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Connections #630 2025-03-02 (lemmy.zip)

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Connections
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Man, I needed a lot of outside help for the last two. The official hint, connections copilot, lots of googling around and then a site that talked specifically about the solution for today where it mentioned that

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Tungsten is W on the periodic table

And then everything fell into place. If I had googled it I'd have known that, but it wasn't one I looked up info/other definitions for, and if I had been able to figure out the other group that I had one away (4th guess) I would have gotten there too, but I really struggle with answers that are

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Compound words where one of the words is consistent across all of the tiles, like _____ strings

I need to try and look out for those more consciously going forward

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I might have got it if english called tungsten wolfram like many other languages do.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I had no idea that was a thing...

Thanks for teaching me something!

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you never wondered why the symbol is W? Is the same thing with potassium. The K is for kalium or kalij or something along those lines. And lead Pb for plumbum.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I'm broadly not super familiar with the the periodic table. We covered it in highschool but I sucked at memorizing stuff and never took the time to look up all the different unusual letter choices for various elements

Honestly it probably would have helped me remember if we'd learned their other names 😅

[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

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Purple easy, Blue hard 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

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Skill 99/99
Uniqueness 1 in 925

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago

Interesting... it won't give me the puzzle for 3/2/25 yet. Maybe because it's not past midnight yet here in California.

[–] Theroddd@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I failed today...

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Tap for spoiler

The W thing got me

And the "string" group I missed as well

That's what I get for trying this before having coffee

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Not the biggest fan of blue but not bad.

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[–] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 5 months ago

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