Puzzmo (Mini Games)

[ShiraNoMai]

Imagine if your newsprints featured fun, interactable puzzles that were more than just the daily crossword.

Puzzmo is a fresh spin on a cultural mainstay: the newspaper games page!

Their daily games are designed for all players: they’re easy to get into, yet challenging to excel at. Puzzmo is built for you to play alone, collaboratively with your friends or loved ones… or competitively against your frenemies.

Puzzmo features a variety of games: 
SpellTower, a word game of opportunity creation
Really Bad Chess, a sacrilegious take on chess that forgoes the traditional starting pieces
Flipart, a visual puzzle inspired by organizing a sock-drawer
Cross|word, an approachable crossword designed to appeal to first time solvers and lifelong aficionados alike.

...and more!

They've recently added "Pile-Up Poker" which is a neat little poker-style game where you try and make poker hands in a 4x4 grid, where columns, rows and the four corners all make hands!

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Post your scores if you wish per game! I'd like to see how we all fare up against each other on the dailies

[Moonface]

I always forget this site exists and then once in a blue moon will actually go on it and play something, enjoy it, and then promptly forget the following day it ever happened for a few months.

Anyway, went on it today after seeing you playing a card game on there called Pile-Up Poker, and these were my three scores for today's one (#254):

1. $1640
   
2. $1900
   
3. $4200
   

Also did Flipart #254 and got it in 24 rotations for a score of 2257.

[ShiraNoMai]

I remembered mostly cuz Shoujo starts her stream doing the crossword so I used to go out of my way to complete it before she starts her stream at 1PM and I wouldn't be spoiled for answers. Now the habit is just engrained

I've gotten fairly decent at the Flipart lately (completing in the minimum number of rotations and as fast as possible), though today I hecked up one rotation so I had to do 4 extra spins to get it back in place, and it took a little longer cuz it was an odd puzzle today where some of the pieces were overlayed in weird ways cuz of their shapes. 

[Moonface]

Decided to make an account although I don't know what it gets me yet.

Pile-Up Poker #259

1. $4600
   
2. $2450
   
3. $3150
   
4. $1360
   

Oof, that last hand was really bad. I kept trying to set up hands and then just didn't get the cards I was hoping for.

Flipart #259

• Score: 3030
  
• Flips: 74
  
• Time: 50 seconds
  

Did the Typeshift as well, but can't say I really like this game. Once it comes down to a few letters left I just find it tedious trying to figure out what stupid word I've missed.

[Moonface]

Pile-Up Poker #269

1. $1,800
   
2. $2,300
   
3. $2,940
   
4. $5,340
   

Flipart #269

• Score: 2,474
  
• Flips: 21
  
• Time: 30 seconds
  

SpellTower #269

• Words Found: 13
  
• Score: 1,186
  
• Highest Scoring Word: Ridings (266)
  
• Longest Word: Ridings (7)
  

Never done SpellTower before; it's pretty neat. I like the added factor of planning out where to get letters to drop to try and get something into a spot you can work with. I definitely like it better than Typeshift.

[ShiraNoMai]

I love Typeshift, if only for that challenge of finding ONLY the core words (meaning, avoid making other words while trying to figure out what the core words are). It's SO satisfying figuring out the puzzle of "what are the words they want me to get here?" and getting a perfect score that way.

Although I'll never understand the people who manage to figure it out in 3 seconds. There's just no way you can figure it out in such little time

[Moonface]

I love Typeshift, if only for that challenge of finding ONLY the core words (meaning, avoid making other words while trying to figure out what the core words are). It's SO satisfying figuring out the puzzle of "what are the words they want me to get here?" and getting a perfect score that way.

Eh, I'll give it another shot and see how I feel about it, although I doubt this information is going to help me at all.

Typeshift #271

• Core Words Found: 3
  
• Additional Words: 4
  
• Score: 2,807
  
• Time: 1:22
  

Hmm, well either it was a fluke or that information actually did make it easier this time around. Guess I'll just see how many more of these I can do before I lose my patience with them again.

Pile-Up Poker #271

1. $2,200
   
2. $3,000
   
3. $4,800
   
4. $2,200
   

SpellTower #271

• Words Found: 10
  
• Score: 1,772
  
• Highest Scoring Word: Shacked (798)
  
• Longest Word: Shacked
  

[Moonface]

Pile-Up Poker #274

1. $2,280
   
2. $4,175
   
3. $1,800
   
4. $2,660
   

Bleh, I felt some of these rounds were going better than they ended up being.

SpellTower #274

• Words Found: 13
  
• Score: 1,556
  
• Highest Scoring Word: Dosed (360)
  
• Longest Word: Metallics
  

Realized that sometimes letters don't always get removed around the ones you use and so you can make extra words before making one that does remove surrounding letters to try and get more points. Not that it helped me get a good score here though...

[ShiraNoMai]

Yeah sometimes the play looks promising at the start of a Pile-Up round but then you get such shit pulls it ruins the whole lot lol I had a lot of bad hands today, too

Pile-Up Poker #275 - Best Hand:
Total hands: 8
Quality hands: 5
Time: 1m45s
Score: $8,275

Of course my first hand was my best one. 3 Straights, 1 Straight Flush and 1 Three-of-a-kind.

FlipArt #275
Time: 19s
Score: 2,792
Rotations: 16
Perfect ✔️

Crossword #275:
Plonks: 2
Time: 19m42s
Score: 2,820
Hints: 1

Yesterday's one was so good; today's was riddled with some weird hinting. The one I needed a hint for was "Fisher in films" cuz I truly had no idea there was another actress out there with that last name.

[Moonface]

Pile-Up Poker #276

1. $3,125
   
2. $2,280
   
3. $8,070
   
4. $2,660
   

Dang, never noticed until now you can get points from the discard hand if you get 8 hands on the board, which is what led me to getting such a high score on my third attempt today without realizing why until after the fact.

SpellTower #276
Words Found: 12
Score: 1,386
Highest Scoring Word: Snaps (290)
Longest Word: Dreary

Bleh, I completely forgot how to English with this one today.

[ShiraNoMai]

Ah yeah, the discard pile can be part of a strat, too. There's SO many things you gotta factor in with card choice and placement in that game lol

Puzzmo #276 (July 17, 2024):

FlipArt:
Time: 14s
Score: 3,267
Rotations: 13
Perfect ✔️

Crossword:
Plonks: 1
Time: 8m52s
Score: 3,871
Hints: 1

This one wasn't too bad at all. I was stuck on the very last two letters I needed so I hinted (for the clue for 14D: Trim (down), which wound up being a word I wouldn't exactly associate with trimming down, but oh well)

Typeshift:
Time: 4m11s
Score: 1,409
Hints: 0
Words found: 7

I was missing one core word here, and I couldn't figure out what it wanted. 

MonoArt:
Time: 47s
Score: 3,580
Rotations: 46

I'm shocked I didn't take a metric decade to solve this. Last time I played was so embarrassingly bad lol

Pile-Up Poker (Best Hand):
Total hands: 8
Quality hands: 2
Time: 2m50s
Score: $5,225

My hands were dogshit today. GG on getting a 8k score for yours!

[Moonface]

@ShiraNoMai: MonoArt is one of the premium games right? How does it work, since I can't play it to discover for myself.

Pile-Up Poker #277

1. $4,000 (5/7 quality hands, $1,000 winnings)
   
2. $6,870 (5/10 quality hands, $770 winnings)
   
3. $3,275 (2/8 quality hands, $655 winnings)
   
4. $2,200 (3/7 quality hands, $550 winnings)
   

SpellTower #277

• Words Found: 18
  
• Score: 1,328
  
• Highest Scoring Word: Quest (240)
  
• Longest Word: Quest
  

Typeshift #277

• Core Words Found: 3
  
• Additional Words: 4
  
• Score: 1,484
  
• Time: 5:39
  

Had to use hints to get the last word on this. I just could not think of any word that began with U. x.x

[Moonface]

Pile-Up Poker #278

1. $3,725 (4/8 quality hands, $745 winnings)
   
2. $4,240 (4/7 quality hands, $1,060 winnings)
   
3. $2,300 (3/6 quality hands, $575 winnings)
   
4. $1,800 (3/7 quality hands, $450 winnings)
   

SpellTower #278

• Words Found: 11
  
• Score: 1,921
  
• Highest Scoring Word: Menthol (742)
  
• Longest Word: Menthol
  

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Pile-Up Poker #280

1. $2,220 (3/6 quality hands, $555 winnings)
   
2. $2,580 (3/6 quality hands, $645 winnings)
   
3. $5,150 (5/8 quality hands, $1,030 winnings)
   
4. $3,225 (3/8 quality hands, $645 winnings)
   

I really wish Puzzmo would let you just replay any of the games for fun after you've played it for your daily score. I'd love to keep playing Pile-Up Poker beyond the 4 rounds (or 5 if I paid for a sub) I can get daily.

[ShiraNoMai]

If you use paid, you can access all the Pile-Up Pokers ever made since it was invented earlier this year. It's a great feature if you ever feel like diving in for more.

Puzzmo #287 (July 28, 2024):

FlipArt:
Time: 43s
Score: 3,210
Rotations: 33

Made one rotation error, which cost me the perfect score (cuz I'd need to rotate a full 360 to get back to original position, so that's 4 extra rotates than necessary)


Crossword:
Plonks: 4
Time: 53m37s
Score: 2,355
Hints: 4

This was a disaster lol So much trivia on things I had no idea about for like, 80% of this puzzle. 4 hints used is really unheard of from me.


Typeshift:
Time: 3m15s
Score: 2,445
Hints: 0
Words found: 4
Only core words: ✔️
All core words: ✔️

EZ game for babies.


CenterShift:
Time: 7m44s
Score: 1,349
Hints: 0
Words found: 6
Only core words: ✔️
All core words: ✔️

This week's bonus game is a variation of the TypeShift puzzle, with the variation being only the center letters are shiftable; the two end ones don't move (so only one letter). Anyway, EZ game for babies.


Pile-Up Poker (Best Hand):
Total hands: 10
Quality hands: 1
Time: 1m51s
Score: $5,670

Garbage hands all around, oof. This was my first hand, too. Everything else after was so bad  Maybe I'm just bad.

[Moonface]

Pile-Up Poker #295

1. $4,260 (4/10 quality hands, $695 winnings)
   
2. $6,420 (6/10 quality hands, $890 winnings)
   
3. $3,400 (4/6 quality hands, $850 winnings)
   
4. $3,880 (5/7 quality hands, $970 winnings)
   

SpellTower #295

• Words Found: 13
  
• Score: 1,525
  
• Highest Scoring Word: Three (370)
  
• Longest Word: Three