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[–] GTG3000 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I gave up around the roman numbers because I chose to include May...

Think I should try again.

edit: okay, I'm going to call it on the Wordle rule.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That's as far as I got as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

im case you tackle it again, the month does not need to be capitalized, and if its lower case, it doesn't count as a roman numeral

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One day I might solve this, but this day is not today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shortly after the Wordle rule I got told I had to include the country Colombia. Which, with an L, made it impossible to multiple Roman Numerals to equal 35...

[–] Dimitriye98 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only uppercase letters get treated as Roman numerals, same for periodic table. The real killer one for those two is YouTube url

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me it wouldn't even let me copy/paste a YouTube URL. Trying to do so kept automatically pasting in the title of the damn video. 😠

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

it wouldn’t even let me copy/paste

It's so real, right?

I hate when they forbid c/p password fields - that's so stupid and even lessens security.