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justincredible

Honorable Admin

47,955 posts
Feb 23, 2026 8:27 AM

Honestly one of the yellows I wouldn't have got.


Connections

Puzzle #988

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BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 23, 2026 10:35 AM

Yellow and blue were easy. Took me a little while to figure out green and purple. 


Connections

Puzzle #988

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justincredible

Honorable Admin

47,955 posts
Feb 23, 2026 10:45 AM

I feel like we're just going to keep going forever at this point.

BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 23, 2026 11:12 AM
justincredible wrote:

I feel like we're just going to keep going forever at this point.

Don’t worry. I’m on a good streak soooo…..any day now. 

sportchampps

Senior Member

9,311 posts
Feb 24, 2026 3:32 AM

Damn I knew traveling would mess me up. Good Luck Guys

brutus161

The Navy Guy

3,510 posts
Feb 24, 2026 8:20 AM

Connections

Puzzle #989

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A literal guess. Also, I fell for the trap.

justincredible

Honorable Admin

47,955 posts
Feb 24, 2026 8:32 AM

not easy

Connections

Puzzle #989

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BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 24, 2026 9:15 AM

Yellow tripped me up. 


Connections

Puzzle #989

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Greetings from San Francisco!

sportchampps

Senior Member

9,311 posts
Feb 24, 2026 9:29 PM

Connections

Puzzle #989

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Ugh and crushed today lol

justincredible

Honorable Admin

47,955 posts
Feb 25, 2026 7:51 AM

Connections

Puzzle #990

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brutus161

The Navy Guy

3,510 posts
Feb 25, 2026 8:06 AM

Connections

Puzzle #990

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I could see purple, but there were 5 that fit. It took me a few guesses.

BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 25, 2026 11:25 AM

Whoa…. Blue had me going and got it by luck with purple as default. 


Connections

Puzzle #990

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brutus161

The Navy Guy

3,510 posts
Feb 25, 2026 12:59 PM

If this is still going the week of The Players, I may have to forfeit. 

BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 25, 2026 4:50 PM

Well, I’m in Honolulu now and I’ve been able to find a way to keep playing. 

sportchampps

Senior Member

9,311 posts
Feb 25, 2026 8:32 PM
BRF wrote:

Well, I’m in Honolulu now and I’ve been able to find a way to keep playing. 

How’s Hawaii I want to go

BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 26, 2026 12:15 AM
sportchampps wrote:

How’s Hawaii I want to go

It is awesome. I shouldn’t have waited this long to go there. It’s a little pricey with drinks, gas, other goods that we take for granted where I live. But it truly is an island paradise. 

brutus161

The Navy Guy

3,510 posts
Feb 26, 2026 8:27 AM

Connections

Puzzle #991

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Easy today

Ironman92
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brutus161

The Navy Guy

3,510 posts
Feb 26, 2026 8:28 AM
BRF wrote:

Well, I’m in Honolulu now and I’ve been able to find a way to keep playing. 

I run a committee during the tournament. I am pretty much full go from 6 am to 7-8 pm. 

justincredible

Honorable Admin

47,955 posts
Feb 26, 2026 8:34 AM

Just barely.

Connections

Puzzle #991

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BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 26, 2026 11:43 AM
brutus161 wrote:

I run a committee during the tournament. I am pretty much full go from 6 am to 7-8 pm. 

Oof, sorry. I didn’t mean to sound so harsh. 

BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 26, 2026 11:51 AM

Connections

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justincredible

Honorable Admin

47,955 posts
Feb 26, 2026 11:59 AM

So is it just me and brutus now?

brutus161

The Navy Guy

3,510 posts
Feb 26, 2026 12:26 PM
justincredible wrote:

So is it just me and brutus now?


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Ironman92

Administrator

69,890 posts
Feb 26, 2026 5:48 PM

Good luck

BRF

Senior Member

16,415 posts
Feb 27, 2026 2:36 AM

So on my exit, I wanted to say a few things. 


There were three times in this contest when I was down to my last guess with a 50/50 shot and hit them. I thought “you won’t last too much longer doing that”. And it finally happened. 


I was done in the “Elements of Joke Telling”. I had three, but couldn’t come up with the fourth. My guessing didn’t work. I never heard of  “callback”. WTF is that?


But, I’m honored to have hung in there with the players in our Connections League on the OC.  I’ll gladly take 3rd place. 


One suggestion……maybe in the next contest, we come up with a scoring system for daily results. That way, a limit could be set on the number of days played in the contest.  gut seems to know about some sort of scoring system.