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Friday Fun Thread for December 16, 2022

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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Today (Wednesday) my December starting three handed it to me on a silver platter. Wordle 550 4/6:

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜

⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜

🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Still have no idea how you're doing the squares, lol. But at least this time I'm not on mobile so I can copy/paste yours. TBH my second guess was crap (see below as the spoiler tags are weird AF when used inline), but it helped nudge me in the right direction so I guess it worked out.

nadir

The Share button on NYT's Wordle works for generating the Unicode characters of the standard Wordle squares. Scoredle, a tool you can use to see how many legit words remain after each guess, has multiple share-copying options, including Reddit markdown.

Your turn. How do we do spoilers on The Motte?

Put || around the text you want to spoiler. Note that's double bars on each side, not a single bar on each side. I tried it for the hell of it because that is the spoiler formatting in discord, and hey it worked!

In that case, my December starter three are CHIME PLANK FUDGY, of which the first and third are holiday words. At some point I plan to go through one of the Historical Wordle sites and compile a report of how well this trio statistically winnows possibilities.

It looks like Scoredle has a Discord spoiler mode, so I’ll use that here.