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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
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We’re all struggling with the “black” group (denoted by the blue squares) today.
paulcook
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Connections

Puzzle #79
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟪🟪🟨
🟪🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟨🟪🟨

Trying to work out if this is some kind of breach of copyright. It’s so close to the original game.
phal
phal
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Thanks for this! A new one to play 🤣
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Generally you can’t copyright an “idea” in the UK and that includes game formats.

Look at all the different creators of sudoku puzzles, for example.
phal
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫ I was fine with that group in the first try. I found out the hard way that if you leave the page to do something else - my mum messaged! - then you lose what you’ve done so far 🤣 I got the group wrong the second time 🤣🤣🤣 obviously lost focus 🤣🤣
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Hope her message wasn’t persuading you to change your answer, phal! 😂
Fragile Do Not Bend
Fragile Do Not Bend
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Connections

Puzzle #79
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Got the first two quickly but took ages to get a third group. I didn’t know what the ‘easy’ connection was even when it was the only one left.
paulcook
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Generally you can’t copyright an “idea” in the UK and that includes game formats. Look at all the different creators of sudoku puzzles, for example.


Ah yes. Very good point.

Wonder how much Only Connect know about this though! Mind, it's also the best form of flattery.
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I do hope that the “associate puzzle editor” at NYT isn’t claiming it as her brainchild. If “working on“ had actually been expressed as “coding, based on an existing BBC format”, that would have sounded a lot better.

And VCM is onto it, as she has replied to the tweet, but frankly there isn’t much she or the BBC can do about it.
Diogenes
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Two of today's groups must be very much Americanisms. Two of the words don't fit the synonym connection for me, and I've not heard of the cyber one

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Addictive puzzle from the NY Times site - where the Wordle game lives. The aim is to find four different groups from each puzzle
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Colour code for the groups are:
Yellow = easiest group
Green = next easiest

Blue = more tricky
Purple = hardest group to connect.

Beware of the herrings i.e. links between clues which are designed to lead you down a path that doesn't exist.

Comments on your games are welcome but please use the spoiler option to hide any comments that might give answers away for others still working the puzzle out 😃

If you see a comment like PBD then it means Purple By Default (or whatever colour you are left with last without recognising what the link is)
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