reply to Peter_Morris:
Can your brother win real money playing the game?
No
Is it a virtual slot machine? Five green teas in a row = jackpot? No
Does your brother only play the game in the morning? Almost always
Can the game be played any time, or only in the morning? Any time.
reply to Mijin:
Is the color an indicator of how well he did in the past e.g. his performance in the past day? No.
And just to confirm: the three colors are red, yellow and green, with red being the worst color and green being the best?
No red.
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He already said that it’s green, yellow, and some other color(s) (not red, black, white, etc.), and said that the other colors have a hierarchy, but not what that hierarchy is.
More questions:
Are there always the same number of teas each morning, for your brother? Not sure how to answer this.
Would any given player of this game always have tea indicators every morning? No
Would any given player of this game always have the same number of tea indicators as your brother? Yes
Would any given player of this game have the same hierarchy of color preferences as your brother? Yes
Would your brother be actually likely to know what color(s) his tea would be in the morning, before he checked? No
Could your brother, if he meticulously kept track of his play, did any necessary calculations, etc., know what color(s) his tea would be in the morning, before he checked? No
To expand on this: Can the game be played only once per day? Yes
Is it a game where everyone is presented with the same puzzle, and everyone tries to solve it? Yes Is the relevance of his work that he’s likely to interact with other people who play the game, and he wants to solve it before any of them spoil it? Partly
Is “green tea” widely-used terminology by players of this game for what he wants? No
And finally, to go for the (potential) kill: Is it Wordle, and “green tea” is the term your brother uses for the green “correct letter in this location” indicator?
It is Wordle!!! And as a tutor, you might thus guess what his first try word always is…
Ah, so “green tea” is actually “green T”. He hopes that the Ts in his initial guess will be in the word and in the right place, and hence show as green.
Though I think that was a bit dirty, in that the “green tea” wasn’t actually tea, which a few of us asked about.
His first Wordle guess word is always “TEAch”. He hopes for green TEA- (and green -CH for that matter.)
This all started when I told him I had a green dream first thing one morning, thus I am now always armed. (Because DREAM, my former starting word, was actually the game’s word a year or so ago, so I now use ARMED because I like those letters and Wordle will not likely use DREAM again.) He responded that he usually likes black tea, but hopes for green TEA in the morning.
Sort of how our conversations go…
Time for a new one?
The US government once employed an engineer to do nothing but smoke, fish, and lounge around in a deck chair. Why?
(As always, if you already know about this, please hold off – I think it is guessable through Q&A alone.)
Was he effectively on call to do something if the need arose?
No. (Or, to the extent that he was, it was separate from these activities.)
Were they trying to find out whether smoking discouraged the fish from biting or encouraged them to do so?
No.
Just to be clear
smoking: the ingesting of smoke created by burning tobacco?
fishing: attempts to catch creatures that live in water with a rod or similar device?
Did his job description specify those activities?
Or was he hired to produce results in whatever way he saw fit, and those activities were his way of doing it?
Yes: smoking = ingestion of smoke created by burning tobacco, and fishing = attempts to catch creatures that live in water with a rod or similar device.
He was specifically directed to engage in those activities, but (as far as I know) they were not part of his official job description.
Was he in costume or in some kind of performance?
Was his activity meant to be seen by the public?
Not exactly.
Yes.
Was it apparent to the onlookers that he was doing a job?
Was he demonstrating something?
Or did he just appear to them as some rando sitting there, fishing and smoking?
If someone different had been hired for that job opening, would that person have done the very same activities?
Excellent questions!
No.
No (at least not in the usual sense of “demonstrating”).
Also no.
This is a very difficult one to answer. I guess my best answer is that someone else would likely have been found to do the same activities, but that person probably would not have been the same person holding the job the engineer was hired for.
Was it to demonstrate that their system was so sound that their engineer doesn’t need to do any real work?
No, it was not to demonstrate that their system was so sound the engineer doesn’t need to do any real work.