I failed on connections, 'Crush', 'Squirt' and 'starry' are not something we know as drinks in NZ, so that really didn't help. I also put 'Sprite' in with pixie and used up my mistakes finding the fantasy creatures
I never heard of Starry as a soda, so I made one mistake trying to separate light blue from yellow. When PIXIE wouldn't work as a drink, STARRY was my next choice. I thought the yellow was going to be light blue and the sodas the yellow category. I got them in green-purple-light blue-yellow order.
I’m glad I was able to get yellow green and purple without any difficulties because like you said, as a non American I had no idea about blue. The only one of those I’ve even heard of is Sprite.
I only know Sprite (and the song "Orange Crush"), so I got blue last and had to make some guesses untangling it from the fantasy creatures, but it wasn't too bad!
Flawless Connections! I didn't know Starry (I quit soda long ago) and couldn't hear the homophones (I tried) so I was guessing. I was lucky to get it on the last possible try. Very good Friday Mini! My time was 1:32. Tough Strands but you made it without hints. She's good but not my genre. I don't know these so I was guessing too. One wrong guess for me. Happy birthday Taylor!
Mini crossword gave me a hard time. Took 5 minutes to finish it. I also had TOKEN instead of FARES. I did get the NY hotel and that really helped me get unstuck.
I definitely didn’t think of sodas. I kept thinking pixie and sprite went together and I also kept thinking SQUIRTle and DRAGONite for Pokemon starts. I figured out green and purple pretty easily and was stuck between the yellow and blue, so had to guess until I got to the right variation.
Got a Rangsk perfect on the strands! Even though I’m not a swiftie and I think only heard 2 of those album names in passing. But “album” immediately stood out to me
Yeah, today's connections was basically impossible for me - The only starry spelt like that I'm aware of is Van Gogh's Starry Night, don't know of squirt outside of e.g. a squirt of water, and the only noun crush I'm aware of is the band Crush 40 - Of the citris sodas, the only one I know of is Sprite - and with the red herring for fantasy creatures being a soda, that gave basically zero access to the fantasy creature category. I could have theoretically gotten the animal homophones, perhaps, but... That is a very purple category to get with three groups remaining, but even that wouldn't have guaranteed a win with 5 items in the fantasy creatures group. Strands I got the spangram first and then really struggled finding the album names, although I didn't use any hints (Though I did eventually look up her discography on Wikipedia)
I thought SPRITE could have been so many possibilities, a magical creature, a visual cpu asset, a drink, an anagram of STRIPE or PRIEST. I managed to think drinks though not till after I thought about STARRY, SQUIRT and CRUSH being something like score ratings on something like candy crush. Still, I got a perfect.
Connections Puzzle #551 🟦🟦🟦🟦 citrus soda 🟩🟩🟩🟩 email folders 🟨🟨🟨🟨 fantasy creatures 🟪🟪🟪🟪 animal homophones I actually geussed all the category names verbatim today!! I was shocked, but it felt really good. 😂
I failed on connections, 'Crush', 'Squirt' and 'starry' are not something we know as drinks in NZ, so that really didn't help. I also put 'Sprite' in with pixie and used up my mistakes finding the fantasy creatures
Same here in UK,
I never heard of Starry as a soda, so I made one mistake trying to separate light blue from yellow. When PIXIE wouldn't work as a drink, STARRY was my next choice. I thought the yellow was going to be light blue and the sodas the yellow category.
I got them in green-purple-light blue-yellow order.
I’m glad I was able to get yellow green and purple without any difficulties because like you said, as a non American I had no idea about blue. The only one of those I’ve even heard of is Sprite.
I only know Sprite (and the song "Orange Crush"), so I got blue last and had to make some guesses untangling it from the fantasy creatures, but it wasn't too bad!
Flawless Connections!
I didn't know Starry (I quit soda long ago) and couldn't hear the homophones (I tried) so I was guessing. I was lucky to get it on the last possible try.
Very good Friday Mini!
My time was 1:32.
Tough Strands but you made it without hints.
She's good but not my genre. I don't know these so I was guessing too. One wrong guess for me.
Happy birthday Taylor!
As a Canadian, STARRY as a beverage is a complete blind spot.
Mini crossword gave me a hard time. Took 5 minutes to finish it. I also had TOKEN instead of FARES. I did get the NY hotel and that really helped me get unstuck.
I definitely didn’t think of sodas. I kept thinking pixie and sprite went together and I also kept thinking SQUIRTle and DRAGONite for Pokemon starts. I figured out green and purple pretty easily and was stuck between the yellow and blue, so had to guess until I got to the right variation.
Got a Rangsk perfect on the strands! Even though I’m not a swiftie and I think only heard 2 of those album names in passing. But “album” immediately stood out to me
I failed with nothing today... great job!
Yeah, today's connections was basically impossible for me - The only starry spelt like that I'm aware of is Van Gogh's Starry Night, don't know of squirt outside of e.g. a squirt of water, and the only noun crush I'm aware of is the band Crush 40 - Of the citris sodas, the only one I know of is Sprite - and with the red herring for fantasy creatures being a soda, that gave basically zero access to the fantasy creature category. I could have theoretically gotten the animal homophones, perhaps, but... That is a very purple category to get with three groups remaining, but even that wouldn't have guaranteed a win with 5 items in the fantasy creatures group.
Strands I got the spangram first and then really struggled finding the album names, although I didn't use any hints (Though I did eventually look up her discography on Wikipedia)
I thought SPRITE could have been so many possibilities, a magical creature, a visual cpu asset, a drink, an anagram of STRIPE or PRIEST. I managed to think drinks though not till after I thought about STARRY, SQUIRT and CRUSH being something like score ratings on something like candy crush.
Still, I got a perfect.
Connections
Puzzle #551
🟦🟦🟦🟦 citrus soda
🟩🟩🟩🟩 email folders
🟨🟨🟨🟨 fantasy creatures
🟪🟪🟪🟪 animal homophones
I actually geussed all the category names verbatim today!! I was shocked, but it felt really good. 😂
managed to win connections today. strands was a little crazy along with mini.
Didn't know Squirt & Starry.
Not a Swiftie but I guess listening to all my friends yap about her payed off (never thought I would say that ahahah)
Non american here, not a hard connections at all, but yeah got blue last. We only have sprite here.