I failed at Wordle today. Details below.
I continue to feel somewhat subdued (although I think the failure at Wordle was just bad luck).
I got a bit of knitting done, but have paused. I’m knitting top-down, as you know, and trying to insert the Calcutta Cup and the date into a broad st st panel at navel height in the Spalding pattern. Once I get the pattern correctly established, the rest will be straightforward. But I’m not at all sure I have done that. It not only has to be the right way up, but also the right way around. See the baby blanket above for the parameters of the problem.
C. came to see me this morning.
Wordle: Lying in bed last night, I had a premonition of how my winning streak would end — and sure enough, I was right. My starters gave me two greens and two browns. My line three turned the browns green. Line four, line five and even line six went on guessing that fourth letter in vain.
Theo, Ketki and Thomas all had similar difficulty, but weren’t nearly as inventive as I was — or much luckier — and escaped with fives. Alexander was there too but managed a four. Mark was another five, but his problem was the second letter, not the fourth.
Roger did it in three, and Rachel — how on earth? — in only two.
Wordle was truly frustrating today. I got 4 greens and a yellow on my first guess but then tried one letter after another in the fourth place. I finally got it on the last try. Phew!
ReplyDeleteEllis-Lynn
Do you have a sunny window you can sit by in the morning? It helped my mom enormously to sit by our south-facing window in the sun. Cam
ReplyDeleteWordle in 5 for me today. It was the second letter that was the problem. I thought they would be tricky, and tried what I thought were less-obvious words first. Arrrggh!
ReplyDeleteBeverly in NJ
I nearly failed today, as well. I never think of the second use of a letter until it is nearly too late! How about a pocket with the Cacutta Cup information on it, then sewn on?
ReplyDeleteFailed at Wordle today, just could not get that fourth letter, messaged a sister who lives 2000 km away and is in the middle of a fierce winter snowstorm. She got it, but in her sixth try. Not so tricky as a top-down Calcutta Cup, however.
ReplyDeleteA pocket…a genius idea!
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I second the pocket idea. Otherwise, plot the cup and date as you want them, then knit chart from top right to bottom left (assuming you knit from left needle to right needle).
ReplyDeleteLove the pocket idea, too. What a work-around. I had been thinking a family member (Archie? Helen?) might have software that could help you with that, but not worth the expense for just one project if you would have to buy it yourself. I wonder if there is something about those juxtaposition of letters that makes the the mind rebel against guessing them. Unless your base word threw you at just the right angle (so to speak). It wasn’t an unusual word, if I am correct. Chloe
ReplyDeleteWhenever I have to knit letters or numbers top-down, I chart it on graph paper, then turn it upside down and knit away. Works like a charm! Love the pocket suggestion too; never would have thought of it!
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