Felt purple was easier than blue, but it seemed more a purple category than blue. I’m still terrible at guessing which of yellow and green are the more difficult. Yellow was almost tied with purple as most difficult, with 7% of solvers getting it as the first category.
Looking at the bot, I was completely wrong. Purple scored much much harder than blue. Easiest categories were green and blue. Yellow was almost tied with purple as most difficult, with 7% of solvers getting it as the first category.
In actual rugby-playing countries, I’m pretty sure the most common association would be with the various national teams first, and the only stripey-kit-wearing national team I can think of OTTOMH is Japan. And even theirs isn’t the horizontal stripes anymore.
a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
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It’s a specific style of shirt like a polo shirt. It doesn’t have to have stripes, but here they typically do. They’re considered “preppy” wear.
Yeah, but the annoying thing is that rugby is very much not an American thing. It’d be like if there was a cricket clue and the slant was some very American-only view of it.
It’s treated as a fashion term here, like the way polo shirt is. When you hear rugby shirt here, you generally think of stripes if you’re familiar with the term. It’s not referring to uniforms. It’s referring to a type of preppy casual shirt.
Now why stripes are associated with them, I have no idea. I just know that’s the first thing I think of when I hear someone say they’re looking for a rugby shirt. And I definitely don’t think of a team shirt or anything like that.
Connections
Puzzle #890
Yep, Blue was definitely by process of elimination. I guessed what the connection was, based on one entry, but had no idea what else was in there, until everything else was taken.
