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So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #531?

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Y’all today was rough for me.

Today, I was forcing a dentistry category and remain annoyed at the lack of one.

Outside of that, I knocked the yellow out with account, chronicle, description and story.

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Then I took three straight strikes forcing the dentist group.

I had forgotten that latex comes from trees.

Briefly, I was hunting for a games group with checkers, ball-in-cup and roulette.

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Thus, checkers, licorice, roulette and balance sheet.

And we wrapped this up with things on sticks; ball-in-cup, corn dog, cotton swab, lollipop.

A sigh of relief and a visit to the mental factory to see why things weren’t clicking.

Switch 2 and Mario

Yesterday’s Connections answers

Reading this in a later time zone?

I never know if other people’s grids look the same as mine does.

Love (Island) was also in the first row.

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It took a moment to find the last, but shutter was hiding in the second row for me.

From there we immediately hit the blue category of work communication platforms.

I start the day with aGoogleMeet listen and use Slack daily.

Switch 2 console and accessories

And here I got stuck because of my own mental thinking.

Nope, that’s a strike.

To be fair, I should have known better since Shutter was already taken in the Island category.

A person holding a Nintendo Switch 2 playing Mario Kart World

No seeing the trap for me.

Which left the yellow category as the final one for me.

Publicity had attention, coverage, exposure and press.

Green skull on smartphone screen.

iPhone X in hand

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