• BenVimes
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    18 hours ago

    Connections Puzzle #524
    🟨🟨🟨🟨
    🟦🟩🟦🟪
    🟪🟪🟪🟪
    🟦🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟦
    🟩🟦🟩🟩

    I almost had the green category figured out, but I couldn’t find the fourth word because the blue category was a complete mystery to me. I had no idea what blue could have been, and I’m still baffled even after being shown the answer.

    • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago
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      The Gators, The Sooners, The Volunteers, and The Wolverines are all US college basketball teams. I don’t follow college sports so it took me a second too.

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        As a non-American who is barely aware of even professional sports, there was no way I was getting that.

        Also, who calls their sports club “The Sooners?”

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          It’s a nickname given to people who would “jump the gun” during Oklahoma land rush events, back when they were selling off plots of farmland.