Oh this is devilish…a game where you have make to 45 groups of 45 items each by matching two at a time. Must take hours? (Where’s the multiplayer option when you need it?)
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What have you done to me???
Command F makes it speedier.
Haha— I did it scrolling my tiny ass phone screen (but lying prone on the couch). Your way seems much more efficient
Oh no. This is a very bad thing…
45 x 45 = 2025! Just in time. 🤓
Oh, it's literally in the URL. 🤦♂️
Ooh, this is my kind of game!
This game has eaten up my life! What "year" is everyone on so far? I'm at 1273...
1543 as of last night. Only 4 groups completed, but several are very close.
I finished it this morning after working intermittently yesterday afternoon/evening. I'd guess about 4 active hours to complete? I had 335 wrong guesses, most from when I got down to the last 50 or so words that I just had no clue about.
There are several groups that I don't even have a clue about the theme yet. 😳
Finished this afternoon after spending way too long on it. Couple of groups where I had no knowledge of the topic, and quite a few where there were items in the group that I wouldn’t have got without brute force guessing. It was so much fun though, thanks for sharing!
(eyeballs game)
(Looks at very long list of things I need to do that are away from a computer)
(Game)
(List)
Sigh.....
Yeah, that was several hours I'll never get back. and I regret nothing. It's particularly frustrating when there's a word you know in only one context and...it's not used that way. Fun!
After doing all the words I recognized I had to do a lot of trial and error...BUT I HAD TO FINISH. ugh.
things like this always remind of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/356/
This was great! Finished last night — but had to rope my partner in toward the end for the stragglers. A lot of errors and guessing in the end, but so worth it
Start with The Beatles. :wink:
Score: 1980. Mistakes (wince): 1772. I was borne up by the incredible monotony of in-law holiday celebrations, and did the last 100 trial-and-error (Stelantis is a car company? Quino is a cartoonist?) drowsily in the five minutes it takes for my blankets to heat up at bedtime. It was fun, and when the train on the way home went out of cell range, it kept plugging along. Feels like...is it insane to call it...the analog-style web? Felt like doing a jigsaw puzzle.
I just explained this game to my girlfriend.
Her: "That's some Severence-y shit."
Mistakes: 1190 ... probably about 2/3 of them for the last 20% of the groupings as I reached my limits.
If you run out of patience and want to cheat, "View Page Source" has all of the 45 group arrays listed in plain text
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