Wordle 1,582 5/6* (🤷♂️ an occasion where changing starting word continuously let me down. The most common letters, in English words, are something like etaoinshrdlu so I try to get as many of those per guess informed by previous answers and intuition about the choice of words. That's breaking down a bit now they're using up common words.)
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Minute Cryptic - 18 October, 2025 (took me a little while, I think lots of people got it faster than me. I was watching Celebrity Traitors on the BBC last night - it's basically a reworking of the Moscow University game of Werewolf (or Mafia) with reality TV twists. Which makes it sound basic, which it isn't and it's a good show, with all of the caveats that apply to any TV with a semblance of reality against the need of narrative form. In Mafia, or Werewolf, or Traitors there is an informed minority of traitors (or mafioso or werewolves) whom know who the the other traitors are and the rest are uninformed. The informed minority keeps their roles secret from the uninformed minority, in the case of Traitors called 'the faithful' or in mafia/werewolf villagers. There are two phases, at night, in game time, a member of the informed minority can kill a member of the uninformed majority. During the day, in game time, the uninformed majority can vote, and discuss among themselves, on eliminating a suspect. Naturally the informed minority can sabotage discussions but also risk becoming suspects by doing so. As a general observation I think the Faithful, or villagers, seem to spend too much time on epistemological questions of how they know something versus ontological questions of what there is to know. My strategy, and TV is different so I can't really say what my strategy would be if I was under those pressures, as both a villager and a Traitor/Werewolf would be to eliminate randomly and I'd let other people know that. As knowledge of the threats (to me from the Traitors/werewolves or villagers) accrues I'd switch to choosing and back without saying (fellow Traitors would think it's their choice rather than me not objecting). The people nominated unfairly don't matter if I'm a Traitor or Werewolf and categorically it's nothing personal if I nominated them as a villager/Faithful (it could be, because I hadn't told them I switched from random nomination). Any plan needs to be adaptable in light of new information. Maybe watching people reinvent logical positivism wouldn't make for good TV and people's pattern seeking and projections of their narrative onto things is a modern TV parable of why and how things go wrong for villagers tactically. Plus maybe it'd just be a good way of getting myself eliminated by villagers. Maybe I'd have to act dumber to blend in, which is a lot of TV TBF. Real life is not a game. Not checked for grammar or spelling because of breakfast being more important to me.)
"Close messy garden shed outside" (4)
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