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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you playing Reunion?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
It is a Mirriam Webster's daily word puzzle. They have games,
yoh yeah, and by the way they worked yesterday, Reunion
a puzzle game where you drag letters to form words
and attempt to reunite the two critters on a board.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Reunion.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I am just a landing page for Merriam Webster Games.
I did not click on Reunion, but there is a
tab that says it is new.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh wait as of when?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No, because I know it goes back a little bit.
I don't think it's new like as of yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well maybe not yesterday, but it's certainly featured as a
new daily word puzzle. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
By the way, I learned of it yesterday as an
alternate to wordle e Strands and Connections and Mini Crossword
and all those other ones. So, Diane, you get a
fox and a head and you have to reunite them
by moving letters around. Now, remember, if the letter is
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in the right place, it's green. If it's yellow, the
letter is in the correct rower column.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That's like wordle Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't play wordle no, but we've played it before
and here I mean that's it's very similar right, Oh, okay,
Well then why don't you play Reunion. I didn't say
I was good at it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The well no, we were like, well we played it
in here.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, all right, here comes Diane playing Reunion. Wait so
you want me to put us on the screen.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I haven't even hit play yet.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's okay, just hit the hit the hit the button.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Okay, are there sounds we need to listen for, okay,
any audio?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Let me be very clear.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I have never played Okay, this came up as an option,
but somebody climbed up on.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Their on their high horse over there.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Not horse. It's just you don't have to play Wordle
to recognize what the format of the game looks like.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I wouldn't have known what the format of the game is.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We played it before, Diane.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We played Wordle in here.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't play it every day.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I don't have time to just sit and play it.
When you said, when you said reunite them with the word,
it made it seem like you had one word to
guess and then they reunited.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
There's the there's the hedgehog, there's the what is it fox?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
So Diane, like in word.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Ale, the only thing that go ahead. No, the only
thing that this hasn't common with wordle is the green
and the yellow.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, go ahead. So you know these are in the
right place.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So green is now read that again because I wasn't
paying attention.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, green is in the right place.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Diane has got to look on her face like either
a it is the hardest thing she's ever seen in
her life ding or that look of like there's no way.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
This stool is coming out without a softener. The five board,
it's a seven by five board, so that I'll put
the link out so people can play a log at home.
But for those that don't have Wi Fi in the truck,
it looks like a cross redpuzzle, but there are some
spaces missing which cross redpuzzles to feature. But the animals
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are actually in boxes.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Can I move the fox?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
You'll know if the letter let me let me please.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Right, you'll know if the letter is in the right place.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Once it's green.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Do you see the green letters? Yeah, okay, those.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Are in the right place.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yellow means the letter is in the correct row or column,
row up and down, column, side to side. Right right
now you have to get all move all the letters
to make words and reunite.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
The fox in the hedgehog? Okay, can they be reunited
diagonally or only next to each other?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Diane?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
All right, put the h where the fox is. So
you want to do it in the least amount of
moves possible? Claria, Well, that's not happening because it's counting
our moves.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I mean why would you want
to do it at most amount?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Where'll you get, like, you know, a certain amount of
guesses and then you're done?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Oh yeah, well I don't know. We'll see where Diane
max is out at. Okay, So Diane, it's blank E
H A B. What letter would go with E H
A B to make a word?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And R?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Is there an R on the board?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, but it's in that other column or no? No, no,
look above the hedgehog?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Oh there it is.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, so you want to move that?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah? Oh yeah, okay, okay, hum, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
You got an F and and E at the end,
and you know none of these other letters are right, right?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What letter could? So? What could be a blank? F? E?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's a five letter word, right, and it's not and
it's not knife that because N is not in the
right place.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, actually, it would be in the right place, but
it's not.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
No, Dane's right, yeah, so what do you want to do, Diane?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
It's also not wife because that's only four letters, five
letter words.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What about life?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
No, last two letters are f N E.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, no f E f n E.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yeah. Well you're saying, no, you're thinking of a N
an avenue. No, that's a one. Yeah, no, allpon airways?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Right, all right, go Diane, you've you're wasting Mmm.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
See this is hard this. I don't play these games.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Two seconds ago, you mock.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I got the first word seconds ago. That was the
first rehab was a gimmey rehab was a gimme what happened?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
She's thinking, Oh, Diane.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
B R correct b R blank blank.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Oh you're going to a different column.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, oh where are you going?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Going?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Going bro o T No, but you know the Y
and the R in there.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, but they could be going this way.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh yeah, well this one can't. This one has to
be in the column because there's no row.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, it could take it could take the w's place
or the a's place.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
No, yeah, no, there's it's separated here. Put try to
put the R where the A is. Ah, Diane, Okay,
well you know that's gotta go.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We are.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So now you have b r blank blank e r blank.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
This is ten times harder than moorder level was.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Five minutes ago. You could not have been more common.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Also, Dane, you sucked at word.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I know I suck at all of these. That's why
I don't play them. I don't need reinforcement to tell
me this.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Five minutes ago you you could not have spoken.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Everybody knows the brown or the yellow in the green
boxes when you see it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Somebody doesn't yellow and brown.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Remember, because we played the first week the world was out,
and just having Diane think of a five letter word to.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Start, Oh my god, we will be here.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, you are. You made your choice.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
No, talk us through what you're thinking.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Try to put the I where the Y is.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
No, but you've learned that I is either in the
column or in the row.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Put the I where the A is.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
It looks like it was in the row because they
both went white.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, so then that resets it. Then if you do
that wrong.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
But I don't want to go back because then it's
another move. So just keep in mind that you already
made that mistake that I goes here in this row?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
All right, okay, Diane, you know that b R has
got to be a vowel or do you know a
lot of words that start with b R with another consonant?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, put the U where the A is.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
No, but you found out the A is in that
spot correctly, all right, blessed fell into that b R.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I, A U and an A b are.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Put the E where the U is I.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You're right, so I have b R E space E
R space.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
All right, you can put the W where the I is.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Very good. What's going here? You got brewer?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Where's a y?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Brewers plural? You want to do the y?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You got the column?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Okay, all right, let's go down blank oh, hedgehog.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
G y.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Oh you mean the bottom row?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Oh god?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Okay, what do you don't know?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Okay, I know it doesn't start if the second letter
is an. Oh, it's gonna be a vowel, not a vowel.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Constantly louder for the people in back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, I'm not on the microphone. I'm pointing. I'm vana
over here.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Put the D where the A is.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Now, you know this A is in this.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Or it could be the one to the sun. Oh no,
I guess, no, never mind.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I guess and no, just do it. Okay, well we're
wasting a move clearly. Look the A went white again.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But the D is correct, right, just like that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, Now you got to get rid of the hedgehog.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I know what d o.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Blank g y?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I need another G.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
There is not one available on.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well it's not doo gie.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Teach me how to dug you.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
So Diane, oh my god, you know what it is?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Look the only other you know? It's a consonant, Diane, Diane,
what you know? It's a consonant? Is it dongey? Is
it doggy?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Dongy?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Do d to the hedgehog? You dodgy? Oh you almost
reunited the hedgehog and the fox. You also didn't solve
three of the words.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Now am I done?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Or four of the words now done?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I don't know. They do. They kick you off after
a certain amount of crimes, I hope.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
So that's Buddy Riser.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Okay, which one are we solving for now? You know
that's an eye or it's on that brow?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Oh boy, mm hmmm, Diane, what tell us?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Where all?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Right? Move the I where the A is? What I
know what A that one?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
But you got the A. I mean it's dumb luck,
But the A is now on the right spot.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
All right, let's solve this one.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
A blank blank blank w Come on, here we go.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
There they're not blank part of Jesus.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Come on, Diane. It's like two of you in your
is your did your clone walk in?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Diane? Which one are we doing?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Benefie?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah that's not that's not even these not in it. Yeah,
it doesn't start with that. The U is but that
could just that can be up ard down. You don't know. Okay,
if you're doing.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Benefie never mind, No, no, no, I was going to
say something wrong again.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Okay, if it ends in f E.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And it's not knife, how do you know that? Because
because then N would not be the end wouldn't be
in the right spot.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Did we start the puzzle with that?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So then move the end to.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Someplace else, Diane COI what was the trump word?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
This is torture? No, I don't know what I'm doing
talking about. Yes, yeah, that's what I'm thinking of right now. Okay, Diane,
if you scream my name louder, it does no good.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
But if it's going to end in fe, is it
going to be a vowel or a consonant vowel?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Okay, well, you know it's not a you because it's right.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
There, all right?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Could it be an I like in knife?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's not right, but move it there.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
We know it's not nice. That was one of the things.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But I'm trying to give her an example.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Why don't we move the A then not the I.
We know the ey is wrong, all right, try the A.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Oh look are that okay, Diane?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Move the C down to where the B is and
then the H to where the N is.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Look at that, Dian. So you've got the word chafe.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Now you're flying bro huh uh?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
What's the all right? R?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Blank? Blank, A, C, I, D.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
But you have a word here where? So if this
ultimately reunites the hedgehog and the fox here, the word
might just be acid.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
No.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
If this is an animal space.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh yeah, but then but the R is up top, but.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
The R is not part of it. If it's the
animals are separating it, they're not connecting. The words aren't connected.
Is the hedgehog in the right spot?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It doesn't tell you move the fox are not reunited.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Because they're not next to each other. But if you
move the fox, they will be am.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I moving the fox here? Yes, okay, we didn't sell this.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Word H blank S blank, A and D You know
the U is in? Oh my god, Diane, can I
give you a clue? What is Scott to you?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Moves that move the H. I mean move the U
to the B.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I was moving the H.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
There you go here, you go.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
All right? All right, right, Diane, So switch the eye
in the L.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I'll day. That was quick.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Eighteen moves and an hour and a half.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
That was quick. Three stars.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
That was quick.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I hope nobody was never again.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I would never play that again.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, the good news is that it stores puzzles for
up to two weeks, so you could go back to
like mid September.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Okay, Now, it's very interesting that you said you hope
no one crushed their car, because when I was trying
to find this game, an article came up from Pace
magazine and the headline reads, Reunion is a great postcar
crash game. You're suggesting that we caused a car crush.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So if Diane made you crash your car, no, While
you're waiting for the tow truck.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh, now you could play Reunion. This is part of
what made Reunion immediately come to mind. As my family
waited for police in a parking lot after a car crash.
Nerves had been shocked due to being slammed from behind
by a speeding vehicle. Blood pressures had risen after watching
said vehicle speed off after hitting us, and patience was
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being tested as we waited for the cops to arrive.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
This break has been a car crash.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Somewhat miraculously, everyone was physically okay, but a distraction was
needed once we realized the cops were taking their time.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Let's play Reunion.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Now a lot of people are going to get into
road rage fights over who was wrong. It's just gonna
hop out of the car and go, hey, let's play Reunion.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I'll be over here on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
There were three things in particular that made Reunion a
great play for this moment. Number one, first, it was
fairly accessible, so mobile. It can be on your phones.
That canop being a laughed However, Second, the game is
fairly stress free.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No I was stressful.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
The puzzles are not timed, so players set their own pace.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, I mean you could have done this over the
course of.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
All and I should say thank you for letting me
set my own pace.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Without a timer ticking down or a numbered to beat
staring back at you. The game feels more invested in
letting you relax. There you go, that was not relaxing,
and maybe refresh your vocabulary more than anything else.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
They say you do better if you read more.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
It was truly relieving, as it not only calmed our
minds but also distracted us from thinking about how you
and the people you loved could have had it much
much worse to.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Day exactly like that or fifteen minutes ago, you didn't
have a blood busted blood vessel in your eye. Yeah,
you got it easy, and you got the hedgehog and
the fox back together.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
And the last element of reunion that is a real
godsend postcrash was it's archive. While access to the entires
game catalog isn't available, anyone can still play a week's
worth of the most recent word.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I knew you could go back me a month.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, but maybe the police are taking a really long
time getting to your car accident.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
All of these factors come together to create a space
buzzing with sliding fingers.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It was relaxing, engaging, but most importantly it was grounding,
which was vital for us during an unstable time.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You watch the next time Buddy Riser messes up aws,
Diane's gonna send a text.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Hey, what was that fun game I played?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And this will get you through it.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
There is a part of me that feels like we
generated chaos instead of all of this as a selling point.
But for those of you who heard and liked what
you heard, I guess it's worth checking out Reunion
Are you playing Reunion?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
It is a Mirriam Webster's daily word puzzle. They have games,
yoh yeah, and by the way they worked yesterday, Reunion
a puzzle game where you drag letters to form words
and attempt to reunite the two critters on a board.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Reunion.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I am just a landing page for Merriam Webster Games.
I did not click on Reunion, but there is a
tab that says it is new.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh wait as of when?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No, because I know it goes back a little bit.
I don't think it's new like as of yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well maybe not yesterday, but it's certainly featured as a
new daily word puzzle. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
By the way, I learned of it yesterday as an
alternate to wordle e Strands and Connections and Mini Crossword
and all those other ones. So, Diane, you get a
fox and a head and you have to reunite them
by moving letters around. Now, remember, if the letter is
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in the right place, it's green. If it's yellow, the
letter is in the correct rower column.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That's like wordle Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't play wordle no, but we've played it before
and here I mean that's it's very similar right, Oh, okay,
Well then why don't you play Reunion. I didn't say
I was good at it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The well no, we were like, well we played it
in here.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, all right, here comes Diane playing Reunion. Wait so
you want me to put us on the screen.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I haven't even hit play yet.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's okay, just hit the hit the hit the button.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Okay, are there sounds we need to listen for, okay,
any audio?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Let me be very clear.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I have never played Okay, this came up as an option,
but somebody climbed up on.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Their on their high horse over there.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Not horse. It's just you don't have to play Wordle
to recognize what the format of the game looks like.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I wouldn't have known what the format of the game is.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We played it before, Diane.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We played Wordle in here.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't play it every day.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I don't have time to just sit and play it.
When you said, when you said reunite them with the word,
it made it seem like you had one word to
guess and then they reunited.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
There's the there's the hedgehog, there's the what is it fox?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
So Diane, like in word.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Ale, the only thing that go ahead. No, the only
thing that this hasn't common with wordle is the green
and the yellow.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, go ahead. So you know these are in the
right place.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So green is now read that again because I wasn't
paying attention.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, green is in the right place.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Diane has got to look on her face like either
a it is the hardest thing she's ever seen in
her life ding or that look of like there's no way.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
This stool is coming out without a softener. The five board,
it's a seven by five board, so that I'll put
the link out so people can play a log at home.
But for those that don't have Wi Fi in the truck,
it looks like a cross redpuzzle, but there are some
spaces missing which cross redpuzzles to feature. But the animals
(03:17):
are actually in boxes.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Can I move the fox?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
You'll know if the letter let me let me please.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Right, you'll know if the letter is in the right place.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Once it's green.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Do you see the green letters? Yeah, okay, those.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Are in the right place.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yellow means the letter is in the correct row or column,
row up and down, column, side to side. Right right
now you have to get all move all the letters
to make words and reunite.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
The fox in the hedgehog? Okay, can they be reunited
diagonally or only next to each other?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Diane?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
All right, put the h where the fox is. So
you want to do it in the least amount of
moves possible? Claria, Well, that's not happening because it's counting
our moves.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I mean why would you want
to do it at most amount?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Where'll you get, like, you know, a certain amount of
guesses and then you're done?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Oh yeah, well I don't know. We'll see where Diane
max is out at. Okay, So Diane, it's blank E
H A B. What letter would go with E H
A B to make a word?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And R?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Is there an R on the board?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, but it's in that other column or no? No, no,
look above the hedgehog?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Oh there it is.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, so you want to move that?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah? Oh yeah, okay, okay, hum, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
You got an F and and E at the end,
and you know none of these other letters are right, right?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What letter could? So? What could be a blank? F? E?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's a five letter word, right, and it's not and
it's not knife that because N is not in the
right place.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, actually, it would be in the right place, but
it's not.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
No, Dane's right, yeah, so what do you want to do, Diane?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
It's also not wife because that's only four letters, five
letter words.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What about life?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
No, last two letters are f N E.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, no f E f n E.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yeah. Well you're saying, no, you're thinking of a N
an avenue. No, that's a one. Yeah, no, allpon airways?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Right, all right, go Diane, you've you're wasting Mmm.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
See this is hard this. I don't play these games.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Two seconds ago, you mock.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I got the first word seconds ago. That was the
first rehab was a gimmey rehab was a gimme what happened?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
She's thinking, Oh, Diane.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
B R correct b R blank blank.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Oh you're going to a different column.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, oh where are you going?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Going?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Going bro o T No, but you know the Y
and the R in there.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, but they could be going this way.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh yeah, well this one can't. This one has to
be in the column because there's no row.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, it could take it could take the w's place
or the a's place.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
No, yeah, no, there's it's separated here. Put try to
put the R where the A is. Ah, Diane, Okay,
well you know that's gotta go.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We are.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So now you have b r blank blank e r blank.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
This is ten times harder than moorder level was.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Five minutes ago. You could not have been more common.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Also, Dane, you sucked at word.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I know I suck at all of these. That's why
I don't play them. I don't need reinforcement to tell
me this.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Five minutes ago you you could not have spoken.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Everybody knows the brown or the yellow in the green
boxes when you see it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Somebody doesn't yellow and brown.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Remember, because we played the first week the world was out,
and just having Diane think of a five letter word to.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Start, Oh my god, we will be here.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, you are. You made your choice.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
No, talk us through what you're thinking.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Try to put the I where the Y is.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
No, but you've learned that I is either in the
column or in the row.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Put the I where the A is.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
It looks like it was in the row because they
both went white.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, so then that resets it. Then if you do
that wrong.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
But I don't want to go back because then it's
another move. So just keep in mind that you already
made that mistake that I goes here in this row?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
All right, okay, Diane, you know that b R has
got to be a vowel or do you know a
lot of words that start with b R with another consonant?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, put the U where the A is.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
No, but you found out the A is in that
spot correctly, all right, blessed fell into that b R.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I, A U and an A b are.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Put the E where the U is I.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You're right, so I have b R E space E
R space.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
All right, you can put the W where the I is.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Very good. What's going here? You got brewer?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Where's a y?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Brewers plural? You want to do the y?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You got the column?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Okay, all right, let's go down blank oh, hedgehog.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
G y.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Oh you mean the bottom row?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Oh god?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Okay, what do you don't know?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Okay, I know it doesn't start if the second letter
is an. Oh, it's gonna be a vowel, not a vowel.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Constantly louder for the people in back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, I'm not on the microphone. I'm pointing. I'm vana
over here.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Put the D where the A is.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Now, you know this A is in this.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Or it could be the one to the sun. Oh no,
I guess, no, never mind.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I guess and no, just do it. Okay, well we're
wasting a move clearly. Look the A went white again.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But the D is correct, right, just like that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, Now you got to get rid of the hedgehog.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I know what d o.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Blank g y?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I need another G.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
There is not one available on.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well it's not doo gie.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Teach me how to dug you.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
So Diane, oh my god, you know what it is?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Look the only other you know? It's a consonant, Diane, Diane,
what you know? It's a consonant? Is it dongey? Is
it doggy?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Dongy?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Do d to the hedgehog? You dodgy? Oh you almost
reunited the hedgehog and the fox. You also didn't solve
three of the words.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Now am I done?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Or four of the words now done?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I don't know. They do. They kick you off after
a certain amount of crimes, I hope.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
So that's Buddy Riser.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Okay, which one are we solving for now? You know
that's an eye or it's on that brow?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Oh boy, mm hmmm, Diane, what tell us?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Where all?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Right? Move the I where the A is? What I
know what A that one?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
But you got the A. I mean it's dumb luck,
But the A is now on the right spot.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
All right, let's solve this one.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
A blank blank blank w Come on, here we go.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
There they're not blank part of Jesus.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Come on, Diane. It's like two of you in your
is your did your clone walk in?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Diane? Which one are we doing?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Benefie?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah that's not that's not even these not in it. Yeah,
it doesn't start with that. The U is but that
could just that can be up ard down. You don't know. Okay,
if you're doing.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Benefie never mind, No, no, no, I was going to
say something wrong again.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Okay, if it ends in f E.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And it's not knife, how do you know that? Because
because then N would not be the end wouldn't be
in the right spot.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Did we start the puzzle with that?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So then move the end to.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Someplace else, Diane COI what was the trump word?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
This is torture? No, I don't know what I'm doing
talking about. Yes, yeah, that's what I'm thinking of right now. Okay, Diane,
if you scream my name louder, it does no good.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
But if it's going to end in fe, is it
going to be a vowel or a consonant vowel?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Okay, well, you know it's not a you because it's right.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
There, all right?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Could it be an I like in knife?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's not right, but move it there.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
We know it's not nice. That was one of the things.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But I'm trying to give her an example.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Why don't we move the A then not the I.
We know the ey is wrong, all right, try the A.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Oh look are that okay, Diane?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Move the C down to where the B is and
then the H to where the N is.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Look at that, Dian. So you've got the word chafe.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Now you're flying bro huh uh?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
What's the all right? R?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Blank? Blank, A, C, I, D.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
But you have a word here where? So if this
ultimately reunites the hedgehog and the fox here, the word
might just be acid.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
No.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
If this is an animal space.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh yeah, but then but the R is up top, but.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
The R is not part of it. If it's the
animals are separating it, they're not connecting. The words aren't connected.
Is the hedgehog in the right spot?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It doesn't tell you move the fox are not reunited.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Because they're not next to each other. But if you
move the fox, they will be am.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I moving the fox here? Yes, okay, we didn't sell this.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Word H blank S blank, A and D You know
the U is in? Oh my god, Diane, can I
give you a clue? What is Scott to you?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Moves that move the H. I mean move the U
to the B.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I was moving the H.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
There you go here, you go.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
All right? All right, right, Diane, So switch the eye
in the L.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I'll day. That was quick.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Eighteen moves and an hour and a half.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
That was quick. Three stars.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
That was quick.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I hope nobody was never again.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I would never play that again.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, the good news is that it stores puzzles for
up to two weeks, so you could go back to
like mid September.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Okay, Now, it's very interesting that you said you hope
no one crushed their car, because when I was trying
to find this game, an article came up from Pace
magazine and the headline reads, Reunion is a great postcar
crash game. You're suggesting that we caused a car crush.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So if Diane made you crash your car, no, While
you're waiting for the tow truck.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh, now you could play Reunion. This is part of
what made Reunion immediately come to mind. As my family
waited for police in a parking lot after a car crash.
Nerves had been shocked due to being slammed from behind
by a speeding vehicle. Blood pressures had risen after watching
said vehicle speed off after hitting us, and patience was
(15:45):
being tested as we waited for the cops to arrive.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
This break has been a car crash.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Somewhat miraculously, everyone was physically okay, but a distraction was
needed once we realized the cops were taking their time.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Let's play Reunion.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Now a lot of people are going to get into
road rage fights over who was wrong. It's just gonna
hop out of the car and go, hey, let's play Reunion.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I'll be over here on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
There were three things in particular that made Reunion a
great play for this moment. Number one, first, it was
fairly accessible, so mobile. It can be on your phones.
That canop being a laughed However, Second, the game is
fairly stress free.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No I was stressful.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
The puzzles are not timed, so players set their own pace.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, I mean you could have done this over the
course of.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
All and I should say thank you for letting me
set my own pace.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Without a timer ticking down or a numbered to beat
staring back at you. The game feels more invested in
letting you relax. There you go, that was not relaxing,
and maybe refresh your vocabulary more than anything else.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
They say you do better if you read more.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
It was truly relieving, as it not only calmed our
minds but also distracted us from thinking about how you
and the people you loved could have had it much
much worse to.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Day exactly like that or fifteen minutes ago, you didn't
have a blood busted blood vessel in your eye. Yeah,
you got it easy, and you got the hedgehog and
the fox back together.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
And the last element of reunion that is a real
godsend postcrash was it's archive. While access to the entires
game catalog isn't available, anyone can still play a week's
worth of the most recent word.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I knew you could go back me a month.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, but maybe the police are taking a really long
time getting to your car accident.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
All of these factors come together to create a space
buzzing with sliding fingers.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It was relaxing, engaging, but most importantly it was grounding,
which was vital for us during an unstable time.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You watch the next time Buddy Riser messes up aws,
Diane's gonna send a text.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Hey, what was that fun game I played?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And this will get you through it.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
There is a part of me that feels like we
generated chaos instead of all of this as a selling point.
But for those of you who heard and liked what
you heard, I guess it's worth checking out Reunion
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