that are known not to be in the solution. That would be nearly, if not completely, impossible.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I got it in three, but if I hadn't chosen the right first word, or made a lucky guess of the correct first letter out of seven possible valid choices, I might not have gotten it at all.
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Directionless canine in cone needs insufflation (7)
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Directionless canine => CA I
in CONE
=> COCAINE, to be inhaled
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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And that is correct!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Oleksa Lozowchuk - In the Flood (featuring Ariana Gillis)[^]
I've been playing Horizon II: Forbidden West for the past few weeks, the sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn.
A Dutch game and one of the most notable PlayStation 5 exclusives.
Naturally, I'm also listening to the soundtrack, which is pretty awesome.
This track is by one Oleksa Lowozchuk, who is apparently a Canadian, award-winning, composer for film and TV and who has worked with many artists and for clients such as Disney, Netflix and even Apple and Microsoft.
Ariana Gillis is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
Didn't know either of them before this soundtrack.
Most of the Horizon soundtrack was written by Oleksa and Joris de Man and a few songs by Niels van der Leest who used to be my drum teacher.
The game itself revolves around Aloy, who is trying to save a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by stone age-like tribes and killer machines.
As you go you learn how the world ended, where the machines come from and why they're trying to kill you.
Great game, great soundtrack (Aloy's Theme, Built to Kill), SOTW!
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Very nice track - thanks for sharing!
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Lovely haunting song
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Very nice.
I really want to play FW, but will probably wait for a PC release. The first game is one of my top ten favorites.
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Yeah, the first was great!
The second is more of the same, so the wow-factor from the first is gone.
Still an awesome game, looks amazing too.
I quit PC gaming when I moved on my own.
I'm already behind my PC during the day, glad to move to the couch in the evening 
Less hassle too, just start the game and it works, unlike PC a lot of the time 
I've basically maxed out my chill skill at the expensive of performance 
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David O'Neil wrote: You might like the guitar playing in it - don't know.
Yeah, all in all great concert!
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Another example of circular breathing: Wow!. I don't know if it sounds good to non-players, but I'm blown away by his technique!
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