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NYT Connections - some more tenuous than others

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ThePoshUns · 26/02/2024 13:29

New thread to vent our frustration

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JaneJeffer · 07/04/2024 00:31

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What's square word @Caerulea ?

Caerulea · 07/04/2024 00:57

@JaneJeffer

Just one of many wordlesque ones, but a little more tricksy. https://squareword.org/

Squareword

A two-dimensional word game

https://squareword.org

AutumnNymph · 07/04/2024 05:28

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Made a right mess of todays

JoanThursday · 07/04/2024 07:18

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Don't get the blue line!

Stowickthevast · 07/04/2024 07:40

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Never heard of one of the purple expressions.

Chemenger · 07/04/2024 07:41

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I know hat blue is about but I have never seen it in real life and would not have got the set except by elimination.

Hepzibar · 07/04/2024 07:45

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WithIcePlease · 07/04/2024 08:29

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Xmasfairy86 · 07/04/2024 08:47

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ThePoshUns · 07/04/2024 08:58

The blue I had no idea and nearly got purple but for one

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Peridot1 · 07/04/2024 09:16

Thought I was doing well initially. Till I wasn’t!

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WingBingo · 07/04/2024 09:20

Cheeky!

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Theydontknowaboutus · 07/04/2024 09:30

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Don't know what blue is but got there by elimination.

NotYourMinge · 07/04/2024 09:31

Blue elimination only for me too.

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UnaOfStormhold · 07/04/2024 10:39

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One of those days when the category just hasn't crossed the Atlantic.

Gingernaut · 07/04/2024 10:39

Same here

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TriceratopsRocks · 07/04/2024 10:44

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Caerulea · 07/04/2024 11:47

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Another blue-by-default'er checking in

HelloMist · 07/04/2024 11:53

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Similar problems with blue and purple

ClonedSquare · 07/04/2024 14:47

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Blue I thought I knew the connection but it wasn't what I thought. Mine still made sense, I think.

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 07/04/2024 17:01

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I got the blue thinking the connection was something else. Again I wouldn't have got the purple.

JaneJeffer · 08/04/2024 00:19

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ThePoshUns · 08/04/2024 00:29

lol I got purple first by accident as was thinking of someone completely different

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Gingernaut · 08/04/2024 00:33

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Caerulea · 08/04/2024 00:49

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Many crossovers & one word being a singular that's never actually a singular?

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