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The Game Room
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When a stand-up comedian has a joke in the middle of their set that may not seem special, but it is memorable, and then later (maybe even as a closer) the huge punchline the audience goes home with refers back to that middling memorable joke, that is a CALLBACK.

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Friday’s game was simple and straightforward.

Puzzle #992
: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 FRIDAY
Puzzle #992
: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 #991
: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:

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Connections
Puzzle #992
: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:

Straightforward rainbow. Just got one set at a time.

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Yeah!

Connections
Puzzle #992
: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:

3187

The blue felt more like a Purple.

Connections
Puzzle #992
: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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Connections
Puzzle #992
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
I will just have to accept that I will never reliably sort green and yellow. Need to start flipping a coin, then I can blame bad luck. Actually sorting blue and purple was a bit of a toss up today as well.

3189

It’s the weekend! And Saturday’s was easier than I expected, though I accidentally sidestepped a red herring that I think may trip up a bunch of you.

Puzzle #993
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

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Connections SATURDAY
Puzzle #993
: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:
Didn’t see any red herrings. Saw a couple of almost ones.

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Connections
Puzzle #993
:green_square::purple_square::blue_square::yellow_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:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

Fell for the red herring then don’t agree with green

Red herring:

Last word in title of famous plays: Cometh (Iceman), Desire(Streetcar), Earnest(Importance of Being), Salesman(Death of)

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Yeah, Saturday’s red herring was un-obvious enough that I didn’t think it’d be a red herring. And then I saw that there were five jobs, but I wasn’t sure what was more specific to pick out four, and there were also five homophones of first names, and I thought there must be something more specific about them, but there wasn’t.

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Connections
Puzzle #993
: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:
Didn’t sort the two wordplays correctly. Actually got the green/yellow correct. Wasted time on the red herring, although the bot had it way down on the common mistake list (3%) and for the wrong reason.

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Sunday’s game. It was okay.

Puzzle #994
: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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Connections
Puzzle #994
: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:

All kind of bogus today.

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Connections SUNDAY
Puzzle #994
: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:
Very straightforward. Although y’all should know - absolutely no-one in South Africa uses the word “Johannesburger”. It’s “Jo’burger” or nothing.

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Didn’t see the red herring until I already moved past it.

Connections
Puzzle #994
: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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Connections
Puzzle #994
: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:
Straightforward.

So it’s not a South African fast food chain?

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Another mix up yellow and green day.

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I saw part of a red herring, but I couldn’t find four matches for it, so I moved on.