tonylarch.bsky.social
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Looks like I actually did the next one. I suck at these :)
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Puzzle #687
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The opening is awesome!
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I prefer 8 to 3. But I don't think it's better. I just like it more.
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Actual time 2:04 :)
Decodex 2025-04-28
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Time: 0:37
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Actual time 5:33 😭
Decodex 2025-04-26
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Time: 1:57
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Happy birthday! 🎂
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My first thought was GOD of course. Although I should have known better from The Buddha. But, worse, G was already taken :)
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Actual time 4:30. Had everything except the 9th word was still ".o." and struggled for a good half a minute to think what would arise in such a person with the letters available!
Decodex 2025-04-25
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Time: 1:34
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Excellent puzzle! The "Home ground" one my favourite clue for the misdirection.
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Actual time: 1:40. Which I thought was quite good until I saw yours :)
Decodex 2025-04-24
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Time: 1:28
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Good time! Took me about 10 minutes 🥵
Decodex 2025-04-23
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Time: 1:41
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Actual time 3:49. Lots of ' making this one easy!
Decodex 2025-04-22
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Time: 0:54
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They're just Aemerican. On the whole their spellings are more logical. Also why do we put oe and ae etc. in those words when they're oi and ai in Greek anyway?
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Yes of course they're the same word! I'm just saying I guessed what the last three letters of that word were (for the wrong reason). I like pressing the reset button. It's a much more efficient way of undoing my guesswork :)
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Actual time 4:07 (it still gives you the time since the last reset). Had an unusual way into this one: wondered if the first and 7th words were gerunds ending in the usual three letters. They aren't but do anyway :)
Decodex 2025-04-21
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Time: 1:16
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This one (just about, perhaps arguably) has two grammatical solutions! I got the wrong one first.
Decodex 2025-04-20
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Time: 2:28
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I really like the new Paavo Järvi one. It's probably about a 4% on the alcohol content.
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Then @phyllida.bsky.social will keep beating me again 😂😭
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My real time was 10:03. Have figured out what's going on: every time I press "RESET" it resets the clock! I reset quite a lot because I find it easier to just start over and remember what was right than how to backtrack.
Decodex 2025-04-18
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Time: 1:33
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Not sure they're fun enough to overcome my miserliness :) Also it let me play them at least once so there is probably an easy workaround.
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Actually playing the thing is much harder than any of that other stuff so I think you have your priorities right.
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I do subscribe to Telegraph Puzzles for the crossword. But they know better than to make you subscribe to the whole newspaper. Crosswords do take some effort to set so I don't mind (yes there are plenty of free ones too but I like the DT: it's easy enough to do every day).
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Well I found a couple including a 7 letter one and now it wants me to subscribe or something 😡
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At one time wasn't his plan was to steal them from Ukraine in return for letting Putin overrun the place? But that doesn't seem to be going too well.
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Tricky one.
Wordle 1,398 5/6
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The trap is you thought that pattern was "PEOPLE"? Below says 1:22, but this time I timed it myself as well. A more realistic 8:56 is what I actually spent on it.
Decodex 2025-04-17
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Time: 1:22
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If you got the purple one first that's really good right? I was totally guessing :)
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Puzzle #675
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I'm pretty sure it took longer than that. I don't believe that timer. I think it gives you bonuses for not using hints or something.
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Found this one a bit trickier! Maybe just bad luck.
Decodex 2025-04-16
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Time: 1:11
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Possibly thinking of Freia in Das Rheingold? The Dutchman (clearly an autobiographical character) is perhaps a bit of an off-putting incel as well 😂 To be clear I don't think Wagner's music misogynist *at all*. The opposite. But sometimes easy to get that impression.
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Maybe it was the Venus vs Elisabeth stereotypes she didn't like? Sort of a "Madonna Whore Complex" type of thing going on there. Idk anything about Clara but I can imagine some people might find this annoying.
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It's possible that nowadays they tend to stick the mikes practically inside the piano instead of in front of it. Not sure. That's what Lord Vinheteiro seems to do on his YouTube videos (I think he is something like a recording engineer).
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Decodex 2025-04-15
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Time: 1:04
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Is that the difference? Practically everyone seems to play a Steinway these days (although Hewitt sometimes her Fazioli and you can compare her two WTC recordings). Maybe for those 30s recordings the actual pianos were different?
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I prefer the sound of all newer recordings because they tend just to be clearer.
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I found the article and circumvented the paywall. A fun argument but completely mad! I've often had dreams in which massive logical inconsistencies don't bother my dream self either. Does that mean they're true?
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Rookie error on my second word. I didn't use that yellow one at all!
Wordle 1,395 3/6
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Never heard of the game they're talking about.
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Puzzle #673
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I don't believe it really only took me 34 seconds though. It's also taking a bit longer to understand what the quote is supposed to mean :)
Decodex 2025-04-14
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At least it's not anal though.
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What paper has a philosophy column?
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I particularly approve of their decision to paint it in British Leyland Harvest Gold.
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I think I was even more cruelly robbed:
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A weak dollar could mean fewer Americans travelling here for their holidays as well. Also they might not get as much time off from their new factory jobs making trainers.
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No I just live in the moment :) My personal policy on these games is to play them when someone else posts about them, and I feel like it. The only one I do consistently every day is the Telegraph cryptic crossword (old-school but more wit and creativity goes into making it).
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Decodex 2025-04-12
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Time: 2:03
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But at least it won't do you any harm :) This probably makes it better than average for a medical intervention.