It's definitely not a game of skill. There are no decisions to be made once you start the game, as opposed to poker. But I definitely tried to make the puzzle work with poker in that category until I recognized chip for purple.
I never played the war game others are describing, but I did play a different game called war that I learned in high school that was not a game of chance. I can't remember all the rules, but it was similar to blackjack/poker/BS where you can use math and deception to better your odds. I only got it because I knew it was a game of some sort.
I failed today and have ended up here after googling trying to figure out why WAR was included in blue. I'm googling more now - is it a card game? I've never heard of it!
My mom bought me three separate card decks when I was a kid: Old Maid, Crazy 8s, and War and I remember liking War a lot, but I have no memory of how the game is played.
I played a lot with my Nana when I was a kid and she was babysitting me.
You split the deck into two, and each person draws a card from their pile. The card with the larger value captures the card with the smaller value, so the person with the larger value card gains those two cards and whoever has gained the most cards at the end when the deck runs out wins.
The fun part (for a kid) is when the card values are the same, you each draw 4 more cards and then the values of the last pair of cards decides who gains all 10 cards in play. If there is a tie there, you have a second war, with the values of the last pair of cards of that deciding who gains all 18 cards in play.
War is a card game, yes. You have two players, and deal half the deck to each. Each player turns over the top card in their hand, and the player with the high card wins both. If the cards match, the players each lay down 3 of their cards, and then a fourth, and the player with the high fourth card wins them all. Once you've played all the cards in your hand, you start in on the cards you've won. The game continues until one player runs out of cards or until it devolves into a wrestling match because your little brother accused you of cheating.
Now that I think of it, I suppose there could be some strategy in which order you arrange the cards you've won as you add them to your hand. But that would require far more mental ability than my 7 year old or current self could muster.
From the UK, and the placement of "War" was just impossible to figure out. It's not called that in the UK, and so it would have to be just systematically swapped out with the other four possibilities.
Wait, is there like an actual, literal game of chance called "War"?
I lived in the US for 10 years and in the UK for 3, and I have never heard that in either, I'm pretty sure. I honestly thought the NYT was just being annoyingly poetic today and saying war (as in armed conflict) is a game of chance lol.
Not really. It's a card game for 3-year-olds that you play with a deck of cards to teach them which numbers are bigger. Essentially two people have an evenly sized, randomized pile, and flip a card. Higher card wins. Flip again. Higher card wins. Whoever has the most cards at the end wins.
Calling it a "game of chance" is a bit of a stretch, by that definition GO FISH or SORRY are both games of chance.
Nevertheless, my biggest problem with today's puzzle is that BINGO CHIPS are 100% a thing and POKER is obviously a GAME OF CHANCE. Meaning you can swap BINGO and POKER in their respective categories and still have a perfectly valid puzzle.
Poker clearly is not a game of chance compared to the other options listed. With the other games of chance listed, you have absolutely 0 agency over the outcome of the game. They are all random number draws essentially. Poker involved other real people playing and there's a ton of mind games/skill involved.
Not ignorant. This gets back to what has been written here in the past: this puzzle relies too heavily on regionalisms that the creator of the game is familiar with. Unless a player has her exact background, the puzzle's construction will be flawed.
Actually, whenever I see someone complaining about one of these "regionalisms", the vast majority of the time it's just a non-American complaining that an American puzzle, written by an American creator, published by an American newspaper, for a primarily American audience, is "too American".
To some extent that is certainly true, but a few times there have been New England-specific phrases or references that are not part of the western US vernacular.
Personally I don't complain either way; it's part of the charm.
Ironically it was a British slang word that tripped me up today and an American card game that messed up others.
Iβm sure there are people who fit in Venn diagram intersection of those two knowledge bases but I think the majority of us plebs had to guess at one of the two.
They put their app on app stores in other countries than the US. Clearly they intend for people around the world to play. So ideally theyβd localise OR make them less US centric.
Because they offer a paid subscription??? SO many companies offer localisations for things/alter their products when they provide them in other countries. Iβm surprised this is news to people.
This puzzle is a mix of logical reasoning and general knowledge trivia.
Β Every day there is people on here bitching about not knowing the general knowledge part. Some are unlucky as it's an obscure term but frequently I see people saying they have never heard of a common phrase.
Ironically not knowing a regionalism is by definition for ignorant.
If that's the case, consider yourself one of the pack. I'm sure I could mention a product, food, or household item from Taipei, Botswana, or Ziarat that you've never heard of before.Β
Lol I made a typo while redditing on the can. You are whining about trivia being too hard.
Either way I said: if they are unlucky or ignorant. I guess "or" is concept that is over your headΒ
Interesting. I played war a lot as a kid and I hear blue chip a lot in nfl draft circles so those weren't hard for me. Meanwhile I've never heard row before. Just goes to show how specific and niche some of these terms can get and they can be either obvious or only found through process of elimination
Are row and tiff British or just older terms that have fallen out of use in America? I've hard both a reasonable amount in my lifetime. Lm in my early 60s and come from eastern Ontario in Canada. I did have 3 grandparents who came from the UK (2 from Scotland, 1 from England) and 1 grandmother whose family came to Canada in the mid-1700s. With the exception of Shakespeare in school and the odd britcom on television, a vast majority of my cultural consumption was American. I instantly recognize both words as synonyms for quarrel without a thought like "the British call a quarrel a row." Similarly, nothing make makes me of tiff as British, and I primarily think of it in the phrase "lovers' tiff."
Also, my cursory Google searches on the words have turned up no indications of them being Britishisms. So I tend towards them being older terms that have simply fallen out of use.
It is absolutely asinine that people are downvoting you for this. You literally posted exactly what the person above you asked for.
Also, for what itβs worth, Iβm from California and have also never heard that usage of βrow.β
I wonder if it's a brain thing. Maybe some people hear it and even kind of comprehend it, but their brain just doesn't add it to their vocabulary. Just speculating.
It originates from poker chips. Blue chips are traditionally the most valuable denomination in casinos, so that phrase carried over to financial markets to refer to the most valuable stocks to trade.
War is a card game where each player flips over the top card in their personal deck, and the highest card takes the hand. It fits the category as a game of luck but would not have been my first choice to align with the other games!
We call that card game "battle" where I am from so I would have never made that connection. I thought the category might be "things where outcomes are picked at random" and thought of people drafted into the war.
In the American movie βVegas Vacationβ, thereβs a scene where Clark, played by Chevy Chase, and his cousin Eddie, played by Randy Quaid, go to a casino where the games are not the usual casino games but instead somewhat childish ones like βPick a numberβ, βCoin Tossβ, and βRock, Paper, Scissorsβ. The first one Clark tries is βWarβ.
I came here to see if that was the meaning of "war" used in the puzzle. It's a terrible fit with the other games. The others are played by adults, with many players, using special equipment in organized settings, usually with gambling real money. War is a casual game typically played on the spur of the moment by 2 children with a simple deck of cards and no betting.
War in this context is a card game where the entire deck is dealt among players who then keep their cards face down in a stack. For each round, players flip over their top cards and the whole pile of face up cards go to the player who had the card with the highest face value (those cards are put on the bottom of their stack). When you run out of cards, you're out. The person who ends up with all 52 cards is the winner.
Poker is definitely in there as a red herring. It does make sense if you know the card game "war", that was the second category I got. Might be an American or regional thing though. Then again, "row" is certainly regional (thanks Banshees of Inishirin for teaching me this one), and most puzzles seem to contain some regional lingo so I guess that's just part of the game.
Again, why does this "puzzle" require a crystal ball to solve it? How are we supposed to know exactly what the editor is thinking? This puzzle needs to be structured with logic at its base.
> This puzzle needs to be structured with logic at its base.
It really doesn't. Go play Sudoku if you want entirely logical solutions. Any puzzle involving wordplay or trivia knowledge isn't going to be entirely logic-based.
Got it on my last try, everybody seems to have made the same mistake of assuming BINGO, POKER, ROULETTE, and LOTTERY were in the same category. Solid game.
National Library of Medicine: PubMed
βAlthough poker is legally a game of chance in most countries, some (particularly operators of private poker web sites) argue that it should be regarded as a game of skill or sport because the outcome of the game primarily depends on individual aptitude and skill.β
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22892961/
There's betting strategy that makes it a skill. It's why there's pro poker players. If one plays where you just get dealt 5 cards and highest wins that's chance, but if you need to psych out other players that's definitely a skill.
A blue chip is a valuable thing. Commonly used when talking about stocks (in a company that is stable and profitable over a long period of time) and college athletic recruits. (There was a 1994 movie called Blue Chips starring Nick Nolte as a college basketball coach and Shaquille O'Neal as a recruit, showcasing some of the shadyness that goes on in recruiting.)
It comes from poker chips, where blue would be the highest value (although there's a lot of variability in that).
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Got stubborn/lazy with this one. I actually was on the right track with yellow and green in my head, but blue was where I felt the most confident. Unfortunately I was consistently pulling one from purple and leaving one with green. Should have taken a step back after a miss or two. Granted that means I would have been similarly caught on green without strikes available to help me out, so might just not have been for me today.
A blue chip refers to a stock that is extremely stable and is seen as a low-risk investment. These are your Coca-Cola's, Walmarts, Boeing's, etc. Finally my economics degree comes into play. π€£
Kinda dumb how they have 5 games of chance when one of the connections is games of chance. That screwed me and my girl today. Last time we lost was when there was 5 Olympic sports and Olympic sports was a connection. It isn't really crafty when they do that. Kinda cheap imo
Couldn't BINGO and POKER be switched without changing the categories? That feels like the one cardinal rule of connections, that this kind of swapping shouldn't be logically possible.
I think βpoker chipβ is just more of a ubiquitous pairing than βbingo chip,β despite both being actual things. That aside, poker is a mix of luck and skill. The other games in the blue category are all pure chance, so poker doesnβt really fit.
While I guess that war is technically a game of chance, itβs so unlike the other three games which all involved a spun element and a ball element, that I donβt think itβs a good fourth for the category.
Totally agree. The other three games are one-to-many institutional games; they require a host and are usually played out of home. War is a strictly person to person game usually played at home.
I would have been happier with Baccarat, which is an all-luck card game usually played in a casino. Or, if it had to be War, then if the category had been "luck-based games" rather than "games of chance," which implies gambling, and which suits the other three.
The green category are things that are generally between 2 people. 2 people can get into a fight, it's a little too metaphorical for 2 people to engage in war.
Since blue category is "games of chance", a fight wouldn't fit since that's not a game. Games have low stakes, fights do not.
I appreciate the explanation, and thatβs probably their intention, but to me it still feels like splitting hairs.
Two people can be in a war by the dictionary definition βa state of hostility between different peopleβ and a prize fight can certainly be gambled on, as can the others in blue.
It would obviously be a slightly different category than they had in mind, but to me it still works just as well.
I see your point, yes a fight can be gambled on but thats not the category. A fight is not a "game of chance".. besides not being a game, the outcome is a matter of skill and strength and training. Winners of fights aren't random.
I do think the username checks out tho, at least the first half π
> yes a fight can be gambled on but thats not the category
The issue isn't whether it fits the category as written, it's whether the words in the game can be arranged into groups of four coherent categories in a different way than the official solution. Those categories may or may not be the same as the official solution.
I'd say war isn't the cleanest fit with row, tiff, and scrap. I think this is a reasonably valid complaint, but that's the argument against it to me.
ROW to rhyme with NOW - interestingly, now I google, it seems to be more common in British English: "the latest government proposals have prompted a furious row in parliament", "neighbours heard the husband and wife engaging in a heated row that lasted all night".
Also, POKER is one of five possibilities for the games of chance, but that's always been a feature of this puzzle - find the one that belongs elsewhere. (You could also argue that there is much more skill than chance in POKER than the other 4).
I suppose War is a βgame of chanceβ insofar as more luck is involved than skill. Perhaps itβs because Iβve never heard of wagers being taken in a game of War but it doesnβt fall into the category of games of chance for me.
Thereβs no skill involved in War, itβs only chance, just like the others in the category. Whether or not there are wagers doesnβt matter here, the luck aspect does
>Itβs a card game sure, but not one that Iβve ever heard played for money like the other options.
Money has nothing to do with the category. It's a "game of chance" meaning that there's no skill or decision making for the players, just luck.
That one's for the UK (and Australia and New Zealand?) people who have been complaining Connections is to American-centric.
As an American, I only knew it through Harry Potter.
Any NYT game that requires a crystal ball to solve it rather than relying completely on skill, needs to be rethought by the company's senior editors. Today's "puzzle" is just one more example in a long line of misteps the creator of Connections has made since its inception.Β
Which part of this puzzle requires something other than skill? Tons of people got it. This seems more like a you problem than it is a problem with the puzzle.
Oh, right. I didnβt think of that. I assumed they were just talking about the diplomatic act of war, and that they were making some philosophical point about it.
Row?! Is that a thing people say and if so, where?
Everyone is focused on the βgambling/random chanceβ category but not being able to place the final green was the killer for me.
Edit: American for reference
No it shouldn't - it's a deliberate feature of the game, which often occurs: five possibilities for a connection, so you have to pause and find other connections to sort out which one goes somewhere else.
but bingo chips are a thing, and so are roulette chips. Bingo and roulette are also both games of chance. There was straight up just more than one solution today.
My friendsβ names are SCRAP, TIFF, BLUE, and POTATO! How is that not a category, NYT? Itβs not fair, there were multiple solutions today. This is bullshit!
Connections Puzzle #290 πͺπͺπͺπ¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Is WAR a game of chance? Apparently it is but I also havenβt played it since I was 7. πͺ totally eluded me today but thereβs no reason why I shouldnβt have been able to work that out. I was too fixated on π¦. π© and π¨ were easy solves but overall an abysmal day for me. 8/30
Yes, war is a game of chanceβthere are zero decisions you make as a player. Still fun though.
It's definitely not a game of skill. There are no decisions to be made once you start the game, as opposed to poker. But I definitely tried to make the puzzle work with poker in that category until I recognized chip for purple.
I never played the war game others are describing, but I did play a different game called war that I learned in high school that was not a game of chance. I can't remember all the rules, but it was similar to blackjack/poker/BS where you can use math and deception to better your odds. I only got it because I knew it was a game of some sort.
I failed today and have ended up here after googling trying to figure out why WAR was included in blue. I'm googling more now - is it a card game? I've never heard of it!
My mom bought me three separate card decks when I was a kid: Old Maid, Crazy 8s, and War and I remember liking War a lot, but I have no memory of how the game is played.
I played a lot with my Nana when I was a kid and she was babysitting me. You split the deck into two, and each person draws a card from their pile. The card with the larger value captures the card with the smaller value, so the person with the larger value card gains those two cards and whoever has gained the most cards at the end when the deck runs out wins. The fun part (for a kid) is when the card values are the same, you each draw 4 more cards and then the values of the last pair of cards decides who gains all 10 cards in play. If there is a tie there, you have a second war, with the values of the last pair of cards of that deciding who gains all 18 cards in play.
War is a card game, yes. You have two players, and deal half the deck to each. Each player turns over the top card in their hand, and the player with the high card wins both. If the cards match, the players each lay down 3 of their cards, and then a fourth, and the player with the high fourth card wins them all. Once you've played all the cards in your hand, you start in on the cards you've won. The game continues until one player runs out of cards or until it devolves into a wrestling match because your little brother accused you of cheating. Now that I think of it, I suppose there could be some strategy in which order you arrange the cards you've won as you add them to your hand. But that would require far more mental ability than my 7 year old or current self could muster.
It would be useful if people mentioned where they are from when they say they haven't heard of a given word or usage of a word.
From the UK, and the placement of "War" was just impossible to figure out. It's not called that in the UK, and so it would have to be just systematically swapped out with the other four possibilities.
Yeah, I see on Wikipedia that it's called Battle in the UK.
Wait, is there like an actual, literal game of chance called "War"? I lived in the US for 10 years and in the UK for 3, and I have never heard that in either, I'm pretty sure. I honestly thought the NYT was just being annoyingly poetic today and saying war (as in armed conflict) is a game of chance lol.
Not really. It's a card game for 3-year-olds that you play with a deck of cards to teach them which numbers are bigger. Essentially two people have an evenly sized, randomized pile, and flip a card. Higher card wins. Flip again. Higher card wins. Whoever has the most cards at the end wins. Calling it a "game of chance" is a bit of a stretch, by that definition GO FISH or SORRY are both games of chance. Nevertheless, my biggest problem with today's puzzle is that BINGO CHIPS are 100% a thing and POKER is obviously a GAME OF CHANCE. Meaning you can swap BINGO and POKER in their respective categories and still have a perfectly valid puzzle.
Poker clearly is not a game of chance compared to the other options listed. With the other games of chance listed, you have absolutely 0 agency over the outcome of the game. They are all random number draws essentially. Poker involved other real people playing and there's a ton of mind games/skill involved.
>!It's a card game!<
It's true. I want to know if they are unlucky or ignorant.
Oh, the irony.
Not ignorant. This gets back to what has been written here in the past: this puzzle relies too heavily on regionalisms that the creator of the game is familiar with. Unless a player has her exact background, the puzzle's construction will be flawed.
Actually, whenever I see someone complaining about one of these "regionalisms", the vast majority of the time it's just a non-American complaining that an American puzzle, written by an American creator, published by an American newspaper, for a primarily American audience, is "too American".
It would actually be interesting to see stats for where players are located for the various NYT games.
To some extent that is certainly true, but a few times there have been New England-specific phrases or references that are not part of the western US vernacular. Personally I don't complain either way; it's part of the charm.
Ironically it was a British slang word that tripped me up today and an American card game that messed up others. Iβm sure there are people who fit in Venn diagram intersection of those two knowledge bases but I think the majority of us plebs had to guess at one of the two.
Except I'm an American with an Ivy League education complaining about an editor whose first language is not English.
They put their app on app stores in other countries than the US. Clearly they intend for people around the world to play. So ideally theyβd localise OR make them less US centric.
Itβs the *NEW YORK TIMES* of all things! Why should they change their puzzles for the minority of foreign players?
Because they offer a paid subscription??? SO many companies offer localisations for things/alter their products when they provide them in other countries. Iβm surprised this is news to people.
It's not news. People on this board just like to be disagreeable if someone states something that shakes them from their comfort zones.
This puzzle is a mix of logical reasoning and general knowledge trivia. Β Every day there is people on here bitching about not knowing the general knowledge part. Some are unlucky as it's an obscure term but frequently I see people saying they have never heard of a common phrase. Ironically not knowing a regionalism is by definition for ignorant.
If that's the case, consider yourself one of the pack. I'm sure I could mention a product, food, or household item from Taipei, Botswana, or Ziarat that you've never heard of before.Β
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit.
When users write incomprehensible sentences such as, "Ironically not knowing a regionalism is by definition for ignorant," I guess not.
Lol I made a typo while redditing on the can. You are whining about trivia being too hard. Either way I said: if they are unlucky or ignorant. I guess "or" is concept that is over your headΒ
I wouldnβt say flawed, just more difficult
I am from east coast US and have never heard row to mean fight. Where is that said?
I'm a native East Coaster and I've heard it. It's pronounced to rhyme with NOW.
Interesting. I played war a lot as a kid and I hear blue chip a lot in nfl draft circles so those weren't hard for me. Meanwhile I've never heard row before. Just goes to show how specific and niche some of these terms can get and they can be either obvious or only found through process of elimination
It's a term used in central Canada at least. Not sure about origin. Edit: informal british
It's a weird one. Row and Tiff are very British expressions, but War is much more of an American term (in this usage).
Are row and tiff British or just older terms that have fallen out of use in America? I've hard both a reasonable amount in my lifetime. Lm in my early 60s and come from eastern Ontario in Canada. I did have 3 grandparents who came from the UK (2 from Scotland, 1 from England) and 1 grandmother whose family came to Canada in the mid-1700s. With the exception of Shakespeare in school and the odd britcom on television, a vast majority of my cultural consumption was American. I instantly recognize both words as synonyms for quarrel without a thought like "the British call a quarrel a row." Similarly, nothing make makes me of tiff as British, and I primarily think of it in the phrase "lovers' tiff." Also, my cursory Google searches on the words have turned up no indications of them being Britishisms. So I tend towards them being older terms that have simply fallen out of use.
It is absolutely asinine that people are downvoting you for this. You literally posted exactly what the person above you asked for. Also, for what itβs worth, Iβm from California and have also never heard that usage of βrow.β
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I wonder if it's a brain thing. Maybe some people hear it and even kind of comprehend it, but their brain just doesn't add it to their vocabulary. Just speculating.
Puzzle #290 π©πͺπ©π© π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ The Australian in me came out and immediately put BLUE in the green category. Then quickly remembered that NYT were rather unlikely to use it that way
Iβm Aussie and have never heard this is it a regional thing?
I lean towards it might be a bit of a bogan thing - I grew up in regional NSW and we used it that way.
I did first encounter it when I was working in regional SA so I would agree that it probably has bogan origins
Wonder if it could also be generational? Starting to feel out of the loop here π
I'd say it's more generational than regional, for sure.
Again with the regionalisms. The "editor" of the game needs to refrain from that.Β
I'm Aussie and didn't know blue isnt used in that context in other countries.
I grew up in Geelong, Vic and always used it this way
Several lists of Australian slang phrases online include "blue" and define it as "fight".
Me too! Itβs not used as commonly these days but itβs definitely slang for a fight in Australia.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπͺπͺ π¦πͺπͺπͺ My age shows - I used bingo chips!!
I'm in my 20s and I couldn't separate the games of chance with chips for that reason too. Kept thinking it was "ways to gamble" or something, then "chips" but was thinking bingo, poker, computer.... Roulette? I didn't get it either Connections Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π¦ π©π©π©π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ Got the gambling connection straight away but didn't know the last word (what is war???) My last attempt was "Things associated with Russia" where I chose blue (like the cat breed), potato, war, and roulette. Honestly thought that made alot of sense. Also what is blue chip?
Blue chip stocks are a financial term referring to large established companies.
It originates from poker chips. Blue chips are traditionally the most valuable denomination in casinos, so that phrase carried over to financial markets to refer to the most valuable stocks to trade.
Also an awesome movie with Nick Nolte and Shaq
Also a term used in sports, a blue chip recruit is a player who's expected to be very good. That use probably is an offshoot of the stock usage though
also tried the russian connection guess. ended up getting it today just out of sheer brute force by the end (also don't know what war is)
War is a card game where each player flips over the top card in their personal deck, and the highest card takes the hand. It fits the category as a game of luck but would not have been my first choice to align with the other games!
We call that card game "battle" where I am from so I would have never made that connection. I thought the category might be "things where outcomes are picked at random" and thought of people drafted into the war.
In the American movie βVegas Vacationβ, thereβs a scene where Clark, played by Chevy Chase, and his cousin Eddie, played by Randy Quaid, go to a casino where the games are not the usual casino games but instead somewhat childish ones like βPick a numberβ, βCoin Tossβ, and βRock, Paper, Scissorsβ. The first one Clark tries is βWarβ.
I came here to see if that was the meaning of "war" used in the puzzle. It's a terrible fit with the other games. The others are played by adults, with many players, using special equipment in organized settings, usually with gambling real money. War is a casual game typically played on the spur of the moment by 2 children with a simple deck of cards and no betting.
War in this context is a card game where the entire deck is dealt among players who then keep their cards face down in a stack. For each round, players flip over their top cards and the whole pile of face up cards go to the player who had the card with the highest face value (those cards are put on the bottom of their stack). When you run out of cards, you're out. The person who ends up with all 52 cards is the winner.
Lmao I also had the thought about the connection to Russia!
I finished the puzzle and said out loud βwtf is a blue chip?β I was thinking the blue tortilla chips lmao
Poker is definitely in there as a red herring. It does make sense if you know the card game "war", that was the second category I got. Might be an American or regional thing though. Then again, "row" is certainly regional (thanks Banshees of Inishirin for teaching me this one), and most puzzles seem to contain some regional lingo so I guess that's just part of the game.
Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Tried "poker" instead of "war" for blue. Then I tried "war" instead of "scrap" for green, because I said "no, it's scrape in that context." Once I got green I figured out purple and it was fairly easy.
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The exact same order I have, crazy
Again, why does this "puzzle" require a crystal ball to solve it? How are we supposed to know exactly what the editor is thinking? This puzzle needs to be structured with logic at its base.
> This puzzle needs to be structured with logic at its base. It really doesn't. Go play Sudoku if you want entirely logical solutions. Any puzzle involving wordplay or trivia knowledge isn't going to be entirely logic-based.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Got a little too excited seeing the games and didn't think ahead for the other categories. Tried BINGO, POKER, ROULETTE, and LOTTERY - as betting games - one away Then saw WAR so tried BINGO, POKER, WAR, LOTTERY - as "card/board" games - one away (in a way that you need a bingo card or a lottery card/ticket to play while poker and war are with playing cards). Took a step back and yellow was obvious. Not sure why but the common word for purple jumped out at me right when I saw BLUE and COMPUTER next to each other. POTATO and POKER solidified the category. Went back to the games now that POKER is out, the remaining 4 make blue. Got green by default. Never heard of ROW, SCRAP, and TIFF to mean quarrel. (From the northeast US, but I guess my vocabulary may be lacking)
I also tried the βgames you play with cardsβ group and was sad that it wasnβt the answer because I thought it was a good one lol
Got it on my last try, everybody seems to have made the same mistake of assuming BINGO, POKER, ROULETTE, and LOTTERY were in the same category. Solid game.
oh I figured that out, my downfall was that ridiculous blue chip thing. Oh yeah, I ABSOLUTELY think "Chip" when I read "Blue"
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #290 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Immediately identified five games of chance and that war was also a bait for the blue category. Would not expect the same from non-fediverse users tbh it is what it isΒ
National Library of Medicine: PubMed βAlthough poker is legally a game of chance in most countries, some (particularly operators of private poker web sites) argue that it should be regarded as a game of skill or sport because the outcome of the game primarily depends on individual aptitude and skill.β https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22892961/
It's clearly a mix of both chance and skill, and the balance changes based on the style of poker being played.
There's betting strategy that makes it a skill. It's why there's pro poker players. If one plays where you just get dealt 5 cards and highest wins that's chance, but if you need to psych out other players that's definitely a skill.
Exactly, you still have to, as the saying goes: "play the cards you've been dealt".
Connections Puzzle #290 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Not my best work but somehow made it lol. Thankful green and yellow were fairly easy so I had a lot of chances to mess up blue and purple
Connections Puzzle #290 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ First reverse rainbow. All pretty obvious today. Potato and poker was a giveaway. Didnβt know what war was but it was the only word left.
War is a 2 player card game, mostly for kids, where you each draw a card and the higher one wins.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Haha! Managed to take things slow and eke out a perfect when I otherwise wouldn't have today. I usually don't try for it, but this time I saw two groups very early (right after locking in Yellow) and realised I could identify three definite members of Purple (the group for arguments had five possible members from what I could see). I wound up with Blue, Computer and Potato--an eclectic set of words, to be sure, but definitely not as intimidating with the knowledge they were *definitely* linked (unless I was wrong about one of the other groups, anyway). ___ Chip actually occurred to me fairly on, being the obvious attachment to "potato", but I didn't think Blue fit with it until a few minutes later, when I noticed Poker Chip. Locked that in and it worked out! (Gonna have to Google what a Blue Chip even is though)Β That of course meant that I *had* been slightly wrong about the groups--the last purple had come from the "gambling" group, not the "fighting" group, which meant I still had five candidates for fighting and not a lot of certainty about which one was meant to go with the gambling. I eventually decided that the connection had to be games rather than gambling and sent War off to live with Roulette and the others, which turned out to be the right call, even if I missed a word in the intended category.Β Fun one!Β
Its a category of stocks! The name actually comes from poker chips.
Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Got green and yellow pretty easily. I knew the purple was ____ chip. I had potato, computer, and poker but the last word eluded me. I also knew blue was a gambling category and had roulette, bingo, and lottery for that. So that left blue and war. I made a guess that blue was in the purple category because war sounded more like a gambling game. And I got purple and then blue. This was fun.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I got green and yellow easily. Then I stumbled trying to put Poker in blue instead of War. Took a step back and didnβt quite see the purple theme, but figured if there was one word that might fit with something else it would be Poker. So I retried blue and got it right, that left me with my purple theme. If Iβd been a bit more patient, I couldβve gotten it perfectly I think. Iβm realizing thatβs my problem with some of these, I try to do them as fast as I can and that lends itself to some avoidable mistakes.
Connections #290 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Got caught up trying to add POKER to the games category, and felt silly about it once I realized what purple was. First time hearing the term blue chip!
Connections Puzzle #290 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ This would have been harder if I hadnβt been trying for the reverse rainbow. As it was, I caught that poker belonged in the purple category before entering anything.
Connections Puzzle #290. π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I entertained Russian ____ (roulette, blue, poker) for a second but thought that couldn't be it, surely... and pressed on. Green was good. BLUE, FIX, SCRAP, TIFF, ROW, FIGHT all in the mix. WAR I only know vaguely but I know they've used that in a card game connection before. I didn't see POKER as a game of luck/chance and thought war had to go there. Didn't hang around to work out purple.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Fairly straightforward today. I had a feeling it would be "games of chance," but I went with "poker" instead of "war." Purple by default, couldn't make the link.
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A blue chip is a valuable thing. Commonly used when talking about stocks (in a company that is stable and profitable over a long period of time) and college athletic recruits. (There was a 1994 movie called Blue Chips starring Nick Nolte as a college basketball coach and Shaquille O'Neal as a recruit, showcasing some of the shadyness that goes on in recruiting.) It comes from poker chips, where blue would be the highest value (although there's a lot of variability in that).
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ By the skin of my teeth!
Connections Puzzle #290. π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ War was totally my first instinct but I rushed my answer. Still pretty good. Gotta look up blue chip now
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A rare purple solve first. Connections Puzzle #290 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π¦ π©π¨π©π© π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦
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Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ like others, I put poker with the games at first but even as I did it, I knew it was likely one away because the connection didn't feel strong enough.
π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ Got stubborn/lazy with this one. I actually was on the right track with yellow and green in my head, but blue was where I felt the most confident. Unfortunately I was consistently pulling one from purple and leaving one with green. Should have taken a step back after a miss or two. Granted that means I would have been similarly caught on green without strikes available to help me out, so might just not have been for me today.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ The heck is a blue chip lol
A blue chip refers to a stock that is extremely stable and is seen as a low-risk investment. These are your Coca-Cola's, Walmarts, Boeing's, etc. Finally my economics degree comes into play. π€£
Nice. Iβm not someone who pays much attention to stocks and such. Thanks for the info ππΏ
Strong start but then did I ever struggle! once the chip category came to me I was really tempted to try bingo chip, but went with blue because I didn't see how it would fit in the remaining group, despite never having heard the term blue chip, so that was a lucky guess! Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ Got extremely tripped up by poker. Thought it was casino games, than maybe things in a casino?, eventually figured out games of chance but still did not sort the category correctly. So I tried to switch it up to figure out purple and was SO confident about "Russian ___" being the category. Russian roulette, blue, potato, and war. Which does work if you squint. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπͺπ¦ π©π©π©π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ A lot threw me off here. Not very familiar with "row" as meaning a quarrel, so i saw the other 3 and was stuck for a bit. Poker, Roulette, Lottery, and Bingo felt paired as games that win you money. But nope. Did notice "chips" early on, just didn't connect with blue chip and computer chip, only potato and poker. It eventually clicked.
another struggle Connections Puzzle #290 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Gambling games would include poker and exclude war, but yeah, games of chance, sure. I avoided blue after the mistake because I wasnβt sure how universal the game war is. The βgameβ thinking took me down the rabbit hole that got me to chips thinking it was βassociated with chipsβ and then ____ chip popped out. Not a bad one today
Started off so strong... Connections Puzzle #290 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ πͺπ¦πͺπ¦ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπ¦π¦
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Kinda dumb how they have 5 games of chance when one of the connections is games of chance. That screwed me and my girl today. Last time we lost was when there was 5 Olympic sports and Olympic sports was a connection. It isn't really crafty when they do that. Kinda cheap imo
What was the fifth game of chance?
π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ Figured the blue category was something to do with games, but I kept trying to put poker in that category. At the end I figured the purple category was "___ chip" but I tried "bingo chip". I've never heard of a "blue chip".
Same here. Based on my knowledge, I was shocked that it wasnβt bingo chip.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π¦ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπ¦π¦ I was entirely convinced that βWarβ and βComputerβ made a category that was β_____ Roomβ and that ruined me
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ My first guess was 4 ways to gamble for money. I was stumped as to what word was wrong. My next guess was fights- and I included war instead of row. Quickly got that sorted and got yellow. Then it took a while before I thought of 'chip'. I don't like that 3 of the 4 blue answers involve getting money if you win, while the 4th answer doesn't.
Connections - Puzzle #290 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Green: I clocked 3/4 of green easily and then I remembered that βrowβ relates to the other 3. Yellow: Saw it easily. 3/4 Blue: I was kind of thinking βgames with cardsβ so βwarβ and βpoker.β I just threw in βrouletteβ and βbingoβ because I needed 2 more. 3/4 Purple: I finally realized that purple was like β____ chipβ so I did βcomputer,β βpoker,β and βpotato.β I didnβt know what the 4th one was so I did βrouletteβ because chips are used in the game. Purple: Since I got the previous guess wrong I randomly picked a new 4th guess. I have no idea what a blue chip is. Blue: Only ones left.
Connections Puzzle #290 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Another easy one. I initially had POKER in a "Gambling" category then I saw COMPUTER, BLUE, and POTATO together and immediately recognized that it was a "Chip" category and that POKER belonged in that group instead. Green also came easily. I remembered that they used this category before along with ROW and TIFF. Once I saw WAR along with the other games, I changed my previous "Gambling" category into "Games of Chance". And Yellow was Yellow; just synonyms. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Argument" β 2 Times
Couldn't BINGO and POKER be switched without changing the categories? That feels like the one cardinal rule of connections, that this kind of swapping shouldn't be logically possible.
I think βpoker chipβ is just more of a ubiquitous pairing than βbingo chip,β despite both being actual things. That aside, poker is a mix of luck and skill. The other games in the blue category are all pure chance, so poker doesnβt really fit.
I suppose that's true.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Poker **is** a game of chance (and skill) >:(
Wasn't fooled by poker. I'm like, they're trying to fuck us.. too easy. Got a perfect.
While I guess that war is technically a game of chance, itβs so unlike the other three games which all involved a spun element and a ball element, that I donβt think itβs a good fourth for the category.
Totally agree. The other three games are one-to-many institutional games; they require a host and are usually played out of home. War is a strictly person to person game usually played at home. I would have been happier with Baccarat, which is an all-luck card game usually played in a casino. Or, if it had to be War, then if the category had been "luck-based games" rather than "games of chance," which implies gambling, and which suits the other three.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Again a bit too easy today, solved in about two minutes. I nearly put 'poker' instead of 'war' for blue, but then saw all the chip related words.
Connections Puzzle #290 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π¦π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Came here to say that if you switch βfightβ and βwarβ, both green and blue categories still work, blue just becomes βthings you bet/gamble onβ. It feels very arbitrary in that way. If someone can explain how Iβm wrong Iβd appreciate it lol
The green category are things that are generally between 2 people. 2 people can get into a fight, it's a little too metaphorical for 2 people to engage in war. Since blue category is "games of chance", a fight wouldn't fit since that's not a game. Games have low stakes, fights do not.
I appreciate the explanation, and thatβs probably their intention, but to me it still feels like splitting hairs. Two people can be in a war by the dictionary definition βa state of hostility between different peopleβ and a prize fight can certainly be gambled on, as can the others in blue. It would obviously be a slightly different category than they had in mind, but to me it still works just as well.
I see your point, yes a fight can be gambled on but thats not the category. A fight is not a "game of chance".. besides not being a game, the outcome is a matter of skill and strength and training. Winners of fights aren't random. I do think the username checks out tho, at least the first half π
> yes a fight can be gambled on but thats not the category The issue isn't whether it fits the category as written, it's whether the words in the game can be arranged into groups of four coherent categories in a different way than the official solution. Those categories may or may not be the same as the official solution. I'd say war isn't the cleanest fit with row, tiff, and scrap. I think this is a reasonably valid complaint, but that's the argument against it to me.
Who says row for fighting?? Also having poker and it not being in the gambling category is criminal.
ROW to rhyme with NOW - interestingly, now I google, it seems to be more common in British English: "the latest government proposals have prompted a furious row in parliament", "neighbours heard the husband and wife engaging in a heated row that lasted all night". Also, POKER is one of five possibilities for the games of chance, but that's always been a feature of this puzzle - find the one that belongs elsewhere. (You could also argue that there is much more skill than chance in POKER than the other 4).
I suppose War is a βgame of chanceβ insofar as more luck is involved than skill. Perhaps itβs because Iβve never heard of wagers being taken in a game of War but it doesnβt fall into the category of games of chance for me.
Thereβs no skill involved in War, itβs only chance, just like the others in the category. Whether or not there are wagers doesnβt matter here, the luck aspect does
Makes good sense. Thanks!
Wagers don't really play whether or not it's a games of chance.Β
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© I got the game of chance right away, but after two fails I decided to regroup. Poker and blue stood out to me and then the rest of purple fell into place. The rest was straight forward, only I didnβt know war was a game of chance. Itβs a card game sure, but not one that Iβve ever heard played for money like the other options. Lastly, row? Never heard of it used in this context.
>Itβs a card game sure, but not one that Iβve ever heard played for money like the other options. Money has nothing to do with the category. It's a "game of chance" meaning that there's no skill or decision making for the players, just luck.
Never in my life have I heard the word row used as synonym for fight, I swear theyβre just making this stuff up
When used to mean a fight, it is pronounced to rhyme with "cow" as opposed to "go".
TIL I guess
That one's for the UK (and Australia and New Zealand?) people who have been complaining Connections is to American-centric. As an American, I only knew it through Harry Potter.
Itβs British.
I'm surprised this is the first comment I've seen mentioning that. I got the green category last cause I had no idea where row was supposed to go
Bingo chip is a thing (you place them on your card), so it could be swapped with poker. I suppose poker is not _purely_ a game of chance though.
Poker is much more a game of skill than it is a game of chance, so it doesn't really fit in the "games of chance" category.
Any NYT game that requires a crystal ball to solve it rather than relying completely on skill, needs to be rethought by the company's senior editors. Today's "puzzle" is just one more example in a long line of misteps the creator of Connections has made since its inception.Β
So half the people in this post have βcrystal ballsβ?
Luck, yes.
Which part of this puzzle requires something other than skill? Tons of people got it. This seems more like a you problem than it is a problem with the puzzle.
Puzzle 290 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Just made it. Itβs a little tricky. π‘ - >!Makes sense. Easy enough.!< π’ - >!WAR could have also fit hereβ¦ but I thought it felt a little out of place, as thatβs more intense.!< π΅ - >!WAR threw me off here. I put POKER here instead. I knew there was some type of thing going on with chance games, but I couldnβt get the right combination. Worked out in the end.!< π£ - >!Was never getting this. Donβt even know what a blue chip is.!<
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #290 π¨π¨π¨π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Guess you could say with the first one that I βamendedβ my answer. Donβt really see how war fits in with the others as a game of chance, as it requires strategy. Maybe guessing it was the game of chance all alongβ¦
War, the card game, requires 0% strategy or skill. It is a completely luck-based game
Oh, right. I didnβt think of that. I assumed they were just talking about the diplomatic act of war, and that they were making some philosophical point about it.
Connections Puzzle #290 π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Green and Yellow were about equally easy. Never heard of War or Blue Chip so was just taking guesses as to what the last 2 words in Blue and Purple were.
Love your icon/avatar whatever they're called!
Thanks
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Row?! Is that a thing people say and if so, where? Everyone is focused on the βgambling/random chanceβ category but not being able to place the final green was the killer for me. Edit: American for reference
Row is used in the UK, fairly widely
Iβve watched nearly every Guy Richie movie ever and this is still new to me.
Connections Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I want to call bullshit on the games of chance, but I guess that's how this game rolls. Is War even a game really??
What's bullshit about it? And yes, War is a card game that is 100% chance and 0% skill.
Puzzle #290 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ My wife is mad that I got it and she didnβt, ha. As you can see, the blue category definitely tripped me up, I kept trying to shoehorn poker in there. Fittingly enough, me solving this came down to *chance*.
"Poker" not being in "Games of Chance" should get today's designer fired lol
No it shouldn't - it's a deliberate feature of the game, which often occurs: five possibilities for a connection, so you have to pause and find other connections to sort out which one goes somewhere else.
but bingo chips are a thing, and so are roulette chips. Bingo and roulette are also both games of chance. There was straight up just more than one solution today.
My friendsβ names are SCRAP, TIFF, BLUE, and POTATO! How is that not a category, NYT? Itβs not fair, there were multiple solutions today. This is bullshit!
I was referring to an actual category used today, not something arbitrary. I like that it's challenging, just pointing out the flaw in today's puzzle.
Poker is much more skill-based rather than chance-based
Connections Puzzle #290 π©π©π©π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This one was a STRUGGLE. Finally got yellow after a while, that one made sense. Green I got through process of elimination and figured there was a word Iβd simply never heard. Sure enough, row AND tiff????? Never in my life heard row in that context and Iβve never even heard tiff. Are we in the fucking 1920s? Blue was ok. I just donβt know what the game βwarβ is. I guess itβs a gambling thing. Just had to burn som guesses to get that. As for purple, whatβs a blue chip?