Yeah, that’s the word that made me settle it into purple. I know claves from music. Pretty common wood block type sound used all over Latin music and pop. Can also be used to refer for a specific rhythmic pattern in the singular, or to multiple patterns in the plural. But it is a bit of niche vocabulary, now that I think about it.
I haven’t heard of Pips, I’ll check it out. I found Tiles very relaxing during the pandemic, but haven’t been back since.
I prefer to think that we’re all getting smarter.
Also, technically it seems the symbol in the middle of the Korean flag is the taegeuk, a derivation of the Chinese taijiti (known popularly as “yin-tang”) The Korean symbol is red and blue instead of black and white and divided horizontally instead of vertically. The yin-yang also has those two smaller circles of opposite colors in them, which the taegeuk lacks.
I don’t think my wife would agree.
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Yup, could have been any order. I only got green last because I wasn’t 100% sure on one of the terms.
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Yeah, that’s the word that made me settle it into purple.
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There should be an “initially” after that.
I just played it. The easy mode was, well easy, but I found the hard mode challenging. It took me a minute to get my head around the rules.
Oddly, my solve times went in reverse order: Easy: 2:22, Medium: 1:29, Hard:1:05. Granted, I was showing the game to my daughter, so I was trying to remember how to play it when I started with “easy,” but I don’t have any excuse for medium vs hard.
I think some of it is because there is a learning curve with the first games. I had to keep stopping to read the rules with the easy and medium games.
Well, in my opinion Thursday’s was a bit more challenging, hopefully it will be for you too.
Puzzle #802
A message from the future!
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Took a minute to get purple but otherwise pretty easy.
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It’s spelled Cheez, damnit.
As to the Pips - that was harder today, and kind of fun.
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That was fun, now off to Pips.
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Bit of a rough one for me. I smacked myself in the head when I realized blue. I also smacked myself in the head for not getting purple early, as YANKEE Doodle was one of the first phrases I thought of, and it just didn’t click with me. I should have had it at DIPSY, but I was focused on the Teletubby Dipsy and couldn’t think of another meaning for it, not realizing that it fits the saying.
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Never heard of three of the four stupid category terms.
It’s Friday at last. Red herrings galore. Felt very pleased with myself once I figured out what was going on.
Puzzle #803
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Being originally from Illinois, I consider everything north of the state border “CHEESE LAND,” somehow overlooking NEVER NEVER.
That gaffe (or flub, if you prefer) was quickly rectified, and though I completed the rest of the puzzle without error, I did find it to be a challenging brain workout today.