SwingingTheLamp comments on Connections #1007 2026-03-14

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 8 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Wow, this puzzle defeated me utterly. I got none.

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Never heard of Inspector Morse, never knew the name for a female goat, never heard of the prefix twi- (and it means 'half' in twilight, not two), and haze is not a hypnotic state by any definition I've heard.

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[–] SorryImLate@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Interesting, I found today's easier than usual.

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I wonder whether today's is more British leaning than usual? I tend to struggle with the overtly American puzzles.

Inspector Morse, for example, is a classic British TV show that is still sometimes shown in re-runs.

Hypnotic wouldn't have been the word I used to describe yellow but haze clearly fits with dream, trance, and spell as a being in a "fuzzy" mental state e.g. alcohol haze, drug trance, under a spell, dream state.

Also, I'm fairly sure I learned nanny at school.

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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That very well could be!

Connections often throws in red herrings, so I thought that no way could Javert and Clouseau could be connected. Then I saw Gadget, but simply could not find another Inspector. (OTOH, Clouseau, hootenanny, Moscow, and dioxide all have two O's.)

It does occur to me that I know a nannygoat, but never would've thought of it. Oh well.

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