Out-to-Lunch
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Today seemed easy:
Connections
Puzzle #126
Connections
Puzzle #126
Email today announcing that the Games subscription goes from $40 to $50/year next month. Still worth it to me.
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I searched but didn't see any references to the new NY Times puzzle, "Connections." I've been playing it for about two weeks now and I find it challenging.
You are presented with 16 different words. The words have an underlying common connection to each other. The idea is to place the items into groups of four that share the same category in common.
For example 4 of the 16 words might be:
Fairlane, Galaxy, Pinto, Thunderbird
These are names of bygone Ford vehicles. You might group them together. This is a relatively easy example. They get harder, much harder.
I've only solved 5 puzzles out of 9 tries so far.
I was hoping puzzles and crosswords would keep us sharper too, but not so according to Outlive by Dr Peter Attia. He says βdoing crosswords just makes you better at crosswordsβ¦βDW & I do them too. For kicks I also do Octordle. I like to fool myself in to thinking it is keeping me a tiny bit mentally sharper. But I donβt see how knowing the names of 4 Rappers that have The(e) as part of their name will ever make me quicker/smarter, LOL. Though I did get all the Addams Family references as the first oneβ¦.