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Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Wordle June 11: Clues, hints, and answers to the puzzle
Wordle June 11: Wordle, one of the most sought-after word games from The New York Times (NYT), has over the years emerged as the undisputed choice of several wordsmiths with its intriguing and challenging puzzles. It requires strong, innovative thinking and a tremendous amount of concentration. This makes it a unique affair. With that, here is a look at the hints and solution for Worldle June 11. Wordle hints for June 11, 2025 If you are having a hard time cracking today's word, here are some hints that may help you find the solution. The word in question has two vowels and contains no repetition of letters. It refers to a pattern of bands on a fabric. Moreover, the word begins with 'P'. Wordle answer for June 11, 2025 Today's word is Plaid. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, it means 'a fabric with a pattern of tartan' How to play Wordle Those trying to play the game/solve this puzzle need to guess a five-letter word in six attempts. After each one, the game offers some feedback using colours. Green means that the letter's in the right position and is correct. Yellow means the letter is right but the position is not. However, grey means that you are wrong on both counts.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Wordle June 10: Clues, hints, and answers to the puzzle
Wordle June 10: Wordle, the popular word game from The New York Times (NYT), continues to enthrall readers/players worldwide with its challenging puzzles. It requires a strong vocabulary and a high degree of concentration, making it a unique affair. With that here is a look at the hints and solution for Worldle June 10 Wordle Hints For June 10, 2025 The word in question begins with 'T'. It contains double letters, which makes the process of guessing it tougher. The word refers to a sweet item/candy. This means it is a proper noun. Additionally, it ends with 'y'. Wordle June 10, 2025: Answer Today's word is Taffy/ According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it means, 'a very sticky sweet made from molasses or sugar that is pulled tight until it is light in colour.' How to play Worldle Those to play the game/solve this puzzle are required to guess a five-letter word in six attempts. After each attempt, the system provides some feedback with colours. Green Means that the letter is in the right position and is correct. Yellow means the letter is right but in the wrong position. However grey means that you have gone totally wrong.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump's Tariffs Target Uninhabited Islands, Economic Dead Zones, and Individual Regions of France
If you've ever played the online game Worldle, where players guess a country based on its silhouette, you'll know the frustrating experience of failing to accurately identify the day's blob that turns out to be some insignificant island territory. Frustrated Worldle players (at least American ones) can now have their revenge on these random statelets, thanks to President Donald Trump's newly unveiled tariff regime. Included in the White House's "Liberation Day" list of countries to be hit with "reciprocal" tariffs are a host of uninhabited islands, economic dead zones, and administrative subregions with no independent trade policy of their own. Heard and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territory, will now pay a 10 percent tariff on any exported goods the penguins there manage to export to the U.S. So will the British Indian Ocean Territory—a U.K. overseas territory that (thanks to a mid-century ethnic cleansing) is depopulated but for military personnel and contractors at the island's British and American bases. The White House's list also includes the French overseas departments and regions of French Guiana, Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Mayotte—all of which are legally part of France proper, and therefore have their trade policy set by the European Union. How exactly uninhabited islands and administrative regions of France ended up on the White House's tariff list isn't exactly clear. All do have their own two-letter country code on the United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations (UN/LODE), which is used to facilitate trade and generate trade data. It's possible then that the White House just cut and pasted from this list to create its own tariff targets. To be sure, there are about 50 countries and territories on the UN/LODE list that don't appear on the Trump administration's tariff list. The White House's list is at least curated enough to exclude U.S. overseas territories, the Vatican, and Palestine—all of which have their own UN/LODE code. Reason has written prolifically on the economic illogic of Trump's tariffs. Social media is aflame with posts pointing out the administration's ludicrous formula for calculating the "reciprocal tariffs" it will charge other countries. Amazingly, the inclusion of uninhabited territories and administrative regions of larger countries and trade blocs fails to even match the administration's own protectionist logic. If the new tariffs are supposed to equalize bilateral trade balances between the U.S. and every other country, it makes little sense that the White House also levy tariffs on places that have no economic activity. It also doesn't make a lot of sense that it would tariff European overseas regions that don't set their own trade policy. If the White House is trying to create an equal balance of exports and imports with French Guiana, as opposed to France as a whole, why not also have Paris-specific tariffs? (E.U. law does allow for reduced taxes on locally produced products in its overseas regions, but Trump's tariffs don't reflect this. France's overseas departments get their own tariff rates, but Spain's Canary Islands, which has reduced taxes on locally produced goods but doesn't have its own UN/LODE code, don't.) The cut-first, paste-next, and ask-questions-later nature of these new tariffs is just more evidence of how Trump's global round of tariffs is not just impoverishing, but also silly and amateurish. The post Trump's Tariffs Target Uninhabited Islands, Economic Dead Zones, and Individual Regions of France appeared first on
Voice of America
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Voice of America
Teachers Use Games for More Enjoyable Learning
Wordle has become one of the most popular online games in the United States since it came out last October. Players get six chances to guess and learn a five-letter word for the day. Many are sharing their game results on social media, adding more interest in the game. Gamifying the classroom Creative teachers have long found games could make their classes more enjoyable for students. During the pandemic, many have looked for new ways or games to help their students learn. It is part of a learning theory called 'gamification' to keep students' interest. Beyond Wordle, here are other games that help learners with different subjects. Mathematics British data scientist Richard Mann of London was talking with his daughter about the popularity of Wordle. He thought there should be a game for people who like mathematics and developed Nerdle. It is a daily game in which a player has six tries to guess a math solution. Does it sound familiar? Math teachers note that a Nerdle player uses logic, a careful way of thinking about something, to solve a math problem. It is similar to how a Wordle player applies logic to guess a word. Geography Do not confuse Wordle with Worldle. There is an extra letter 'l' in Worldle. French video game developer Antoine Teuf said he invented Worldle in honor of that word game, Wordle. Players guess a country based on its shape. They get six tries to guess a country based on information about the country. Teuf first shared the game on January 22. He said there are two million visits a day to the game's page a month later. Other games, online services Teachers of English see word games as a way for students to learn new words. Other word games include Blooket and Flippity. Teachers create quizzes in Blooket similar to the kinds of games students play on mobile devices. They can look at results and see areas that students can improve. In Flippity, teachers can create flash cards, rewards, spelling quizzes, memory games and word searches from a simple Google spreadsheet. It is also a good tool for students to create their own projects. There are several online services that teachers could use to 'gamify' learning. They include Kahoot!, Quizlet, Quizziz and Nearpod. All of them 'gamify' learning by creating competition among learners while reviewing the content presented by teachers. Teaching without a computer? In many places, teachers and students do not have a computer. So, English language teacher Larry Ferlazzo asked them to share their language-learning games. Ferlazzo wrote about them in his blog. Here are two of the games that teachers suggested: Danielle Horne teaches at Helena College in Glen Forrest, Western Australia. She said one of the games that her students love playing is 'hot or cold.' In 'hot or cold,' students hide something in the classroom while a student, or searcher, is waiting outside. The students then say a word, phrase, or sentence. They get louder when the searcher gets nearer to the object and softer when the searcher is more distant. Horne said to be prepared for quite a bit of noise though! Eva Pors is a Danish high school teacher. Her students play 'questions and answers' to learn new words or vocabulary. Pors write words or phrases on small pieces of paper and divides students into groups of four. Within a group, student A picks a piece of paper with a word or phrase on it and asks questions that will make student B say the exact word or phrase on the paper. For example, with the word 'milk,' Student A would ask, 'What do you put on your cereal in the morning?' Student B has one minute to try to answer as many words or phrases as possible. The other two students in the group will then take over for one minute. And the team with the most correct guesses wins the game. I'm Jill Robbins. Jill Robbins wrote this lesson for Learning English. _________________________________________________________ Words in This Story guess – v. to give an answer or opinion about something without having all the facts gamification– n. the practice of making activities more like games in order to make them more interesting or enjoyable: confuse – mix up someone's mind or ideas, or to make something difficult to understand reward – n. something given in exchange for good behavior or good work quiz – n. a game or competition in which you answer questions spreadsheet – n. a computer program that helps make calculations and store information cereal – n. a food that is made from grain and eaten with milk, especially in the morning What do you think of Wordle and other games like it? Do you play them? We want to hear from you. Write to us in the Comments Section.
