Category. Somehow that fat fingering and autocorrect on my phone escaped my notice.
Again today, 12/28, the last category I solved was purple. Doubtful if I would have ever figured it out on my own. Rather obscure relationship in those words, IMO.
I dunno - it seemed clear to me. Got that before I got the blue category.
You’ll get used to it. It’s a common enough trick in Connections.
I’m not sure about that–I’ve been playing Connections almost since its inception, and I haven’t figured it out yet!
Never mind. I’m stupid.
Since there’s no thread for Strands I’m going to drop this here, because it doesn’t warrant a thread.
Today’s theme is “Cold Snap” and one of the answers is drizzle. WTF. A cold snap is minimum -30C. It doesn’t fucking drizzle at -30. Jeeeeeezus. Or sleet, for that matter.
That’s quite a nitpick. The theme of cold snap is meant just to lead you to the subject. The spangram is winter weather and all of the words are examples of that.
I’ve never heard a cold snap being limited to sub zero temps. Usually I’ve heard it used to describe a sudden drop in temp from some type of norm. If Phoenix has an unexpected overnight temp drop to 40 I’d consider that a cold snap.
Same here. Just any cold break in weather. Never ever heard it explicitly defined with a temperature.
Huh. 'Round these parts it pretty much exclusively refers to those inevitable weeks in Jan-Feb when a high pressure system parks itself and we have extended frigid temperatures (typically overnight lows below -30, and not warming up much during the day). An unexpected temperature drop is just an unexpected temperature drop.
Again, I don’t think the titles of the Strands puzzles are meant to be literal.
And in any case, the Wikipedia entry on “cold wave” (which lists “cold snap” as a synonym) links to the American Meteorological Society Glossary of Meteorology entry for cold wave
As used in the U.S. National Weather Service, a rapid fall in temperature within 24 hours to temperatures requiring substantially increased protection to agriculture, industry, commerce, and social activities.
Therefore, the criterion for a cold wave is twofold: the rate of temperature fall, and the minimum to which it falls. The latter depends upon region and time of year. 2. Popularly, a period of very cold weather.
This. The title is meant to hint at the theme without giving it away completely.
The purple category today was funny to this Doper.
I recognized that quite early. It was the second category I found.
I found the blue category first. Not sure what that says about my behavior or thought process.
Same!
Today’s was one where the Blue was harder than the Purple one. I wasn’t even sure of the answer when it was the only remaining one.
Purple was last for me and I didn’t get it. (I eventually should have). I got Blue second because I have friends who love martinis
I actually saw the purple group first, but there were five answers (at least) that could belong to it. I’ve been burned before by trying to solve those, so I solved green and yellow.