Paper? PAPER? What’s that?

Wordle 1,829 4/6

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Today’s was deceptively hard. A few red herrings mixed in with repeat letters. I had to do some 4D Waffle to get to the solution. Til tomorrow.

You got it!

Yes, so today (1606) it’s Y, R and even the H, since the puzzle already has the second H in the right place. You can single swap those when you know where they go.

And as an example, I had to wait to place the Os since there are 2. Both Os ended up as double swaps. Good luck!

You seem to have it figured out! But if you want a good rule of thumb, you can swap any single letter to its rightful place without worrying about double swaps. So, in today’s game (1603) there is one M and one K and you can put those where they go when you figure it out. It will open up more double swaps down the road.

Not a ton of similar letters which I think makes the puzzle easier.

Another trick is: if there is only one of a letter on the board (like today, one X and one Y), you can go ahead and move the letter to its spot once you solve the word. You don’t have to wait to strategize a double-green swap. This can help you move faster on the puzzle.

I’m at 355 and I still haven’t created an account to save my streak.

All the stars!

Nice!

When evolution says “no notes.”

I thought today’s puzzle (1463) was difficult, too: not a lot of hints.

Nice of Dwyer to make his art edible. I expect this to be a stunt. It is exactly the type of thing I did with my friends in art school. We really thought we were edgy. I’m glad no one was there to write a snarky article about it, though there were people there to arrest us.

Excellent point!

In Star Trek, their run-of-the-mill, rarely discussed deflector is doing way more work than anything in the Star Wars universe. The one exception is the world-ender planet lasers which have been a big plot point in too many films and STILL have no plausible means to exist IN THEIR OwN UNIVERSE!

Rage bait, maybe. But I chuckled, and that is good enough for me.

To extrapolate on the lesson inherent in the meme, there are wounds you can survive and those you can’t. Once you identify the ones you can’t survive, you add armor to protect yourself (and others) from future formerly-deadly wounds.

There are so many systemic things we can correct (and we will!), but what, as in the case of this plane, are the personal pieces of armor we can forge? What pieces of armor can we help others forge for themselves?

An obvious one is a support network of friends and hopefully family. I’m a cis dude who was touched by the image and would like to be a better ally.

At that low of a resolution, everyone looks alike. Did OP hit his pixel cap for the month and had to be throttled down?

Rewatching DS9 and then listening to The Delta Flyers commentary. I don’t always A/B the episodes, I usually just watch a few to refresh my memory then listen to a few of the podcasts as time allows.