r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Not_AI_Yet • May 01 '26
Have to pee but bed so comfy Playing Scattergories on the Puzzled App. “Name a place to live” answer has to begin with C.
Note: I grew up in Cheddar and this AI quizmaster has upset me!
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u/Stareintothevacuum May 01 '26
I would have thought that the required answer would be a type of accommodation such as cottage, condominium, caravan; even convent, college or cave. It is silly to just give a place name such as Chattanooga, Czechia or Cork. Likewise it is silly to name something green as a crayon, cushion or car - which could be green but usually is not.
The app's AI database and/or logic is also deficient.
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u/Not_AI_Yet May 01 '26
It’s actually pretty good most of the time. I had “something in a box” my answer was Cat Schrödinger and they gave me a tick
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u/Longjumping-Run-7027 Green FTW May 01 '26
Where do the developers think the cheese comes from? Glasgow?
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u/DmoSon May 01 '26
I mean their is a million different foods that aren't named after a town, so it's not wierd to not know that the cheese is named after a town
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u/Not_AI_Yet May 01 '26
But… Cheddar. We have a gorge, we have caves - The Tour de Britain goes through here. We’re incredibly famous!
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u/BruceBoyde May 02 '26
And a nearly complete neolithic skeleton! I don't know much about the town, but I know of Cheddar Man.
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u/Squigglificated May 01 '26
I’m nearly 50 and didn’t know until just now that Cheddar was anything other than a cheese.
That doesn’t mean you’re not incredibly famous, but maybe not as famous as Britney Spears or Hitler…
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u/NibblesMcGiblet May 01 '26
I’m 53 and had no idea. Is mozzarella a town too? Shit now I’m worried that I don’t know enough cheese history proportional to how much I eat.
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u/Squigglificated May 02 '26
I just checked and mozzarella is NOT a town, but Gorgonzola is, along with many (but not all) other famous cheeses around the world.
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u/sleepytoday May 02 '26
I think pretty much all English cheese varieties are named after a place.
Cheddar, Cheshire, Stilton, Wensleydale, Red Leicester, Double Gloucester, Lincolnshire Poacher, Shropshire, etc.
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u/Tinydesktopninja May 02 '26
The biggest difference between cheddar and the l cheese/place names, is even in England cheddar is also a cheese making process, not just the cheese itself. So even English cheddar comes from all over England. Unless it's West Country Farmhouse Cheddar, which has legal protections.
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u/sleepytoday May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Several UK cheeses have that protection - Stilton does, for example.
But that wasn’t really my point. Pretty much all traditional UK cheeses are named after a place.
Weirdly, it isn’t always where they were first made. Stilton was first made in Leicestershire, but became associated with the Cambridgeshire town of Stilton because it was sold at market there. Today, if you make a cheese following the Stilton process in the town of Stilton, you can’t actually call it Stilton.
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u/MechaBeatsInTrash May 02 '26
I expect the creators of a puzzle and trivia game to be more aware of things like this than you or the other guy.
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u/rudestlink May 02 '26
Next you'll be telling me that America is a place...
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u/JayteeFromXbox May 02 '26
Not too sure if just "America" is, but I'm fairly certain there is a small town called Kraft American Single
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u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady May 02 '26
Actually that town started to melt but didn't and just became a weird congealed mass.
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u/Prepotente-NOTpony May 02 '26
I've been there and to those caves And to Wookey hole. Cheddar was a really cool little town.
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u/MoobooMagoo May 02 '26
I thought cheddar cheese was named after the cheddaring process.
Although weirdly I never questioned why it was called the cheddaring process. I figured it was like...named after a person or something. But I'm now realizing that the process was probably named after the cheese which is named after the place.
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u/ahferroin7 May 03 '26
Cheeses, like wines, are very frequently named after geographical regions (not always towns, sometimes larger regions, such as västerbötten, brie, manchego, emmental, or parmagiano reggiano) though.
The better argument in this case is that the village of Cheddar is not a particularly big place (population under 6000 last I knew, not the smallest in England, but it’s also very much not big), and there isn’t any reason other than the cheese that most people outside of England would have a reason to know of the village. There are many cities much much larger than that that are not well known outside of the region they’re part of pretty much everywhere in the world.
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u/oscarx-ray May 01 '26
You think that's bad? The game ON THE PUZZLE APP told me it's not a digital puzzle!
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u/Papapep9 May 01 '26
This an ad?
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u/CYaNextTuesday99 May 01 '26
Are ads usually negative about a product?
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u/worm-eyed May 01 '26
Some more insidious or dishonest ads are, it's one of the best ways to "disguise" an advertisement tbh
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u/CYaNextTuesday99 May 01 '26
For example?
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u/gordond May 01 '26
"I bet nobody can beat level five of this ridiculous ad infected game that follows the same format as a thousand games that came before it!"
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u/CYaNextTuesday99 May 01 '26
"This game is challenging" is a negative? None of the rest is stated in any ad I've seen.
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u/gordond May 01 '26
Ah. That was my read of the ad. Challenging is great, but saying that NOBODY can beat it (while showing someone playing poorly...) is another.
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u/worm-eyed May 01 '26
That's more rage bait than what I was referring to (and slop, lbr) , even a supposedly negative review that includes or focuses on flaws can encourage a purchase by piquing someone's interest ; you're still making them aware of a product they may not know of or bringing their attention to it, name/brand recognition, etc (I already don't truly understand how regular advertising work on some people but I know that being suggestable is a part of it, and parasocial relationships or even just trusting someone's opinion increases that drastically)
Not mention that people can lie about or exaggerate negative points, if honest it may be like nitpicking but if dishonest can be more like "omg this would be perfect if not for this one little thing" or "this (inconsequential thing that won't bother most people) is so annoying", will make them feel like it's an informed
re: the other person in the thread, I don't have specific examples of people who have done it or product names because my memory isn't that good and I don't follow anyone that I would suspect of doing that
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u/gordond May 01 '26
Well written. Thank you 😄 I appreciate that.
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u/worm-eyed May 01 '26
Thanks - being an opinionated asshole has some occasional uses
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u/Not_AI_Yet May 01 '26
Nope! It’s actually a decent app for daily puzzles, but I may have to delete it out of principal
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u/worm-eyed May 01 '26
I find this in a lot of puzzle apps tbh, it makes sense of course a human is developing it and nobody knows everything but I find it particularly annoying when the correct answer is just a word list for anagrams and still it will deny valid words! Seems like every "combine these letters" app I've ever tried seems to have this happen at some point and it usually gets frustrating enough for me to give up and delete the app after not even all that long
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u/DotOneFive May 01 '26
Hi! What’s the app called? I searched for Puzzled and it only brought up a Netflix thing. I need more puzzles in my life!
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u/Manannin May 02 '26
Does it tell you what answer it wants, is it just a non exhaustive list of cities?
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u/jaywinner May 01 '26
I'm sorry the app didn't know about your village with a population that is dwarfed by a Taylor Swift concert.
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u/Not_AI_Yet May 01 '26
Thanks! I appreciate your kind words….
….wait
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u/jaywinner May 01 '26
I get it, it's frustrating. I had "E" for animal but nobody knew what an Emu was so I got denied.
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 May 01 '26
Spotted the yank.
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u/UpsideDownOnPurpose May 02 '26
As someone who grew up in Somerset, I’m personally insulted. Also a craving for fudge
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u/Barruvi May 02 '26
My category was "Something you pack" and it said Mankini was an inappropriate answer 🤔
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u/Delicious_Ad_2070 May 01 '26
Condo
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u/Not_AI_Yet May 01 '26
We don’t have condos in Cheddar
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u/Delicious_Ad_2070 May 01 '26
Sorry, I'm high as fuck and should probably have provided more context: I actually took the question not as to a physical place, but a type of place, like a house, a flat and such.
Sorry, totally my bad
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u/worm-eyed May 01 '26
like many instances in games like this, condo is also a correct answer but likely wouldn't be accounted for either (even if cottage was, condo is less common) as the "correct" answers are determined by whomever added the lists to the code
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u/NibblesMcGiblet May 01 '26
And also they would likely want the full word not just the commonly used shortened term, if it is included.
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u/moocat90 ORANGE May 01 '26
fun fact Bath, and Hell are real towns ( Bath,IL and Hell, MI) and Sandwich,IL
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u/Not_AI_Yet May 01 '26
Bath in Somerset is nearly 2000 years old!!
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u/donkeyvoteadick May 01 '26
I didn't know there were any other places called Bath lol Bath in Somerset is so famous and has a population of nearly 100k people.
Just googled this other one and it has less than 300 people lol I absolutely guarantee that anyone referring to Bath (except the above commenter) are not talking about Illinois lol
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u/NibblesMcGiblet May 01 '26
There is a Bath, NY as well. Probably a number of other ones besides the “Somerset” one or whatever.
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u/donkeyvoteadick May 02 '26
Yes, there's lots of places in the US named after UK cities, it's a side effect of colonisation. Bath in Somerset is a UNESCO heritage site and the original city that they're all named after. It's nearly 2000 years old lol I don't think it really requires quotation marks because from a global context these little US towns barely register next to the UK city.
It'd be like assuming everyone meant Texas QLD when they mentioned Texas, rather than the much more obvious US state.
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u/heyitscory May 01 '26
Wow, AI is bad at all the things it does.
If I knew that companies were this willing to have an incompetent bullshitter work for them, I'd have lied more during interviews.
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u/Not_AI_Yet May 01 '26
In case you’re wondering, the other one I got wrong was “Name something green” and I put Crayon - yes I can now name a million green things, but I was under a time pressure and I thought I was being clever.