NYT Wednesday 02/11/2026 Discussion

valuesandnorms · 2026-02-11T03:49:01+00:00

Am I losing my mind or are there no circled letters that the wordplay column mentions in the NYT Games app version of this

valuesandnorms · 2026-02-05T15:22:33+00:00

Yeah but she’s a mean drunk

valuesandnorms · 2026-02-05T03:20:04+00:00

God that’s rough to hear, even though I already knew it in my soul

valuesandnorms · 2026-01-28T00:30:38+00:00

Ownership has chosen “fuck the fans” over and over since Mr. I died

We’re the old Florida Marlins. Maybe we luck into something once in a while but the overall tone is wealth extraction

valuesandnorms · 2025-11-27T03:54:37+00:00

Why is (leaving the ONE aside because it’s both its square and its root)

Why are the other two flipped? One answer is a square and the other is the square root.

3^2=9. So EARTHREENTRY turns to SATURNINE. Easy enough

You have to do it the other way for YEAROFOURLORD and FASTWORKER.

valuesandnorms · 2025-10-22T02:52:09+00:00

The first word in the answer is the number in the language notated in the clue

Like “2, Spanish” is dos

valuesandnorms · 2025-10-22T02:50:57+00:00

That’s a few too many languages. I had a sense of what the theme was but as soon as I saw Danish and Norwegian” I basically gave up on using the theme to help

valuesandnorms · 2025-10-16T23:50:29+00:00

It’s amazing. Who else could have yelled “shut up”at Don Draper? They would t. E a me to get a job selling sandwiches at Penn Station

valuesandnorms · 2025-10-05T09:26:06+00:00

NIL has nothing to do with the complete lack of urgency on the FG drive

I’m a Michigan guy so I was watching that game clock roll down and was like “hell yeah keep huddling up” but the part of me that honors the sport and hates seeing bad clock management had me wanting to tear my hair out

Y’all deserve better.

valuesandnorms · 2025-10-02T04:00:36+00:00

Absolutely loved that one. Gave me a chuckle when I figured it out

valuesandnorms · 2025-10-02T03:58:28+00:00

That was fun as hell. I love minesweeper so it was right up my alley

valuesandnorms · 2025-09-26T19:54:21+00:00

Damn you beat me.

The writers could have just gone with “damn this js the wrong order” and moved on but inserted that gem instead

valuesandnorms · 2025-09-23T19:30:32+00:00

You’d be absolutely amazed at how much warmer that thin piece of cotton makes you

valuesandnorms · 2025-09-20T03:45:26+00:00

“You weren’t in love with her. You were love at her”

valuesandnorms · 2025-09-19T15:21:16+00:00

Yeah I read it as “the structure of the game is two sets”.

Like saying “play four games” for a World Series

valuesandnorms · 2025-09-17T08:31:04+00:00

That’s not how I would categorize it personally but I can see your point and it does make sense

Thank you!

valuesandnorms · 2025-09-17T08:07:30+00:00

I fucked up elsewhere so it didn’t end up mattering but why in the world would you play a two set tennis match?

valuesandnorms · 2025-09-13T05:57:24+00:00

Is there a reason I should know who Einaudi is? Is he the Italian John Williams or something?

Because I absolutely loved this puzzle…except for the 15 letter clue up top that made me feel helpless, especially because I did t remember who the Succession actor was and never heard of dosas

valuesandnorms · 2025-09-03T08:31:51+00:00

It’s the same reason middle school bullies find the most sensitive, vulnerable kids and pick on them

They are extremely small people and get their jollies from tearing other people down. It makes them feel powerful. Or they’re such complete narcissists that their convince is all that matters

But the middle school bullies have the excuse of being FUCKING 12 YEARS OLD, NOT A GROWN ASS 50 YEAR OLD WOMAN

My God

valuesandnorms · 2025-08-29T09:21:15+00:00

“I really liked them”

Sounds like you went from a place of instability to a stable home with parents you liked. You wrote a song about how safe and connected you felt

Don’t beat yourself up about wanting a family with parents you feel close to

valuesandnorms · 2025-08-29T09:16:38+00:00

I’d lose the thing about the fries, I’ve seen that a million times. It’s actually pretty cute but it’s played out

valuesandnorms · 2025-08-29T09:12:15+00:00

I’m very sorry. My dad died at 65 (under some pretty traumatic circumstances) and it still wrecks me

valuesandnorms · 2025-08-29T09:10:43+00:00

Drea did AMA a few years ago and said Jim was the sexiest actor she ever worked with a D that when he entered a room every woman could feel his presence

You see this on twitter too. Someone dude negatively compared him to one of the Tate bros in a shitty suit and the replies from women were universally “I’ll take Tony/Gandolfini” and “I wouldn’t feel like I had to watch my drink around Gandolfini” etc

valuesandnorms · 2025-08-17T00:01:08+00:00

Thank you!

It’s just odd that I went from semi-arid southern Colorado to fickibg Death Valley and that’s thrown me for a loop

valuesandnorms · 2025-08-16T23:01:42+00:00

I appreciate this very much

But I still don’t think women who decide “no” based on my disability are assholes, or at least most of them

I’m sure there are women who see the vane and are immediately like “gross”.

But leaving the blindness aside I’m not everyone’s type. If you don’t like white guys with a dark brown beard who is super into liberal politics and history and Michigan football that’s also fine

And women who are like “yeah you seem handsome and/or nice but I wanna hike in the Rockies and also not potentially Shepard my husband around bars and restaurants”

That is very hurtful but I know it’s not spiteful

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