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Puzzle #580
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Why did I see purple immediately and not the others?
Blue is impossible and stupid.
For yellow there are multiple options, so I suppose I should have waited with that until I could exclude the green things.
01:04
@Cerberus As soon as I see a likely grouping, I immediately look for better matches. A puzzle from 2023 had: cereal, bacon, egg, omelet, bacon, and pancake. Any of those would fit a four-item group, but not all six. What to choose?
@Robusto Yeah.
I normally do this, too.
But I was too eager and the ones I picked seemed better than the others.
That's the intriguing, though at times infuriating, key to this game. It forces you to look past the obvious to find abstruse associations.
Yes.
And it is best to complete all four connections before submitting anything.
But who is patient enough for that...
Meanwhile:
> Russia’s gradual, grinding advance in parts of Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk succeeded in wresting away 4,168 sq km of land in 2024 – equivalent to 0.69 percent of the country. “Russian forces have seized four settlements – Avdiivka, Selydove, Vuhledar, and Kurakhove – in all of 2024, the largest of which had a pre-war population of just over 31,000 people,” said the ISW. — aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/3/…
@Cerberus On the daily ones I muster the patience for it. On the archive ones I tend to go faster and fail more. There's always another puzzle.
Well, not always. I'll be running out after I finish 2023.
01:15
Oh really, you don't submit anything until you feel that you have found all four quartets?
@Cerberus No. Because there is always one that is nearly opaque and only emergences once the other three are certain.
Just as I thought.
So did you mean you only begin submitting the first three once you have found all three?
@Cerberus Yes.
Right.
That still requires some patience.
I wish you could do "tentative" clicks with colors, so you could arrange the board first before committing yourself to a solution.
01:23
Agreed.
Connections #496
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This one is a good example of where solving all four first would help a lot.
I didn't. Just clicked as soon as I saw something reasonable.
Ha, you got one of each color on your first guess! I wonder how often that happens.
Yeah, there was so much overlap!
You can play it here.
My first try was Spoiler..
I totally fell into all of her traps.
Connections #496
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I played that archived one before, though, and I sort of remembered some of it.
Yeah it helps if you see purple first.
I mean, especially in this case.
So you see how easy it is to quartet the wrong things in this particular puzzle?
She's mean.
@Cerberus Oh yeah.
01:32
> Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence put Russia’s losses last year at 430,790 soldiers, outnumbering its losses in 2022 and 2023 combined.
This one had six US states in it:
Archive August 21, 2023
Connections Puzzle #71
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Also mean.
Let me try it.
Would anyone stand a chance who knew nothing about these states?
I can't answer that.
I see some things that I think are Spoiler..
@Robusto If the answer is yes, I will try it. Otherwise, I will skip it.
@Cerberus There are some commonalities among some.
01:36
I guess the answer is no haha.
Give it a try. You might get it.
Hmm.
Oops I got purple first.
Even though I didn't know the connecting thing at all, just the general category.
I didn't know it was Spoiler.
Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.
Touché.
By the way!
Look at that site:
So better use that site instead of the NYT site.
How?
01:43
You just keep selecting more.
Without submitting.
The first four are grey.
5–8 will be the next colour, and so on.
Nice!
02:18
I have found purple and yellow (with luck and 3 errors) but have no idea about the rest yet.
I have at least got rid of most of the states now.
@Mitch Wait, he died twice?
02:57
Questions be like: When I print "well hydrated" to a screen, will viewers assume it's by well water or just bottled water or possibly reconstituted OJ on newsprint at breakfast in the '80s?
> Where do birds stay when they travel?
Someplace cheep.
I don't get it..
The sound of cheeping, perhaps?
Birds cheep.
Remember, puns aren't really funny...
 
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@Mitch In Boston the official "punishment" is a $1 fine. The law is essentially never enforced. I once jaywalked directly in front of a group of cops near city hall and they just looked at me slightly disapprovingly.
@Mitch The car industry made it up to shift the blame for car crashes killing pedestrians: vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
05:36
You know what bothers me? People who don't know the rules for how to walk on roads without sidewalks, the kind you find in the suburbs sometimes.
"The cars are on the right side of the street, therefore all traffic going that direction is on the right side of the street, therefore I shall walk on the right side of the street. After all, it's much more important to see the cars that have already hit you than to see the ones about to hit you."
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My friend gets really upset when I call him a flat-Earther.
He says the correct term is bulldozer operator
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I really don't like the questions in that game, sorry.
Mostly irrelevant, and about mass-commercial entertainment.
 
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Connections
Puzzle #580
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Wordle 1,302 4/6

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Hi, guys. Can I check with you these sentences? Do they sound natural enough to say?

1. She's the kind of woman I'd really want to settle down with. I'd really want to build a family with her.
2. This rally underscored the importance of interfaith dialogue in addressing the challenges posed by radical ideologies.
3. Faith plays a pivotal role in my life as a christian now.
4. We need unity if we want to counter this new political threat.
5. Interest is payable on the money owing.
 
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@MichaelRybkin the first four seem fine, just a bit oddly phrased. Five isn't, and I'm not entirely sure what you want to say. Maybe "Interest is collectable on the money borrowed", if that's what you're really saying.
12:45
One user has started posting nonsensical stuffs in this community.
Also operating sock puppet accounts.
Earlier they were doing the same at CV. Has been suspended now. It seems they have concentrated here.
13:37
Noun: ūhtcaru f
  1. pre-dawn anxiety
  2. c. 10th century, The Wife's Lament, lines 7b-8:
Old English word of the day
> hæfde iċ ūhtċeare hwǣr mīn lēodfruma landes wǣre
I had pre-dawn anxiety, wondering where in the world my prince might be
13:49
#travle #759 +1
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#WhenTaken #319 (11.01.2025)

I scored 778/1000🏅

1️⃣📍4.9 km - 🗓️16 yrs - 🥈167/200
2️⃣📍1.4K km - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥈144/200
3️⃣📍743 km - 🗓️32 yrs - 🥉85/200
4️⃣📍5.9 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200
5️⃣📍491 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇184/200

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Wordle 1,302 5/6

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@Cerberus Spoiler. The purple became obvious once I got the green.
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According to Connections-Bot, I made the most common incorrect guess.
This is odd. I make screenshots from BlueSky, and the background is white, but the screenshots come out orange
@MichaelRybkin All are fine to me except I would capitalize Christian on #3, and #5 sounds better with "money owed" or "balance owed".
> If I show up breathless at your door, looking nervously over my shoulder and pleading “Please hide me, I’ll explain later,” please hide me. I’ll explain later.
14:28
@CowperKettle BlueSky turning orange, that's the LA effect.
Bloody red sky of fantastic LA
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> If your woman is sad, hold her hand, look her in the eyes and tell her you're the boss at home. That'll make her laugh for days.
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Daily Extreme Octordle #1083
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@M.A.R. Thank you very much. With example #5, I want to say that you must pay interest on the money that you owe. I think "Interest is payable on the money owed" suggested by GratefulDisciple is what I ultimately want to say. "Interest is payable on the money owing" is the version you see when you type "payable meaning" on the Google search page.
Do you see the example under definition #1?
@GratefulDisciple Thank you very much, my friend.
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#WhenTaken #319 (11.01.2025)

I scored 720/1000🎗️

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2️⃣📍1.4K km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥈157/200
3️⃣📍728 km - 🗓️30 yrs - 🥉93/200
4️⃣📍452 km - 🗓️22 yrs - 🥈133/200
5️⃣📍860 km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥈165/200

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@alphabet And what's really, really bad are that you see kids riding bikes along these sidewalk-less roads. Sometimes, I come around a corner and there they are. I'm thinking, where the hell are the parents? It would be so easy to inadvertently hit one of them. As a result, I go about 10 mi an hour in those places.
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@alphabet That reminds me when I was a kid and my father told me You see the single line in the middle of the street, if it is continuous, the cars can't cross it. It's like a wall. I replied It's like a wall! I can go to school walking on it then (I used to like walking on walls.) He disagreed.
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Daily Extreme Octordle #1083
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@CowperKettle I dunno that you should call a rocket "Icarus"
 
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> I recently learned my therapist also has a therapist and now I'm worried it's my fault.
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@CowperKettle No, it's quite common that therapists have their own; doesn't mean they have an issue, but to make themselves more happy and effective to be therapists. The article I shared earlier testifies to this:
Dec 20, 2024 at 12:06, by GratefulDisciple
BTW I have high regard for the psychoanalyst profession; came across this article today where she talks about the clinical psychologist's code of ethics, interference from her public image (created against her will), and her personal heroic struggle to care for her growing child.
@alphabet Thanks for sharing that article. I skimmed through it, and it makes a lot of sense; interpreting an ancient philosopher / historian / theologian should definitely take into account their implied frame of reference. In this case ancient cosmology that should also inform Bible interpretation, a mistake that fundamentalists often make.
 
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@DannyuNDos What do you mean?
What "sentence components" do you feel that Spanish "omits"?
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@tchrist I suspect he thinks about subject pronouns.
@CowperKettle Could be something about your video card/driver?
What is sent to your screen isn't always the same as what the operating system puts in a screenshot. Cf. screenshotting some videos.
@jlliagre Pero no han desaparecido—o a lo mejor se podría decir que se han escondido en la flexión del verbo—de ahí que no se hace falta decirlos. ¿Alguna vez los has echado de menos? Verás que todavía se entiende. :)
Yo lo sé :-)
Korean pronouns pose some difficulty to speakers of English due to their complexity. The Korean language makes extensive use of speech levels and honorifics in its grammar, and Korean pronouns also change depending on the social distinction between the speaker and the person or persons spoken to. In general, Koreans avoid using second person singular pronouns, especially when using honorific forms. == Overview of pronouns == For each pronoun there is a humble/honorific and an informal form for first and second person. In the above table, the first pronoun given is the humble one, which one would...
@tchrist Ceci explique probablement cela.
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A: Ya empieza a nevar.
B: ¿Quién?
A: ¿Cómo «quién»?
B: ¿Quién será este tío que está nevando?
A: Pues se nos cae la nieve por sí misma. No hay tío.
B: ¿Entonces es una tía, me dices?
A: ¡Lárgate!
Seems silly to invent an Old Man Winter just to pronoun that.
Il pleut.
@jlliagre Qui? :)
@tchrist Comment qui?
> Growing up without smart phones I used to stare at my empty hand for hours, imagining all the interesting people that lived in there
@jlliagre Qui est ce type qui pleut ?
To be honest I had feared he was confused by the lack of honorific particles.
How can you possibly be polite without those? Or rude? Inconceivable!
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@tchrist Eh bien la neige tombe toute seule. Il n'y a pas de type.
@jlliagre Je suis dévasté qu’elle soit tombée toute seule, la pauvre neige. Elle a besoin d'un type !

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