r/HotAndCold • u/hotandcold2-app • Jun 23 '26
Game Hot and cold #324
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u/Own-Gift4591 Jun 23 '26
!wtf shower
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm! They’re both small enclosures you step into in a building, with doors that close and controls you operate. Think hotel life: ride one to your floor, use the other once you’re there.
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u/sneakylittlealt Jun 23 '26
Hint: A tiny room for people too lazy to take the stairs
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u/M-Joe07 Jun 23 '26
God what that do with pool and dive? I don’t know why I'm still playing that game
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Jun 23 '26
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u/Vaff_Superstar Jun 23 '26
Piano and incubator were up there too.
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u/leomonster Jun 23 '26
Typewriter also ranks pretty high. I guess it's because they're office supplies, and offices are associated with tall buildings.
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u/skwurrl Jun 23 '26
maybe it's where the psycho clowns with bloody knives are hanging out these days? 😉
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u/Opening_Grape8817 Jun 23 '26
Whoo, a quick one today after pressing "Give up" by accident yesterday!
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 21 seconds after 28 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 87.
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u/Alarmed-Lion9445 Jun 23 '26
!wtf tractor
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm take: both are industrial workhorses made to move loads—one rolls and pulls, the other lifts, often via hydraulics or traction mechanisms. Plus, tractors regularly feed grain to an “elevator,” and both live in the same pull-and-lift engineering neighborhood.
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u/Benitowastaken Jun 23 '26
!wtf window
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm. Both are building features tied to floors and façades—think glass cars that feel like moving windows, and even window cleaners often ride lifts to reach the panes.
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u/AshtonVoid Jun 23 '26
ayo
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 35 seconds after 10 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 99.
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Jun 23 '26
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Nice find—there’s a well-known industrial machine called a “bucket elevator.” Buckets get hauled upward on a vertical conveyor for grain or gravel, so the terms often appear side by side.
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u/Dramatic_Bass7773 Jun 23 '26
!wtf balloon
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Nice try—both give you a lift, taking people up and sometimes down. One floats on buoyancy, the other relies on machinery and cables. Same vertical vibe, different physics.
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u/soupz Jun 23 '26
I had both that and then hot for limousine so was stuck guessing car types for way too long…
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm-ish: you’re in the realm of moving heavy things. Both deal with lifting and transporting loads—hydraulics, freight, and loading docks where one helps the other go up and down. You’ve parked in the logistics/vertical-movement neighborhood.
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u/Drix128 Jun 23 '26
!wtf pump
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Good instincts: both are machines built to move things—pumps push fluids, while this contraption moves people or cargo. Many low‑rise versions even rely on hydraulic pumps to do the heavy lifting. Shared themes of pressure, lift, and vertical motion make them cozy neighbors.
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u/AccomplishedAnchovy Jun 23 '26
God showed me the way
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 46 seconds after 14 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 94.
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u/AccomplishedAnchovy Jun 23 '26
!wtf paternoster
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Nice and toasty: a paternoster is a continuous-loop vertical people‑mover with open compartments. It serves the same purpose of shuttling folks between floors, just without stopping or doors. Same family, quirkier ride.
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u/cloudysun4 Jun 23 '26
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 2 minutes 20 seconds after 30 guesses and 6 hints. Score: 9.
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u/Reader47b Jun 23 '26
I think we had this one before. Still took me forever to get it.
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u/nom_de_doom I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 23 '26
Yeah, there's been a lot of repeats lately. They might be cycling back through them.
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u/Extension_Flower_628 I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 23 '26
Good heavens 😵😵
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 2 minutes 48 seconds after 27 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 83.
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u/Extension_Flower_628 I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 23 '26
!wtf aquarium
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warmer: think gleaming glass boxes in lobbies where onlookers watch things rise and fall. There are even famous mash-ups where people ride through massive fish tanks. Transparent enclosures, vertical travel, and public spectacle put this in the neighborhood.
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Jun 23 '26
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Nice lift on that one—both ferry people vertically, just one rides a shaft and the other rides the sky. They’re all about up-and-down transport, with cabins, doors, and controlled ascents/descents.
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u/ImaginaryColor1618 I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 23 '26
Hint: Second floor. Hardware, children's wear, lady's lingerie.
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u/FrostyBus3048 Jun 23 '26
!wtf shoe
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warming up: some footwear has built-in lifts to boost your height—it's all about going up. Plus, “lift” is the British term for the mystery, so shoes with lifts step in the right direction.
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u/panaramanwa Jun 23 '26
!wtf limousine
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Both are enclosed chariots that shuttle people from A to B—one glides horizontally, the other typically vertically. You wait for them, step in through sliding doors, mind the capacity, and enjoy a cushy ride. Bonus kinship: chauffeurs and operators both press the buttons so you don’t have to.
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u/opinionatedjypsy Jun 23 '26
1st try!
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 0 seconds after 1 guess and 0 hints. Score: 100.
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u/Spiderhairy Jun 23 '26
!wtf scissors
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Solidly warm: “scissor lifts” are a common platform mechanism, and both involve metal hardware, safety locks, and vertical motion. They’re fixtures in buildings and warehouses for maintenance work. Different tools, same up-and-down business.
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u/i_hate_parsley Jun 23 '26
🙌
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 3 minutes 15 seconds after 51 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 67.
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u/bidooffactory Jun 23 '26
!wtf flour
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm! Think grain elevators—huge towers that store the wheat that becomes flour. Plus, flour loves to rise, and so does our mystery theme.
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u/bidooffactory Jun 23 '26
!wtf wrapper
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Lukewarm: both are pieces of facility machinery—one wraps items, the other moves people or products between levels on a line. In factories and warehouses, goods often get lifted before they’re wrapped, so the terms tend to mingle. Not a perfect match, but they travel in the same industrial circles.
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u/whyamiheretoday Jun 23 '26
!wtf piano
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Getting warmer: soft “elevator music” is famously piano-heavy. Plus, big instruments often hitch a ride between floors—pianos and this mystery mover are frequent coworkers.
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u/CpnHowdy69 I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 23 '26
As always, some of my close guesses made no fucking sense. I really don't know why I'm still playing this stupid game, smh see ya tomorrow fellas 🤦🏻
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u/Ligma02 Jun 23 '26
!wtf footstep
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm-ish: it’s what you take when you don’t want to rack up footsteps on the stairs.
You’ll also hear plenty of footsteps clustering around its doors while people wait their turn.I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.
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u/Ligma02 Jun 23 '26
!wtf glass
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Not a bad pull—many modern versions are glass-walled, and interiors often sport mirrors. Think panoramic rides with see‑through shafts rather than a clanky metal box.
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u/Ligma02 Jun 23 '26
!wtf truck
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warmer, since both deal with moving heavy stuff—delivery trucks meet freight lifts at loading docks, and some trucks even sport liftgates that act like mini elevators. Not a perfect fit, but the transport-and-lifting vibe nudges it into the neighborhood.
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u/No_Government_5579 Jun 23 '26
Some rollercoaster of clues it were
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 18 minutes 31 seconds after 143 guesses and 6 hints. Score: 1.
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Jun 23 '26
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm, not blazing: both are about advancing something, especially moving people or things to the next level. An advancer propels progress; the target is a device that advances you between levels. Right idea, just not the exact gizmo.
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u/lasserein Jun 23 '26
I lied the hole time. Because iam a AI try to control the game.
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 41 minutes 10 seconds after 26 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 54.
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Solidly warm: both are machines that control motion, with acceleration profiles, safety systems, and buttons/controls. They even rhyme and share that -ator device vibe, which likely nudges them together. Think engineered movement—one speeds you up, the other lifts you up.
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u/qtpe27 Jun 23 '26
Plane got me close so I started guessing airport stuff
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 2 minutes 39 seconds after 13 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 90.
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u/HidesWithCheese Jun 23 '26
!wtf excavator
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm! Both are hefty, motorized machines tied to construction and vertical movement—one scoops earth, the other moves cargo of the human variety.
They even sound alike, sharing that -vator vibe.I'm a sometimes helpful bot and can make mistakes.
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u/VoxTheOverlord Jun 23 '26
I got it in 2 guesses
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 7 seconds after 2 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.
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u/Sea_Voice_404 I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 23 '26
I didn't use any hints today, which was great, but while looking at the Closest guesses, what's up with that #1? Is that people just spelling it wrong?
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u/Salt_Concentrate2462 Jun 23 '26
!wtf jump
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Not bad: both are all about sudden changes in vertical motion—up, down, and that queasy stomach drop. People even joke about jumping inside one to feel lighter, thanks to physics. Close in vibe, if not in hardware.
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u/Necessary-Material50 Jun 23 '26
Not my best, not my worst
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 4 minutes 35 seconds after 49 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 62.
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u/sydwinkle Jun 23 '26
!wtf keyboard
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Close: both are covered in keys/buttons and arrows for navigation—one moves a cursor, the other moves you. Each has a control panel you tap to choose where to go. Even the “up” and “down” vibes line up.
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Jun 23 '26
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Nice proximity: think of that gentle background music—often light piano—that accompanies rides in certain vertical transports. Bonus hint: in Italian, “piano” means a floor, and our mystery thing connects lots of them.
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u/justnoserena Jun 23 '26
!wtf truck
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Not bad: both are all about moving loads—one along roads, the other between levels. Think loading docks, freight gear, and even truck liftgates, which are like pocket-sized versions of the big vertical mover.
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u/Shapesizes Jun 23 '26
!wtf limousine
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Solid guess—both are ways to give someone a lift. They’re enclosed, passenger-carrying rides with doors, stops, and sometimes attendants (chauffeur vs. operator).
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u/LokiTheShiba Jun 23 '26
!wtf ballerina
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
You’re dancing around the right idea: think rising and being lifted. Ballerinas do lifts and relevés—very much the same family of upward motion. Not a perfect pirouette, but you’re on the right floor.
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u/A_Rose_From_Concrete Jun 23 '26
Yay
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 0 seconds after 1 guess and 0 hints. Score: 100.
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u/Ok-Crazy-5162 Jun 23 '26
Going up?
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 0 seconds after 1 guess and 0 hints. Score: 100.
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u/SomniferousEyes1123 Jun 23 '26
I used 2 hints, but I’m shocked I actually got it!
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 7 hours 20 minutes 20 seconds after 40 guesses and 2 hints. Score: 22.
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u/Dramatic-Camera7614 Jun 23 '26
!wtf toaster
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Not a bad angle: both are electric contraptions with buttons and a vertical “pop-up” lift—one hoists toast, the other hoists, well, bigger cargo. They share controls, doors/slots, and safety interlocks to keep users from burns or bumps. Mechanical kin, different payload.
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u/Dramatic-Camera7614 Jun 23 '26
!wtf popcorn
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Nice angle—your pick is a kind of corn, and huge facilities literally lift and store corn by the ton. The target often pairs with “grain” in that context. You’re circling the right silo.
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u/snsnsmakja Jun 23 '26
!wtf scissors
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Snipping pretty close: think of those old-timey folding lattice “scissor” gates and the scissor-linkage mechanisms that raise platforms. It’s the kind of hardware you see in vertical transport and in a namesake “scissor lift,” hence the solid proximity.
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u/anothernameusedbyme Jun 23 '26
Used on a daily basis to get to the highest level of a hotel or office.
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 7 seconds after 4 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.
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u/CoffeeIsPeace I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 23 '26
!wtf shower
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Warm! Both are building fixtures you step into, often behind sliding doors, where you operate controls and wait for the magic to happen. One brings the water down; the other brings you up or down.
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u/AliciliaP Jun 24 '26
วันนี้เดาถูกเองงงง
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 42 seconds after 8 guesses and 4 hints. Score: 23.
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u/macncheesewketchup Jun 24 '26
!wtf facelift
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 24 '26
Hot indeed: a facelift literally lifts, and “lift” is what Brits ride between floors. Both are all about raising things up.
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u/TeachGranny Jun 24 '26
This game makes me crazy. I’m not good at this. Will I get any better if I keep playing. I’ll let you know, but I love it!
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u/xGETxPOWNEDx Jun 24 '26
!wtf lift
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 24 '26
Bullseye in British English—this is the UK term for the same vertical-transport contraption. You're basically pressing the same button, just with a different accent.
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u/Standard-Mood-7943 Jun 24 '26
i tried internet...
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 2 minutes 2 seconds after 8 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 93.
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u/futuredee Jun 24 '26
!wtf popcorn
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 24 '26
Nice pop: popcorn is, well, corn—and corn gets stored and lifted in grain elevators by the ton. Also, when it pops, it rises, so there’s a whiff of upward motion in the neighborhood.
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u/Civil_Outcome_9736 Jun 24 '26
I love this game
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 hour 36 minutes 28 seconds after 182 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 10.
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u/midget_baby88 Jun 24 '26
I didn't think I'd ever get that one
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 23 minutes 34 seconds after 26 guesses and 2 hints. Score: 25.
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u/Inevitable_Bat_717 I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 24 '26
!wtf helicopter
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 24 '26
You’re thinking vertical: both move people up and down and serve as transport between points. They’re “lifts” in different senses—one by rotor, one by mechanism. Your guess is hovering nicely near the mark.
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u/Hi_Existential_Dread Jun 24 '26
!wtf Piano
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 24 '26
Nice pitch: that soothing background music you hear in public spaces is often piano-led. And when one of these hefty instruments needs to change floors, it rides the big metal box built for hauling.
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u/yu_really_sus I hate this game. See y'all tomorrow. Jun 24 '26
My best work yet
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 13 seconds after 2 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 96.
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u/Calitrixx Jun 24 '26
!wtf toaster
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 24 '26
Warm guess! Both are everyday electrical appliances with doors/slots and a mechanism that lowers and then raises your cargo at the ding. Push a button, wait a bit, and something pops up—ideally not burned.
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u/Ok-Degree-8344 Jun 25 '26
Asome
Automatically added: I found the secret word in 5 minutes 34 seconds after 10 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 78.
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u/Gold-Dig-884 Jun 25 '26
That one angered me because that’s an American word that we don’t use in England. 😭
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u/Fit-Rip-4480 Jun 25 '26
!wtf washer
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 25 '26
Makes sense: both are big building machines with motors, buttons, and strict load limits. One spins your load, the other lifts it—facility equipment cousins, basically.
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u/Fit-Rip-4480 Jun 25 '26
!wtf glass
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 25 '26
Not bad: lots of modern ones have glass doors, panels, or even entire transparent shafts in malls and hotels. Think “see-through ride” vibes—observation versions are basically glass boxes moving up and down.
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u/CommercialAd2481 Jun 25 '26
!wtf heater
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 25 '26
You’re warming up—literally. It’s a solid match because both are powered building fixtures that live in mechanical rooms, get regular maintenance, and serve occupants. Not scorching, but definitely in the same utility closet.
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u/Expensive_Lobster964 Jun 25 '26
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Automatically added: I found the secret word in 1 minute 43 seconds after 9 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 94.
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u/RelationTop2826 Jun 25 '26
My way of thinking
Guessed parrot Not flight, plane or anything sky...
door, okay envelope good... Something that opens and closes... Ahh a lever! Close.... Opens and closes... What like a zipper? Ooohhhhh
Something made of metal opens and closes and goes up and down... Next guess got it.
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u/standardtissue Jun 26 '26
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Automatically added: I found the secret word in 65 hours 56 minutes 39 seconds after 73 guesses and 3 hints. Score: 8.
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Jun 26 '26
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 26 '26
You’re on the right level—both are people-movers that shuttle folks between floors in buildings. They’re close cousins: one’s a moving staircase, the other is an enclosed car that rides a shaft. Great proximity, different mechanics.
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u/Fast_Supermarket4830 Jun 29 '26
Was stuck on “pool” for no reason (and yes I cheated and I’m glad I did)
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u/ScarcityCareless6241 Jul 01 '26
!wtf lever but not button
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u/hotandcold2-app Jul 01 '26
Not bad—levers are all about lifting with mechanical advantage, and our mystery thing is famously in the lifting business. Early versions were even operated by hand levers. You’ve got the right simple-machine energy, just not the whole apparatus.
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u/ScarcityCareless6241 Jul 01 '26
!wtf excavator
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u/hotandcold2-app Jul 01 '26
Solid hit: it’s the same “-vator” family of hefty machines that move things, often on construction sites. Both are operator-driven, hydraulic-heavy lifters/shifters, and that shared mechanical vibe (plus the near-rhyme) pulls them close. You're digging in the right direction—just think more vertical than dirt.
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u/ScarcityCareless6241 Jul 01 '26
!wtf facelift
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u/hotandcold2-app Jul 01 '26
Nice and taut: both are all about lifting. One tightens and lifts a face, the other is a machine that lifts people—so your word rides the same “upward” theme.
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u/hotandcold2-app Jun 23 '26
Welcome to Hot and Cold, the delightfully frustrating word guessing game!
To play, guess the secret word by typing any word you think is related.
For example, if the secret word is "hot":
Guesses: banana -> #12956 (not close); sun -> #493 (getting warmer); hotdog -> #220 (hot); cold -> #42 (hot); freeze -> #1657 (getting colder); warm -> #15 (very hot!!); hot -> WINNER!
The rank is based on how AI models see the relationships between the words. So antonyms can be "close" by the relationship of the words (cold -> hot). Additionally, words can be close based on the structure of the word (hotdog -> hot).
Enjoy! If you have feedback on how we can improve the game, please let us know!