They are saying "the win screen shows up after you click to remove the final letter", not "it is always possible"

I didn't understand what you were saying at first, but it turns out that you have to click to remove the final, single letter before the "you won" screen shows.

And I agree it would be nice if the game could detect when you've reached a dead end and notify you somehow.

Is it always possible to go all the way down to a single letter? I'm working on August 4, and it's proving challenging

Hi, this is OP! Thank you to everyone for pointing this out, you are not crazy-- these puzzles were impossible after I removed some invalid words from the dictionary. I had previously replaced the puzzles, but my branch state seems to have gotten out of sync. Please restart Aug 1 and 4 if you'd like, there should be new puzzles to try now!

Yes, 1 August and 4 August have me stumped. Interestingly it says I have discovered 100% of words on 1 August, but I wasn't able to whittle it down to 0. I'm not sure if that just means I missed an opportunity to remove the space somewhere.

August 1st can be done with

https://gist.github.com/IanCal/f3deffd5961a2cc2860094a4d68ed...

Or maybe it depends on the order in which you remove the letters? Just a guess.

August 4 is not solvable with the given wordlist. There is no way to get to a word below 3 letters ("set")

I had the same issue. I went back to the calendar and it said I got 100% of the words. So I guess it's not always possible and I spent all that time trying for no reason.

I’m stuck on that one too! Got 100% of all possible words but cannot figure out how to reduce to zero. A “show hint” feature would be nice when you’re stuck.

There is nothing bad about that. The opposite phased sounds it plays genuinely do cancel out the vibrations from the original noise, decreasing the magnitude of the vibrations hitting your ear drum.

Right. I know how they work. The fact of the matter is that the work space sounds significantly quieter when I enable that “bombardment.”

To be fair, they did say "performance" complaints. :)

LinkedIn's daily Queens puzzle is different than the classical problem in two ways: it adds colored regions which also must have exactly one queen, and it relaxes the diagonal constraint -- queens are allowed in the same diagonal as long as they are not adjacent.

You mention three different medications here:

- diphenhydramine aka Benedryl is an antihistamine with a common side effect of sleepiness

- doxylamine aka Unisom is also an antihistamine but these days people only really use it as a sleep aid or for nausea

- psuedoephedrine aka Sudafed is a decongestant. Not sold over-the-counter because it can be used to make meth. It's a stimulant and appetite supressant

Finally, there's "Sudafed PE" aka phenylephrine, which is also sold as a decongestant but it (literally) doesn't work

Remember that with Towers of Hanoi every extra disk doubles the number of moves required. So 15 discs is 128x more moves. If you did eight in 15m then fifteen would take you 32 hours.

And "down for" something is very nearly synonymous with "up for" something. (:

These are excellent, thank you!