10/6: maybe I’m “old school,” but since when is “dead” a texting term for laughing?
I’d like to see a version of Connections that wouldn’t let you finish unless you identified the commonality of the last four words. Just ‘solving’ them because they’re left over feels like a cheat.
It’s mostly a Twitter (X) thing.
You don’t need to provide your reasons for any of the other groups, so I don’t see why you should need it for the last group. I’m also not sure what the interface would be for this feature; does it open a text box and you have to type the magic word? That sort of thing can be tough to implement well.
What’s the origin; is it an acronym?
It’s a transition I think from “I’m dying laughing” to “I’m dead” to just “dead”. At least, that’s been my experience of it.
Huh. In my admittedly limited texting experience, I have never seen ‘dead’ as anything except, well, dead.
Spoilering to not give a puzzle clue:
People will post something ridiculous, funny or a good burn and say “I’m dead” as in “this is so funny/ridiculous/cutting” it killed me .
I’ve only ever seen it on reddit, but I’ve seen it there a lot. Usually in the form of “
.” I’m sure that’s what the kids these days say over text, but I wouldn’t know because the only people I text with are old farts like me.
I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that google voice translated “skull emoji” into the actual thing.
That’s also probably why it doesn’t solve the last four automatically (which is what happens on the TV show, BTW); it gives you the chance to figure it out for yourself.
Weird - I did the 10/7 puzzle this morning and
the blue group was “Past Tense Verbs” . Which I called bullshit on, because two of the words definitely were not.
I went back in this evening to take another look, and the puzzle had reset – I had to do it over. And this time the blue group was “Irregular Verbs”.
I, and I assume others, reported the incorrect category label. My score was also wiped and the label corrected later in the day.
I wish they stopped using groups of things like “NHL Teams”, unless they only want players from the U.S.
But, they also put periods between N, H and L so it took me a second to figure out what kind of teams they were lol (also I haven’t paid attention to hockey in 30 years so I didn’t know of the Kraken or Wild or “Stars” (who used to be the North Stars)).
There might be a few players from Canada, too.
I thought today’s puzzle was difficult. I made three mistakes off the bat, and then managed to solve it without making a fourth.
I should’ve said “upper North America”
Connections
Puzzle #122
Finally a instance not made exclusively for UnitedStatesians and adjacent people 
Connections
Puzzle #128
First time I got all four.
I’ve mostly stopped doing Wordle in favor of Connections. I find the latter puzzle far more interesting.
I’ve been playing Connections for a couple of weeks so I missed the first few weeks of it. And there doesn’t seem to be any way to go back and do the earlier ones. (On the other hand, if I try to complete it on my phone, when I try again on my phone, I’m starting from scratch, so it’s easier to get a perfect result. With the crossword puzzle, on the other hand, I can start it on one computer, solve a couple of clues on a second computer and complete it on my phone.)