Wordle 1,515 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 12 August, 2025 (I'vr got to get faster at anagrams. Not got to, that's an odd way of putting it really, I want to get better at anagrams. I also want to deal with a phobia of brightly coloured socks, in fairness only when said socks are worn by clowns — I'm otherwise fine with clowns or bright socks, a phobia of heights, with caveats, and learn how to play bridge. I wish I could pretend they're priorities but right now it's breakfast. Bridge appeals to me but I think it's a commitment. I quite like the idea of a drunken bridge club, but it's not very sensible. Maybe it already exists as an underground scene among the elderly of places like Tunbridge Wells, like chemsex, but the tricks are card based and less likely to put your back out. Chembridge. Occasionally a person may meet people who went to Cambridge at chembridge and depending on how far into the evening the words may be, more or less, differentiated.) "House cat got fixed by vet centre" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,514 4/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 11 August, 2025 (Another tricky one, or at least I found it tricky, I really should be keeping a book of notes on these because writing stuff down as an adjunct to praxis aids thinking. It was an enjoyable clue. It's also where Minute Cryptic can be difficult even with the low par clues because in an ordinary crossword most people would have filled in the anagram clues that were relatively easy, assuming they weren't a reference to an incident with Alexander the Great's nanny with a billy goat, and pencilled in other low hanging fruit which isn't at all sour.) "Gravity department's brief introduction to Hawking" (5) ⚪️🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 1 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,513 6/6* (bumbags, but inevitable bumbags. I used to say arse but worried about younger relatives copying swearing, so then I started saying ballbags. Which was fine until the quite autistic nephew shouted ballbags in a packed out CeX after dropping a Thomas and Friends DVD. Bumbags is, admittedly, adjacent.) ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 10 August, 2025 (I found this one very difficult and retrospectively I shouldn't have found it difficult. I think it's because I had too good a night's sleep and still haven't woken up. There is a, potential, post hoc fallacy in the previous sentence because it could be that I had a good night's sleep because I was tired and was still tired when I woke up. I am thinking about nut roast rather more than is normal. If anything that was the fault - I overthought. I needed to underthink. Maybe start streaming the "Feeling good in the 90s" playlist which I've already overthought by considering that I didn't always feel good in the 90s and also that a playlist aimed at the over 90s would not be commercially viable. There will be a time when the playlist for the over 90s primarily consists of music from the 90s. Soft food and Whigfield's Saturday night segueing to The Offspring's I Choose, as the audience for Whigfield terminally declines and the 90s music for the over 90s joke loses all cultural relevance. Music unrelated.) "Server's mistake leads to food arriving unusually late today" (5) ⚪️🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 1 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,512 4/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟩🟨⬛🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 9 August, 2025 (good clue. I didn't solve it in the most satisfying way because — I can't really explain without spoilering the clue more than is fair through words. Assuming people read quickly. I've learnt that ltype of clue for next time. The song is very laterally connected. A busy day ahead‡.) "Dave stupidly accepted $0.01 for $0.02?" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

‡ Maybe what follows is a British-ish joke because Ringo Star didn't narrate the US Thomas the Tank Engine. In the US it was George Carlin and Alec Baldwin. After Ringo Star it was Michael Angelis. That was mostly the golden age of Thomas IMHO. Although Calling all Engines and Day of the Diesels were good*: * Although it may seem like I love Thomas the Tank Engine I don't hate it but it's not something I'd watch. One of my nephews, now an adult, is fixated on Thomas so I've had over a decade of absorbing it. I am both amused and horrified.

Wordle 1,511 4/6* (1/2 on 3) ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 8 August, 2025 (I have woken up with moderate rib inflammation, and, despite the distraction, I didn't find the clue that difficult. Linking a song to the clue was very difficult. I do like this track, but like much of Sigur Ros' music it's the distilled bittersweet memory of hanging out with teachers at a late summer festival, the reality that it was just ephemeral, and they have to go back to marking.) "Song at night club leaves Lucy transfixed by mirrorball?" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 4 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,510 3/6* 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 7 August, 2025 (I woke a little while ago and did these, which didn't turn out too badly because they weren't ones that made me think too much.) "Hate a self-absorbed flirt" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,509 3/6* ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 6 August, 2025 (If I had to come up with a short phrase for today it would be "pleasantly badgered". The evil twin of that is "unpleasantly badgered". Which could be being asked annoying or uncomfortable questions, right through to bargaining with an annoyed honey badger. Childcare for a nephew. Deealing with grown-ups can be like that and, within reason, sometimes, we put up with it.) "The one devastated volunteer to miss "One Direction"" (4,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,508 3/6* 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 5 August, 2025 (this a great clue because it's entirely logical and all in the clue. I like ones like that because other than a familiarity with the form and kind of tricks used it doesn't require knowledge of a whimsical 1970s comic about a young goatherder from Portofino who has japes and a wry outlook on life. The protagonist's enemy is Alessandro who runs a speedboat hire company and things happen like the goats stealing the picnics of posh people at the dock and goats terrorising newspaper shops by chewing at the headlines. Tutti amano le capre. The answer was birichino. The broadsheets can be depressing sometimes. Unlike my breakfast, which will be glorious.) "Abor_ fr__nd_hip!?" (3,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,507 3/6* ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 4 August, 2025 (I had a poor night's sleep and it feels like I've repeatedly been punched in a back by the leprechaun from the film Leprechaun through to Leprachaun 4: Leprechaun in Space. But not Leprechaun in Da Hood which is where it got a bit silly. I am quite looking forward to breakfast but I batch cooked a violently spicy curry for dinner, which tastes good, but as a dinner is a bit like a minor feat of endurance. I'm sure I'll be used to it by Friday or maybe before.) "Deadly agent playing phone tag" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,506 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 3 August, 2025 (I want breakfast and I also want to write something. The simple answer is to write something and eat breakfast at the same time but the flaw in that plan is that I wouldn't feel truly present in either breakfast or writing something. I have found it takes an hour to detox from my phone before I engage in serious reading and the worst thing is that a phone makes it really easy to look up words or other information related to what I'm reading. If I had a servant I'd use them as a physical barrier between myself and the phone. So I could say "Wilson look up this up for me" without scrolling Instagram, Nostr, Tinder or doomscrolling elsewhere. A human phone Johnny. Although they could subvert the process by making stuff up. I think that's how some AI searches work. The revenge of the LLM.) ""Goodbye!" you blurted out, after ladies undressed" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,505 4/6* (annoying - number 3 had occured before but I didn't remember or check) ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 2 August, 2025 (Totally blanked and mucked this one up. Actually seems obvious in retrospect, but I don't think it was a 2 par clue - maybe it was because of the alignment with the definition, but it was more like a 3 or 4 par wordplay. Had I stuck to thinking about the definition rather than the wordplay it would have been at most one under par. That's subjective and maybe influenced by my performance. It probably is and I'm grateful for the mental challenge because that's a good way of learning. Although like with teaching kids stuff there's a difficulty balance because one wants it to be challenging without being impossibly difficult because of lack of familiarity with the form or vocabulary of the task or game. A busy day ahead that will involve much Thomas The Tank Engine. I find the song funny and it is a good song.) "Lead actor finally gets past misaligned teeth" (6) 🟡🟡🟡🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 1 over par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,504 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 1 August, 2025 (deleted. I'm hungry.) "Top Easter egg of dozen, I think" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,503 4/6* 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 31 July, 2025 (The last few weeks I have been mostly vegan, which isn't so bad because, unlike a lot of vegans, I can cook so haven't been relying on excessively priced UPF vegan ready meals and convenience food. And it tastes good. It isn't health reasons, although my BMI was just starting to push into overweight so I've kind of used it as an excuse to lose 2-3kg. My blood pressure and blood sugar were fine even when I was overweight - having access to testing kits while caring for a, as it turns out, more imminently dying father than I expected, although I think subconsciously I'd inferred it, allowed me to check my own periodically. I think the otherwise good stats are because my diet was otherwise good - I was eating too much but not badly, I don't drink soda/have sugar, or artificial sweetners, with drinks, and I walk. I could carry on being vegan indefinitely but I haven't been wholly vegan - I eat full fat yoghurt in the morning, had goats/cows cheese for lunch, and someone bought me a burger two weeks ago - I'm not going to waste it. I think we're fundamentally omnivores. And I don't want to be too tasty and herbivore-like if Armageddon comes. Although I'd be far from tender and a lot of vegans seem sinewy. I suppose the worst thing about diets is people going on about it. It has, or maybe I've deluded myself it has, improved a persistent flare up of spondyloarthritis. I think diet may play a big role. The best, most effective diet I went on, and recommend is Michael Mosley's Fast 800. I started it as a result of his death, my logic was if someone his age can die in such a silly, but otherwise noble, way, he's kind of like a diet Jesus.) "Architect plastered pole's spot?" (3,6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 4 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,502 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 30 July, 2025 (I can't think of much to say and I want breakfast.) "Humans maybe evolved armpits to conserve energy" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,501 4/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 29 July, 2025 (this one was very difficult and I basically brute forced it. What I mean by brute forced, in this context, is worked out what a probable part or parts of the word are and went through a dictionary until I found a probable match. It wasn't wholly following the clue. It's the least satisfying way of doing it other than guessing or getting clues. But it works. I tuned into Radio 4 to try and escape the football, and I really have no problems with other people enjoying football at one point my sister was a qualified football coach for a girls team, and pretty much all of my nephews/niece play football or have played it at some point, actually one of them prefers piano, but if there was one island of, actually now it has gone back to the grim news and I really don't want to have to delete what I have written. The news is grim enough the football seems more interesting. Woohoo - go sport! Not to poop on the football team who are all admirable and deserve praise/respect. I think penalties are like brute forcing a crossword clue and thus I deserve respect. And now Radio 4 has gone back to sport.) "Bully swung walking stick during fourth quarter of ballgame" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,500 X/6* (*** ****'* ****) ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 28 July, 2025 (From a hard, and annoying, for me, Wordle to a quite easy Minute Cryptic. Not to go on about it too much, and it's good we won the sport, but I assumed the word was primarily British English. And if I do a news search, and this could be a fallacy, it appears far more often in its unattached form in British headlines. That could be a fallacy because the results could be tweaked to by location. And checking Google Ngrams it appears the opposite is true, at least in books, so maybe my news search is algorithmically biased. Given, outside of stuff like Nostr, there is little or no transparency for the underlying algorithms it gives some degree of plausible deniability for all the "sexy clown dating" adverts I keep getting. That's just bloody weird.) "Please... shaken not stirred" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,499 3/6* 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 27 July, 2025 (An enjoyable definition. Who are the best fans in the world? The answer is, of course, Thomas The Tank Engine fans. This is one of mantras I occasionally repeat with an autistic nephew and it's not just a platitude. The Thomas The Tank Engine Wiki on Fandom is everything every Wiki aspires to be but never quite gets there. Very useful. Exquisite in its detail and respect for Thomas the Tank Engine. I used it a lot on Saturday from about lunchtime through to early evening, we helped two hour shifts, predominantly Thomas, but including Peppa Pig and various other things in his personal cosmology, with digital collages, by about 7pm my brain was fried and I watched TV, listened to the radio and went to bed. TBF I haven't checked for a Trailer Park Boys or Kat Sadler's Screen Time wikis and they could be good. I'm a fan of both and can't be bothered.) "Business disinfected casino to conceal triple murder, perhaps?" (3) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Behold the greatest Wiki in the world by the best fans in the world:

Thomas the Tank Engine Wiki

Wordle 1,498 3/6* ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 26 July, 2025 (Tricky. I've woken up with a thousand thoughts and a low rate exiting my fingers. Speech would not be quicker, a fountain pen in Teeline turgidly torpid; on a diet, preoccupied by breakfast.) "Pair fouled by ref for enlarging balls" (3,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,497 2/6* (doesn't count - I vary my starting word and today I got lucky with the starting word. It's better than a 1 but worse than a 3 or 4.) 🟨🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 25 July, 2025 (this was a good newspaper style clue that has me scratching my head until it came to me, but there is another potential answer if one includes Paris. Although that would be a newspaper style stretch showing off the setter's knowledge of the classics - I had to supplement a very vague memory with Wikipedia. Which is fine. I'm not the fastest or the slowest learner. And I'm always open to being wrong. In fact I probably am wrong and I want breakfast.) "Think back about origin of Greek horse made of wood sometimes" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

Wordle 1,496 3/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Minute Cryptic - 24 July, 2025 (Woke at 4an, nightmare, spine inflamed and can't get back to sleep, but I'm basically OK. Which is like being OK but without optional extras such as being able to block out how grim reading the morning news is without having to think "well at least it's not airborne space AIDS". This was a satisfying clue but hard to find a song that didn't make the answer more obvious than it needs to be. I am looking forward to breakfast and I'm otherwise quite grateful. Basically grateful. Which is like being grateful but thinking "there are a thousand and one worse things, bloody hell there are a thousand and one worse things". It's all woefully self indulgent and I'm going to read a book..) "Flat, crustless half-size loaf" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning