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Connections #596 2025-01-27 (aussie.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Connections Puzzle #596
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I thought the blue category was a red herring all along and only dared submitting it after getting the green and yellow ones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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Kinda mad at blue. Shouldn't have been that direct. Also, green. One of those is not a "covering" but a noise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

green

Tree bark?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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Wow. This is the first time I've seen a category name be the words of the category. Strange puzzle today lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

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Wow. Took a long time on this one.

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For a while I thought there was something Zodiac related. Scales and twins were the main ones, and I added virgin in at one point, as well as shell (thinking the crab's shell for Cancer).

I thought for a while about "things with bite". An axe, obviously. The phrase "its bark is worse than its bite". I Googled to see if people would consider olives to have "bite" in the metaphorical taste sense (and yes...they apparently do). I was so confident in yellow that I didn't even look at the actual literal word "bite" to notice that this would have made my idea obviously wrong.

Finally, I spent a while trying to find "things with shafts". The shaft of an axe. The shaft on a typewriter. Google's stupid fucking AI told me hedge mazes' walls can be called a "shaft" (but on deeper inspection, I could find no human who had ever used the word in that way).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Completely botched this


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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

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Thought blue was bait

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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blue felt a little silly this time, to the point where I was sure it couldn't be a thing but I thought I'd guess at it anyway

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Blue was my leftovers this time because it was just too on the nose - like everyone else is saying. Purple took me a minute and then jumped right out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

FINALLY I CAN ENJOY THE GAME

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Connections Puzzle #596 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

So easy compared to recent ones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This one was really easy. With the companion I got it done in under 1 minute.

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I really thought blue would be yellow. Extra virgin olive oil just pops right out.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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Yeah I was definitely surprised that blue was blue. Yellow or green would have made sense, but it jumped out immediately. The only thing I can think of is that it seemed too obvious and like it may have been a red herring.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I thought it might be a red herring but after assembling 4 otuer categories in the companion I knew it just had to be it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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