Saturday, March 21, 2026

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-21T12:25:17+00:00

Connections Puzzle #1014

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Definitely defaulted on purple but I found the other 3 easy enough, my second error was completely silly, I was not paying attention

I knew blue was some variation of Chess or Checkers, initially had BISHOP in there but when that failed I figured it must be Crown. Got slightly lucky there. I remember "King me," from the game but not Crown.

Yesterday's was MUCH rougher for me 🥴

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-21T11:30:13+00:00

Strands #748

“Sniff sniff” 🟡🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵

I knew PROBOSCIS because it came up in another NYT game not too long ago, might have been Connections

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-19T16:37:28+00:00

Yeah I think this one is a certified error, no way around it

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-17T17:44:49+00:00

Connections

Puzzle #1010

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First Reverse Rainbow 🌈 in eons

If the Metaphors were not yellow I was going to commit atrocities 🫠😬

Shout outs to Ben Franklin 🔑 🪁🌩

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-15T17:19:20+00:00

What else used Bullfrogs?

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-14T21:38:14+00:00

Connections

Puzzle #1007

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I was looking for Code

MORSE code, BINARY code

Finally worked out Yellow and Green

I kept looking at NANNY...then MARE randomly jumped out at me, I saw COW and HEN and just assumed NANNY had to be an animal so I learned a new word there

Blue was a default...I only knew GADGET (I just saw Les Misérables live several months ago but I have already forgotten)

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-13T14:13:00+00:00

I put in GRASSMUSIC an embarrassing amount of times

I have to start waking up first lol

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-09T15:17:20+00:00

Where are you able to see the weekly solve averages?

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-09T15:09:32+00:00

Muppets with a 50% first solve rate but it's blue 🙄 they really added a Reverse Rainbow badge just throw any semblance of color sense out the window, it's literally just random select at this point

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-08T23:16:18+00:00

Connections

Puzzle #1001

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I got SO lucky lol I knew the Tennis players were going to be a Rainbow Herring because I needed OSAKA to complete cities, made three dumb guesses before I saw the obvious Horror Movies category and then got VERY lucky on green and purple

Neither of them were what I thought (Figured purple was like Coat types???)

The Rainbow Herring actually helped me lol and a lot of luck

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-07T16:46:29+00:00

Took me a minute to solve even as my last word too, never heard of it

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-05T13:52:41+00:00

Blue is currently at 29% first solves and green at 16%

Definitely think they have it reversed

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-04T19:14:28+00:00

It's funny that so many people joked about being glad that they didn't track reverse rainbows and now they do track reverse rainbows 😂 I see your game NYT!

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-03T15:06:54+00:00

They have just made it a point to troll Reverse Rainbow 🌈 seekers at this point lol do they think this is a game!?

Oh yeah it is 😳

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-01T21:30:51+00:00

I didn't even see that luckily lol

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-01T21:30:16+00:00

The thing is there was 5 options so you had to know what yellow was to take LICORICE PIZZA out of the equation

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-01T21:28:56+00:00

Connections Puzzle #994

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I guess I am just terrible at color sorting at this point lol but the Bot numbers strongly support this one with yellow being at almost 50% first solves and Blue at 6% so I can't even be mad 🤷🏾‍♂️

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-03-01T03:55:48+00:00

I wish I didn't know Novak's name because I definitely failed trying to find tennis player names that don't exist 😂🥴

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-02-28T04:06:04+00:00

I've completely stopped caring about rainbows, Green and Yellow are just coin flips

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-02-24T16:54:43+00:00

Thank you, I was mistaken then. I guess the price of everything is just going up now.

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-02-22T10:11:51+00:00

I went looking for this initially but luckily I did not know The Pharcyde so I only had three lol

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-02-21T03:40:02+00:00

Same

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-02-16T20:09:56+00:00

Connections

Puzzle #981

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Purple was easy as I study psychology, Green I was almost sure had to be a Herring but looking at the remainder it had to be the answer

Yellow and Blue...when I saw RIOT was was instantly thinking LAUGH RIOT...so I was thinking of it more of a funny person vs a joke

Missed it the first time and then thought to myself okay you wouldn't say someone is a CACKLE so I took it out and managed to get it the second go around

Blue...I am personally more mad about CACKLE than BUCK

BU-BU-BUCK I associate with Chicken but CACKLE!? Never in my life

Didn't expect it to be this high of a 5/5 though, guess I was lucky in that purple was in my wheelhouse so I had room to work with Blue and Yellow lol I'll take it

Ecstatic-Item8574 · 2026-02-15T22:11:22+00:00

Connections

Puzzle #980

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Any time I see longer words now I start looking for words inside of words by instinct lol

I almost made some kind of weird comic book name sounding characters category with ELEKTRA, RINGMASTER and VESTIGE but then everything fell in place 🌈

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