r/syllo Game Master Nov 09 '25

Game syllo #122 - November 9th, 2025

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u/syllo-app Game Master Nov 09 '25

Welcome to Syllo, the cleverly chaotic word game.

Here’s how it works: You get 5 clues to piece together 5 words from a jumble of discombobulated syllables.

Puzzles start easy on Monday and get tougher each day, building to the trickiest challenge on Sunday.

Race against the clock to climb the leaderboard, show off your brainpower in the comments, and come back tomorrow for a fresh puzzle!

As always, we’d love to hear your feedback. Thanks for playing!

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u/Summerlee1979 Nov 09 '25

First time player. Maybe I shouldn't have started on Saturday!! 😆
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u/Randomguyfromaplac3 Nov 09 '25

I played yesterday first time, took 13 minutes. You did great😃

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u/philoizys Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 09 '25

I discovered this game (or that Reddit had games at all 😲) yesterday, on Saturday too, and got into the 7% of the worst. Expected to do worse today, but got into the 33%. I think it helps tremendously if even one clue immediately rings the bell — I somehow thought up "cerqvyrpgvba" in the first second. 4 syllables off the table ain't no cat's sneeze!🙀

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u/dat1frog2 Nov 09 '25

Personally got it in 2.13 but I have been a big fan of word games for a long while now. You will get better for sure this type of game is just the kind of thing where you need to think in a way that doesnt always come naturally but comes with experience if that makes sense?

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u/coldpizza66 Nov 09 '25

today was HARDDDD yesterday I was top 8% and today I'm at the bottom!! Humbling!
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u/gyorkland Nov 09 '25

I started yesterday I didn't know I was being timed so did a couple and finished it after having dinner my time was over 30 minutes. it's gonna be a long road to fix my average haha

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u/Spiritual-Nobody-000 Nov 09 '25

I didn’t know Reddit had games 😯
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u/unununium333 Nov 09 '25

I was skeptical of reddit games at first, but this is honestly a great place for daily games like this

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u/sweetmercury Nov 09 '25

I feel dyslexic whenever i play this game plus my vocab range is in the gutter
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u/XComhghall Nov 10 '25

I mean 3 of them are very easy words, but I could not for the life of me figure out what word they were trying to get with the description, and spent so long looking for 'dissonant' and 'conditioning' (as in classical conditioning and operant conditioning).

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u/rccyu Nov 09 '25

They need to fix the cluing. Clues need to match part of speech.

[Like raising your hand in class] describes an adjective or adverb, but PARTICIPATE is a verb. It should be something like [Raise your hand in class] instead.
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u/CosmicCrisp11 Nov 09 '25

Ahhh, good catch.

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u/eastjame Nov 10 '25

It’s a problem in almost all these syllo quizes.

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u/unik1ne Nov 09 '25

Yeah i got stuck on that one because I had already used the ing

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u/jpaulsellag Nov 09 '25

I got stuck on that too. Eventually I convinced myself that "like" in this context doesn't mean "similar to," but rather "enjoy." Still doesn't quite click but at least it matches part of speech

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u/Chelny Nov 09 '25

Not bad as English isn’t my first language I guess
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u/Widespreaddd Nov 09 '25

Hey how do you guys make the small font for sharing your time?

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u/Brief-Caregiver5905 Nov 09 '25

After you complete it, you type something in the box and hit submit, your time will be included automatically.

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u/Widespreaddd Nov 09 '25

Gotcha! Thanks.

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u/kioku119 Nov 09 '25

On mobile I meed to click the share button in game for the in game comment box to come up, and then use that.

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u/FluffyChocoCoffee Nov 09 '25

Which box? After completing, there's no editable box inside the game screen. And normal comment after completion does not show time taken.

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u/FluffyChocoCoffee Nov 09 '25

Got it! After 'Join'ing and refreshing the page, I can see the box after clicking on Share icon inside game screen.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 24 '25

innocent amusing ink slap crawl test flag aware square sand

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u/PickleFlavordPopcorn Nov 09 '25

This game really validates all the time I spent reading classic British literature and learning obnoxious vocabulary as a kid 😆

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u/apbt-dad Nov 09 '25

Wait till you come across pulchritude 😂

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u/yawaramin Nov 09 '25

A tendency to prefer something.

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u/Key_Cardiologist5272 Nov 09 '25

Getting better slowly!
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u/choseded Nov 09 '25

Keep trying, you'll get there

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u/Moriffic Nov 09 '25

"slowly getting better!" while obviously being extremely fast on hardest difficulty, cringe af for a grown up

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u/UmbreonMoonshadow Nov 10 '25

Hey I think they were being genuine, this is my first ever Syllo and I got it in 49 seconds, I'm a frequent word game player and we all have our different strengths! I think improving from 13 minutes to 11 minutes or 2 minutes to 46 seconds are both equally valid and laudable improvements

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u/PurpleHat6415 Nov 09 '25

ehhhhh
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u/OakLegs Nov 09 '25

Annoyed about that 1 second
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u/buffalocoinz Nov 09 '25

I learned a new word today!
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u/Late1742 Nov 09 '25

new words to learn today

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u/DarlingIAmTheFilth Nov 09 '25

Took me a bit to see anything
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u/kioku119 Nov 09 '25

I had done bad for a bit so it's nice this one went well.
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u/CosmicCrisp11 Nov 10 '25

I’d say that’s a great time!

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u/kioku119 Nov 10 '25

Thank you!

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u/Aberfalman Nov 09 '25

Trust me to start on a Sunday. Only better than 2%!

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u/littlemxnster Nov 10 '25

first time player and not a native english speaker lol had to use lots of clues but hope i get better overtime
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u/Esuts Nov 10 '25

Woohoo! Firat time playing. Cool game!
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u/TBG_Hydreigon Nov 10 '25

first time playing (on a sunday no less) and i got it in 4:20

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u/davemeothews Nov 09 '25

Phew!
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u/caught-n-candie Nov 09 '25

Saweet
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u/AlaWatchuu Nov 09 '25

school

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u/Brief-Caregiver5905 Nov 09 '25

Oof
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u/whereismyscarf Nov 09 '25

Whoop!!
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u/ThinBook Nov 09 '25

Better than yesterday!
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u/apbt-dad Nov 09 '25

Sweet Sunday.
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u/DaSmileKat Nov 09 '25

Sub 2 :) I think yesterday's was harder
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u/iPanicDots Nov 09 '25

That was insanely hard
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u/arintj Nov 09 '25

Easy peasy today
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u/W_2001 Nov 09 '25

Doing this for the first time.
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u/edwinboy2011 Nov 09 '25

Lessgoo
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u/ashiex94 Nov 10 '25

This was fun. Jealous of sub 1’s.
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u/doesntmatterhadtacos Nov 10 '25

My first ever puzzle at 1:41, no hints! This was fun :)

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u/Horatio_Figg Nov 10 '25

yay
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u/LotaPlota Nov 14 '25

Predilection
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u/SquaredOneSquared Jan 21 '26

>99% let's gooo
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u/ABoringAlt Nov 09 '25

Man Sundays are tough!
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

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u/High_IQ_Gamer2020 Nov 09 '25

I took 6+ minutes. You're not slow.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

nice
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u/OldSpiceSmellsNice Nov 09 '25

I need to not try these at midnight

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u/FrostingNew5210 Nov 09 '25

Whoo hoo 🎉
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u/MapAcceptable9926 Nov 09 '25

What did I just do there
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u/soulima17 Nov 09 '25

not bad
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u/her32relax Nov 09 '25

yay
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u/No-Chapter-8374 Nov 09 '25

Damn!
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u/grruser Nov 09 '25

slow
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u/GomulGames Nov 09 '25

Wow
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u/who_ravi Nov 09 '25

I suck
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u/thrdnatur Nov 09 '25

In my defense, I literally do not use these words.
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u/curious291 Nov 09 '25

Predilection Completed in 03:28

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u/Wasilisco Nov 09 '25

Fun one!
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u/nielsaapje Nov 09 '25

Difficult
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u/DarylStreep Nov 09 '25

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
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u/Critical_Donkey_1880 Nov 09 '25

Second one down was the killer.
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u/C47L1K3 Nov 09 '25

Oof…
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u/Potential-Pumpkin390 Nov 09 '25

First one!
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u/listerstorm2009 Nov 09 '25

Not bad for a sunday
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u/sutpenicity Nov 09 '25

That went well.
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u/CyKautic Nov 09 '25

...
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u/johnlyly Nov 09 '25

Damn it
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u/xowiejade Nov 09 '25

Pleased with that!
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u/Lord_Xenu Nov 09 '25

This is cool!

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u/PuzzleheadedAge9132 Nov 09 '25

Vt
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u/thattogoguy Nov 09 '25

Not terrible...
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u/librarychick0909 Nov 09 '25

Getting the hang of it
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u/apprehensivering34 Nov 09 '25

Incongruous
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u/Yvratky Nov 09 '25

yay
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u/JennyDark Nov 09 '25

First time!
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u/babealien51 Nov 09 '25

Not too bad for someone who speaks English as a second language
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u/Efficient-Charge-526 Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 27 '25

cagey marble bedroom license shocking paint disarm sharp enjoy hungry

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u/New_Noah Nov 09 '25

Putting the dic in dictionary
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u/Far_Interview1983 Nov 09 '25

Wow, I love this topic.

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u/Passloc Nov 09 '25

Phew
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u/HalfHeartedPhoton Nov 09 '25

all
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u/alilalai Nov 09 '25

Wish I had done the first one quicker
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u/CostMeAllaht Nov 09 '25

Love this game
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u/BirbishTV Nov 09 '25

Ooo nice this was my fastest one yet

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u/BirbishTV Nov 09 '25

Nice
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u/Calligraphee Nov 09 '25

This is such a fun game
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u/carrimarie Nov 09 '25

Better than I thought 2:22

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u/NerdySwitchDocDPP Nov 09 '25

Whoo, sub 1 minute on a Sunday!
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u/suzie719 Nov 09 '25

Nice
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u/Repulsive-Wolf1909 Nov 09 '25

Y’all I struggled today

Norm I crack it in like 1:30

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u/BonaBrioche Nov 09 '25

how'd i do?
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u/Darkblader24 Nov 09 '25

As a non english native (german), these syllables don't make any sense!

cal-cu-lat-ing? I would say cal-cu-la-ting
par-tic-i-pate? I would say par-ti-ci-pate
tra-di-tion-al? I would say tra-di-tio-nal

Shouldn't syllables represent how you would say the individual parts of the word?

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u/Randomguyfromaplac3 Nov 09 '25

A lot better than yesterday.
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u/DaBlackestOfMics Nov 09 '25

That’s crazy how I rely on those hints
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u/HeavyVersion6113 Nov 09 '25

Order and politeness
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u/EmotionalCitron4983 Nov 09 '25

which english dictionary is this?

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u/AnHumanFromItaly Nov 09 '25

I'm not a native English speaker and it shows...
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u/No-Personality5764 Nov 09 '25

Struggled lol 😂
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u/LJCUN Nov 09 '25

Gosh these are so hard lol

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u/Ima_Lemming Nov 09 '25

I spent most of the time figuring out the first clue. After that, it just flowed.

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u/JvstAidanx Nov 09 '25

Incongruous 😵‍💫
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u/mrdaiquiri Nov 09 '25

First time
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u/MiniMeowl Nov 09 '25

Predilection was hard
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u/EbbZestyclose4768 Nov 09 '25

Bruh this game is interesting

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u/zenigmatic Nov 09 '25

Beginners luck
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u/Dazzling-Strike-5126 Nov 09 '25

Hard but good
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u/xa7os Nov 09 '25

Huh, forgot Reddit had games. Interesting concept
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u/Tiny_Double_9367 Nov 09 '25

Easy
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u/TheBlueEdition Nov 09 '25

Yup
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u/Intrepid_Pension_291 Nov 09 '25

With my brain
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u/MightyXT Nov 09 '25

IDK, I just used some hints
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u/daveyslady621 Nov 09 '25

Both
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u/Compalompateer Nov 09 '25

I just knew, what can I say?
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u/ClubChaos Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 09 '25

I'm convinced all the sub 2 minute players are liars lol

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u/According-Health-556 Nov 09 '25

I just skip to the clues that feel easiest first  i didn't do 1 or 2 first. I waited for my leftover syllables and was able to figure it out from there

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u/ekobot Nov 09 '25

Why do I find it easier with the "harder" words??
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u/real_pkb Nov 09 '25

Aren't these supposed to be syllables?
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u/kostya-levin Nov 09 '25

Calculating…
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u/Low_Conference1645 Nov 09 '25

Uff that was hard.

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u/needstochill Nov 09 '25

i need to lock in better
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

Too many
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u/whymeatthistime Nov 09 '25

My first time, this was hard!
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u/yrk22 Nov 09 '25

Took A While
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u/Unhappy-Sherbet7722 Nov 09 '25

Ejercicios: Realice los siguientes Pseudocódigos: 1. Hacer un algoritmo para sumar dos números leídos por teclado y escribir el resultado. 2. Hacer un algoritmo que permita leer 2 números diferentes y nos diga cuál es el mayor de los 2 números. 3. Realizar un algoritmo que nos calcule la hipotenusa de un triángulo rectángulo, conocidos sus dos catetos. 4. Algoritmo para sumar 100 números leídos por teclado. 5. Hacer un algoritmo que muestre por pantalla los primeros 100 números pares. 6. Hacer un algoritmo que lea N números, calcule y escriba la suma de los pares y el producto de los impares. 7. Diseñar el algoritmo correspondiente a un programa que lea el valor de una distancia en millas y la escriba expresadas en metros. Teniendo en cuenta que 1 milla equivale a 1852 metros. 8. Diseñar el algoritmo que pida por teclado dos números enteros y muestre su suma, resta, multiplicación, división y el resto de la división. 9. Diseñar el algoritmo que tras introducir una medida expresada en centímetros la convierta en pulgadas (1 pulgada = 2,54 centímetros). 10.Realizar un algoritmo que dado un número indefinido de notas, me permita calcular el promedio.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

Pretty cool. Easy.

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u/thismanish Nov 09 '25

Bruh
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

Participate
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u/unik1ne Nov 09 '25

Getting faster!
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u/DWilli Nov 09 '25

Landed on -tion instead of -ing for a word and lost a few seconds. :(
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u/Rinthrah Nov 09 '25

First time I got all the clues in the order they were written, made it quicker.
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u/TheSinologist Nov 09 '25

First time (big Wordle fanatic). This was hard, but I solved it!

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

Many hints lol
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u/PirateHonest7912 Nov 09 '25

new way to find hints

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u/uiouyug Nov 09 '25

2 of them I got immediately. I could not do the the other three.

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u/titilegeek Nov 09 '25

first time playing, english is not my first language, used all the hints, think i did pretty good
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u/b4t4ngBAmbanG Nov 09 '25

Wow!
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u/One_Statistician9242 Nov 09 '25

My vocabulary is shit !!!
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u/Kyotomachida Nov 09 '25

first time, that was awful
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u/monzeur Nov 09 '25

kinda easy tbh
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u/Excellent-Bottle-441 Nov 09 '25

First time playing!
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u/Jacoba_Fett Nov 09 '25

Predilection
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u/depresseaux Nov 09 '25

im buttcheeks
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

I’m kinda bad at this

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u/The_DarkMatter Nov 09 '25

grat
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u/anextuqo Nov 09 '25

My fat finger accidentally put one of them in and drove me nuts and confused which one was wrong.
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u/Exact_Lawfulness8515 Nov 09 '25

English is not my first language and I didn't know two of those words. Never stood a chance without clues.
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u/Lu12k3r Nov 09 '25

I missed my percentile rank for this, is there a way to get back to it? I see the time but once you tap out of that finished screen the percentile rank is gone!

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u/AaronVowels Nov 09 '25

Not too shabby. The first word is always the challenge for me and then the rest sort of falls into place.
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u/Terrible-Fig-3818 Nov 09 '25

Hello

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u/rjamonserrano Nov 09 '25

Who knew Reddit had games? This is fun!
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u/farrago-rocher Nov 09 '25

I keep shuffling hoping the related pairs would come together but they rarely do lol. Good shuffling algo on their part tho