Connections Thread - Yet another daily word puzzle!

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #971




Blue was a little difficult.

HOCKEY, SYRUP, COLD, DEPRESSION?

Now those aren't Canadian symbols!
Here's some better ones I thought of, as a Canadian:
ECONOMIC DEPRESSION, CLINICAL DEPRESSION, ANGRY BIRDS, DRAMA TEACHER
If you didn't understand the last two, it means you haven't done enough research into Canada!

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

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Puzzle #972





I said "What the fuck?" out loud when I first saw this.

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #972





Nice break from the norm.

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #972




I liked this one!

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #973

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #973




Eh.

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #974




Enjoyable.

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #975

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #975




Very easy today.

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #976





Didn't like this one.

Spoiler

I either don't travel enough or aren't weak enough to know what a roller bag is supposed to be.

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #976




Tough one, but I did not like the purple category.

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #977

Spoiler

MAY queen? Had to look that one up. Definitely obscure to non Brits.

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #977




Simple.

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #978

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LESSON threw me off at first since it's a relatively common word, unlike RESEED.

(Sode note: Being a fan of the Detroit Pistons, I also couldn't help but read RESEED as RASHEED, as in Rasheed Wallace, who played for the team from 2003 - 09, and always got an enthusiastic, "Sheed!" from the crowd whenever he'd make a clutch play or knock someone out. )

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #978




I really liked purple today!
I don't smoke, and I don't like the idea of people smoking, so I wouldn't have gotten blue.

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #979

I don't smoke, and I don't like the idea of people smoking, so I wouldn't have gotten blue.

For sure. I think their effective advertising is the only reason I know about them, especially since smoking rates have dropped in recent years (amid a rise in vaping ).

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #979




After process of elimination to find purple, it was all smooth sailing.

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #980

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Purple was easy. They seem to be using prefixes more often, so a term that's really out of place is a dead giveaway.

 

[Speedrunner]

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Puzzle #980




Simple.

 

[ChompChomp]

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Puzzle #981

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BUCK and CACKLE are not two words I would use to describe chicken noises.

FAWN as a stress response? WTF?

This entire puzzle must've been written by an ESL intern.