Q: What are those word puzzles called in which, for instance,
WATER-------DEEP
= "deep underwater"
Also, what are your favorites?
― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Monday, 1 November 2010 12:56 (fourteen years ago)
HA BIRD ND
― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Monday, 1 November 2010 12:57 (fourteen years ago)
= Bird in hand
Rebus, I think. There was a thread:REBUS
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 1 November 2010 12:59 (fourteen years ago)
Sailing ccccccc
(sailing the seven seas)
― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Monday, 1 November 2010 13:03 (fourteen years ago)
There's the probably apocryphal story of someone addressing a letter as follows
WOODJOHNMASS.
and it being successfully delivered to John Underwood, Andover, Massachusetts.
― jaymc, Monday, 1 November 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago)
Been racking my brains for the 20 minutes since this thread started to remember what the card/board game Dingbats was called (as it might pass as a more widely understood and possibly more specific answer than "rebus" in the UK - or maybe not, if I couldn't even remember its name), only to find it was called Whatzit in the US anyway
― what is he like? the guy's a juggalo, man (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 1 November 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago)
oh no
https://bracket.city
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 17 March 2025 22:41 (five months ago)
[Bracket City]March 15, 2025
Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)🎹 Total Keystrokes: 105🎯 Minimum Required: 105
Total Score: 100.0🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 March 2025 00:48 (five months ago)
guys i can't stop playing bracket city
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 23 March 2025 21:44 (five months ago)
Took me a bit to get the hang of but that’s super fun
― Founder of America’s Golden Age (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 23 March 2025 22:44 (five months ago)
Yeah and a very clever game mechanic, never seen it before. Mind you I haven't managed to get one without hints and revealing some answers - there's yer usual american bias, not knowing dunkaroos wasn't a handicap today but i've also never heard of a bully pulpit.
― birming man (ledge), Monday, 24 March 2025 08:41 (five months ago)
thank you i was stuck on that very last one
i love this tho
― i got bao-yu babe (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 March 2025 09:04 (five months ago)
i might have gone off it now... (aioli is basically fancy this, for short) = mayo
― birming man (ledge), Monday, 24 March 2025 14:36 (five months ago)
bro pretending like he had to reveal the answer
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 March 2025 17:22 (five months ago)
yeah this is great although as people have said, there are a few US references I've never heard of
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Monday, 24 March 2025 17:24 (five months ago)
I was reading Pet Sematary the other day and had absolutely no idea what a "candy striper" was meant to be
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Monday, 24 March 2025 17:31 (five months ago)
ooh interesting! but yeah I'm not sure I'm in the frame of mind that often where I'll get all of these
― kinder, Monday, 24 March 2025 23:51 (five months ago)
Can someone explain this? the opposite of an L = w
― birming man (ledge), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 09:58 (five months ago)
loss and win in sports reporting
― Founder of America’s Golden Age (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 10:15 (five months ago)
Most common in baseball in my experience so it may be an Americanism.
― Founder of America’s Golden Age (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 10:19 (five months ago)
ta - yeah I don't think adding 'in sports' would have helped me.
― birming man (ledge), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 10:20 (five months ago)
OK, that's me lost my morning to Bracket City.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 25 March 2025 10:43 (five months ago)
I am loving this, but pretty much every game I've played has had some sort of baseball or US food reference I'm utterly unaware of
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 12:11 (five months ago)
[Bracket City]March 26, 2025
Rank: 👑 (Kingmaker)❌ Wrong guesses: 0
Total Score: 100.0🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
― birming man (ledge), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 09:31 (five months ago)
Ahhhh well done! I got 88 on this one
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 09:41 (five months ago)
I aced this one too. Satisfying.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 March 2025 10:15 (five months ago)
Kingmaker here also. Either today’s was easier or I’m getting better.
― Founder of America’s Golden Age (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 13:51 (five months ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160542
interesting to see the creator's responses to a few questions that i've had
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 March 2025 08:56 (five months ago)
(probable) shout out in today's connections too
― birming man (ledge), Friday, 28 March 2025 09:05 (five months ago)
haha yes. iirc the starting grid order in connections is predetermined
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 March 2025 09:13 (five months ago)
Wordall can F right the F off with CRUFT
― Founder of America’s Golden Age (Dan Peterson), Friday, 28 March 2025 15:33 (five months ago)
haha. got it in 43 seconds but i was thinking hmmm when i typed that one in.
― birming man (ledge), Friday, 28 March 2025 15:36 (five months ago)
Also not happy with DIRAM
― Founder of America’s Golden Age (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 29 March 2025 15:03 (five months ago)
another easy bracket city today
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 March 2025 15:50 (five months ago)
Today's was the easiest so far
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 April 2025 00:39 (five months ago)
96.9, i had to get hints for particularly demoralizing place to get stabbed (obvious really) and youth detention site (bloody cryptic definitions)
― birming man (ledge), Tuesday, 1 April 2025 08:17 (five months ago)
oh yeah i'm a bit stuck on a few today. yesterday's was very easy by comparison. medusa?
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 April 2025 08:33 (five months ago)
yeah i had to use the surrounding context for that one - and others.
― birming man (ledge), Tuesday, 1 April 2025 08:41 (five months ago)
got it in the end. got stuck on the detention centre one too
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 April 2025 09:13 (five months ago)
#thirdle #thirdle1098
🏆 3 / 6 | 🔥 6
🟧🟪 🟩🟪 🟪⬛🟩🟩 🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩
I'm really enjoying https://thirdle.org — as Wordle variants go, it provides a nice easy win to start the day.
― I think we're all Bezos on this bus (WmC), Tuesday, 8 April 2025 16:03 (four months ago)
Bracket City has sold out to The Man--if by The Man you mean The Atlantic magazine website.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 8 April 2025 23:10 (four months ago)
yeah that didn't take long!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 April 2025 13:08 (four months ago)
puppet master today btw
a couple of nice funny clues
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 April 2025 13:09 (four months ago)
Total keystrokes: 72Minimum keystrokes needed: 77Excess keystrokes: -5
― constant gravy (ledge), Thursday, 1 May 2025 08:18 (four months ago)
whaaa
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 May 2025 08:23 (four months ago)
(I tried again and got the same, must be an error or bad data)
― constant gravy (ledge), Thursday, 1 May 2025 08:29 (four months ago)
Anyone playing Stacks at The Atlantic? I'm convinced today's (APLOMB, CRIES, DRAGON, ESTEEM, SQUIRE) is unsolvable.
― nate woolls, Saturday, 21 June 2025 20:32 (two months ago)
I completed Stacks in 5 drops!Try it yourself!Play on The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks
― the wrong witch roams the earth (ledge), Saturday, 21 June 2025 20:49 (two months ago)
didnt know how the game worked and I basically got lucky with the first word aplomb and where i dropped it, was pretty straightforward after that.
― the wrong witch roams the earth (ledge), Saturday, 21 June 2025 20:59 (two months ago)
Took me 47 drops! I saw the bottom row straight away but just couldn't get any of the other rows to work
― nate woolls, Saturday, 21 June 2025 21:42 (two months ago)
I completed Stacks in 6 drops!Try it yourself!Play on The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks
OK think I've got the hang of this game now
― nate woolls, Sunday, 22 June 2025 07:37 (two months ago)