Connections
Puzzle #472
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I also saw a clear fifth purple choice.
Connections
Puzzle #472
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I sent this via PM but thought that I would share here. It’s from the Gameplay newsletter that I get via email.
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By Sam Corbin |
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It brings me no pleasure to inform you that Connections was designed explicitly to trick you. The game’s editor, Wyna Liu, inserts at least one false grouping into each board in the hopes that you’ll spring her traps by making a likely — but mistaken — association between words. It’s a fairly gentle trick: Once your submitted words shudder, indicating that a mistake has been made, you can swallow your pride and keep playing.
Our brains, as it happens, are just as susceptible to another bit of lexical deceit that’s laced into everyday speech: We can be fooled into misinterpreting a sentence. Take this phrase, for instance: The florist sent a bouquet was pleased. Or this one: The old man the boat. There’s a moment right at the end of each of these phrases when you realize that you have no idea what you just read.
If the florist sent a bouquet, who was pleased by it? The answer: The florist, who was sent it. And that old man isn’t alone, but rather belongs to a general category: The old. They man the boat. These phrases are known as garden-path sentences, because the reader is led to parse them in a way that leads to a dead end — the deceit was inside of us all along! (Or was it the false friends we made along the way?)
You can try your hand at crafting these sentences, too. They usually consist of disguising a noun as an adjective, or a past participle as an active verb — a tactic often used in our daily Crossword clues, such as [Put off]. That clue seems as if it’s a past-tense verb meaning postponed, but it’s actually an adjective meaning disconcerted.
I get a kick out of anything that highlights the versatility of the English language, even if it’s at my own expense first. Anyway, that’s all. The woman often sent newsletters is hoping you enjoyed this one.
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Puzzle #472
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Puzzle #472
Accidentally clicked the wrong word on my first guess! 
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New Beta Sports themed Connections.
Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #2
Time: 02:52
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Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #2
Time: 05:40
OK, this is right up my alley, although I am sure that I had blue right off the bat so bummed that I must have mistyped.
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Not up my alley at all (unless you count living with my husband for many decades).
Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #2
Time: 02:20
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Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #2
Time: 02:28
lol. Didn’t get any. Think I’ll stick to regular connections!!
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Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #2
Time: 01:59
Have to play a few more times to see if I’m a fan of this new game.
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Connections
Puzzle #473
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Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #3
Time: 10:02
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Puzzle #473
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Too many purple choices. Guess sports loving husband infected me.
Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #3
Time: 01:38
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