Connections #642 2025-03-14

https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

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Hoimo@ani.social · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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::: spoiler General I went with candy/short/charge/levy as "nouns that can be verbs", but I don't think they've ever done that since one of the first puzzles. :::

::: spoiler Blue Movies of various lengths? "Film series" is more than one film of any length and "epic" also says nothing about the length. I tried to find a connection for epic through "fantasy", like "high fantasy". I think they could have found better words for that connection. :::

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Yeah blue was weird.

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (6 replies)

I love how purple was the most obvious one today. ::: spoiler Spoiler Do american stores have magazines next to the checkout line? I have seen the others at checkouts but never magazines. Those were always placed separately. :::

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Theroddd@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

We do

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

US centrism strikes again

Theroddd@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

We have a lot of tabloids at the register.

Hoimo@ani.social · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

::: spoiler Green Yeah, I was also confused by the "impulse buy at checkout" connection. My mind immediately went to "you can probably get this stuff at a bodega, New Yorkers love their bodegas".

Should have gone with "Things George Costanza buys at a news stand to break a 100": Penthouse Forum, newspaper, gum, Clark Bar :::

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I thought it was something you might find in a purse but then magazine made no sense

Zagorath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Magazines are in the line at the register in Australia too. Or at least were when I was a kid...I haven't paid attention to what's there since then.

Charging cable was the one that was weird to me. I cannot imagine buying a charging cable as an impulse purchase. Tbh I thought this connection was going to be "things in an airport shop".

weirdboy@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Purple was the first one I saw, but I thought it must have been wrong so I ended up doing all the others first.

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Zagorath@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

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GreenPlasticSushiGrass@moist.catsweat.com · 3 pts · 1y
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lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
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AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
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Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
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