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Wordle 1,748 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 2 April, 2026 "Hare no longer laughing, with tortoise halfway to a comeback" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (22,208 solvers so far). WORD5 #545 3/6* (Hard Mode) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟪🟧⬛⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 My color memory is a 41.8/50. #wordle #minutecryptic #word5 #dialed
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Wordle 1,747 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 1 April, 2026 "Very relaxed from patchwork quilt covers, 3-2-1 narcolepsy!" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (22,178 solvers so far). WORD5 #544 2/6* (Hard Mode) 🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #word5 #minutecryptic
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Wordle 1,746 4/6* ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 31 March, 2026 (I found this one difficult because of the number of potential substitutions.) "Adhering to etiquette, people in the play exit at intervals" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (59,235 solvers so far). WORD5 #543 4/6* (Hard Mode) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟧⬛⬛⬛ 🟧⬛🟧🟧⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,745 3/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 30 March, 2026 "Temp receptionist and intern, between jobs?" (5,2) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (30,320 solvers so far). WORD5 #542 5/6* (Hard Mode) (1/16 on 3, 1/2 on 4 - exc. prev answers.) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟧⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟪🟪🟪🟪 ⬛🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,743 6/6* (mostly unavoidable. ~1/3 on 4) ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 28 March, 2026 (these have been disappearing on Nostr 🤷‍♀️. Presumably my relay setup or client is b0rked.) "Attends wild paternity reveal?" (3,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (56,118 solvers so far). WORD5 #540 4/6* (Hard Mode) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟧⬛🟧 ⬛⬛🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Wordle 1,740 6/6* (~1/150 on 3. ~1/11 on 4. 1/2 on 6. Nearly.) ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 25 March, 2026 "Baby shower starts by unwrapping mother’s presents" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (48,543 solvers so far). WORD5 #537 4/6* (Hard Mode) (~1/20 on 3) ⬛⬛⬛🟧⬛ ⬛🟧🟧⬛🟧 ⬛🟪🟧🟪⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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John 2 months ago
Bazzite for gamers (check compatibility first) Ubuntu for most people Fedora Atomic spins for me (Aurora is also good) NixOS is a great thing but requires time to learn that will pay off for some Arch for those who want to tinker/see under the bonnet (or Gentoo) Those are for PC. Mac/Raspberry PI/ARM/RISC5 I don't know enough about. Obviously there are a host of others (Manjaro and other Arch derived distros are notable/good, VanillaOS, Bodhi/MX/AntiX for outdated computers), Debian is important because it avoids the proprietary, and OpenBSD is excellent because it's approach is Not Linux. It's a bad list but a succinct one. Aurora is slightly less mucking about if a person needs virtualisation with Fedora Silverblue.I am not keen on Ubuntu but lots of people do stuff on it just fine and that's ultimately what matters. Plus accessibility in some cases I feel it has been neglected somewhat. It's a basic list. Everyone seems to say Linux Mint is good for beginners but I have never used it. Pop OS looks good and Cosmic is getting there. The Linux desktop has basically been there for a while now but hasn't had enough people sitting there to get used to it and work it into larger systems.
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Wordle 1,737 4/6* (~1/20 on 3) ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 22 March, 2026 "Rap hit covered by string ensemble? Finally, cool material for conductor!" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (34,800 solvers so far). WORD5 #534 3/6* (Hard Mode) (1/2 on 3) ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟧 🟪⬛🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,736 3/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 21 March, 2026 "Learn 1970s-style dance music! $5 off per beginner!" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (26,705 solvers so far). WORD5 #533 3/6* (Hard Mode) ⬛🟧⬛⬛🟪 ⬛🟧⬛🟧🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,735 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 20 March, 2026 "“Downright ditching me!” Housemate moves into vacant sublet?" (9) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (49,140 solvers so far). WORD5 #532 4/6* (Hard Mode) (1/2 on 3) ⬛⬛🟧🟪⬛ 🟪⬛⬛🟪🟪 🟪⬛🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,734 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 19 March, 2026 "P.S. Cuddles! I love you! Utterly devoted" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (57,485 solvers so far). WORD5 #531 4/6* (Hard Mode) 🟧⬛⬛🟧⬛ ⬛⬛🟪🟧🟧 ⬛🟪🟪🟪⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,733 4/6* (1/26 on 3) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 18 March, 2026 "Spaceman shoos away both parents sneaking aboard at liftoff" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (46,390 solvers so far). WORD5 #530 3/6* (Hard Mode) ⬛⬛⬛🟧⬛ 🟧⬛⬛🟧🟧 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,732 3/6* 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 17 March, 2026 "Abstract art genius makes a reproducible scribble" (9) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (61,400 solvers so far). WORD5 #529 4/6* (Hard Mode) (1/14 on 3) 🟧⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟪⬛ ⬛🟧⬛🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,731 4/6* (1/37 on 3) ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 16 March, 2026 "Close friends secretly videotape as I nap? Odd!" (4,2,1,3) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (58,108 solvers so far). WORD5 #528 4/6* (Hard Mode) (1/11 on 3) 🟪⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟪⬛🟧⬛⬛ 🟪🟧⬛⬛⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,730 3/6* (1/2 in 3, realistically 1) ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 15 March, 2026 (Why should I put anything here? That is a question I have been asking myself. The reasons for it are enjoyment, which in in the unchecked, typo laden, responsibility free writing, and sheer bloody mindedness of shouting at clouds. The reasons against it are that it's essentially a distraction and it'd be better to spend the time doing something else. I wouldn't enjoy things if everything had to be for a reason but the problem with a reason is that the value of a reason is debatable and something having no reason becomes a reason regardless. Often. And I'm sure other people may get a sore throat from branflakes and yoghurt. They just don't get soft enough with a good Greek, or Greek style yoghurt. It doesn't happen with All Bran or Shredded Wheat. Next time I'm going to mix them first and wait for them to soften.) "A vehicle behind another vehicle!" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (49,273 solvers so far). WORD5 #527 4/6* (Hard Mode) (1/18 on 3) ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟧 🟧⬛🟪🟪🟪 ⬛🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,729 5/6* (1/13 on 3) ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 14 March, 2026 (Brassicas. A person has 2^n ancestors n generations back. On my dad's side I can relatively safely go 7 generations back in terms of people who have made family trees. They could be wrong. It gets a bit sketchy. That is 128 direct ancestors male and female. Each with their own 2^n ancestors. There weren't that many people back then so there are rapidly more ancestors than there were people and 6 generations back there are lists of people whom I related to but share no autosomal DNA with at all. Using that 2^n it rapidly becomes the case that there are more ancestors than there were people in Europe so with a minimum of one European ancestor you're statistically, in family tree terms, related to all Europeans. So DNA kits and the like are very interesting inasmuch as they show where people who share your DNA are now but they also miss that a lot of people you don't share autosomal DNA but are still related and says nothing about why, although one can infer a lot. A bit further back, not much, using 2^n for each person alive and there are more ancestors than there are people on planet earth and despite looking a bit different we're all related. Race categorisation is shit 19th Century science and literally everyone is interesting if you cherry pick the interesting bits out of the tens of thousands of ancestors in The Tangled Human Bush. I prefer The Tangled Human Bush because everyone is important and unique. it is a more accurate way of describing human genetics and doubles up as a minge joke.) "Rats rolling in mud splatter it over dogs?" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (52,513 solvers so far). WORD5 #526 4/6* (Hard Mode) (1/3 on 3) ⬛🟪⬛🟧⬛ 🟪🟪⬛🟪⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Reposted. Wordle 1,728 4/6* (1/5 on 3) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 13 March, 2026 (I get it but it's a stretch. I had very interesting dreams last night. Which is something that likely applies to any subset of people at any given time, given we're essentially remixing thoughts from the day before. I don't believe in any supernatural elements to dreams but I think a person cam gain insight on reflecting on anything including dreams and in that regard they are magic. I'm choosing to blame the 4th day of Trinidadian style chicken curry for dinner. It's done. I like that particular dish but four times in a row with large portions was very much beginning to put me off. It's like the time I was given loads of pheasants. Sure, they were free, and yes, I like pheasant, but after the third week of eating different ways to prepare pheasant not only was it an ethical argument against pheasant shooting but my brain and body began to rebel against it. I'm still not sure I like pheasant now and that was a decade or more ago. It'd be different if I had a big freezer. I didn't. Anyway, I am mostly vegan now for environmental reasons, and I get all of the benefits of being vegan and none of the downsides. The trick with batch cooking is to make it as modular as possible. Niku Miso, a Japanese way of processing minced pork is a very good example of that because it becomes a component of a meal rather than a meal. Next week I'm going to cook a, fairly authentic, vegan Trinidad style chana curry which I will use as a component of meals with rice, (less authenticly) bulgar wheat, roti, salad, vegetables and potentially doubles. Doubles are a kind of fried bread and are totally delicious, a 9/10 on the GNSDS. To demonstrate the logic of modular batch cooking - once I was chatting with a butcher, which obviously I didn't do often even before being mostly vegan - they sometimes have opinions, and got offered a load of very cheap skirt steak. Which is tough but delicious and tender if you know what to do with it. It freezes. I could serve that in a modular fashion - I had tacos, I prepared it in Persian style, I had it in wraps, with chips, and a variety of other quite delicious ways with a variety of condiments. I didn't get sick of that. It wasn't like "oh, FFS, not pheasant or chicken curry again". Some things are too distinct. I had a similar thing with two weeks of tofu chilli. It was genuinely delicious and I find farting amusing but I should have made a smaller batch. I was happy when it finished. I'm not for commercial pheasant shooting any more because of the environmental impact although I wasn't really for or against it before because they were hanging up on my grandparents kitchen as a child so it was normal. Obviously the more it is consumed the worse the potential impact and as for killing them while I didn't kill the cow or cows that skirt steak came from I was essentially responsible for their death. And their life. So at least a week of delicious, mostly vegan, dining ahead which I'm looking forward to eating.) "Middle-aged couple exhausted from crazy mileage accumulated over holiday" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (59,528 solvers so far). WORD5 #525 4/6* (Hard Mode) (1/89 on 3) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟪⬛ ⬛🟧🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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Wordle 1,727 5/6* (1/16 on 4) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 12 March, 2026 (good clue. One of the things about eating as much as I need, which I have been doing for nearly 2 years now, is that it makes me appreciate breakfast more often. Not quite the appreciation of breakfast the day after a great deal of physical activity but more than the baseline appreciation of breakfast. Ditto for all meals. My weight has stayed within 3kg either side of my now, top end of, healthy weight for roughly 200 days so I know I'm not running at much of a surplus or a deficit. Besides I'd prefer to be slightly overweight than slightly underweight. I should graph it - which I did for the first 300 days and then compromised with the obsessive side of my personality and stopped. Also. I think weight matters but as a factor in something more complicated including stress, variety and quality of food, and exercise. And luck too. I genuinely don't care what other people do. Obviously I hope for the best and care deeply about some but I also think I'm probably a bit mental and I could get unlucky like anyone else. I suppose I am a bit already what with the Viking hands, spondyloarthritis, and other predominantly Nordic conditions in the family. Not mum's side. Thank god. There are very few nasties on mum's side. Genetic determinism is fraught. I think I'd have one eyebrow and webbed feet without mum and my dead Welsh nan. At least they lived a long time on dad's side until smoking and modern lifestyles. An 80+ age at death in pre-Victorian times, presumably because they lived in Norfolk then and were traditionally fishing families, with a sideline in monk chopping, enforced a healthy lifestyle and left a great deal of time for cathartic grumbling. Although mum's H13a1a1a haplogroup does give me an inate urge to take up goat farming.) "Car weaved into his rear parking spaces?" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (62,460 solvers so far). WORD5 #524 6/6* (Hard Mode) (phew indeed. 1/2 on 6). ⬛⬛🟧⬛🟧 🟧🟧⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟪⬛🟪🟪 ⬛🟪⬛🟪🟪 🟪🟪⬛🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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John 3 months ago
Wordle 1,725 3/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 10 March, 2026 (I woke about 2am with heartburn. It could because I ate delicious curry or because I ate a lot of raisins. Also, because I've been mostly vegan, or mostly vegetarian, I drastically reduced my meat intake from most days, in a sensible serving, to once a week most frequently and sometimes not at all. I think my digestive tolerance for meat has reduced. Now it feels like a bit of a digestive slog. Unfortunately I batch cook and have another three servings left. Also, and this sounds a little Nosterafu, I found myself finding the smell of the iron gall ink I use delicious and it smells at lot like blood. So I did eat a beef blood sausage a while ago and a haggis because I do think a person should listen to their body a bit. This morning my body is saying maybe maybe that chicken was too flavoursome and four scotch bonnet peppers in one sitting was maybe childish. I like chilli and they were the relatively mild ones Sainsbury's sells. It's because I had "chadon beni" which is like coriander's, cilantro's, cousin who works with their hands and considers toast fancy. So I made Trinidadian green seasoning to marinade the chicken. On a deliciousness score I'd give the resulting curry an 8/10 on the Garron Noone standardised deliciousness scale (GNSDS) and despite the heartburn my stomach is rumbling thinking about it. It's that or it's food poisoning, but I'll know that for sure tonight when I eat it again. If I'm found down the butchers snuffling around for blood and offal products again you can bet the ESSRI ink began smelling delicious again. I am really trying. Last week I had a dream about meat and bit my tongue. This morning I shall feast on chocolate, Shredded Wheat, defrosted blueberries, cocoa, chia seed and yoghurt. It's not vegan yoghurt because I think I benefit from the calcium and iodine and fat. They exist in vegan yoghurt but they're added and I try to avoid ultra processed foods which is most readymade vegan food. The tofu and tempeh options aren't bad. Jeffrey Boadi, who wrote Plant Fuel, strikes me as sane/sensible and presents lots of good options. I'm basically culturally appropriating vegan food and I do feel good for it. None of my measured stats have changed, but they weren't bad when I was tubby, and meat eating, which I think is because I had the luxury of eating otherwise cooked from scratch food and had those dice rolls. I dislike fetishism of meat eating and plant eating and I think I've cracked the code of how to annoy both groups of fetishists.) "Consequence of misusing debit card!" (3,6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (30,363 solvers so far). WORD5 #522 5/6* (Hard Mode) 🟪⬛🟪⬛🟧 🟪🟪🟪⬛⬛ 🟪🟪🟪⬛⬛ 🟪🟪🟪⬛⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5
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John 3 months ago
Wordle 1,724 4/6* ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 9 March, 2026 (It's one of those mornings where every idea I have to write about is potentially trouble. So I'll just list out a summaried of what I wrote then deleted: Why I don't want to be Kate, because I'm happy, like Nigel, and I like my genitals. Why bees are NPCs under the ricockulous meme definition, as are many other things without agency. Consumption to create versus consumption to consume and why it's not that simple once a person includes supply chains. Collectivism versus individualidm in the age of ubiquitous forms of consumption and exhibition. Genitals versus social or psychological identity. Platonic ideals of sex based stereotypes. Automated proofs and LLMs versus Cauchy and -adic numeric systems and why BODMAS etc is essential but also a social construct. Rounding errors in pre-1980s COBOL based payroll and the way it all works underneath. Pollution from burning hydrocarbons. Why coal tar helped make the modern world. The importance of the humanities and why the social sciences are very important and also very crap. Parallels in Soviet automation and American automation in the 1970s and why America won. The Doomed city by the Strugatsky brothers, the Chicago Review Press version , and the human world as naturally occuring social experiments but only anthropomorphised as such by those who consider themselves as somehow separated from it. Then I thought about it all and realised, aside from being a bit pretentious, there were several hornet nests that I'd rather not kick before breakfast. Hornets could be classed as NPCs and they are also very important like bees. When I was a child I once chucked a brick in a wasps nest. A person cannot outrun wasps. So I broke it into list akin to essay prompts for an LLM who is as likely to get it wrong as me, without being blamed.) "Fabled beauty of chameleon dropping camouflage briefly" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (57,423 solvers so far). WORD5 #521 4/6* (Hard Mode) ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟧 ⬛⬛🟧🟧🟧 🟪🟧⬛🟧⬛ 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 #wordle #minutecryptic #word5