A cute little word game

[Asmodean]

Recently, I came across the Blossom word game, hosted by Merriam Webster. It's far too entertaining for what it is.

It runs in a browser and no registration is necessary. Link below for those interested.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game

[Dark Lightning]

I play Quordle, Blossom and Octordle as a warmup for Wordle every morning. A bunch of us at a woodworking forum have a friendly competition going with Wordle. We're about average.

[Asmodean]

Cool!

I suppose I'm about average myself, in no small part thanks to some self-imposed rules.

For instance, fairly recently, there was one blossom where you could get both "navigation" and "navigating." A nice, long word, and the game would allow for both, but The Asmo is far too anal for that. No words with the same root, He says! Also, no plurals for squeezing out points - only allowed if you cannot make a singular word (Say, you have enough for cacti, but not for cactus - then it goes)




...Because life is too damned easy, that's why!

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[Dark Lightning]

I just went and played it. New high score, and I'm shameless enough to use plurals to pad my score. No "S" today, though.

Blossom Puzzle, November 21
Letters: C E I O N R T
My score: 346 points
My longest word: 10 letters
 🌼 💮 🌻 🌺 🏵 🌷 🌸 💐 🌹 🌼

Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game

[Asmodean]

Cool! You are 20-some points ahead of the anally-Grumpy one's high score (EDIT: 321, to be precise)

Was it perchance concertino what had a round number of letters? Contortion? Concoction? Or wait, it just says "longest word," regardless of how many, does it not?

[Dark Lightning]

Concertino isn't a word I got out of those letters. Didn't think of it. I usually run in the high 200s. Had concoction but not contortion. Though intortion did come up. For some reason Merriam-Webster only allows intorsion as a search result.

[Asmodean]

I tend to be around 270s without my non-cheating cheating, unless really screwed by the letters.

I know intorsion with an s. Didn't realize that it could be spelled with a t. Does that mean that 'tortion' is a valid way of spelling 'torsion?' Or be it a different word entirely?

[Dark Lightning]

wiki dictionary says, "obsolete- torment or pain". I see it in scrabble games.

[Asmodean]

Ah, I see! The Asmos like themselves some nicely-archaic turn of phrase, so noted for future use

I was thinking that it might have been some US/UK variation on torsion of a twisty variety, but I suppose then it comes from or is related to tort, which I believe is still in use in Legalese, yes?

[Asmodean]

Wow, this last one was vicious! I only got 213.

CHORSTU, my longest was nine letters.

[Tank]

I play Quordle, Blossom and Octordle as a warmup for Wordle every morning. A bunch of us at a woodworking forum have a friendly competition going with Wordle. We're about average.

My wife does all of these every day too.

[Dark Lightning]

I bit the turf, for a total of 157 today.

[Asmodean]

I bit the turf, for a total of 157 today.

Yes, this one was a worthy adversary. I got like the two long-ish words out of the gate "immediately," and then... 5-6 letters

I even have to admit to non-cheating-cheating, with shortcutS being my best effort

[Dark Lightning]

I just use the plural of a word, not it and its plural, if that is what you mean.

[Asmodean]

Yes, I only used plural - not both. That would violate my same root "rule."

Normally though, I would have used singular.