Connections #898 2025-11-25

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

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7 Comments

Trebuchet@europe.pub · 4 pts · 282d (1 reply)
Connections
Puzzle #898
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This feels like the most US-focused connections so far!

TIN@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 282d

Oh good, I've been staring at it wondering what on earth was going on so I'm glad I can claim cultural ignorance

YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 282d (1 reply)

I didn't see the connection in blue, even when they were the only four left.

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Puzzle #898  
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 282d

898
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Blue didn't leap out for me either. I think part of the problem is

:::spoiler spoiler not all the things in the category are always designed for scratching. Like not all lotto tickets are the scratch kind, and unless you're DJing you try not to scratch records. :::

synae@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 281d
Connections
Puzzle #898
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Surprised blue wasn't the purple category, seemed more difficult

BowserBasher@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 281d

Connections

Puzzle #898

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🟦🟪🟪🟦

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Agreed on this being very US centric. Green was probably the easiest of the lot.

AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 281d
Connections
Puzzle #898
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🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Oh, that kind of lottery ticket.