NYT Games released the Dark Souls of Word-games: Connections

[mclem]

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Puzzle #309
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Caught by the red herring set, but righted myself afterwards

 

[construct]

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Puzzle #310
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🥳

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #310
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That's 4 straight for you, construct. Keep pushing that personal best higher!

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #310
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Nice and quick today.

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #310
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[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #310
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Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 25 in a row
- ravn0s - 25 in a row
- UberTag - 15 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 5 in a row
- construct - 4 in a row
- Doorman - 3 in a row

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #310
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[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #310
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Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 25 in a row
- ravn0s - 25 in a row
- UberTag - 15 in a row
- construct - 4 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 4 in a row (through #309)
- Doorman - 2 in a row (through #309)

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yay, i'm happy to be in this list even once considering how miserable it was when i first started playing

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #310
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I would not have colour-ordered these the way the setter did.

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #310
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Was not by any means trying to get a reverse-solve, but just playing the groups in order of my confidence in them being right led to this. Oh well!

 

[Why would you do that?]

#310 I almost got it in reverse order, but Purple was so obvious that I saved it for last, thinking it was a trap. (That's not really a complaint -- I enjoy having a range of difficulty on these.)

 

[construct]

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Puzzle #311
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the easy ones have to end soon, im just enjoying it while it lasts

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #311
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Another easy one.

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #311
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Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 26 in a row
- ravn0s - 26 in a row
- UberTag - 16 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 6 in a row
- construct - 5 in a row

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #311
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[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #311
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Narrowly avoided the social media trap.

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #311
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Sigh.

Fuck's sake I cannot maintain any sort of a perfect streak in this anymore because of some sort of needless fuck-up that would not have happened in hindsight.

 

[FTF]

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Puzzle #311
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Not bad today

 

[construct]

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Puzzle #312
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i felt a bit lucky on this one

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #312
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[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #312
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I had to take my time but got there eventually.

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #312
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Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 27 in a row
- ravn0s - 27 in a row
- UberTag - 17 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 7 in a row
- construct - 6 in a row
- FTF - 2 in a row

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #312
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[Why would you do that?]

Connections
Puzzle #312
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Huh, this is the first time the last two "connections" were already in a straight line for me. So all I had to do was tap the 4 in a straight line. I was always wondering if that would happen someday.

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #312
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Back to 1 in a row...

 

[FTF]

Connections
Puzzle #312
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Bit of a guess on blue but worked out

 

[construct]

#313 is tough. half done but going to sleep on it for the other half

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #312
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[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #313
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Woo hoo! Took a BIT of a leap of faith for green but it was correct!

 

[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #313
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🥲

 

[UberTag]

I had no clue on purple... but green felt like it couldn't be anything else logically.

Connections
Puzzle #313
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Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 28 in a row
- ravn0s - 28 in a row
- UberTag - 18 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 8 in a row
- FTF - 3 in a row
- Doorman - 2 in a row
- mclem - 2 in a row

Connections
Puzzle #313
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🥲

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You'll come back from this and rebound. Congrats on setting your personal best streak of 6 straight!

 

[construct]

I had no clue on purple... but green felt like it couldn't be anything else logically.

Connections
Puzzle #313
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Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 27 in a row (through #312)
- ravn0s - 27 in a row (through #312)
- UberTag - 18 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 8 in a row
- FTF - 2 in a row (through #312)


You'll come back from this and rebound. Congrats on setting your personal best streak of 6 straight!

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thanks list/copy is what got me because i couldn't decide if it was traditional medio or computer science :(

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #313
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[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #313
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I see you, trap.

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #313
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lol one of the entries for purple really feels like a bit of bullshit compared to the rest.

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #313
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[mclem]

- mclem - 2 in a row

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My biggest hindrance is that I'm just not regular enough to make a dent in the tables :-)

 

[FTF]

Connections
Puzzle #313
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Surprised I got purple right but I'll take it.

 

[Catchphrase]

Connections
Puzzle #313
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[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #314
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[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #314
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[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #314
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Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 29 in a row
- ravn0s - 29 in a row
- UberTag - 19 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 9 in a row
- FTF - 3 in a row (through #313)
- mclem - 2 in a row (through #313)

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #314
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I kept thinking something about

Spoiler

goat

for blue and it threw me off.

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #314
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Spotted the knots right away but couldn't figure out the 4th term bend until I mentally worked out the other 3 categories.

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #314
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And slapped right back down again. This is getting really frustrating.
I spotted out the real purple and yellow groups immediately, but didn't feel secure about all four words definitely being right, so instead I tried at something more obvious that turned out to be super-bait.

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #315
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This one was trappy as well, beware.

 

[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #315
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[UberTag]

I was completely lost on purple today.

Connections
Puzzle #315
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Thankfully it didn't matter.

Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 30 in a row
- ravn0s - 30 in a row
- UberTag - 20 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 10 in a row

 

[Blackpuppy]

I have yellow so far but damn this might take me a while…

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #315
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