Anyone doing the NYT Connections puzzle?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by sarahk, Apr 12, 2026.

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    I frequently can't finish them because I don't understand the americanisms even after a lifetime of US media everywhere. Today's failure, however, did make me laugh.

    One of the words was Marquee

    In my mind I thought ⛺

    [​IMG]

    But what I should have been thinking was

    <marquee></marquee>
    Code (markup):
    and that might just have led me to

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    I had never heard of this Connections puzzle until you mentioned it. I am a daily crossword puzzle guy.

    However, your comment reminded me of a time that I was in the UK (30+ years ago) and our host broke out the UK version of Trivial Pursuit one evening. At the time, Trivial Pursuit was a very popular game (no video games or Internet back then) and I played it all of the time in the US and was pretty good at it. The UK version, of course, was a complete mystery to me and we lost in a big way. :)
     
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