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Alphaguess #9, Hang Five #3 and Pips!

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SpecialSpaghettini · 04/10/2025 17:09

Just a few games to give your brain a daily workout.
Please feel free to share your results and cookies! 🍪

https://alphaguess.com

alphaguess: a word game

Guess the word of the day. Guesses reveal where the word is positioned alphabetically. Everyone plays the same word each day.

https://alphaguess.com

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OrsolaRosso · 06/10/2025 17:37

Pips #49 Easy 🟢
0:40
Pips #49 Medium 🟡
1:21
Pips #49 Hard 🔴
9:23

🧩 Puzzle #804
🤔 13 guesses
⏱️ 1m 38s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Hang Five 792
❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 ✅
100%

PickAChew · 06/10/2025 17:52

🧩 Puzzle #804

🤔 9 guesses

⏱️ 52s

🔗 alphaguess.com

Cavalierorwhat · 06/10/2025 23:15

Pips #49 Easy 🟢 0:36
Pips #49 Medium 🟡 3:49
Pips #49 Hard 🔴 3:30

Woundupatwork · 07/10/2025 07:17

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 17 guesses
⏱️ 1m 34s
🔗 alphaguess.com

WingBingo · 07/10/2025 07:36

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 6 guesses
⏱️ 25s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Hang Five 793
❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 ✅
100%

ApolloandDaphne · 07/10/2025 07:52

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 10 guesses
⏱️ 48s
🔗 alphaguess.com

BasilParsley · 07/10/2025 07:54

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 11 guesses
⏱️ 26s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Hang Five 793
❤️❤️💙💙💙 ✅
100%
Made a right cod's head of that ... twice I failed to spot I still needed a consonant!

Pips #50 Easy 🟢 2:03
Pips #50 Medium 🟡 2:18
Pips #50 Hard 🔴 10:03

Found Pips tough today

PickAChew · 07/10/2025 08:27

🧩 Puzzle #805

🤔 14 guesses

⏱️ 2m 13s

🔗 alphaguess.com

Yiayoula · 07/10/2025 09:03

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 18 guesses
⏱️ 2m 37s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Kudos to @WingBingo @ApolloandDaphne and @BasilParsley .

Hang Five 793
❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 ✅
100%

Worgle 1365 5/6

🟡⚫⚫⚫🟢⚫
⚫🟢⚫⚫🟢🟢
🟡🟢⚫⚫🟢🟢
⚫🟢⚫🟢🟢🟢
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢

TotallyAddictedToCoffee · 07/10/2025 09:15

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 10 guesses
⏱️ 43s
🔗 alphaguess.com

SpecialSpaghettini · 07/10/2025 12:31

Wow! Well done all - you have had a good morning! 🤩✨️

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 8 guesses
⏱️ 35s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Hang Five 793
❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤 ✅
100%

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Auburngal · 07/10/2025 13:02

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 16 guesses
⏱️ 1m 37s
🔗 alphaguess.com

SpecialSpaghettini · 07/10/2025 13:26

Oh deary deary me! 🙈

Pips #50 Hard 🔴
3:08
Pips #50 Medium 🟡
8:02
Pips #50 Easy 🟢
1:04

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FawnDrench · 07/10/2025 15:10

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 21 guesses
⏱️ 1m 56s
🔗 alphaguess.com

DarkRootsBlue · 07/10/2025 15:44

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 11 guesses
⏱️ 31s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Lemonsugarpancake · 07/10/2025 18:54

Pips #50 Hard 🔴
1:06
Pips #50 Medium 🟡
5:38
Pips #50 Easy 🟢
0:26

Not sure what happened with medium!

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 13 guesses
⏱️ 54s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Hang Five 793
❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤 ✅
100%

OrsolaRosso · 07/10/2025 20:08

Pips #50 Easy 🟢
0:34
Pips #50 Medium 🟡
1:00:59
Pips #50 Hard 🔴
6:06

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 12 guesses
⏱️ 2m 28s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Hang Five 793
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 ❌
21%

BistoBear · 07/10/2025 22:27

Hang Five 793
❤️🖤🖤🖤🖤 ✅
100%

Close call 😅😅

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 16 guesses
⏱️ 2m 24s
🔗 alphaguess.com

SpecialSpaghettini · 07/10/2025 22:43

@BistoBear ! Do you not fancy giving Pips a go?
Maybe skip today's one as it was a bit of a mind bender 😆

Well done to all the Pippers , I doff my hat to you all 👏🌟

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PickAChew · 07/10/2025 23:50

I've tried pips and can't get my head around it at all.

Cavalierorwhat · 08/10/2025 00:01

🧩 Puzzle #805
🤔 9 guesses
⏱️ 58s
🔗 alphaguess.com

Woundupatwork · 08/10/2025 06:33

🧩 Puzzle #806
🤔 13 guesses
⏱️ 50s
🔗 alphaguess.com

SpecialSpaghettini · 08/10/2025 06:38

Well done @Cavalierorwhat 👏 and @Woundupatwork 👏 you got it in half the time I did! 🤩

🧩 Puzzle #806

🤔 13 guesses

⏱️ 1m 48s

🔗 alphaguess.com

Hang Five 794
❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 ✅
100%

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SpecialSpaghettini · 08/10/2025 06:53

@PickAChew I honestly couldn't make head or tail out of it to begin with either.
I wonder if you thought the same as me.
I mistakenly thought of the game as the traditional dominoes game (don't ask me why - we've already established my brain works in mysterious ways!) where adjoining tiles had to have the same number of spots. Thinking this really threw me, but then I finally realised that is not how to play Pips, you just have to position the tile/s to satisfy that coloured region.
Hard to explain, but I think I have a screenshot of "the grid that was too tall" for my phone screen (I was moaning to my sister 🤭) which will illustrate better what I'm trying to explain.
It's from a few days ago so I'm not giving spoilers to today's Pippers!

Alphaguess #9, Hang Five #3 and Pips!
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SpecialSpaghettini · 08/10/2025 07:06

Starting from the pink square at the bottom, you can see it says >4 so you have to choose a tile which has to be a higher number than 4.
From the options available, there's
5 / 5
0 / 6
2 / 6
3 / 6

Depending on which you pick, your game moves on from there, just keep satisfying the coloured regions!
So you can see choosing the 5 / 5 tile would be a no goer as the adjoining purple region requires the two tiles within it to be of a equal number of spots (or Pips).

I hope that helps anyone who struggled to get to grips with the game.
Hopefully we will get more Pippers!

Off to sort out the rabble ready for school and I will have to come back to do today's Pips (while I work <ahem> )

Have a good day all!

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