Phrazy

Right, but picking an E when I'm sure one of the words is "the" could fill in part of another word while at the same time ensure you won't get a "miss".

But that gets to some type of scoring system. Is it better to get the right phrase with no misses? Or in the shortest amount of time? Or with fewest letters guessed?

Well, the ranking is just strictly number of guesses (hit or miss) with time as a tie breaker.

Jeff said:

I'm pretty embarrassed with yesterday's showing:

Phrazy.net 5/2
"THERE ONCE WAS A MAN FROM NANTUCKET"
❓10 ⏱️01:04 Rank: 54/91, top 59.3%

I was #1 on that one. Not sure what that says about me.

You're well-versed in Nantucket politics, perhaps.

Today's is probably too obvious.

Today’s totally confused me. Still don’t understand it. Don’t want to see my rank tomorrow.

Enjoying the game. I like that speed is a factor and it plays smoothly once I figured out that if you hit “cancel solve” you have to hit solve again and not just start typing in the answer.

I love today's. Some people will get it right away, others won't at all. It's fun to experiment with cultural things (movie quotes, song lyrics, etc.) because it's like trivia where the answers are familiar to some, and not to others.

Yeah, I totally blew today's and when I Googled it, I can see that it was something that was out of my cultural wheelhouse. Fun game and I don't even like Wordle.

Sucked me in. I played it, solved it (agonizingly slow), and still have no idea what the reference is. Hip hop perhaps?

Wow, I thought that song was pretty huge when it was out, and I don't really listen to the genre (nor the artist). That said, I still bombed because I didn't know the actual words.

I absolutely knew the phrase once I saw it, but I expected punctuation (teacher) so I was thrown off for a little.

SPOILER: https://xkcd.com/153/

I was 24th yesterday. My wife was 2nd. Clearly we have different tastes in music.

I was 59/88, which was better than I expected. After looking it up I heard of the artist but nothing about the song sounded familiar to me at all. If I had heard it before I don’t remember it.

I used 20 of 26 letters, and took over 2 minutes to solve. I still ranked 60 / 88.

Clearly there are bigger boomers than myself out there......

I used 19 letters (everything was complete except for one last letter and I still struggled with it -- was basically guessing 10 random words from my perspective). 52nd of 88.

Andy's spoiler link would just have reduced the number of random words to guess.

Being very familiar with the phrase, I ended up 8th, using 9 guesses.

Expect there are generational differences. There are phrases that would be solved very quickly for say people over 50 that may leave people under 25 scratching their heads looking at what appear to be random, unrelated words.

Petition to make the next phrase (and I mean this in the most tongue-in-cheek joking manner I possibly can) "OK, Boomer"

Now today's was a little more Boomer-centric. 4 guesses, 30 seconds, done.

I just wish I had done it first thing in the morning.