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Puzzle #1008
Knew blue but not sure of the fourth. Didn’t get purple.
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I knew which pairs were blue/purple and yellow/green, but managed to screw up the order of both pairs.
Too lazy to try for RR
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Monday again, again. Very easy.
Puzzle #1009
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I had to try the red herring, and then I didn’t actually get the right connection for PURPLE (I thought it was just starts with a letter sound EN, EM, EN, OH)
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Saw the red herring then took my time for once and found two other clusters so I could avoid it.
That was my exact reasoning as well!
Doubt if I would have ever figured out the actual clue.
Red herringed and I had no idea what the Blue was but I saw that Purple. I’m on to you, Connections!
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I didn’t see the red herring only because i immediately jumped on purple and yellow. I had the same connection for purple as others have mentioned.
Blues were leftovers. The red herring helped me separate them, though.
Red herring got me!
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A+! Blue was leftovers for me also.
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The herring seemed far too red today, so I sidestepped it; went fairly quickly after that. Wasn’t trying for any particular order.
As there is no Strands thread, I’ll stick this question about today’s puzzle
here …
WTF is the connection ?
The hint is “The big dance”
MarchMadness (the “spangram”)
Chalk
Bracket
Overtime
Cinderella
Bubble
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Avoided the red herring for the RR.
March Madness = NCAA basketball tournament, AKA “The Big Dance”
Bracket = Arrangement of teams by seeding - who plays who in each round. Also refers to predictions made by bettors as to the outcome of each round of the tournament.
Chalk = If a bracket (or part of the bracket) plays out per the seeding (no upsets).
Overtime = Extra period if a game is tied at the end of regulation (or of an overtime period). No ties allowed in basketball.
Cinderella = A low-seeded team that makes it several rounds into the tournament. When they finally lose the clock has struck midnight and they have to leave the dance.
Bubble = Prior to the tournament pundits try to pick the bracket. The “on the bubble” means that a team is one of the last to qualify and is in danger of missing the tournament if the tournament committee chooses differently than the pundit.
Ah ! Thanks.. I’d never have worked that out !
It’s Tuesday, and this one was easier than I expected at first.
Puzzle #1010
My wife and I started doing connections about two years ago. We’ve had a couple of streaks broken by simply forgetting to do the puzzle. In speaking with our kids a while back, my wife discovered all three of them were doing connections with their spouses as well.
We did the yellow first today in order to avoid what I call a trap and you call a red herring.
I saw three of the Green words, but couldn’t find the fourth. Then I saw the red herring, and wasn’t sure which was the real category, and guessed wrong. Then I went back to green, and found another word that didn’t really fit, but I guess was close enough.
And I got twice as far as everyone else in figuring out the real category for purple!
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No issues, easy-peasy