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Connections #642 2025-03-14 (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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I went with candy/short/charge/levy as "nouns that can be verbs", but I don't think they've ever done that since one of the first puzzles.

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Movies of various lengths? "Film series" is more than one film of any length and "epic" also says nothing about the length. I tried to find a connection for epic through "fantasy", like "high fantasy". I think they could have found better words for that connection.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah blue was weird.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I love how purple was the most obvious one today.

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Do american stores have magazines next to the checkout line? I have seen the others at checkouts but never magazines. Those were always placed separately.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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Yeah, I was also confused by the "impulse buy at checkout" connection. My mind immediately went to "you can probably get this stuff at a bodega, New Yorkers love their bodegas".

Should have gone with "Things George Costanza buys at a news stand to break a 100": Penthouse Forum, newspaper, gum, Clark Bar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I thought it was something you might find in a purse but then magazine made no sense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We do

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

US centrism strikes again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

We have a lot of tabloids at the register.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Magazines are in the line at the register in Australia too. Or at least were when I was a kid...I haven't paid attention to what's there since then.

Charging cable was the one that was weird to me. I cannot imagine buying a charging cable as an impulse purchase. Tbh I thought this connection was going to be "things in an airport shop".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Purple was the first one I saw, but I thought it must have been wrong so I ended up doing all the others first.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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