I play Mech Arena every day. Usually only a couple of games. I never played Overwatch so I can't compare them, but I'm enjoying Mech Arena so far.
Ha! I play every night with my wife, and routinely quip that the 1970s are my kryptonite. I don't know shit about them.
Oddly, I'm decent at the 60s and 50s cuz of my mom.
There's a #TeamHeardle group on Mastodon that's pretty active daily comparing notes and commiserating about losses.
Also worth knowing: the person who runs heardledecades.com is in the UK, so a lot of the games skew heavily towards UK charts.
I just created !heardle@lemmy.world for posting daily scores and other discussion type things. :)
First time I’ve heard of it! But it looks likes it’s using soundcloud now so maybe that’s why.
I like this
Daily rogue game. Best streak is 11
Then you got to try https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
I do NY Times crosswords. quite challenging as an ESL, but very satisfying. so far I've only been able to solve Monday or Tuesday ones, and I still use the "check puzzle" helper to see how many words I got wrong when I'm stuck, but I don't have to look up stuff online anymore!
The NYT crossword is challenging enough as a native English speaker.
there's another layer of difficulty when you're not from the US, as it often requires you to know stuff from US history and culture that you don't learn and know about abroad. like tHE FUCK KIND OF A THREE LETTER ORG DID NIXON CREATE, WATERGATE IS LONGER THAN THREE LETTERS
I actually know that one, I'm not from the USA either but read it somewhere. It's apparently the EPA.
I've been playing https://duotrigordle.com/. It's like 32 wordles at once. But despite how that sounds, it's actually easier than Wordle.
The other one I've been playing with a friend is https://framed.wtf/ for figuring out movies by scene.
You're welcome 😅 I usually do it first thing over my morning hot beverage. Less thinking before bed that way.
Same. Had they started with scenes 2-4 I probably wouldn't have though. Usually get it pretty early or not at all 🤷🏻♂️
My first day on this site and it's already paying off. Ha!
Thanks for the recommendation. Loved this and shared it with my dad. I'm sure we'll be sharing scores soon.
Recently I've been learning crosswords and I do the daily Newsday and USA Today puzzles since they're pretty easy, but near the end of the week the Newsday one gets kinda difficult.
I also want to shout-out Forkyz on F-Droid. It's by far the best crossword puzzle app I've used. Pulls from multiple news sites and you can import puzzles as well
I tried to get into cryptics a few years ago and was really frustrated. It seemed like you really needed to just know the conventions around the clues rather than relying on general knowledge or vocabulary. I probably aught to try again.
Yes, you definitely do, and there's a lot of them too (e.g.). Some of it is stuff you could conceivably know, even if it's because it's (often outdated) general knowledge, but plenty of it is very cryptic-specific. It does end up being like in-jokes and, I suppose, part of the pleasure.
The Guardian do a fairly accessible crossword for beginners: Guardian Quiptic, as well as the series Cryptic crosswords for beginners.
You can find the answers and explanations on fifteensquared.net which you will need at first! When I started I would do as much as I could then try to read as little of the answers as possible to get myself unstuck. Sometimes the answer would elicit a "well how the f was I supposed to get that?" but less so nowadays.
Alright, well you've convinced me to at least give the Guardian beginner's puzzles another try. I'll report back if I throw my PC through a window.
is there a source for NY Times ones? I'm currently using https://downforacross.com/ which is pretty good on both mobile and desktop, but I'd like something that doesn't require constant internet connection, and this one freaks out when you're in spotty area and disconnect for a second.
downforacross has them available for free, I was just looking for something more convenient. I've just found a script that scrapes the puzzles and converts them to .puz, so perhaps someone else out there is maintaining a downloadable collection somewhere.
edit: of course there's collection of the ones that NYT used to publish in that format https://tedd.it/r/DHExchange/comments/p1tzor/_/
I really enjoy squareword.
Another fun twist on wordle I recommend is fusele. Each word you enter has its own rule you need to follow, for example maybe the first word has to repeat a letter, or you get orange hints instead which mean the letter you entered is within 3 letters of the alphabet of the correct letter.
I actually pay the $2/month for squaredle.app for the extra features. I play this game while in boring meetings so that my mind doesn't wander and I can keep my concentration on what people are saying.
Worldle is fun - you get a country outline and need to guess which country it is, plus its neighbouring countries, capital, etc.
Also Wheretaken, which is similar but you get a photograph rather than the country outline.
I try to get in a game of Contexto every day at work when things are slow.
The goal is to find a secret word based on how similar the words you have already guessed is.
You do get unlimited guesses though which is nice.
it's pretty challenging but very rewarding when you finally get it.
Just tried it, it is fun!
This is really fun. Kinda like 21 questions, but infinite questions.
I love worldle, it's really helped me sharpen up on geography as someone who's already geeky about geography.
The island nations, and trying to guess their "border countries," are really a struggle though.
You just reminded me I haven't played Wordle in a while lol
I'm a big fan of Redactle.
My best score so far is 1 guess. Can't remember what clue I spotted in the pre-cleared words, but guessed that the answer was 'Ball', and it was. On average though, I'm closer to 60 guesses or so.
I play Flow Free every morning before work.
Wordle, chess.com daily puzzle, and the Guardian quick crossword are my daily routine. I'm not keen on the crossword and would replace it with a better one but haven't found it yet. Irish Times one was good, long ago.
I like puzzlemoji, instead of guessing something yourself, you get a movie title and have to provide three Emoji as a hint for ChatGPT to guess the movie.
The closest thing I have are the daily challenges from Hoplite (mobile) and Sagrada (boardgame app). I don't do them all the time but sometimes I do a few days in a row. The Slay the Spire ones can be fun too but too time consuming to do regularly.
I like https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
Does Duolingo count as a game?
Daily Dadish (iOS linked) has been a cute daily platforming challenge. Outside of super tricky levels, I can usually get the "best" time to collect the star in 10m or so, and the controls are pretty solid for being a touchscreen.
The deck building game? Do they have an app?
Yep, and yep.
You do have to purchase the expansions separately, but every week they have one available to use for free. You can also buy first edition card sets for the expansions that have come out with a second edition (Base set, Intrigue, Seaside, Hinterlands).
Hm... I can't seem to find it (on iOS at least). I love that game, haha I'd play every day too if I had it on my phone
Oh, yeah. I remember that now. My parents and I use Android phones, but my brother uses an iPhone. Was trying to get all of them to get the game, but my brother couldn't get it.
Sorry about that
If you like wordle you should try quordle.
I see someone already said framed, but I also enjoy:
I still play Wordle daily, but I'm also a big fan of Cell Tower and Worble
Squardle and Quordle are my follow ups after WORDLE. Both great games.
Kind of spendy and maybe too absorbing, but I've found that the Android version of Dead Cells is a great way to kill anywhere from a little to a lot of time and the touch screen controls work surprisingly well (tho you're definitely going to want a controller for any of the higher difficulty runs)
I like all version of the Nerdles, playing mostly the Classic, Bi, Mini, and Mini Bi. Though they recently added the Crossnerdle and that might be my favorite. You can also make your own Pro Nerdle and send them to your friends with way more operators to choose from!
https://www.nytimes.com/games/prototype/digits is one of my daily brain exercises.
thanks for using Leebra!
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I played Overwatch daily for about 5 years, but Blizzard had to go and fuck that up
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