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Puzzle #1160
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
Sub-30 seconds, for me. Getting BLUE right away really sped things up, and avoided the red herring.

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Connections
Puzzle #1160
:yellow_square::purple_square::green_square::blue_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:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

I consider this a semi-fail. After falling for the rainbow herring I had purple and yellow left.

The herring was NATO alphabet. I was left with three yellow/black and two red triangles and after resorting to google for the Bass Ale logo I had three red triangles. Had to google both Wolverine and google drive and Wolverine gave me the yellow/black. Google Drive gave me little definite except a vague triangle.

In any case I don’t really see why purple was not yellow.

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Connections
Puzzle #1160
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
Order after purple was a toss up.

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Only saw the red herring after I avoided it. Not sure I would have ever gotten the blue.

Connections
Puzzle #1160
: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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I had no idea what a Bristol board was, but I guessed correctly that it’d go with the others. Two of the purples, I just completely didn’t know at all, so that was total leftovers. Still, clean win.

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Connections
Puzzle #1160
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::yellow_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:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

A win is a win. I’ve never heard of a Bristol board, and I had no idea that Wolverine (or a wolverine) is black and yellow.

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That’s because he’s not. Wolverine’s usual comic book uniform is yellow and blue. I submitted the category thinking it was “things with stripes” and that it was wolverine, not Wolverine.

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On a quick image search, only about half of the images seem to show him in the yellow costume at all. Of the ones that do, most seem to show the stripes on the spandex part as black but the separate accessories (shoulder pads and gloves) as blue, but some show both the same (either) color. Complicating this, of course, is the fact that comic-book-black often has blue highlights.

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Saturday. I did much better today than yesterday.

Puzzle #1161
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #1160
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::yellow_square::purple_square::yellow_square:
:yellow_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
Struggle

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Connections
Puzzle #1161
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

Quick and easy today Didn’t have time to look for a reverse rainbow.

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Connections
Puzzle #1161
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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I did hit the red herring today (speed away, with “it”), but clean beyond that.

There were two purple categories, though.

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Connections
Puzzle #1161
: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:

I got lucky, jumped at the first one I saw and it ended up the real purple.

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Sunday. Argh.

Puzzle #1162
:green_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::purple_square::green_square::yellow_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:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #1162
:blue_square::purple_square::green_square::yellow_square:
: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:

Burned by the rainbow herring and still don’t get purple.

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Early hominids:

Homo Sapiens = Wise Man
Homo Erectus = Upright Man
Homo Habilis = Handy Man
Neandertal Man = bones were first located in the Neander Valley

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Connections Sunday
Puzzle #1162
:blue_square::purple_square::green_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_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:

Fell for the red herring (pianos - that’s what got the rest of you, right?) and then another mistake.

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Somehow it’s Monday already.

Puzzle #1163
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #1162
:purple_square::purple_square::yellow_square::purple_square:
:purple_square::blue_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:purple_square::blue_square::purple_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::purple_square::green_square::yellow_square:
Rode the red herring into the ground for a crash and burn. Interestingly my app is not showing all of the humiliation, only the first four missteps.