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> I hate it when people quote text as images because it makes it impossible to cut and paste. That's much less true than it used to be! I don't know what device you're using, but on my iPhone I can seamlessly copy the text from that image.
I'm using Firefox on a Mac.
Doesn’t this work?
I'm a big fan of killing time on long drives with friendly word games. One of my favorites is a mix between rhyming and square theory. Here's how it works: one player picks two words that rhyme perfectly. Then, for each of those words, they choose a clue word, usually a synonym, but any kind of related word is fair game. They say those two clue words out loud, and the other players have to guess the original rhyming…
Our family plays "Match Three" during long drives where one person comes up with three words and whoever correctly answers with a word that can complete or precede any of them becomes "it" and chooses the next set. Homophones and proper nouns are considered acceptable. So for example: (Fox, Lone, Crossed) The answer would be: Star Star Fox - a well known rail shooter originally on the SNES Lone Starr - the only man w…
I'm a big fan of killing time on long drives with friendly word games. One of my favorites is a mix between rhyming and square theory. Here's how it works: one player picks two words that rhyme perfectly. Then, for each of those words, they choose a clue word, usually a synonym, but any kind of related word is fair game. They say those two clue words out loud, and the other players have to guess the original rhyming…
My family calls that game "pink mink"!
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8785/brain-strain
I made a proof-of-concept daily game: https://awfulwaffle.jonabrams.com/
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/text-recognition Doesn’t this work?
Not for me. No idea why. Maybe this doesn't play well with NoScript or AdBlock.
> If you’ve ever tried to construct a crossword, you’ll find that the framing of a crossword grid under square theory feels right. When you’re nearing the end of the grid-filling process, finding valid crossings of words to fill that final corner of a grid, there’s a satisfying “clicking” feeling—a sense of magic—when it all fits together, analogous to the wrapping-around feeling of completing the square. If you enjo…
To get a "perfect" pattern you'd need to find three 7 letter words that can stack on rows adjacent to each other to form a 3 letter word in each column. Such arrangements do exist, for example:
o p e r a t e
a r r o w e d
r e s e n d s
Additional note: 3 blank spaces is the best non-perfect arrangement, since the grid is only 10 tiles wide. One blank space could only be achieved by a single 23-letter-long word, and two blank spaces could only be achieved by a 10 letter word next to an 11 letter word, and an 11 letter word would not fit inside the 10x10 grid.
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The classic, "why did the chicken cross the road" also fits into this genre, but nobody seems to understand that "get to the other side" means "to cross over from life to death." Every time I explain this to someone they are shocked that they never knew this meaning.
My understanding is that that interpretation is an urban legend. Wikipedia attributes the joke to an 1847 article, which is phrased in a way that clearly isn't intended to have some deeper meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_did_the_chicken_cross_the_...
> If you’ve ever tried to construct a crossword, you’ll find that the framing of a crossword grid under square theory feels right. When you’re nearing the end of the grid-filling process, finding valid crossings of words to fill that final corner of a grid, there’s a satisfying “clicking” feeling—a sense of magic—when it all fits together, analogous to the wrapping-around feeling of completing the square. If you enjo…
Like any golf, you start with the smallest square possible and increase it with each level. You get less points for how perfect the the square is.