What the fuck did I think I was doing with "glassy".
@magware comments:
what is this game?? it looks fun
wordgrid.clevergoat.com!
The how to play is here: https://wordgrid.clevergoat.com/how-to-play. As you've probably surmised, this is a grid-type daily game (e.g. movie grid) where you anonymously compete with all the other players to name the rarest word for a given pair of categories. Your score is the sum of the percentage of other players who gave the same answers for each square. Like golf, lower is better.
If nobody else gave the same answer (like I did for "insolvent", "whists", and "tonsil") you get a unicorn, which counts for 0%. You get a little notification when you steal a unicorn from somebody by being the second player to name an answer, which is always fun. Looking back at this game from yesterday: IIRC I took "passer" from someone else, and both "insolvent" and "whists" were taken from me at some point, but "tonsil" still stands!
It's a lot of fun! Actual knowledge of obscure words helps a lot (I've been waiting weeks to play some inflection of "abstort"), obviously, but a good general understanding of English morphology does too. Unlike moviegrid, you get unlimited guesses, so it can be a useful strategy to try a bunch of stuff that sounds like it could be a rare word in the hopes that it goes through. I've made plenty of guesses like "whists", or "frust", or "fullage" and had no idea what they might mean -- only that they're a bunch of letters which follow the rules of how English forms words and syllables -- and end up with a nice galaxy (<0.1%) or unicorn. There's a handy "definitions" list you can read once you're done to figure out what they mean once you're done.
Anyways, here's my initial score for today:
Word Grid #741 🟪🟦🦄 🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟪 Rarity: 3.94 wordgrid.clevergoat.com?ref=shared 🐐
and now after taking another crack at the bottom left + middle:
Word Grid #741 🟪🟦🦄 🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪 Rarity: 1.77 wordgrid.clevergoat.com?ref=shared 🐐
this took longer than I thought, but it was fun @piratesexmachine420
also not surprised that this one has so many undiscovered words. I sat on that one for an embarrassingly long amount of time. my brain just got stuck on the word 'mop' for so long despite it not being valid because of how the pop-up was presenting the square's challenge lmao
lol I was wondering how many people were gonna put "mommy". "hippos" and "potholes" are both good, a bit better than what I put for those squares. I'll put my words and guess histories under the cut:
(Everything else was a go in one.)
Seems someone stole my unicorn since I copied down my score! SMDH. Two overlapping "does not contain"s makes for a really big possibility space, I was hoping that picking something under-the-radar would be enough. Guess I better go find another...
