| “I won my Solitary game on the first try today,” he says as I’m pouring my coffee. “It was one of those games where the cards just all fall into place, and you’re done.” He’s referring to the card game solitaire — the only game in town according to The Carpenters. |
Typically, I do Connections just after midnight when the new one comes out. I show my results to him when I get to the breakfast table. He gets out his worksheet, and we compare our journeys to the answers. “I got blue, green, purple, then yellow,” he says comparing them. |
“I gave myself a B+ today,” he reports. He is referring to the L.A. Times crossword puzzle that I printed and left at his place at the kitchen table to complete his morning routine. His grading rubric is loosely based on how many answers involve having to look up something. |
One of my fraternity brothers and I compare our scores every morning on Wordle, the Mini Crossword, and Connections, in the form: # of tries to get to the Wordle answer / time to complete the mini / order of responses and any errors (e.g., “GYeeBP” … or as in the case for me this morning, “B massive failure”) on Connections. Another fraternity brother shares his Wordle results every day on Facebook and several of us share our performance that day in response.
Today I learned that there is a “Sports Connections” which would end every day in “massive failure” for me. Most of my fraternity brothers would excel at that.
Yay for routines that bring us comfort! Thanks for sharing yours. I noticed a link for Sports Connections, I guess it was technically an ad, fairly recently when doing Connections one day. I, too, passed on it. It’s the knowledge domain in regular connections, which whenever it appears as a category, I’m screwed. 😄