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
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.
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! :P
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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
Cool! You are 20-some points ahead of the anally-Grumpy one's high score :smilenod: (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?
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.
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?
wiki dictionary says, "obsolete- torment or pain". I see it in scrabble games.
Ah, I see! The Asmos like themselves some nicely-archaic turn of phrase, so noted for future use :smilenod:
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?
Wow, this last one was vicious! I only got 213.
CHORSTU, my longest was nine letters.
Quote from: Dark Lightning on November 21, 2023, 02:47:17 PMI 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.
I bit the turf, for a total of 157 today.
Quote from: Dark Lightning on November 22, 2023, 04:37:19 PMI 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 :sadnod:
I even have to admit to non-cheating-cheating, with shortcutS being my best effort :sadshake:
I just use the plural of a word, not it and its plural, if that is what you mean.
Yes, I only used plural - not both. That would violate my same root "rule."
Normally though, I would have used singular.
Today seemed like an difficult one, but I did only slightly below average in the end. I could only find one pangram. Saved by criticized, but z is such a useless letter in this neighbourhood, at least as my vocabulary goes. :sadnod:
Blossom Puzzle, December 27
Letters: C D E R I T Z
My score: 256 points
My longest word: 10 letters
💮 🌷 🌺 🌹 💐 🌼 🌸 🌻 🏵 💮
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
The Asmo wanders off to read Himself a back end of a dictionary.
286 today. I got only one word with a "z" in it. Good letters yesterday- I scored 332 then.
Catching up on the weekend's ones, and yesterday's did not accept Magnetar. The Asmo ought to write a crossly-worded letter to someone on behalf of really cool dead stars everywhere, is what He ought! :rant1:
A somewhat-sleepy The 'Smo set a new personal best today. :smilenod:
Blossom Puzzle, January 15
Letters: A E M R N P T
My score: 370 points
My longest word: 12 letters
🌹 💮 🌷 🌻 🌸 🌺 🏵 🌼 💐 🌹 💮 🌷
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Slightly-dissatisfied because missed a couple of good ones I thunk up when reviewing my answers, but all in all... 370! Next milestone, 400. :smilenod: The dictionary shall bow before His glory!
Tried today to see just how many extra points hid in padding the words as much as possible (Plurals, present participle, posts- and pres- etc) with a slight amendment to my "no same root" rule - same or similar root is OK as long as the meaning of the word is changed completely. (Example: port vs. transport. One is a big, stationary place full of boats. The other is moving stuff between places.)
I kinda' like it. Might non-cheat cheat this way in the future. :smilenod:
Blossom Puzzle, January 24
Letters: G M N I O R T
My score: 306 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌹 🌻 🌼 🌷 💮 🏵 💐 🌺 🌸 🌹
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Hmm... Can any-one find more than one valid pangram with these letters?
Blossom Puzzle, February 28
Letters: D E F I G N T
My score: 298 points
My longest word: 10 letters
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...I found "fidgeting," have a gnawing feeling that there simply must be more, but can't squeeze one out. Unacceptable. This annoys The Asmo. >:(
A new record for the wordy one. :smilenod: (I was min-maxing a little. Using plurals where I could have made a singular and such like. Still. 422. :smilenod:)
Blossom Puzzle, March 20
Letters: E I N C O S T
My score: 422 points
My longest word: 13 letters
🌷 🌼 🌻 🌹 💐 🏵 💮 🌸 🌺 🌷 🌼 🌻 🌹
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
The Asmo achieved new heights of Great-and-Terribleness by finding 12 pangrams in today's puzzle.
Blossom Puzzle, April 5
Letters: A E L I R S T
My score: 381 points
My longest word: 11 letters
💐 🌼 💮 🌷 🌸 🌹 🌻 🌺 🏵 💐 🌼
He did min/max a little by reusing roots and using plurals here and there to achieve that, true, but still. He is pleased with His divine Self. :smilenod:
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