May 31 2022 - The "DLE" Rush

 

Now I am thinking that after Wordle and Heardle, we are in for the realm of "DLEs".  There are many opportunities - I did a screen capture from the scrabble entry - it arranges everything by the number of letters - from 4-letter words - idle to 12-letter words timberdoodle.  The12-letter word with DLE - timberdoodle - that is the American woodcock - a bird.    So I got to making up some uses for all these good words. Griddle - I can guess that griddle will be an app that tells you where the gridlock is in the roads in your town or highways.   Tweedle - wouldn't that be finding some sort of Tweet in the vast ocean of Tweets that happen each day based on clues?  Maybe there already is. Enkindle - find the book on Kindle with these clues. Reddle - with all those Reddit posts, I am sure there is a game to find the one that matches the clues. There already are "Oodles of Dles" games.  I found is a listing of 10 games like Wordle.  Here is one list.  Names like Nerdle, Quordle, Framed, Waffle, Crosswordle, Dungleon, Squareword, Squabble, so many fun choices. Another article has 16 games, and then another with 14, and another with 22, and so it goes. The possibilities are numerous, to say the least.  I see one called Absurdle - that sounds just right - find what is absurd in your life with these clues. Our June Calendar encourages  a visit to those blossom trees in fruit.  Here are some wonderful cherries. This is last year's crop - we think this year's will be sparse. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Jan 14 2022 - Wordle of the Day

 

I checked out the news in Google News.  I found this WORDLE, The Daily Game.  I don't normally go to Google News - it is a news aggregator service developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines. Google News is available as an app on Android, iOS, and the Web.  This is the service opposed  by news organizations and countries over licensing and the lack of it by Google.  They even thought that displaying snippets of content without licensing seemed to be ok.  Where there is licensing, the company is under investigation.  France has fined Google and other countries such as Germany are involved in an antitrust probe. But what we noticed in the News Feed was the Wordle of the Day.  What is Wordle?  The New York Times on January 3rd, 2022 says that it is a love story - a game designed by Josh Wardle in November 2021 for his girlfriend.  It now has over 300,000 players.   "It’s been a meteoric rise for the once-a-day game, which invites players to guess a five-letter word in a similar manner as the guess-the-color game Mastermind. After guessing a five-letter word, the game tells you whether any of your letters are in the secret word and whether they are in the correct place. You have six tries to get it right. Few such popular corners of the internet are as low-frills as the website, which Mr. Wardle built himself as a side project. There are no ads or flashing banners; no windows pop up or ask for money. There is merely the game on a black background". It is based on five-letter words - around 12,000 in English.  Here is what it looks like: Here is the New York Times article about it HERE.  Isn't this a wonderful news story of the day!  A game that will soon become beloved world-wide.  This was a bit of graffiti in St. Catharines.  It has been colourized and given a painterly effect.  All of my manipulation software tools have to be upgraded and uploaded and then tested.  Both Photoshop and Lightroom moved to new releases, and plugins stopped 'plugging in'.   The original is below - itself an interesting image with a graceful composition.

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