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Maybe one for the cruciverbalists

The BRB gives homer as :

Hebrew measure of capacity

pigeon

any person or animal that can find their way home

a home run (baseball)

job done at home or away from the usual place


But I agree with Bob...a homer is what of your own project that you took to work and used the kit there.
 
AndyT":21s29dks said:
9fingers":21s29dks said:
A homer was a slang term for a personal job bought into work to use the employers facilities and possibly during working hours

Bob
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Also known as a foreigner!

On the other hand, there's no reason to think that proper nouns won't show up in Wordle.
And Homer is pretty well known across countries, classes and age groups, whether you think of ancient Greek epics or The Simpsons, so it's arguably more familiar than some of the other words used so far.
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I guess "doing a foreigner" would not be acceptable in today's PC world :lol:

I had rather assumed Wordle would exclude proper nouns.

Bob
 
I'm just getting a blank screen now. Tried the new link as well.
 
OK now, thanks. Maybe they had an issue when I tried it at Silly O'clock.
 
There's a bug in todays version. Unless it's Safari playing up :lol:
 
It looks right to me. Your second guess established that there was one T in the answer but not two and it wasn't in the first or last position.

But you didn't include a T in your guesses.
 
I thought the bug in the system was the one that stung you. I also can't see a problem.

I did it in my usual 4
 
Can't see the problem Roger. If you're referring to the fact it's not showing the T you've already used, well you're not forced to use letters that are known to be in there, it just notifies you that they are.
 
This was a near perfect one for me
Audio is always my starter followed by a test for E the remaining vowel and the most popular letters RS and T whilst using any confirmed letters from the first test.
My method usually gives a score of 3 at best unless very lucky but normally score 3 or 4
Bob

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I can see this being 4 to do every day now... Wordle, Octordle,Quordle and now this.

Oh and I also check Heardle to see if it is something I know or some recent thing I've never heard of.
 
Robert":p39j0doc said:
I can see this being 4 to do every day now... Wordle, Octordle,Quordle and now this.
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I was doing Wordle, Quordle, Worldle and Squardle for a long time. After about a year I dropped Wordle and Quordle (as they felt a bit repetitive after a while) and just did Worldle and Squardle. I've stopped consistently doing any of them now, but still look at Worldle every now and again.
 
Does anyone do any proper cryptic crosswords apart from Steve M and me ?

We do the Telegraph cryptic and then the Toighie and if we manage those (or give up on the T - which on Friday is usually a given :D ) we'll have a go at the FT.
 
I do, but not regularly - generally I go through cycles of doing huge numbers of them for a few months and then not for a long time.

I mostly go through the Guardian's archives, often arranged by setter. I'm still undecided whether doing dozens in a row by a single setter is cheating or not, but it does make things a lot easier after the first few.
 
RogerS":agdqxva6 said:
Does anyone do any proper cryptic crosswords apart from Steve M and me ?

We do the Telegraph cryptic and then the Toighie and if we manage those (or give up on the T - which on Friday is usually a given :D ) we'll have a go at the FT.
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My other half & me do the Guardian crossword, The Week crossword and occasionally the Independent crossword. Apart from The Week, I rarely do the latest one, but have been working gradually through the archive (in order). Currently lagging about a month or so behind publication date, which is quite nice as if we're in the right frame of mind we can do a couple or more in a day.

Carolyn also tries the Azed crossword from time to time but that's much too hard for me!
 
RogerS":2wjod36l said:
Does anyone do any proper cryptic crosswords apart from Steve M and me ?
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Telegraph cryptic is the usual dose. ‘bout an hour normally.

Mostly my partner. I have the role of what Cricinfo would call MVP or high impact player. I turn up at the end and get the last three clues.

It is (apparently) incredibly annoying.

Setter does matter. Icarus (and his other names) certainly worked for more than one paper. As did Duck (and …). My partner can tell; I can’t reliably. Dante was of course RogerS. A coincidence?

It’s when you start making up clues yourself that you have to worry.

Waugh and Ronnie Knox used to do the Times, only doing the horizontal clues first (not allowed to even look at the verticals). But then Knox was dying and they only wanted to while away time. I don’t know what that tells you about human nature. But I value Knox’s ten rules – Golden Age detective fiction has quite a bit to do with crosswords in concept.
 
Not only do I do proper cryptic crosswords (The Guardian), I’ve written a web app to improve the experience of doing them on the phone with my wife. Allows us to each do the crossword, but send answers to each other, get the other to look at a particular clue, reformats split answers into a single clue, auto checks answers, display is appropriate to a phone, and other nonsense. Makes it quicker and more fun for us. Others may consider some of the features to be cheating, but no cheating possible on Saturdays when solutions are not available.
 
Windows":2muhkz71 said:
Not only do I do proper cryptic crosswords (The Guardian), I’ve written a web app to improve the experience of doing them on the phone with my wife. .....
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That sounds pretty cool :eusa-clap:

What did you use to develop the app?
 
It’s JavaScript/TypeScript running in Deno on the server and the web browser on the client. I use Visual Studio Code as the editor. I don’t use any frameworks or libraries beyond the minimal stuff built in to Deno.
 
Windows":kk99dh24 said:
It’s JavaScript/TypeScript running in Deno on the server and the web browser on the client. I use Visual Studio Code as the editor. I don’t use any frameworks or libraries beyond the minimal stuff built in to Deno.
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Many thanks. Is it your server or is it hosted by A N Other ?
 
Ref cryptic crosswords: I tend to do two regularly, the Spectator and Private Eye.

I've only managed to finish the Speccy crossword about 4 times in 15 or so years, although I can usually get half to three quarters of it done. I reckon that to finish it counts as a genuine intellectual achievement. Apparently there are people who can regularly get it done in an hour or two.

The Private Eye one is much easier as a rule and as I don't like the compiler's style, it's just a challenge to beat him at his own game
 
The server is a Mac on my local network, Roger (presumably it could run on any Deno-supported OS, but never been tested). It’s not been designed for public access. It’d be easy to DOS the server, or just abuse the sharing features. It assumes it’s running in a high trust environment, so it’s something to run on a local network, not the public internet.

If it had been possible, there wouldn’t be a server at all, but sharing requires coordination through a server and then it simplifies fetching the crossword and other aspects of state management, so that’s why it exists. When I do customisations solely for my own use, I prefer to just inject script into existing web sites instead of running a server (which is what I do with this site to get a better layout on my phone), but that’s not always possible.
 
Tiresias":3j6c77ws said:
RogerS":3j6c77ws said:
Does anyone do any proper cryptic crosswords apart from Steve M and me ?
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Telegraph cryptic is the usual dose. ‘bout an hour normally.

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That's what Steve and I do. Usually done over my early morning espresso. Then we try and tackle the Toughie. Often without much success. It's particularly galling to do quite well and then look at the rating nd see it's only a 1* or 2* :( Friday's is usually exceptionally tough. If anyone is not a subscriber to the Telegraph but would like a crack at it then I'm sure that the DT wouldn't mind one being 'loaned out' as it were.
 
RogerS":34w3g27s said:
Tiresias":34w3g27s said:
RogerS":34w3g27s said:
Does anyone do any proper cryptic crosswords apart from Steve M and me ?
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Telegraph cryptic is the usual dose. ‘bout an hour normally.

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That's what Steve and I do. Usually done over my early morning espresso. Then we try and tackle the Toughie. Often without much success. It's particularly galling to do quite well and then look at the rating nd see it's only a 1* or 2* :( Friday's is usually exceptionally tough. If anyone is not a subscriber to the Telegraph but would like a crack at it then I'm sure that the DT wouldn't mind one being 'loaned out' as it were.
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Now this comes from the deep and dark recesses of what I laughingly call my mind, but I think the ability to do the Telegraph cryptic in about 10 minutes was your entry pass to Bletchley.

Frankly I don't think I could write the answers in that time if I had them printed out for me to copy.
 
Tiresias":3ripoqfr said:
RogerS":3ripoqfr said:
Tiresias":3ripoqfr said:
Telegraph cryptic is the usual dose. ‘bout an hour normally.

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That's what Steve and I do. Usually done over my early morning espresso. Then we try and tackle the Toughie. Often without much success. It's particularly galling to do quite well and then look at the rating nd see it's only a 1* or 2* :( Friday's is usually exceptionally tough. If anyone is not a subscriber to the Telegraph but would like a crack at it then I'm sure that the DT wouldn't mind one being 'loaned out' as it were.
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Now this comes from the deep and dark recesses of what I laughingly call my mind, but I think the ability to do the Telegraph cryptic in about 10 minutes was your entry pass to Bletchley.

Frankly I don't think I could write the answers in that time if I had them printed out for me to copy.
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I sip my espresso v....e.....r.....y slowly. And it is a very large cafetiere :D
 
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