It's rarely that movie is as good as a book but sometimes good adaptations happen-and I tend to remember them all since happens not often For example "Girl With a Dragon Tatoo" i liked more as a movie..the non-American version. But I started with a movie, that probably influences things. "The Joy Luck Club" managed to be a great adaptation of the book-and I actually read the book several yeas before watching the movie Mini series of "Pride and Predjudice" are nice adaptation while the movie with Keira Knightly was something I kinda dismissed because to me that wasn't a good adaptation at all. Still, I prefer the book of course. The former Soviet Union movies based on "Sherlock Holmes" are considered the best in all the adaptations of Sherlck Holmes ever made, and won the prize as such-and I totally agree. Of course they filmed just several stories but did it very well. "Alias Grace" did a very fine job; but let me tell you the book is finer...reading it now. Now some books are probably too much of a challenge to ever be interpreted on the screen..I haven't seen one good "Wuthering Heights"..and I really tried. I haven't seen a "Lolita" that comes even close to the book itself. I don't think one can adapt Nabokov successfully. Too many things will go missing. His language is too good and too elusive for that. No Dostoevsky or Tolstoy either,,of course I didn't watch all of these..but whatever I started I just turned off. Very fast. As I was totally obsessed with "Les Miserables" since age 8 (to the point I tried to steal a little bun from a bakery-and succedeed-but that was my first and last attempt of stealing lol..more than I can handle..it was a tiny 3 kopeiks bun but nevertheless)-I tried to watch as many adaptations as possible. Some I enjoyed; but no they don't measure to the book. I couldn't appreciate long passages about monasteries, sewer, Parisian jargon, the battle of Waterloo etc when I was a little girl..but now I find these much more interesting. As it was when I read Fowles "The Magus"..at twenty I was so much into story..and the stories within the story I went through too quick..wars and all.. But now I understand these are actually the best ones there..or maybe they are to me now, since I became older. Generally I think the more complex and well written the book is the harder it will be to translate it I do look forward to adaptations that don't exist yet, or exist but I haven't seen them yet like Löwensköld trilogy by Selma Lagerlöf'..I think there can be a huge potential of making a great movie out of it.. Steven King is an example of an author whose books can be translated very well into visuals. PS remembered one more adatation that was good .."The Name of the Rose". They cut a lot out of it obviously..still, a good movie

Our oldest son is a software engineer, and he and I play Wordle each day and share our results. So of course I had to let him know about this, and of course, he's not interested, LOL. While he was here at Christmas, he and I did a few puzzles together, one of which was Sudoku, and then one afternoon he just wrote an app to solve Sudoku puzzles -because, of course, he can. But this kid is completely disinterested in monetizing anything, LOL.

nerdlegame 108 4/6 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪⬛🟪 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟪🟩⬛ 🟪🟩🟩⬛🟩🟪🟩🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Interesting challenge. I had to make a guess to make sure I was going in the right direction.

I would also be skeptical of a person who claims to almost always get the answer in 2, especially using the same starting word. I think getting the answer in one, two, or even sometimes 3 guesses (depending on whether your starting word is good or not that day) is luck, but there is skill in avoiding a loss. It's a matter of recognizing possible word patterns, making sense of the information that you get from prior guesses, etc., more than luck. Obvious exceptions are words like "watch," where it can also be catch, batch, hatch, latch, match, etc. There is some luck involved there.