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sweetandsour · Post by **sweetandsour** » 28 Oct 2024, 05:28

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Puzzle #505

Yellow by default.

JimVH · Post by **JimVH** » 28 Oct 2024, 06:28

sweetandsour wrote: ↑28 Oct 2024, 05:28 Connections
Puzzle #505

Yellow by default.

I thought it was interesting that we both solved the supposedly hardest one first and easiest one last.

sweetandsour · Post by **sweetandsour** » 28 Oct 2024, 07:10

JimVH wrote: ↑28 Oct 2024, 06:28
sweetandsour wrote: ↑28 Oct 2024, 05:28 Connections
Puzzle #505

Yellow by default.
I thought it was interesting that we both solved the supposedly hardest one first and easiest one last.

Yeah, sometimes it seems to work that way. I saw the abracadabra and the please-and-thank-you right off, recalling childhood TV magicians. Then I guessed between shazam and presto for the fourth word and went with presto. The blue wedding vows and green row fell into place, and I didn't even think at all about the yellow row.
"They" say that these sorts of puzzles are good exercise for one's mind. Hopefully so, but for me it's just for kicks, and a part of my morning routine when nothing else is going on. There are some good mentors in my past that did the same thing. But one guy in particular stands out in my memory, an assistant plant manager/mechanical engineer where I worked my first job after college, every morning would come into the lab office with a cup of Seaport coffee, light up a Lucky Strike non-filter, and sit down and very quickly do the crossword and daily jumble in the morning paper.

JimVH · Post by **JimVH** » 29 Oct 2024, 03:13

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Puzzle #506

sweetandsour · Post by **sweetandsour** » 29 Oct 2024, 07:17

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Puzzle #506

JimVH · Post by **JimVH** » 30 Oct 2024, 14:24

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Puzzle #507

JimVH · Post by **JimVH** » 31 Oct 2024, 01:36

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Puzzle #508

sweetandsour · Post by **sweetandsour** » 31 Oct 2024, 05:30

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Puzzle #508

That blue row was my purple row today, and the first row was a trap and it looks like Jim and I both fell for it.

sweetandsour · Post by **sweetandsour** » 01 Nov 2024, 05:34

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Puzzle #509

That green row, really? Bottle, can, tap or draft?

JimVH · Post by **JimVH** » 01 Nov 2024, 08:01

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Puzzle #509

I thought some of those were weight lifting moves. Oops.