A new word game....

[Nearly Sane]

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Puzzle #147
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[jeremyp]

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[Nearly Sane]

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Puzzle #148
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[Steve H]

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Puzzle #148
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Bugger.

[Aruntraveller]

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Bugger indeed. I discounted the purple category even though I did identify it as I couldn't find a fourth word for it, and having seen the word it still makes no sense to me.

[Nearly Sane]

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Puzzle #148
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Bugger indeed. I discounted the purple category even though I did identify it as I couldn't find a fourth word for it, and having seen the word it still makes no sense to me.

I would say that one of them I felt was a boy old fadhioned but it was in common use when I was growing up. There may be a regional element in the UK as well as an American aspect behind the NYT usage.

[jeremyp]

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Got obsessed with purple.

Have to say, one of the blue answers had nothing to do with the category, or at least so I thought.

[Steve H]

Having now seen the answers, I don't think three of the blues really fit the category: they can do, but don't normally.

[Nearly Sane]

Having now seen the answers, I don't think three of the blues really fit the category: they can do, but don't normally.

Not seeing the issue.

[Steve H]

Not seeing the issue.

I think everyone's played that's likely to (avert your eyes if not), so...

"bouillon" means "stock". It is liquid, so only cubical if you pour it into a cubical container. A bouillon cube is another matter. Ditto ice and sugar.

[Nearly Sane]

I think everyone's played that's likely to (avert your eyes if not), so...

"bouillon" means "stock". It is liquid, so only cubical if you pour it into a cubical container. A bouillon cube is another matter. Ditto ice and sugar.

They are things that come in cubes. I think your is that the title could be phrased better not that the items don't fit. After all a die diesn't have to be cube shaped either.

[jeremyp]

They are things that come in cubes. I think your is that the title could be phrased better not that the items don't fit. After all a die diesn't have to be cube shaped either.

They are things that can come in cubes, although I'd never heard of a bouillon cube before. I assume it is like a stock cube.

A die, on the other hand is a thing that is a cube, normally, unless you play D&D.

I probably would have got it if I hadn't spent so much time trying to figure out the purple category.

[Steve H]

They are things that can come in cubes, although I'd never heard of a bouillon cube before. I assume it is like a stock cube.

I suspect that "bouillon cube" is what Yanks call what we call a stock cube.

[Steve H]

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Puzzle #149
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[Nearly Sane]

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[jeremyp]

Purple should have been much easier for me. I was even getting annoyed with myself because I kept making the association for one of the words in my head but rejecting it because the others didn't appear to fit.

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[Aruntraveller]

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This may be overthinking things, but since we started making this word game on the other thread, I have found these puzzles easier. Furthermore, I did both boards on Only Connect last night. Which is the first time ever. (I freeze-frame it at the beginning and try to work it out.)

[Nearly Sane]

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This may be overthinking things, but since we started making this word game on the other thread, I have found these puzzles easier. Furthermore, I did both boards on Only Connect last night. Which is the first time ever. (I freeze-frame it at the beginning and try to work it out.)

Seems entirely reasonable. There's a pattern of 5hought, and a process that makes stuff easier. Setting the home made ones gives insight in how you might think of connections running into each other.

I think the Only Connect wall remains far harder than the NYT one but the basic approach is the same, and getting used to the process of elimination is a good one. On the home made thread because of the unlimited guesses, I finfmd that I do take risks a bit more but it also allows a certain amount of experimentation which is useful.

[Nearly Sane]

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Slightly worried that the purple one jumped out like that

[Steve H]

I got completely stuck on 'Wordle', which is impossible today, so decided to have a break and do 'Connections'. I didn't do much better there.
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[Aruntraveller]

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Never heard of one of the greens in that context.

[jeremyp]

Nope

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[Nearly Sane]

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Blue is a nonsense.

[Steve H]

Green and yellow were easy. I saw the group category for purple eventually,, but had never heard of one of the items therein. I had no idea with blue.
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[jeremyp]

A victim of Americanisms today, I think.

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I knew the purple category, but the fourth member did for me.