NYT "Connections" Game

[Ed Vette]

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Puzzle #186
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The road less traveled

[DaveBrown74]

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Puzzle #186
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Puzzle #187
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[DaveBrown74]

Saved by far the easiest one for last today (don't ask):

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Puzzle #187
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[Ed Vette]

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Puzzle #187
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[DaveBrown74]

This was up there among the most straightforward I've seen since starting this game.

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Puzzle #188
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[Ed Vette]

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Puzzle #188
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Holy Cow, Batman!

[MightyGiants]

Is it my imagination, or is this game getting easier?

[DaveBrown74]

Is it my imagination, or is this game getting easier?

It seems to go in waves. There were a couple of pretty hard ones (I thought at least) in the past week or so on back to back days.

I would also add that, like any other skill, one tends to get better at it with practice.

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Puzzle #188
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[Ed Vette]

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Puzzle #189
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[DaveBrown74]

Enjoyed this one

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Puzzle #189
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[T200]

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Puzzle #189
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This makes twice in the past few days that you and I got them in the same order. 

[DaveBrown74]

One thing I've started doing to make this exercise a bit more robust is even after I get the first three right, I try to make sure I know why the last four are connected before I just click all of them and submit them. Obviously either way you're still going to "win" the game, but I figure why short-change myself that part of the exercise, especially given the last one last is more often than not the trickiest one. To just hand yourself those last four when you have no clue why they're connected seems like short-changing yourself out of part of the mental workout, which is kind of the whole point of doing this.


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Puzzle #190
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