Microdefinitions

Spoiler follows.

Answer: bro, for “brood”, “broad”, “brook”, “brooding”, etc.  

But that’s not this week’s challenge.   If you’re the first to tell me the bro- word that means “of enormous physical size”, without cheating, and if you spell it correctly — again, without cheating — you get a prize.   No cheating, bro.

Threepeat threedux

I’ve written about Threepeat twice already, so let’s make it thrice.   This week, I’m testing a variant of Threepeat inspired directly by the exercise above.  You still have to guess the first few letters, but the remaining letters are blotted out as well, and the “microdefinitions” of the words are shown instead.   For example, here’s July 1’s opening question:

The answer here is di — for disable, divide, and digit.    

In this variant, Threepeat tests your knowledge of word meanings, not just your vocabulary.   How do you stack up against others?  Try today’s Threepeat to find out — as usual, you’ll get a percentile score at the end based on your time.

Word games from around the Web

Crumple:   I find most games that use AI-generated imagery to be gimmicky, but here’s one that makes good use of the technology.   You solve a small crossword without any written clues.  Instead, positioned at each “checked” square — where an across word meets a down word — is an image that combines elements of both answers.  Consider this excerpt from yesterday’s puzzle (left) and the solution (right):

The top left image shows skaters on a slope, while the first image in the fourth row depicts a cup of tea on top of a skateboard.  The missing word in that column is thus skate, the concept the two images have in common. The fourth column is a slope with apples, and so the crossing word is slope.  And so on. The images and the implementation are as crisp as Honeycrisp apples and just as fun to devour.

OK, that’s all for this week!  Enjoy the long weekend, if you have a long weekend, or the normal one if you don’t.  

With five words of gratitude,

Doug @ OneLook