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[Tenacious E]

Felt like there were a lot of traps to sidestep today

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The one I missed I simply tapped the wrong button on mistake. For blue, I don’t think I ever would have gotten it without the process of elimination.

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[gohawks50]

Close one
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[JRHawk2003]

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Overthinking it...

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

Tough one. I almost fell in multiple traps at the same time, then saw an easier path.

Also, WTF on the blues?

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Puzzle #209
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[SL Hawk Fan]

Whoa that was really tough. Struck out on my first guess and just couldn't see anything. Went to bed and came back to it this morning and finally found an opening.
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Puzzle #209
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[ericram]

Weird how the yellow and blue felt the hardest. Fell for that first trap!
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[NDallasRuss]

I might never have gotten the blue ones.

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Puzzle #209
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[Hawkfan_08]

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[SL Hawk Fan]

Dog with a bone on those greens
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[hawkeyetraveler]

Thankfully I saw and disarmed the purple/green trap. That one could definitely trip people up.

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[Tenacious E]

One of the purple I’ve never heard of before.

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[auntie_fah]

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[JRHawk2003]

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I did worse. Last two I had no idea

 

[gohawks50]

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Sad

 

[pablow]

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[lonestar50]

Not sure what to say about this one. I think it speaks for itself

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[NDallasRuss]

It took me a minute to figure out the last two.

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[Hawkfan_08]

WTF is an eyetooth?

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[ericram]

Well this sucked!

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[SL Hawk Fan]

Purple seemed like a real stretch today.
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Puzzle #211
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[auntie_fah]

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[Tenacious E]

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[gohawks50]

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[hawkeyetraveler]

I can’t believe I survived that. It took me at least 15 minutes to even get one category. I never would have guessed Purple.

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[gohawks50]

I can’t believe I survived that. It took me at least 15 minutes to even get one category. I never would have guessed Purple.

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I agree. When I first started I couldn't see anything that connected. Then I checked this thread and everyone was solving it with no mistakes. Finally I found a group that went together.

 

[auntie_fah]

I can’t believe I survived that. It took me at least 15 minutes to even get one category. I never would have guessed Purple.

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I took my first look at the board, looked for 5 minutes and couldn’t find anything.

Started going thru my morning routine and went back to it 10 mins later. I thought blue was a trap initially. And i still thought it was a trap, but i had nothing else and submitted it.

 

[lonestar50]

That's more like it after yesterday's cluster. I, like others took a lot of staring before I was able to get the first one

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[Hawkfan_08]

Per usual, I was in the ball park but totally botched it.

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[pablow]

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[ericram]

Again the yellows felt harder than the greens or blues. Those purples tho.. Ha

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[NDallasRuss]

Purple was pretty obscure. Not sure I'd have ever figured that one out.

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[JRHawk2003]

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Total meltdown lol. Got the first two. I do terrible with the obvious. I am always looking for sneaky angles.

 

[SL Hawk Fan]

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[lonestar50]

So nice to get purple first

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[hawkeyetraveler]

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Me with the greens…

 

[Tenacious E]

Drat.

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[gohawks50]

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[pablow]

I gave up

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[Hawkfan_08]

Finally. Stopped the bleeding.

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[NDallasRuss]

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Spoiler: Who is that?

Since I hadn't heard of Samin Nosrat...

"She is the author of the James Beard Award–winning, New York Times Bestselling cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat and host of a Netflix docu-series of the same name.