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Sunday. I was distracted by what I thought might be a red herring.

Puzzle #973
: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:

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Connections
Puzzle #972
: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:

I enjoy when they do something different like this. Sussed them all out pretty quickly, but missed my guess on the RR order.

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Connections
Puzzle #973
:yellow_square::purple_square::green_square::blue_square:
: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:

Got caught by the red herring

gag, routine, bit, number

then didn’t get blue.

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Connections SUNDAY
Puzzle #973
: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:
Very straightforward in the end.

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Not too bad.

Connections
Puzzle #973
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #973
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::purple_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:blue_square::purple_square::blue_square::blue_square:

I thought it was something about type faces. My comp-sciency friends would disagree with the authors on their description, although, i suppose, “common password requirements” would work.

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Connections
Puzzle #973
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_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:

Reverse rainbow, but I really struggled with this one. Got green and yellow, but had so much trouble from there that I wasted a lot of time breaking them up in search of red herrings. Finally figured out blue and was done.

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Ah, i struggled with this one. Another one where it’s amazing I did as well as I did. Disappointed that I didn’t catch on to blue and purple sooner.

Connections
Puzzle #973
:purple_square::purple_square::blue_square::purple_square:
: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:

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Monday, and I didn’t see the red herring until I’d already avoided it.

Puzzle #974
: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:

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Connections
Puzzle #973
: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:

Probably could have scored a Purple-First if I’d looked at it a little more (FACED was the giveaway), but I decided to just get yellow out of the way.

Never did figure out blue.

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Connections MONDAY
Puzzle #974
: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:
No worries, BLUE seemed more like a YELLOW or GREEN.

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Connections
Puzzle #974
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:

Yellow was hard for me. Still not sure I agree.
Also didn’t see a valid red herring.

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LOOM, APPROACH, ADVANCE, NEAR

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Connections
Puzzle #974
: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:

Easy one. Too easy, categories after purple were all simple and impossible to sort.

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Connections
Puzzle #974
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

I know you can draw in poker, but is “draw poker” a phrase?

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Yeah, i nearly selected that.

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It’s Tuesday in my town. This one was very easy.

Puzzle #975
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

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Summary

Yes it’s a proper name of a type of poker.

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Thanks

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Connections TUESDAY
Puzzle #975
:yellow_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
One false start on GREEN but otherwise straightforward.