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Title: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 19 June, 2023, 05:46:16 am

https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

Connections (Puzzle #8)
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Great!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 19 June, 2023, 05:00:31 pm

Connections (Puzzle #8)
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Perfect!

It took a bit of head scratching to suss the greens* and I admit I didn't spot the connection on the purples* before I hit submit, but then I didn't need to.


*is this game colour-blind friendly?

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 19 June, 2023, 05:50:12 pm

Connections (Puzzle #8)
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Perfect!

I'm 7 for 7 on this one. I wouldn't have got the purples if they hadn't been all that was left, IYSWIM.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Hot Flatus on 19 June, 2023, 06:45:38 pm

Connections (Puzzle #8)
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Perfect!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 20 June, 2023, 06:13:43 am

Connections (Puzzle #9)
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
Perfect!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 21 June, 2023, 04:34:25 am

Connections (Puzzle #10)
🟨🟦🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Great!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 21 June, 2023, 12:27:09 pm

Got the supposedly hard ones straight away today but cocked up on the easier ones...

Connections (Puzzle #10)
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟦🟦🟦
🟦🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
Solid!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 21 June, 2023, 03:33:18 pm

Connections (Puzzle #10)
🟦🟨🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Great!

Quite like that one.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 22 June, 2023, 05:59:48 am

Connections (Puzzle #11)
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
Perfect!

I couldn’t get the green connection even when I knew they were all that were left.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 22 June, 2023, 06:29:39 am

Quote from: Gaston Lagaffe on 22 June, 2023, 05:59:48 am

I couldn’t get the green connection even when I knew they were all that were left.

I worked out the connection but one of them I’m not familiar with in that sense. Dictionary says it’s an American usage. Fair enough.

Connections
Puzzle #11
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 22 June, 2023, 09:36:10 am

Connections (Puzzle #11)
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
Perfect!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 22 June, 2023, 11:21:18 am

Connections
Puzzle #11
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩


I am entertained by those who got the purple before the yellow.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 22 June, 2023, 12:17:20 pm

Quote from: L CC on 22 June, 2023, 11:21:18 am

Connections
Puzzle #11
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩


I am entertained by those who got the purple before the yellow.

My excuse your honour is that I worked out some of the other groups first. Honest!  ;D

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 22 June, 2023, 04:16:53 pm

Connections
Puzzle #11
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩

For those who want to practise, or create, there's this: https://puzzgrid.com/ (https://puzzgrid.com/)

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 22 June, 2023, 06:06:53 pm

Quote from: L CC on 22 June, 2023, 11:21:18 am

I am entertained by those who got the purple before the yellow.

It amused me to do so.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 23 June, 2023, 05:21:24 am

Connections (Puzzle #12)
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
Perfect!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 23 June, 2023, 01:22:00 pm

Connections
Puzzle #12
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 24 June, 2023, 05:46:31 am

It beat me today🥲

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 24 June, 2023, 06:44:12 pm

Connections
Puzzle #13
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 24 June, 2023, 07:31:36 pm

Quote from: Gaston Lagaffe on 24 June, 2023, 05:46:31 am

It beat me today🥲

Tricky one today.

Connections
Puzzle #13
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 24 June, 2023, 09:45:53 pm

Connections
Puzzle #13
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 June, 2023, 09:53:29 pm

Connections
Puzzle #13
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

What is the significance of the different colours?

Ah ... yellow is supposed to be "easy". That's why I couldn't do it until it was all that was left.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 24 June, 2023, 10:25:36 pm

Connections
Puzzle #13
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Tricksy

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 June, 2023, 12:42:17 am

Connections
Puzzle #14
🟩🟩🟪🟩
🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 25 June, 2023, 03:29:45 am

Connections
Puzzle #14
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨


That was very tricky. Took ages today, and bit of luck methinks.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 25 June, 2023, 08:42:03 am

Connections
Puzzle #14
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Yes, had to do some research

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 25 June, 2023, 08:44:13 am

Connections
Puzzle #14
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Yes, had to do some research

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 25 June, 2023, 09:38:12 am

No research needed. Got the purples and greens straight away, had to think about the yellows and blues a bit and make educated guesses. Never heard of two of the blues but have owned the other two.

Connections
Puzzle #14
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 25 June, 2023, 06:54:26 pm

Connections
Puzzle #14
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Had to think a little about these. Blue and yellow easy though.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 26 June, 2023, 06:33:41 am

Connections
Puzzle #15
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦


Need to think more before rushing in.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 26 June, 2023, 08:30:38 am

🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 26 June, 2023, 09:26:13 am

Quote from: Gaston Lagaffe on 26 June, 2023, 06:33:41 am

Need to think more before rushing in.

The blues were tricky today - the connection was obvious but it was only when I saw the purples that I knew which red herring to eliminate. It looks like you made the same mistake as me!

Connections
Puzzle #15
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 26 June, 2023, 10:01:40 am

Connections
Puzzle #15
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟪🟦🟦🟦


 :-[

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 26 June, 2023, 10:52:40 am

Connections
Puzzle #15
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

My error with the blue category gave me the clue I needed for the purple.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 June, 2023, 11:09:41 am

Connections
Puzzle #15
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟪🟪🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

(click to show/hide)

As a retired angler, I take issue with that group: three of them are items of fishing tackle. "Tackle" is the collective noun for anything technical you might need for the purpose of angling.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 26 June, 2023, 11:15:14 am

Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 June, 2023, 11:09:41 am

(click to show/hide)

As a retired angler, I take issue with that group: three of them are items of fishing tackle. "Tackle" is the collective noun for anything technical you might need for the purpose of angling.

I used the same reasoning for my first guess at that group.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 26 June, 2023, 08:57:24 pm

Me too. I agree with Wowbagger 😳

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 27 June, 2023, 12:15:22 am

Connections
Puzzle #16
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Yellow was easy, but until I got purple, green was always going to be a guess. TBH I didn’t get blue until it told me. 😩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 27 June, 2023, 08:41:46 am

Connections
Puzzle #16
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I hadn't worked out purple at all

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 27 June, 2023, 10:13:51 am

Connections
Puzzle #16
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟪🟪🟪
🟪🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

I should have thought more methodically  :-\

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 27 June, 2023, 12:08:14 pm

Connections
Puzzle #16
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟪🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 June, 2023, 12:16:26 pm

Connections
Puzzle #16
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Well, that last group totally baffled me. Still does.

Edit: Ah! USAnian.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 28 June, 2023, 06:04:20 am

Connections
Puzzle #17
🟨🟨🟩🟨
🟨🟩🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦


The green seemed too obvious. Thought it was a trap.

It obviously helps if you’re USAian for the blue. Didn’t get it at all.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 28 June, 2023, 10:19:18 am

Blue is very USA specific.

Connections
Puzzle #17
🟨🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 28 June, 2023, 11:34:08 am

Connections
Puzzle #17
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 28 June, 2023, 02:20:00 pm

Connections
Puzzle #17
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

I had no idea what the blue ones were.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 June, 2023, 06:51:01 pm

Failed today. This is one puzzle when having what is normally a great advantage suddenly becomes a handicap.

(click to show/hide)

Not being USAnian.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 29 June, 2023, 05:37:50 am

Connections
Puzzle #18
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪


Unsurprisingly I didn’t get the purple.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 June, 2023, 06:48:39 am

Connections
Puzzle #18
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟪🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Never heard of any of the last two groups. Trial and error. See comment 46.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 29 June, 2023, 08:06:49 am

Connections
Puzzle #18
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I knew the blue, not the purple.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 29 June, 2023, 09:30:06 am

Connections
Puzzle #18
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟪🟦🟪
🟦🟪🟪🟦
🟦🟦🟪🟦
🟦🟪🟪🟦

Fail today. Not American enough  :-\

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 29 June, 2023, 09:34:30 am

Connections
Puzzle #18
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

(click to show/hide)

I watch/shared a house with people who watched a lot of crap American TV

Wouldn't have had a clue on the purples

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 29 June, 2023, 09:50:33 am

What this seems to me missing is the 'wordy' connections - eg homophones, all the words contain a mammal, add one letter to get the name of country etc.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 29 June, 2023, 09:55:59 am

It's a beta. Did you see the article from the puzzle-setter?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/crosswords/new-game-connections.html

(might be paywalled, sorry)

We might struggle with any USAnian homophones too...

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 29 June, 2023, 10:37:24 pm

Not American, just a popular culture junkie...

Connections
Puzzle #18
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

(click to show/hide)

I used to follow the NFL but they've added more teams since then - the Commanders are new to me but they seemed the most likely candidate of the remaining words. Quinn and the non-American spelling of Grey were the ones that tipped me off what the blue group might be.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 June, 2023, 10:48:53 pm

Something which crossed my mind after today's puzzle - for the mathematicians amongst you: today, I sorted out two groups in my first two guesses, but was clueless thereafter. By sheer luck, I managed to solve the puzzle at the last gasp.

Given that the software tells you if you inadvertently attempt the same incorrect guess twice (I found this out this morning) what is the probability of finding the last two groups by chance?

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Deano on 29 June, 2023, 11:07:16 pm

Think I'll not bother with this any more, it's fine them copying UK quiz shows, but the connections aren't as interesting as the Only Connect ones, where it's words or word elements or sounds or other things that take a bit of lateral thinking. It's just a bit dull.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: citoyen on 29 June, 2023, 11:10:39 pm

Agreed. Only Connect has wit and flair. I've done this one a few times but it hasn't really caught my imagination.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 30 June, 2023, 07:59:00 am

Connections
Puzzle #19
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟨🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨


Guess 3 was a mistake.  :facepalm:

It is proving rather dull todays was pretty easy although bizarrely didn’t see the yellow until the end.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 June, 2023, 09:37:44 am

Connections
Puzzle #19
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

(click to show/hide)

I didn’t know that eggshell and vanilla were words used for colour.  I suspected this was a group of types of China.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 30 June, 2023, 10:34:23 am

Connections
Puzzle #19
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

So hardest to easiest, apparently.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 30 June, 2023, 11:06:39 am

Connections
Puzzle #19
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Pretty easy today. Maybe someone had a word?

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 02 July, 2023, 07:57:18 pm

Connections
Puzzle #21
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪


I'm continuing through a sense of completionism rather than any enjoyment

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 03 July, 2023, 06:15:24 am

Connections
Puzzle #22
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪


Todays was dead easy, although I didn’t get the purple connection.

The last two beat me tbh.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 July, 2023, 05:35:25 pm

Connections
Puzzle #22
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 04 July, 2023, 08:10:11 am

Connections
Puzzle #23
🟩🟩🟩🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 July, 2023, 10:23:01 pm

Connections
Puzzle #25
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Hot Flatus on 07 July, 2023, 06:05:58 am

Connections
Puzzle #26
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 07 July, 2023, 07:43:47 am

Connections
Puzzle #26
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪


Purple. Really!!!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 07 July, 2023, 09:48:20 am

Connections
Puzzle #26
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I had no idea about the purple one either! The last few day's puzzles have been quite easy, today's particularly so (despite the last row).

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 July, 2023, 11:28:19 am

Connections
Puzzle #26
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟦🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

(click to show/hide)

I spotted that the four "purple" words had only one vowel, an "i", but didn't think about the extension of that point, into Roman numerals. I left "Holland" out of the EU countries by chance, and it was only then that I started to google people with a first name of Tom. I found a Tom Dill in Wikipedia as well, so that wasn't entirely helfpul. I'd heard of Tom Cruise, but none of the others.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Legs on 08 July, 2023, 07:44:23 am

 Connections
Puzzle #27
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
Particularly easy today.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 08 July, 2023, 02:18:07 pm

Connections
Puzzle #27
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Aye, took all of a couple of minutes.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 09 July, 2023, 05:49:55 am

Wow. Even easier today.

Connections
Puzzle #28
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 10 July, 2023, 07:44:59 am

Dead easy again but I wouldn’t have got the blue without google but didn’t need it. 

Connections
Puzzle #29
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 11 July, 2023, 06:24:30 am

More difficult today.

Connections
Puzzle #30
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟩🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 July, 2023, 01:14:49 pm

Connections
Puzzle #30
🟦🟩🟦🟦
🟦🟩🟦🟦
🟪🟨🟪🟪
🟪🟨🟪🟨

All guesswork. Didn't know any of them.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 11 July, 2023, 03:34:20 pm

Connections
Puzzle #30
🟦🟩🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 July, 2023, 12:33:55 am

Connections
Puzzle #31
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 12 July, 2023, 10:39:23 am

Connections
Puzzle #31
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

(click to show/hide)

Do you think being an i-device user made the blue more obvious?

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 12 July, 2023, 12:51:32 pm

Connections
Puzzle #31
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

(click to show/hide)

Probably 😇

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 13 July, 2023, 06:07:01 am

Connections
Puzzle #32
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 14 July, 2023, 05:44:23 am

Connections
Puzzle #33
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 14 July, 2023, 12:53:35 pm

Connections
Puzzle #33
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 15 July, 2023, 06:28:55 am

Connections
Puzzle #34
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Legs on 15 July, 2023, 07:48:32 am

Connections
Puzzle #34
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Rather a good one today - lots of overlapping categories.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 16 July, 2023, 05:32:13 am

Connections
Puzzle #35
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Yellow and green too easy.

I made the wrong connection on blue but got lucky.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 July, 2023, 07:44:50 am

Connections
Puzzle #35
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

(click to show/hide)

No idea what a “lucky charm marshmallow” is. I had previously been looking for a fourth crescent shape.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 16 July, 2023, 07:32:19 pm

Connections
Puzzle #35
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 18 July, 2023, 09:01:15 am

Connections
Puzzle #37
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Easy one today, especially for YACFers.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 18 July, 2023, 03:19:52 pm

Connections
Puzzle #37
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 :facepalm:

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 20 July, 2023, 12:31:37 am

Yesterdays beat me although I’d guessed two of the connections correctly.

Connections
Puzzle #39
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was way harder, but somehow got  a clean sheet.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 20 July, 2023, 09:33:18 am

Quote from: Gaston Lagaffe on 20 July, 2023, 12:31:37 am

Yesterdays beat me although I’d guessed two of the connections correctly.

Same

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 21 July, 2023, 06:34:29 am

Connections
Puzzle #40
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Easy one today.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 July, 2023, 12:35:23 am

Connections
Puzzle #41
🟨🟦🟦🟩
🟪🟩🟪🟪
🟪🟩🟪🟨
🟪🟩🟪🟪

No chance with those.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 22 July, 2023, 07:59:57 am

Connections
Puzzle #41
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 23 July, 2023, 07:06:45 am

Connections
Puzzle #42
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 24 July, 2023, 07:46:26 am

Connections
Puzzle #43
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Pretty easy today

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Legs on 24 July, 2023, 11:04:43 am

Connections
Puzzle #43
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 24 July, 2023, 11:25:47 am

Connections
Puzzle #43
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 25 July, 2023, 06:42:18 am

Connections
Puzzle #44
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟪🟦


Resorted to to wildly guessing blue.  North Americanism I’ve never heard used.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Nuncio on 25 July, 2023, 08:22:46 am

Connections
Puzzle #44
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Whereas its a word I know from listening to US politics podcasts.

(click to show/hide)

Good to see some more 'wordy' ones creeping in - eg today's anagrams

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 July, 2023, 11:48:19 am

Connections
Puzzle #44
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 25 July, 2023, 12:01:50 pm

Connections
Puzzle #44
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟪🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟨🟦🟦
🟨🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2023, 01:39:17 am

Connections
Puzzle #45
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟦🟪🟪
🟪🟪🟦🟪
🟩🟪🟪🟪
🟪🟦🟪🟪

All far too USAnian for me.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 26 July, 2023, 04:17:46 am

Me too

Connections
Puzzle #45
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟪🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2023, 12:43:27 am

Connections
Puzzle #46
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟪🟩
🟩🟪🟩🟩

(click to show/hide)

A triumph of total ignorance of three of the four topics.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 27 July, 2023, 04:44:38 pm

Absolute shitshow

Connections
Puzzle #46
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟪🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2023, 06:16:51 pm

The sort of knowledge required to solve that puzzle is a form of anti-knowledge - you are better-informed if you don't know it than if you do.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2023, 06:08:24 am

Connections
Puzzle #47
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Straightforward today.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 28 July, 2023, 07:01:47 am

Connections
Puzzle #47
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 29 July, 2023, 07:37:15 am

Connections
Puzzle #48
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Way too obvious today.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: JellyLegs on 29 July, 2023, 10:29:53 am

First go at this puzzle today.  Luckily for me, the fourth group of 4 gets itself as I had zero inkling of the connection between them.

Connections
Puzzle #48
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 July, 2023, 12:37:53 am

Connections
Puzzle #49
🟦🟩🟨🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

(click to show/hide)

Too much bloody Disney!

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 30 July, 2023, 06:36:12 am

Connections
Puzzle #49
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 July, 2023, 12:02:32 am

Connections
Puzzle #50
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟩
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 31 July, 2023, 09:03:20 am

Connections
Puzzle #50
🟨🟪🟨🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Rushed in 😩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Hot Flatus on 31 July, 2023, 09:11:50 am

Connections
Puzzle #50
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 August, 2023, 06:55:57 am

Connections
Puzzle #51
🟩🟨🟦🟨
🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟨🟩🟦
🟦🟪🟨🟦

Another spectacular success there. I’ll be impressed if anyone not USAnian will get those.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 01 August, 2023, 07:16:40 am

No chance for me.

It took a bit of Google to get green and yellow.

Connections
Puzzle #51
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟩🟦🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟦🟪
🟦🟪🟦🟪
🟪🟦🟪🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 01 August, 2023, 08:51:34 am

Connections
Puzzle #51
🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪


I thought that was pretty straightforward. Only the yellow is very USAnian.

(click to show/hide)

I should have remembered it's grindr not grinder

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 01 August, 2023, 08:53:06 am

Quote from: Wowbagger on 01 August, 2023, 06:55:57 am

I’ll be impressed if anyone not USAnian will get those.

Ooooo I may have impressed the mighty Wow  ;D

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 August, 2023, 09:48:17 am

Quote from: L CC on 01 August, 2023, 08:53:06 am

Quote from: Wowbagger on 01 August, 2023, 06:55:57 am

I’ll be impressed if anyone not USAnian will get those.

Ooooo I may have impressed the mighty Wow  ;D

You have always impressed me!  :-*

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 August, 2023, 01:21:29 am

Connections
Puzzle #52
🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 02 August, 2023, 07:04:53 am

Connections
Puzzle #52
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟦🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Hot Flatus on 02 August, 2023, 07:10:55 am

Connections
Puzzle #52
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 August, 2023, 12:15:09 am

Connections
Puzzle #53
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟩🟦🟦
🟦🟩🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 03 August, 2023, 04:02:38 am

Connections
Puzzle #53
🟦🟩🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Jaded on 03 August, 2023, 07:54:47 am

Connections
Puzzle #53
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 03 August, 2023, 09:04:47 am

Connections
Puzzle #53
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 04 August, 2023, 05:21:28 am

Connections
Puzzle #54
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 August, 2023, 07:55:59 am

Connections
Puzzle #54
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Last two were pure guesswork

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Jaded on 04 August, 2023, 08:41:43 am

Connections
Puzzle #54
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟦🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Norty.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Hot Flatus on 04 August, 2023, 08:47:55 am

Connections
Puzzle #54
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 05 August, 2023, 05:49:29 am

Connections
Puzzle #55
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪


That was bloody difficult. 

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Jaded on 05 August, 2023, 08:40:04 am

Connections
Puzzle #55
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

In the end, pretty stratghtforward.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 06 August, 2023, 01:54:49 am

Connections
Puzzle #56
🟩🟦🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟦🟩
🟩🟨🟦🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟪🟨

Disaster today even though I’d correctly identified 3 of the connections.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 07 August, 2023, 04:49:08 am

Connections
Puzzle #57
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 August, 2023, 12:27:57 am

Connections
Puzzle #62
🟩🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Recent puzzles have been a waste of effort but that was cleverly put together.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Jaded on 12 August, 2023, 09:09:10 am

That didn't take ling. should have thought a bit harder.

Connections
Puzzle #62
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Jaded on 15 August, 2023, 07:31:50 am

Connections
Puzzle #65
🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Gaston Lagaffe on 07 September, 2023, 08:27:10 am

Bizzare one today. Not really connections. IMHO

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: L CC on 07 September, 2023, 08:41:06 am

Connections
Puzzle #88
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Indeed.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Jaded on 12 September, 2023, 01:20:36 pm

Connections
Puzzle #93
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Title: Re: Connections
Post by: arabella on 24 October, 2023, 09:32:53 am

My son pointed us at this.
The dozen or so we tried were either not-that-hard or contained americanisms/USA cultural references which required guesswork.
So it's back to the killer sudoku for me :-)

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 October, 2023, 11:28:35 am

Yes, I still try it every day but I doubt my success rate is better than 50%. There are far too many USAnianisms, especially referring to popular culture, which are totally beyond my experience.

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Woofage on 24 October, 2023, 12:14:09 pm

I get it most days, but I admit to having to look up some Leftpondian terms :-[

Todays' was straightforward though  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Connections
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 October, 2023, 12:25:26 pm

I don't care enough to look stuff up. I'll just guess if I don't know after a few seconds. But yes, today's was straightforward.