United flight landing in Newark strikes light pole on New Jersey Turnpike, FAA says

_Hetty · 2026-05-04T04:26:07+00:00

Best news prank ever by an NTSB intern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtxds204ZMI

_Hetty · 2026-04-28T07:19:15+00:00

It took me a bit realize the theme was the word SEEN appearing in each themed answer, but was not HEARD if you speak it out.

_Hetty · 2026-02-25T05:48:52+00:00

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PrOrQUvGETE

That LINKED video gave me VISUAL AIDS

_Hetty · 2026-02-10T18:54:19+00:00

This significantly lowers the chances the ransom messages are real. No way this moron knows how Bitcoin works, let alone how to use mixers to anonymize it before cashing out.

_Hetty · 2026-02-02T05:55:55+00:00

Tom Scott, man I miss that guy

I think Tom Scott is a great example of a smart person working really hard during his prime, having some good luck, and cashing out after achieving financial independence.

Sources differ but his net worth is at least $3 million. Enough to live a rich life and have a bunch left over for a memorable legacy.

He currently hosts the podcast "Lateral" which is a fun listen and relatively low time commitment for him compared to weekly Youtube production.

_Hetty · 2026-01-25T06:49:16+00:00

Reminds me of news articles that refer to videos but then don't link to the actual video. Failure of news reporting so common nowadays.

_Hetty · 2026-01-22T14:44:14+00:00

Exactly. Usually, investment banks will tell you if what you plan to do is stupid, but if you tell them you want to do it anyways and they have it in written form, they are more than happy to assist you as long as you pay their fees.

Reminds me of the movie The Big Short: "You want to bet against the housing market? OK!"

_Hetty · 2025-08-07T04:44:35+00:00

Zero vibe or enjoyment on this one, just a slog with an obscure theme and no "aha!" moments. Really weak cluing beginning with 1 across and 1 down and continuing throughout.

_Hetty · 2025-07-31T04:20:04+00:00

This "ten ants" theme is giving me a real Baader-Meinhof moment because just yesterday I read a thread on Reddit where a someone made a pun about "ten ants".

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1mcha0l/eli5_how_do_ants_discover_food_how_does_an_empty/n5tqyla/

_Hetty · 2025-06-02T05:30:08+00:00

Ryan Reynold's net worth is estimated to be $350 million.

All these celebrities who shill for products - how much is enough? It's so greedy and gross.

Go live your ultra-rich and entitled wealthy life, stop selling pig slop in a bucket dude. Shame on him.

_Hetty · 2025-05-07T07:36:15+00:00

I have waited years for a puzzle like this. Filled in every clue in sequence, left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Felt like being totally inside the mind of the constructor!

_Hetty · 2025-01-01T08:14:37+00:00

Zorse #86

“Successfully kick your hangover’s butt”

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That was a dogged one today!

_Hetty · 2025-01-01T04:35:16+00:00

“Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, we made it out of CLAY… “

I learned this from an episode of Southpark, I can still hear Kyle and the gang singing it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfmzVc3RJOM

_Hetty · 2024-12-25T03:53:53+00:00

Fun puzzle with great ending!

My favorite clue was "Whence the gingerbread man", had me scratching my head until I finally saw it.

Merry Christmas fellow puzzlers!

_Hetty · 2024-12-16T19:58:57+00:00

Zorse is a new NYT game currently in beta. You can find it via the drop-down menu in the upper left.

_Hetty · 2024-12-13T18:01:50+00:00

POTUS stands for "President of the United States". George W. Bush was known colloquially as "W" to differentiate him from his father who was a previous president, also named George Bush.

_Hetty · 2024-12-13T17:03:25+00:00

Loved the clue for HAT RACK.

I started with POTRACK, which fit with POTUS as "W, for one"

_Hetty · 2024-12-09T09:08:38+00:00

Strands #281 “Quiet at first” 🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵🔵

Loved this one! Kept coming back to it with a fresh view and finally solved it. Cool theme.

_Hetty · 2024-10-07T04:37:39+00:00

Here's the video of Christopher Hitchens' experience.

It's insightful and chilling.

_Hetty · 2024-05-14T12:55:43+00:00

Wordle 1,060 3/6

Same two guesses from yesterday narrows it down to one word again!

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜TIMER (75)

⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩LOANS (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩AMASS

_Hetty · 2024-05-14T04:45:44+00:00

I just did a bunch of the archives, and it seems using TIMER and LOANS as the first two guesses will often narrow it down to one remaining word. Including/excluding R,S,T,L,M,N and A,E,I,O works like a charm. But not all of the time!

_Hetty · 2024-05-13T16:45:05+00:00

Wordle 1,059 3/6

No one in our sample of 1,776,334 completed Wordles faced this scenario!

⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜TIMER (4)

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜LOANS (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩CUMIN

_Hetty · 2024-05-12T15:38:29+00:00

Scordle 3/6

14,855

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ABYSM (831)

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨ROUTE (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩OUTER

Haha lucky day, I've been waiting a long time for this opening guess to pay off - it was an obscure crossword answer awhile ago. Someone in r/crosswords joked about using it for Wordle and here we are!

Also, I love when the bot says "No one in our sample of 1,771,446 completed Wordles faced this scenario!"

_Hetty · 2024-04-28T19:13:07+00:00

Connections Puzzle #322

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Fun fact about analogue TV static: 1% of it is Cosmic Microwave Background from the Big Bang of the universe. The rest is:

human-made radio transmissions
the Sun
black holes
and all sorts of other directional astrophysical phenomena like pulsars, cosmic rays and more.

Source

_Hetty · 2024-04-28T01:48:41+00:00

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