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#2001

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Puzzle #701
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Only 16% with no mistakes today.
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#2002

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Puzzle #701
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🟩🟩🟩🟩
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#2003

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Puzzle #702
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I don't have anything clever to say, but if I did, it would go here.
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#2004

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Puzzle #702
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#2005

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Puzzle #702
🟨πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
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πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

I wasn't as smart as @Barney :confounded:
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#2006

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Puzzle #702
🟨🟨🟨🟨
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🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
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#2007

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Puzzle #703
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🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
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#2008

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Puzzle #703
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🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
I don't have anything clever to say, but if I did, it would go here.
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#2009

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Puzzle #703
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🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟩🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Didn't know one of the Blues.
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#2010

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Puzzle #703
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I didn't know one of the Blues either, but when I got down to the last two categories I made a lucky guess.
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#2011

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Puzzle #704
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Skunkorama! Boy this was not happening.
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#2012

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Puzzle #704
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I don't have anything clever to say, but if I did, it would go here.
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#2013

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Puzzle #704
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🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

I thought that the Blues would be trickiest for most people. Only 7% (including @hoover) got them first.
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#2014

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Puzzle #704
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

Purples by default. Once I saw the Blues, I kicking myself for not seeing them earlier.
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#2015

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Very impressed with all you cheaters who solved this. 🀨
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#2016

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Puzzle #704
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πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
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πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ

Okay.... I never think of Porgy and Bess as an opera of the same sort as the others so I can accept that but What the bluggy bloog is "Real Madrid"?????
GUAVA is not an anagram of VAGUE and PEPPER is not a palindrome.
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#2017

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woozy wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 7:46 pm Connections
Puzzle #704
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Okay.... I never think of Porgy and Bess as an opera of the same sort as the others so I can accept that but What the bluggy bloog is "Real Madrid"?????
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#2018

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Puzzle #705
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🟩🟩🟩🟩
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#2019

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Puzzle #705
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🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
I don't have anything clever to say, but if I did, it would go here.
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#2020

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Puzzle #705
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🟨🟨🟨🟨
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