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The Game Room
2021

Very straightforward. I saw purple right away.

Connections
Puzzle #859
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

2022

(Friday)
Connections
Puzzle #859
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

Blue and purple were both trivially easy, yellow I only hesitated on because I wasn’t sure how to phrase the connection, and green I only got by process of elimination (I was thinking it’d be “things on a refrigerator”, or something).

2023

Connections
Puzzle #860
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::blue_square::yellow_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::blue_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:

Had a little trouble with yellow because I kept including

Cruise.

Once I looked at the other clues, I got the reverse rainbow easily.

2024

Connections
Puzzle #860
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
Saw blue right away, pruple took a little thinking, and only one horrible Americanism overall.

2025

First time I had all 16 sorted without submitting any guesses

Connections
Puzzle #860
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

2026

Embarrassed to say the yellow got me also. I made three mistakes there and then failed with a fourth mistake elsewhere.

2027

Yellow kicked my butt, too.

2028

Sunday’s was pretty good, though I failed to figure out Purple due to not knowing local confectionery names.

Puzzle #861
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

2029

Connections
Puzzle #861
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

Pretty easy. Not sure what it says about me that I got purple first, although I knew that

SKORT probably needed to drop or add a letter.

2030

Connections
Puzzle #861
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

Helps that my wife was recently in America and brought back certain items…

2031

I feel like similar categories have been used often enough that I’m starting to pick out the US-specific members of this particular group when they show up.

2032

Connections

Puzzle #861

:yellow_square::yellow_square::blue_square::yellow_square:

:purple_square::yellow_square::blue_square::yellow_square:

:yellow_square::blue_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:

:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:

:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

Managed it. Purple didn’t help that a Crunchy is a chocolate bar in the UK, not a Crunch.

2033

Pretty straightforward, except purple. I guess I’m a snob.

Connections
Puzzle #861
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

2034

Another Monday, and this was a clean sweep, including figuring out every category accurately. I liked the clever wordplay at its initial state.

Puzzle #862
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

2035

So how are people getting the next day’s puzzle so early, anyway?

2036

Through living in a place where it’s today

2037

It changes over at midnight local time. I play it at around 7am where I am, so it’s not even that early really.

2038

Connections
Puzzle #862
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

I didn’t get blue which is sad because

I majored in Chemistry. However, it was about 40 years ago.

2039

Connections
Puzzle #862
:green_square::green_square::green_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:

One mistake on Green but otherwise straighforward.

2040

Connections
Puzzle #862
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

Skill 95/99

The red herring was so up front and center as to be obvious.

Blue was leftovers I didn’t ponder long