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NoboruWataya ◴[24 Jun 25 14:42 UTC] No.44366808[source]▶
Fun game, though four years after Wordle I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le" :)

Slight spoiler alert: The last event it gave me was Ireland winning the Six Nations grand slam, which has in fact happened multiple times. In the event it didn't matter as the earliest time it happened was later than the next latest event but in another scenario I think it could have resulted in confusion and possibly a false negative. Or is it smart enough to know only to have an event like that where its place is not ambiguous?

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Aspos ◴[24 Jun 25 16:53 UTC] No.44368236[source]▶
"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.
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1. nesk_ ◴[24 Jun 25 17:35 UTC] No.44368666[source]▶
I suppose you are American, this isn't obscur for Europeans at all.
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2. eej71 ◴[24 Jun 25 17:49 UTC] No.44368829[source]▶
I hear ya. I suppose the equivalent would be - last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series.
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3. olddustytrail ◴[24 Jun 25 18:17 UTC] No.44369099[source]▶
Is it not? Does the average German or Portuguese or Finnish person know about the 6 nations?

I genuinely don't know. It's obviously a thing in Scotland (where I'm from) but is it a thing in other European countries?

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4. prerok ◴[24 Jun 25 18:37 UTC] No.44369327[source]▶
Griping a bit, I know, but we, Europeans, always see these questions in various trivia games.
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5. input_sh ◴[24 Jun 25 18:40 UTC] No.44369374[source]▶
Absolutely not. It's a good rule of thumb to guess "rugby" whenever I completely don't understand a sports reference, but I had absolutely no idea such a tournament existed between European nations, let alone when Ireland won it.

That said, I also had no idea who Annie Hall was, but that was way easier to guess correctly than a random rugby tournament.

6. dylan604 ◴[24 Jun 25 20:39 UTC] No.44370775{3}[source]▶
It's not our fault that you don't pay attention to something called the World Series. It's also not our fault you don't have teams good enough to qualify. It's not the called the American Series where you'd be expected to ignore it. /s

I've always laughed at these types of names. The Miss Universe pageant has always made wonder what Miss Andromeda would be like, and if her answers would also talk about whirled peas too.

7. sunaookami ◴[25 Jun 25 06:36 UTC] No.44374209[source]▶
Am European, don't even know what a Six Nations Grand Slam is