With all of the crazy stuff going on in churning and MS right now, I wasn’t planning on posting anything this week. But hey, it’s Thursday, we’re more than halfway through the week, and most of us still have all of our fingers and toes.

Instead of talking about what’s going on, I decided to go with a little bit of Thursday levity in honor of Halloween.

I usually start my day in my home gym, affectionately known in my household as “the house that H1 2025’s favorite deceased debit loop built”. In between sets, I play Wordle, the Mini Crossword and Connections on New York Times. But not Strands, because Strands is the worst.

Today, I made a fun little churning/MS themed version of all 3 to play. They’re designed to go from pretty easy (Wordle) to fairly diabolical (Connections).

I’m not embedding them in the blog post because I’m not sure that would work, but you don’t need an account on any of these sites to play / sorry it’s driving elsewhere.

• Wordle (easy)
• Mini Crossword (medium)
• Connections (very hard)

For anyone who can solve the Connections (without playing it twice) or can do the crossword quickly, let me know! I’ll hook you up with 5 whale doubloons. What are whale doubloons you ask? You’ll see.

A whale doubloon, probably