Jay Seaver

Me, forgetting everything I've learned about chess beyond how the pieces move every time I try to play

Daily Walkoff
Red Sox #450

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dailywalkoff.com

Almost second-guessed myself on Pedroia

Completed Movie Snake - Clive Owen/Chiwetel Ejiofor and... 1 word: Redbelt (2.8%) 1990-2010: Shoot 'Em Up (5%) 3+ words: The Pink Panther (1.2%) Oscar nom: Children of Men (27.2%) 2010-2025: Cleaner (2%) $100M+: The Pink Panther (0.8%) 2 words: Inside Man (20%) Double Letter: Savannah (0.3%) Real Person: Savannah (0.6%)

Movie Snake - 11/23/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 1293 (top 8%)

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www.moviesnake.io

Could've dug deeper on a couple

Vulture Cinematrix No. 607: Nov 23, 2025
I got 7/9 Correct
Score: 1909

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Play at:
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Can't believe I saw "-2020" as "-2025" twice!

Completed Movie Grid - rows Rosamund Pike, Marion Cotillard, Naomi Watts; columns 2 words, I-P, 2005-2025 Row 1: Gone Girl (83.2%), Now You See It Now You Don't (13.6%), Saltburn (43.5%) Row 2: Assassin's Creed (16.3%), La Vie en Rose (24.9%), The Ice Tower (0.7%) Row 3: The Friend (3.2%), Mulholland Drive (35.9%), King Kong (16.5%)

Complete Movie Pyramid Row 1 (Cailee Spaeny/2015-2025): Wake Up Dead Man (6.6%) Row 2 (Adrien Brody/2 words): King Kong (8.1%) Row 3 (Bradley Cooper/3+ words): Is This Thing On? (1.9%), The Hangover Part III (10%), Silver Linings Playbook (14.2%) Row 4 (Glenn Close/1980-2025): Albert Nobbs (5.1%), Hillbilly Elegy (6.6%), Air Force One (3.3%), Fatal Attraction (14.5%)

Movie Grid - 11/23/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 2467 (top 16%)

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www.moviegrid.io

Heh, just saw The Ice Tower last night

Movie Pyramid - 11/23/2025:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1204 (top 10%)

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www.moviepyramid.io

Honestly kind of surprised by some popular answers

#Worldle #1402 (23.11.2025) 3/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 3 days
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worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

Oof

nerdlegame 1404 4/6

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Had me stumped for a bit

Minute Cryptic - 23 November, 2025
"“Out-of-control carousel catapults you” declared fortune tellers" (7)
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www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Nice

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Wheezy Mode
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LS: 😎 🍋
ImSqueezy.com

Yeah, that makes more sense

Par 5 Latter Boxed in 4 (sure there's a 3)

🟠 Align 11/23/2025
⏰ 69
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globe.com/align

Pretty good

[Bracket City]
November 23, 2025 🟢 (Easy)
Rank: 💼 (Power Broker)
❌ Wrong guesses: 4

Total Score: 92.0
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www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke...

Burned a lot on knuckle/knucles/knuckles

Wordle 1,618 4/6*

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OK, considering

Pips #98 Hard 🔴
1:30

5x5, as they say

Strands #630
“Sweet tooth”
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Quickish

Connections
Puzzle #896
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That first one was so tempting it overrode the others I'd already seen

Fritzi kicking herself for not trying this back when it was her strip.

OTOH, she wasn't exactly the type to get hung up on one particular man and should probably impart this wisdom to her niece.

The Seattle Star
November 23,1915

get equipped with wait stop

Saw this with a Q&A from the writer, who was late to lunch with Herzog because he was covering this situation as a reporter, and about halfway through relating it he thought "my god, I've got a more interesting story than Werner Herzog today!"

A ★★★★ review of Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) The lesson to take from this movie: There were so many places along the line where various Russians could have said "you know what, I respect a guy who took out that many Nazis and we sent the guy who...

Turns out that unleashing this guy upon the Red Army is almost as satisfying as having him kill Nazis.

My **** review of #SisuRoadToRevenge on @Letterboxd.social: boxd.it/bNCoFn

#filmsky #moviesky #Sisu2

Vulture Cinematrix No. 606: Nov 22, 2025
I got 7/9 Correct
Score: 2052

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Weird it gave me "Quartet" for 1 word but not 2012

Daily Walkoff
Red Sox #449
"Rookie Rewind"

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OK

Completed Movie Snake - Antonio Banderas/Salma Hayek and... 3+ Words: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (12.3%) 1 word: Everly (0.7%) 2015-2025: Official Competition (1.7%) $100m+: Spy Kids (5.6%) Character name: Evita (2.8%) 2005-2015: Everly (1%) Oscar nom: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2.5%) 1995-2005: Four Rooms (2.6%) AEIOU: Everly (2.3%)

Movie Snake - 11/22/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 1323 (top 5%)

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www.moviesnake.io

Went to Fantastic Fest once and somehow that's the movie I remember from it

Completed Movie Grid - rows Russell Crowe, Sharon Stone, Jim Carrey; columns A-H, Q-Z, 1985-2015 Row 1: The Exorcism (3%), Virtuosity (5.2%), The Man with the Iron Fists (0.5%) Row 2: Catwoman (6.4%), The Muse (4.1%), Total Recall (7.4%) Row 3: The Bad Batch (0.7%), The Number 23 (9.1%), Fun with Dick and Jane (1%)

Completed Movie Pyramid Row 1 (Rosanna Arquette/A-H): Desperately Seeking Susan (40.4%) Row 2 (Woody Harrelson/I-P): Last Breath (1.8%), Money Train (4.6%) Row 3 (Cameron Diaz/Q-Z): The Sweetest Thing (5.5%), Vanilla Sky (7.6%), Sex Tape (4%) Row 4 (Gary Oldman/1990-2025): Air Force One (2.2%), Tiptoes (2.5%), The Fifth Element (7.3%), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (7%)

Movie Grid - 11/22/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 2665 (top 3%)

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www.moviegrid.io

Huh, better than expected

Movie Pyramid - 11/22/2025:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1191 (top 23%)

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Yeah, couldn't think of anything else up top

#Worldle #1401 (22.11.2025) 1/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 2 days
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worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

Should've done better

nerdlegame 1403 4/6

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Fine

Minute Cryptic - 22 November, 2025
"Exclusive school's tall characters expelled by petite principal" (5)
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www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Eh…

[Bracket City]
November 22, 2025 🔴 (Tough)
Rank: 💼 (Power Broker)
❌ Wrong guesses: 2

Total Score: 96.0
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www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke...

OK

🍋 Squeezy #662 🍋
Wheezy Mode
EZ: 😎 🍋
PZ: 😎 🍋
LS: 😎 🍋
ImSqueezy.com

A few weird ones in there

Wordle 1,617 4/6*

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Pips #97 Hard 🔴
3:57

Pretty decent

Strands #629
“Ivy League”
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Sure

Connections
Puzzle #895
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Decent

Par 4 Letter Boxed in 3 - is this a thing?

🟠 Align 11/22/2025
⏰ 93
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globe.com/align

Decent

Hamnet, maybe, or Is This Thing On? Wouldn't be shocked by Frankenstein, either.

Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and an illustration of a woman who appears to have been caught in the act of cleaning by another woman.

Scurryfunge [SKUR-ee-funj]
(v.)
- To rush around cleaning the house when company is on their way over.
(n.)
- The act of rushing to clean one’s home in preparation for impending company.

BUFF-o-Stream | Boston Underground Film Festival A collection of feature films from previous editions of BUFF, from BUFF alumni, and/or films in the spirit of BUFF, streaming on a platform near you.Psssst. Many of these films are available on Shudde...

This page from @BosUnderground.bsky.social is still up, but kind of an orphan in that you can't get there from the main site and it hasn't been updated since before Covid. Which is a bummer.

bostonunderground.org/buff-o-stream/

Post a character in vintage/retro fashion

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷

In rep, 5 classics at the Capitol to cap their centennial celebration; BRANDED TO KILL and REFLECTIONS IN A DEAD DIAMOND at the Seaport Alamo; THE NUTCRACKER AT WETHERSFIELD in Lexington; 2 free screenings of INUNDATION DISTRICT (one in said area), and more!

www.jaysmovieblog.com/2025/11/next...

Next (short) Week in Tickets for 21-25 November: WICKED FOR GOOD, SISU ROAD TO REVENGE, RENTAL FAMILY, JAY KELLY (#35mm at @TheCoolidge.bsky.social), REBUILDING, 120 BAHADUR, and MASTIII 4 open at Boston-area 'plexes; PETER HUJAR'S DAY and THE ICE TOWER open at @BrattleTheatre.bsky.social.

They make me so angry that American soccer teams are just copying the lame "Place Name FC" thing from the UK. We can have so much more fun with this!