What strategies do you employ for remembering words/finding answers?

Depending on the letters, i'll use a lot of different strategies:

- try to attatch/combine shorter words with prefixes and suffixes, especially latin/greek

- combine whole words with each other

- rearrange letters in previous answers

- try to put together a string of letters that sound like they could be a word (this is a desperate move)

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🐦 angryboyd

Mar 02 · 3 months ago

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📷 sjlxndr · Mar 02 at 04:16:

most of my strategy is just knowing a crap ton of words, but also the things you mentioned especially with Greek/Latin. on the other hand, yesterday's puzzle had "ASSHAT" and I didn't catch that... never even occurred to me to try it even tho it's a word legitimately in my working vocabulary

🐐 drh3xx · Mar 02 at 14:08:

Think you've covered most of my strategy.

🚀 stack [mod] · Mar 02 at 21:38:

My personal strategy was to write a gemini version of this game, and edit several dictionaries together word by word, until a playable dictonary emerged, with maybe 35000 words, after a year or so... It's not for everyone.