An episode, which aired on Tuesday, saw a contestant mess up the lyrics to Eurythmics' 1980s hit "Sweet Dreams." Unfortunately, this isn't the only flub that's occurred on the popular game show in recent weeks. "The puzzle writers at Wheel of Fortune are beside themselves," said another individual while a fifth person added, "The people on Wheel of Fortune are dumb as f- I swear to God. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to content is not available due to your privacy preferences. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. A good first guess on Wordle, then, might start with s or c and include lots of vowels.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Initial letters occur in a different order: SCPDRBAMTF. According to Hangman enthusiast Nick Berry, however, you should really use a frequency table based on a dictionary, since Hangman is about individual words and Google Books favors letters in short common words such as the and to. These vary depending on what source you are using – a count of letter frequency in Google Books, for example, gives the top 10 as ETAOINSRHL. It pays to guess the most common letters first. Some of the same strategies work for all these spelling games. Understandably, teachers have renamed it Tulip, Snowman, or Parachute, drawing or erasing parts on the respective figures as letters are guessed. When someone picks a wrong letter, another body part is drawn on the stick person hanging on the gallows. In Hangman, one person chooses a word or phrase and the others try to guess it letter by letter. It’s a more sophisticated version of Hangman, the spelling game that is still a popular way to fill those last five minutes of an elementary school class, and which inspired “Wheel of Fortune,” the highest-rated show in syndicated television for 26 years, according to Rohan Ahluwalia at the Paley Center for Media. News articles speculate that the game is popular for several reasons: It’s simple and straightforward it gives you a new word only once a day everyone is working with the same word, so it’s fun to compare attempts and when you’re done you can easily tweet out your gray, yellow, and green grid sans letters, showing people how you did without spoiling the puzzle for them. The boxes turn gray when letters aren’t in the word, yellow if they’re there but in the wrong place, and green if they are in the word in the correct order. It has a “Wheel of Fortune”-like grid that reveals whether or not the word contains the letters you’ve guessed. The goal is to guess a five-letter word in six tries. A word game has been spreading across the Twitterverse: Wordle.
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