Board 8 > NYT Connections Part 2

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Kenri
06/10/25 12:00:25 PM
#51:


Connections
Puzzle #730





(Purples)
(Blues)

Yeesh, what a struggle.

rwlh posted...
Purple was the first one I knew the connection to, but I didn't know the fourth. Never heard of CUSTOMS DUTY before.
I don't usually hear it phrased that way, but think about duty-free shops in like airports - those are shops where you don't have to pay customs (import taxes).

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mnk
06/10/25 12:54:40 PM
#52:


Connections
Puzzle #730





I was not particularly confident about any of those choices.

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Raka_Putra
06/10/25 10:59:40 PM
#53:


Connections
Puzzle #731


yellow
blue



Ugh, I still don't know what a parens is.

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Underleveled
06/11/25 7:52:14 AM
#54:


Connections
Puzzle #731






When the blues finally clicked it put a big smile on my face.

Raka_Putra posted...
Ugh, I still don't know what a parens is.
It's another word for parenthesis. Hence my mistake in putting it with the greens. You could DEFINITELY argue that it's shaped like those things. That being said, because it's a relatively obscure word, once I couldn't fit it in there, I thought for sure it would go in a wordplay category and spent a long time looking for other things that might.

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wallmasterz
06/11/25 8:09:06 AM
#55:


Connections
Puzzle #731





Purples
Blues

annoying one for me, although I like the spirit of the blues. I got lucky

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Raka_Putra
06/11/25 10:17:30 AM
#56:


Underleveled posted...
Connections
Puzzle #731






When the blues finally clicked it put a big smile on my face.

It's another word for parenthesis. Hence my mistake in putting it with the greens. You could DEFINITELY argue that it's shaped like those things. That being said, because it's a relatively obscure word, once I couldn't fit it in there, I thought for sure it would go in a wordplay category and spent a long time looking for other things that might.
Right, yeah, I thought it was a wordplay thing too.

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KommunistKoala
06/11/25 12:23:49 PM
#57:


Connections
Puzzle #731





blue
yellow

crow in yellows gave me fits

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mnk
06/11/25 1:08:25 PM
#58:


Connections
Puzzle #731





purples
blues

I thought the purples were symbols above the number keys and was trying anything that conceivably could look like one of the symbols (like eyebrow for ~).

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Kenri
06/11/25 1:50:36 PM
#59:


Connections
Puzzle #731






Annoyed I fucked up the perfect here

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foolm0r0n
06/11/25 2:44:38 PM
#60:


Connections
Puzzle #731





Fun to get some of the harder ones first. Had no idea about the blues.

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rwlh
06/11/25 5:23:48 PM
#61:


Connections
Puzzle #731





One of the only times I can think of that I got blue first.
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rwlh
06/11/25 5:25:13 PM
#62:


Oh hey I also made another of my own Connections puzzle:
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ORw0_wB0TZNOfkXOlt8

This is my seventh one of these. I posted a few in the last topic, happy to post them again if you like this one.
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mnk
06/11/25 5:31:17 PM
#63:


rwlh posted...
Oh hey I also made another of my own Connections puzzle:
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ORw0_wB0TZNOfkXOlt8

This is my seventh one of these. I posted a few in the last topic, happy to post them again if you like this one.






purples

I don't know what choleric means but I was certain of the other 3 and that was the only other adjective, lol.

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Underleveled
06/11/25 5:36:53 PM
#64:


rwlh posted...
Oh hey I also made another of my own Connections puzzle:
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ORw0_wB0TZNOfkXOlt8

This is my seventh one of these. I posted a few in the last topic, happy to post them again if you like this one.





Almost didn't go for yellow because it seemed too obvious so I figured it was a trap. Greens came very quickly after that. Then I stared at the remaining words for like 5 minutes before purple finally came to me.

Very fun one. Please repost the others!

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Xuxon
06/11/25 5:49:03 PM
#65:


Connections
Puzzle #731




was confused once it was clear rooster wasn't in the yellows, but few enough choices left that i kinda got forced into the correct answer. once again, had no clue on the purples.

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Kenri
06/11/25 5:56:19 PM
#66:


I made one too

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSVz35S3KlNTXHuYLhR

First time making one so fair warning that I have no idea if I got the difficulty right :p

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foolm0r0n
06/11/25 6:00:50 PM
#67:


rwlh posted...
Oh hey I also made another of my own Connections puzzle:
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ORw0_wB0TZNOfkXOlt8

This is my seventh one of these. I posted a few in the last topic, happy to post them again if you like this one.
Liked it! def a bit easy






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Underleveled
06/11/25 6:02:34 PM
#68:


I gave it a shot...

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSW-xrXSa7lax5UDxhx

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foolm0r0n
06/11/25 6:10:26 PM
#69:


Kenri posted...
I made one too

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSVz35S3KlNTXHuYLhR

First time making one so fair warning that I have no idea if I got the difficulty right :p
I got super stuck on wolf, never heard of that one, but it was cool. I do think it's illegal to have a fake category with exactly 4 tho

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mnk
06/11/25 6:13:45 PM
#70:


Kenri posted...
I made one too

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSVz35S3KlNTXHuYLhR

First time making one so fair warning that I have no idea if I got the difficulty right :p






yellows
blues

I kept trying to include wolf in with the gays since it is a thing. Someone more muscular than an otter but not beefy enough to be a bear, lol. Stud just seems more like a compliment than an identifying sub-type.

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Xuxon
06/11/25 6:20:39 PM
#71:




every combo of 3 yellows + 1 purple possible


never heard of wolf cut and the only thing i knew of in the purple category was bear

i tried also darkx's and got nowhere after getting the yellows

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Kenri
06/11/25 6:24:34 PM
#72:


mnk posted...
I kept trying to include wolf in with the gays since it is a thing. Someone more muscular than an otter but not beefy enough to be a bear, lol. Stud just seems more like a compliment than an identifying sub-type.
Whoops, legitimately never heard of that one! Stud is specifically a (usually black) lesbian dom.

foolm0r0n posted...
I got super stuck on wolf, never heard of that one, but it was cool. I do think it's illegal to have a fake category with exactly 4 tho
Is the fake category animals with otter/bear/wolf/hawk? I originally had a category about seeking information with "fish" on it but couldn't quite make it work, and then kinda forgot about this issue when I changed it out. I'm pretty sure I've seen fake categories with 4 in official games but probably never quite this obvious.

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Underleveled
06/11/25 6:25:36 PM
#73:


Got the greens on Kenri's but that's it. Tried a million different combinations but I'm not seeing anything else.

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mnk
06/11/25 6:27:11 PM
#74:


Underleveled posted...
I gave it a shot...

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSW-xrXSa7lax5UDxhx






Big and Philadelphia stood out to me as Tom Hanks movies, but I didn't know the others and just took a guess at which two sounded most like movie titles.

I never like that type of purple, lol.


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mnk
06/11/25 6:28:49 PM
#75:


Kenri posted...
Whoops, legitimately never heard of that one! Stud is specifically a (usually black) lesbian dom.

Oh, lol. I am not up to date on my lesbian terminology.

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foolm0r0n
06/11/25 6:31:13 PM
#76:


Kenri posted...
Is the fake category
Yep. I'm sure official games do that sometimes but it's rare and kinda sux

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wallmasterz
06/11/25 6:46:24 PM
#77:


rwlh posted...
Oh hey I also made another of my own Connections puzzle:
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ORw0_wB0TZNOfkXOlt8

This is my seventh one of these. I posted a few in the last topic, happy to post them again if you like this one.

yellows
greens





Definitely fun, thanks!

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Underleveled
06/11/25 6:58:44 PM
#78:


Made a Pokemon one. Not sure how I did on this one either but we'll see. I'll get the hang of this if I keep it up:

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSWCfrjRZfQSjozRMLW

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Xuxon
06/11/25 7:18:57 PM
#79:


once again i'm stumped. got the purples only, and for a completely different reason they can use explosion

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Kenri
06/11/25 7:20:36 PM
#80:


lol I also got the purples from explosion, then got yellows, then had to guess a million times to get green and blue

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mnk
06/11/25 7:22:46 PM
#81:


Underleveled posted...
Made a Pokemon one. Not sure how I did on this one either but we'll see. I'll get the hang of this if I keep it up:

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSWCfrjRZfQSjozRMLW

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8a86078b.png

Well, uh, once I finally started limiting the field, I started seeing the connections more easily.

I got stuck in a rut of thinking the greens were 3-stage family-related somehow (and also re-did one of the same guesses a few times to make sure I wasn't mis-remembering which three were 1-away)

I will say I did realize what the blues were once they were the only ones left.

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Xuxon
06/11/25 7:23:37 PM
#82:


if you're curious, here's some things i thought about for it
dum round balls
can use a sleep move
shared type
bipedal
genderless
name starts or ends with a word

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Fiop
06/11/25 9:56:52 PM
#84:


Connections
Puzzle #731




<yellows>
<blues>

mnk posted...
I thought the purples were symbols above the number keys and was trying anything that conceivably could look like one of the symbols (like eyebrow for ~).

Same here. Well at least after I included count in the purple group thinking it was some macro thing.

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Fiop
06/11/25 9:57:51 PM
#85:


rwlh posted...
Oh hey I also made another of my own Connections puzzle:
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ORw0_wB0TZNOfkXOlt8

This is my seventh one of these. I posted a few in the last topic, happy to post them again if you like this one.





Felt like I got lucky seeing the purples pretty soon.

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Raka_Putra
06/11/25 10:00:04 PM
#86:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8136c9db.jpg
I think it needed a bit fine tuning in terms of difficulty since I got the purple right away but it took me ages for the blue/green divide.

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Raka_Putra
06/11/25 10:12:14 PM
#87:


rwlh posted...
Oh hey I also made another of my own Connections puzzle:
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ORw0_wB0TZNOfkXOlt8

This is my seventh one of these. I posted a few in the last topic, happy to post them again if you like this one.








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Raka_Putra
06/11/25 10:14:24 PM
#88:


Kenri posted...
I made one too

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSVz35S3KlNTXHuYLhR

First time making one so fair warning that I have no idea if I got the difficulty right :p










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Raka_Putra
06/11/25 10:39:07 PM
#89:


Underleveled posted...
I gave it a shot...

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSW-xrXSa7lax5UDxhx









Purple

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Raka_Putra
06/11/25 10:47:40 PM
#90:


Connections
Puzzle #732






Well uh, when you guys see this one, a certain sequence of letters will begin to lose meaning. I Googled it and it's called semantic satiation.

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KommunistKoala
06/12/25 1:11:30 AM
#91:


Connections
Puzzle #732





purple

I said blue was pins and needles and still managed to try twice without wrestling ugh. (I went doctoring because I was being cute with the needles and then switched off bowling to remove the pins part) rushing too much

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Raka_Putra
06/12/25 1:44:38 AM
#92:


Right, does the pin part in wrestling just mean pinning the opponent to the ground or is there something else I wasn't aware of? I made the connection with sewing and acupuncturing, but I thought wrestling and bowling were just hobbies.


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KommunistKoala
06/12/25 2:02:11 AM
#93:


yeah you win in wrestling by pinning your opponent (or making them submit)

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Raka_Putra
06/12/25 2:03:14 AM
#94:


Okay, well, that's uh, purple-worthy, I'd say.

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Chaeix
06/12/25 4:20:15 AM
#95:


Connections
Puzzle #732





bloo

yeah I made the needle connection but not the pin connection. even *if* I had made the pin connection, no chance I would have connected that to wrestling. beyond obtuse.

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AdmittedFelon
06/12/25 4:28:20 AM
#96:


Connections
Puzzle #732






I tried doctoring before I noticed wrestling.

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Underleveled
06/12/25 6:42:32 AM
#97:


Connections
Puzzle #732






That hurt my eyes

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wallmasterz
06/12/25 8:34:51 AM
#98:


Connections
Puzzle #732






in a word annoying

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rwlh
06/12/25 9:04:01 AM
#99:


Underleveled posted...
Very fun one. Please repost the others!

Haha looks like others are posting some now. At the risk of flooding the topic, here are two of mine that I think are okay. I posted these in the first topic.

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OPDdMAmjEn4mymd7jZM
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OPQG00EKtBpOeOZDrBT

The second one (#6) is probably my best one? One thing I've learned from making these is that difficulty balance is surprisingly tricky!
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totamech
06/12/25 9:10:52 AM
#100:


Connections
Puzzle #732






What I've learned is that I like the wordplay ones and usually look for them first

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totamech
06/12/25 9:32:10 AM
#101:


Underleveled posted...
Made a Pokemon one. Not sure how I did on this one either but we'll see. I'll get the hang of this if I keep it up:

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OSWCfrjRZfQSjozRMLW

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/336857c9.png

Got yellow immediately and then well...

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