It’s like a combination of diving and acrobatics.
This is the first one I’ve failed in a long while
I got green and yellow relatively quickly. Then I was clueless. I got purple only by blind dumb luck guessing. Which of course left the obscure blue.
Trampoline has been an Olympic sport since 2000. So not exactly new anymore. I’ve even seen it on the TV broadcasts.
On the other hand, breaking, whatever it is (I’m not exactly clear) will be an Olympic sport for the first time in 2024.
I too found this Connections very hard.
They decided to add it after the success of electric boogaloo as an exhibition sport.
Today’s blue group:
War is a game of chance? Seriously? Do people bet money on War? Can you play it in a casino?
The answer to all of your questions is ‘Yes’, at least several years ago when I was in a Vegas casino. Although I don’t recall seeing it the last time I was in Sin City.
The edge for the House was in case of tie. According to Wiki
A tie occurs when the dealer and the player each have cards of the same rank. In a tie situation, the player has two options:
The player can surrender, in which case the player loses half the bet.
The player can go to war, in which case the player must double their stake.
If the player continues play in view of a tie, the dealer burns (discards) three cards before dealing each of them an additional card. If the player’s card is ranked higher than the dealer’s, then the player wins the amount of their original wager only. If the dealer’s card is ranked higher than the player’s, the player loses their (doubled) wager. If the ranks are equal, then the player wins the amount of their doubled wager.
I had no idea. I was thinking war was about as much of a game of chance as old maid or slap jack.
I didn’t know you could play War in a casino, but I’d still consider it a game of chance. I don’t see any skill involved.
There was a category in today’s puzzle that I found a little dubious.
“Things with Slots”, really?
Do you mean Thursday’s puzzle?
Yes. I’m a night owl, so I play wordle and connections a little past midnight when they become available.
Yes, I had to default to that category by getting the other three. I’m not even sure all those answers makes sense.
I looked at your spoiler before I did today’s puzzle. Even though I knew this category before I played, it didn’t help. Fortunately the other 3 were rather easy (at least for me, anyway), so, like @Maserschmidt, I got this bizarre category by default.
I mean, it is literally just determined by the shuffle of the deck, and then patiently playing things out. No skill at all unless you’re cheating.
Yeah, that one was a serious stretch.
Today’s puzzle, #295, was a bit of a change.
All emojis. I solved it, with no mistakes, but I didn’t particularly like it.
The first group I got was “food slang for money”. I thought they were ingredients for a sandwich.
I enjoyed it today’s. It wasn’t particularly hard, but it did twist my brain sideways a little.
Two of my tiles were blank (one in the blue category and one in the purple). Did that happen to anyone else here? Googling around a little, it seems like I was not the only one, but I don’t know if it was deliberate or an emoji glitch.
I am assuming it was for April Fool’s Day.
All mine had emojis.
I did the same thing with the first group, except
I thought it was the four basic food groups (bread/grain, meat, dairy, fruits/veg)
Also, I disagree with the emoji they used for
tea (T). It should have been the tea cup emoji not the tea pot.