Connections #1007 2026-03-14

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

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SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 160d (7 replies)

Wow, this puzzle defeated me utterly. I got none.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Never heard of Inspector Morse, never knew the name for a female goat, never heard of the prefix twi- (and it means 'half' in twilight, not two), and haze is not a hypnotic state by any definition I've heard. :::

SorryImLate@piefed.social · 2 pts · 160d (5 replies)

Interesting, I found today's easier than usual.

::: spoiler spoiler I wonder whether today's is more British leaning than usual? I tend to struggle with the overtly American puzzles.

Inspector Morse, for example, is a classic British TV show that is still sometimes shown in re-runs.

Hypnotic wouldn't have been the word I used to describe yellow but haze clearly fits with dream, trance, and spell as a being in a "fuzzy" mental state e.g. alcohol haze, drug trance, under a spell, dream state.

Also, I'm fairly sure I learned nanny at school. :::

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 160d (4 replies)

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler That very well could be!

Connections often throws in red herrings, so I thought that no way could Javert and Clouseau could be connected. Then I saw Gadget, but simply could not find another Inspector. (OTOH, Clouseau, hootenanny, Moscow, and dioxide all have two O's.)

It does occur to me that I know a nannygoat, but never would've thought of it. Oh well. :::

jago@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 160d (3 replies)

Clouseau, hootenanny, Moscow, and dioxide all have two O’s

You may wish to revisit that postulation. :)

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 160d (2 replies)

In American English, we usually pronounce - eau like the letter, O.

remon@ani.social · 1 pts · 160d (1 reply)

Still only one o in dioxide.

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 160d

Dioxide is literally two O's!

NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 1 pts · 159d

Ot means double or half though.

And this one was a real hard nut.

pturn1@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d (1 reply)

Connections Puzzle #1007.

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Fairly enjoyable, although I wouldn't have ever got purple!

SorryImLate@piefed.social · 4 pts · 160d

::: spoiler spoiler Same. Even knowing the category, my brain took a second to see "hen". :::

Trebuchet@europe.pub · 4 pts · 160d
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SorryImLate@piefed.social · 4 pts · 160d
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 160d

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::: spoiler spoiler I can swear they've done "parts of word animals" before, so maybe that's why it popped out after the inspector category (Morse was a guess in there for me, thought I'd heard his name but never seen whatever he's in, but no other words seemed much like names anyway). Didn't remember a out twi- meaning 2 til I got down to the end. Fun one today :::

BowserBasher@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 160d

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Had to have a little guess with green but I saw the categories quite easily.

CarrierLost@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 160d
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YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 160d
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remon@ani.social · 2 pts · 160d
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jago@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 160d
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Pandantic@midwest.social · 2 pts · 160d
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AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 159d
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AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 159d
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::: spoiler spoiler 'Haze' is a cute bit of misdirection to a 'code' red herring because it would be the 'Hays' code from Hollywood in the mid century. :::

skyIine@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 160d
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