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bdr commented on Square Theory   aaronson.org/blog/square-... · Posted by u/aaaronson
kelseyfrog · 3 months ago
I'm a big fan of killing time on long drives with friendly word games. One of my favorites is a mix between rhyming and square theory. Here's how it works: one player picks two words that rhyme perfectly. Then, for each of those words, they choose a clue word, usually a synonym, but any kind of related word is fair game. They say those two clue words out loud, and the other players have to guess the original rhyming pair.

What makes it fun is trying to reverse-engineer the original rhyme from the clues. It's like solving a little logic puzzle. It's easy to come up with new puzzles, but cracking them can be surprisingly tricky. Still, the structure gives just enough to keep it solvable most of the time.

1. Somewhat described here https://bestlifeonline.com/jeopardy-rhyme-time-opera-version... It's actually quite difficult to find a description of the category many of us are already familiar with.

bdr · 3 months ago
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magicalhippo · 2 years ago
Speaking of, is there a good replacement for Meetup if you just want to organize some informal activities, like a user group or going biking?
bdr · 2 years ago
There are plenty of tools for organizing activities. Meetup’s real value, which no one has replaced yet for various reasons, is in getting new people to join.
bdr commented on HTML hacks that shaped the Internet   tedium.co/2023/11/24/weir... · Posted by u/thm
bdr · 2 years ago
One more to add from the early days: widespread use of  , the character entity for a non-breaking space.

They were used to move text to the right to the left within a container. Or (IIRC) in table cells to make them behave, similar to 1x1 spacer gifs. Some pages had hundreds of nsps. Just kind of a general way to add margin or padding.

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