• pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    5 months ago

    Today’s was total BS! Spoilers:

    spoiler

    They really had “bits of hardware” not include bolt, AND “fishing gear” not include rod?

    I got none of them. I think I got three "one away"s in my attempts.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Yeah having confounders like that is a very common deliberate part of the design of this game. Yesterday was especially difficult because of just how many confounders there were and how much cross-over there was with them.

    • theedqueen@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      Yeah I failed too for the same reasons. I figured out all the categories but kept messing up one piece.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Wait you had figured out all four categories? There should only be one way that all 16 words can be arranged into 4 categories.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Connections
    Puzzle #375
    🟦🟨🟦🟦
    🟨🟨🟪🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟪
    🟩🟪🟩🟪

    A miss from me today. 1 away 3 separate times, followed by a 4th hail mary guess.

    My brainstorming

    My initial tentative arrangement was this:

    After the first three guesses missed, I tried rearranging into this:

    But it’s a swing and a miss. Never even got close to blue or purple (as you can maybe see, I thought blue was “stuff in a bathroom/laundry”), and both yellow and green had too many confounders.

    • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago
      
Connections 
Puzzle #375
🟨🟨🟪🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟨🟨🟪🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟦🟩🟪

      Yeah, today’s was rough for me too. I’d like to blame sleepy brain, but I just got stuck in a rut.

      Tap for spoiler

      I was stuck on possible baseball pitches/terms. That’s what I get for doing this at 2AM haha