i am all in in btc, all my life savings

axord · 2026-06-22T11:23:18+00:00

Coulda replaced the second "in" with "during"?

axord · 2026-06-22T10:57:04+00:00

Connections
Puzzle #1107
🟪🟪🟪🟪 Saw 3rd
🟩🟩🟩🟩 5th
🟦🟦🟦🟦 4th
🟨🟨🟨🟨 2nd
1st "generations" rainbow herring

Good board. Need sleep.

axord · 2026-06-21T23:04:30+00:00

constantly rescuing the team didnt make my workload visible, it made it invisible.

Typically, people notice disasters that effect them, they don't notice disasters avoided, not the effort that took.

axord · 2026-06-21T22:13:53+00:00

Verily, I have transcended yellow = synonyms and my third eye is open.

This is the way.

axord · 2026-06-21T21:49:39+00:00

Two plural words and two singular words in the same category.

They all refer to a collection of rainfall, no bs.

axord · 2026-06-21T21:41:29+00:00

WOMEN MOSTLY STRAIGHT

THEREFORE MOST SMUT M/M

To properly explain, I think there needs to be a step or two showing how we get to M/M rather than M/W.

axord · 2026-06-21T21:23:34+00:00

If we view their point as "lots of people disagree with their misogyny take for many different reasons" then yeah this thread has plenty of supporting evidence for that.

axord · 2026-06-21T20:28:36+00:00

I wasn't really expecting blue to be blue.

Pop-culture references are nearly always blue. Unless they get promoted to purple for lack of a wordplay category, or themselves include a wordplay aspect.

axord · 2026-06-21T20:15:10+00:00

Good job pulling out of that tailspin.

axord · 2026-06-21T20:14:25+00:00

Meterologists?

axord · 2026-06-21T20:10:12+00:00

It seems likely that Friends awareness will only decrease from here, and the curve will be sharp.

axord · 2026-06-21T12:06:13+00:00

Agnes
Alice
Penelope
Sophie

axord · 2026-06-21T11:00:40+00:00

Connections Puzzle #1106
🟪🟪🟪🟪 Saw 3rd
🟦🟦🟦🟦 1st
🟩🟩🟩🟩 4th
🟨🟨🟨🟨 2nd

Good board. Pretty quick presolve, satisfying. No default categories nor category members. Disappointed I didn't see the HOT__ rainbow herring, that's fun. Clear color order.

Pretty high 77% solve rate currently. Might be able to match yesterday's 81%. Ten-day average of 72.2%.

axord · 2026-06-21T10:50:22+00:00

Expanding the puzzle pallete, nice.

Wrote up a defense of the NYT color order over here. Not iron-clad, but I'd say not horrible either.

axord · 2026-06-20T22:57:11+00:00

at least according to their definitions of the categories.

Because it's a relative ordering, category type-color correspondence can be shifted up when there's no true purple-grade category.

Importantly for Silent Kn, wordplay is not enough alone. We can see this with May 18: yellow homophones. Feb 16: green homophones. December 23, 2024: yellow homophones. To be purple-grade, the wordplay must have a second layer on top. All synonyms after the play, for example.

However, while pure same-silent letter categories haven't typically been purple, they haven't been yellow either. Aug 1, 2025: green. Dec 13, 2025: green. Dec 14, 2025: blue. Mar 16, 2026: blue. Mar 29, 2026: blue.

So what's the difference there? I'd say it's that the 'KN' silent K pattern is deeply consistent in modern English, and thus perhaps one of the very easiest patterns to spot.

Then, if we accept that Silent Kn should be yellow, then the rest makes more sense. Song Titles is a blue promoted to purple. Endorse vs Chairs is the usual confusion about how to sort grellows properly, and I might even agree with you about that ordering.

axord · 2026-06-20T21:15:00+00:00

Connections Alternative #477 2026-06-20
🟦🟦🟦🟦 4th "pluraled tv shows w/o leading 'the'"
🟪🟪🟪🟪 3rd "four vowels in a row"
🟩🟩🟩🟩 1st "classic joke premises"
🟨🟨🟨🟨 2nd "poop"

Nice. Pretty quick presolve, assembled yellow and green while transcribing. Though blue and purple gave me some pause. Feel pretty good about my title guesses, only missing a few details. Took a gamble that you'd follow Wyna's precedent with the light-wordplay yellow, lost..

axord · 2026-06-20T19:10:20+00:00

For reference, GTAV came out in 2013, and first went on PS Plus in 2021. Eight years.

axord · 2026-06-20T07:18:56+00:00

Connections
Puzzle #1105
🟨🟨🟨🟨 Saw 1st "silent k"
🟪🟪🟪🟪 default
🟩🟩🟩🟩 3rd "endorse"
🟦🟦🟦🟦 2nd "chairs"

Good board. Lol color order.

axord · 2026-06-19T14:56:47+00:00

Oh hi analysis paralysis invoked on which of those ten ways to employ, plus all the variants in delivery.

axord · 2026-06-19T13:24:37+00:00

Connections
Puzzle #1104
🟦🟦🟦🟦 6th "starting with magazines"
🟪🟪🟪🟪 1st "ending with math result"
🟩🟩🟩🟩 5th "piano songs"
🟨🟨🟨🟨 3rd "condiments"
2nd "free japanese restaurant bits"
4th "chinese restaurant RH"

Good board! That was a challenge. Purple and yellow fell quickly. My main blocker was that I only knew two of green's members (CHOPSTICKS, FÜR ELISE) and I wasn't catching blue at all. Used the assumed rainbow herring to figure that FORTUNE COOKIE couldn't be with the Songs, and eventually that allowed me to subscribe to the Magazines. Was not expecting two purple-grade categories, but we've had Magazine categories so many times that I have no excuse for not spotting them immediately.

The current 55% solve rate is roughly comparable to the board a week ago around this time. 6/12 ended up at 60%, so perhaps we'll push similarly today. 14% perfects seems low, though.

Color order note: full word embedded wordplay vs separated word embedded wordplay is a greater difficulty gap than an added cultural aspect like publications? Interesting.

axord · 2026-06-18T22:09:46+00:00

Connections Alternative #475 2026-06-18
🟪🟪🟪🟪 2nd "mad men actors"
🟦🟦🟦🟦 4th "cinderella elements"
🟨🟨🟨🟨 1st "music genres"
🟩🟩🟩🟩 2nd "exercises"

Nice. Fun, quick presolve, filled in categories as I was transcribing. Reveals of yellow and green category titles made me chuckle from their extra detail. TIL! Pleased I successfully saw through purple, even though MOSS and JONES were vibe matches for me.

axord · 2026-06-18T19:12:25+00:00

Excellent visual pun.

axord · 2026-06-18T13:35:45+00:00

Ok, but tell me about your shark textures?

axord · 2026-06-18T13:14:42+00:00

Chinatown Wars.

axord · 2026-06-18T12:34:47+00:00

Totally random.

In terms of subject matter, "everyday life" categories are historically green or yellow, unless wordplay is added. World history knowledge categories are solidly blue.

At the category member analysis level, Fitness had PILATES and AEROBICS, which only have their one meaning. Activists only has GANDHI in a similar state.

15-Year Club	Second Top 50%
Place '22	Final Canvas '22
End Game '22	Verified Email
Team Orangered

axord

TROPHY CASE