What’s wrong with mince?
I don’t see anyone groaning about it, I just thought it was unlikely to be common enough to pop up as an answer (and recall - it was not the answer that day). That said, considering some of the other choices, I’ve reconsidered that position. What is sufficiently “common” to make the word list is definitely hard to suss out if “rebus” makes the cut.
Mince isn’t common in American English, but I would think most adults would know of it. The “rarest” word all week is likely today’s which I’m pretty sure the only reference I’m aware of it being used casually is via the ‘grassy knoll’ - ala JFK, which I would still think most adults over 30 have at least heard, but probably rarer and rarer as the generations go.
Yeah, I was definitely surprised by today’s. I share @newbrof’s interest in Ms. Shah’s background and vocabulary.
My thought on Mince was the proliferation of cooking shows over the last two or more decades. I get that say, a mince pie is more or less unknown, but the verb Mince I would have thought would be pretty darned common.
Yup. All I had were the N and the O, but so many letters ruled out. I was struggling!
I thought about it but talked myself out of it. :)
I tried gnoll on my third guess, and somehow I got confused and thought that was the correct spelling of the actual solution knoll so I didn’t try the solution until guess five when process of elimination made me reconsider. Felt really dumb!
I briefly tried gnoll too, but i also got some help from Marvel as I knew Knull wouldn’t work, but that led me to the actual word.
This one taught me something about the Wordless rules. Tough one.
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back on track
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Weirdly hard for such a common word, although I’d never quite appreciated how unusually constructed “sugar” really is. There are not a lot of five letter words out there that end in “ar.”
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ratio, guard, auger, sugar. Bummer that my third guess wasn’t right, would have been nice (having used that word many times in my Thesis…)
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Rather around the houses with these guesses and took me a while to figure out where to put the G and R in the end.
Bit of a waste with the R in purge, but wanted to test E. Had a suspicion the word might have been Queer but didn’t want to risk a double letter at that point
Symmetrical!
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Thane adios palsy sugar
Just managed to eek it out.
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Lucked out with locking in letters that led to obvious choices for the rest of them.
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This one was fairly simple for me today.
DREAM/RIGHT gave me the A and G but also gave me the R, because it was yellow in the first and second position. With GAR it was just a matter of thinking through the rest of the letters. Turns out there aren’t many 5 letter words ending in GAR.
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Hah! I should have seen that one much earlier than I did. Actually help make that for a living!
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