Why I Am Fine With Weaver

Introduction

My friend Dharrsheena introduced me to Weaver. It is a word ladder game, Weaver, takes the original format of an age-old puzzle, and brings it into the 21st century. Thought up on Christmas day in 1877 by novelist Lewis Carroll to keep his children, Julia and Ethel Arnold, entertained, he called his game 'word-links'.

Although not directly related to this my favourite hotel in the world, La Rosa, used to be somewhere Lewis Carroll stayed and they have a room dedicated to him looking out on Whitby Abbey, and I have stayed in there once, though normally I go for Stoker Read about it below and if you follow through to the site you can see what the Lewis room looks like.

Before I was introduced to this I was playing Wordle and wrote the Vocal Top Story below about it. I know there are a lot of word games like this but these are the two that I play on a daily basis.

So Playing Weaver

The benefits of both Weaver and Wordle are that there is only one new puzzle to solve each day so you are not going to get caught in binging and eventually getting bored with the games. While there are sites that allow you to play multiple games I do like these limitations because once you are done that’s it for twenty-four hours.

Wordle puts pressure on you because you only have six guesses to guess a five-letter word and mostly this is fine but sometimes you have four letters right and ten options for the last letter and two guesses left, which is very frustrating. I have got one on the first try and a few on the second try but let's face it that is pure luck.

Weaver is different in that it gives you a recommended number of tries when you are finished, but allows you to take as many guesses as you need and also allows you to backtrack on your guesses if you are going down the wrong path.

I know Dharrsheena tries to get as few moves as possibly continually wiping her guesses and restarting but my modus operandi is to keep going and eventually reach my desired destination. As yet I have not failed but when you have unlimited chances to guess my only brick walls are my intelligence, word knowledge and time.

One of the things to remember is that often words you do not think exist or will count are actually valid in the Weaver dictionary. One of the recent ones was “Sith” which I thought was just a made-up Star Wars word.

The thing is it does make you think, normally takes me between two and ten minutes and sometimes I need to go away and come back again in order to solve it, but it really is a very low-pressure intelligent word game. You are not actually playing against anyone but Dharrsheena and I swap scores but we are not competing but congratulate each other when we hit the designated target.

A Weaver Conclusion

While I cannot deal with too many things on the go at once, Weaver is a welcome distraction that does stretch my mind a little (sometimes a lot). If you have not tried Weaver I would suggest you give it a spin. It won’t take up to much of your time and if you don’t like it you can consign it to your dustbin, but it is part of my daily routine now.

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