New NYT Games game!

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in New NYT Games game!:

Good game. Got all 24 plus 18 bonus words

I play that one most days - it gets progressively harder through the week, although never that difficult, there's just more words.

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in New NYT Games game!:

Good game. Got all 24 plus 18 bonus words

It gets harder through the week until Friday and hard again on Sunday. Saturday more like early-week.

[Mik]

Hard pips in 4:11. Not bad.

[jon-nyc]

[Doctor Phibes]

[jon-nyc]

[Axtremus]

1:24 for me today, hard.

[jon-nyc]

KICKED YOUR FUCKING ASS, I did.

[Mik]

1:47.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in New NYT Games game!:

KICKED YOUR FUCKING ASS, I did.

@Axtremus

I don’t even recognize you anymore with all that pwnage on your face.

[Doctor Phibes]

[jon-nyc]

Is Pips getting harder?

My first couple games (hard) I did in under 2 minutes. Now 4 is the norm and sometimes it takes 6.

Could be I got lucky the first few, and found the easiest starting point first.

[Mik]

I think it is too. I'm not sure it will last, because it's essentially the same game every day. Not as varied as say Connections or Strands or Letterboxed.

[Mik]

I'm still doing it, though. It uses different neural pathways than the word games. Brain calisthenics.

[jon-nyc]

I do too. I stopped connections. Same reason I don’t like cross words. The puzzles are too subjective and I resent racking my brain trying to figure out how one particular individual thinks.

[jon-nyc]

My morning routine is now wordle, strands, pips, and squaredl. Evenings I do waffle (after 8 when it resets). In bed before sleep I do quordle and octordle, ( the classic, sequence, and extreme versions) Those are just enough to make me tired.

[Mik]

I still like connections although at times the obscure pop culture references escape me. I’ll have to try the others you mention.