I’ve done that a few times. I figure probably everyone does, as often it just seems to depend on what you’re familiar with. My work team of 4 people plays Connections together each morning, and the other day I picked the set of 1960s band names (or rather, almost-names) out of the grid before anyone had made any other suggestions, and IIRC that turned out to be the purple set. I expect in that instance they decided that the majority of the audience would be too young to be very familiar with all four of those names; but if you do know them, then it might well be the easiest set.
I have not seen this film, but the first frame did bring The Black Freighter to mind (even though the lights seemed all kinds of wrong), and so my first guess was Watchmen :). I thought that made for a funny juxtaposition with the correct answer.
Wordle 1049 3/6
Daily Quordle 830
Durn. I don’t even think I approached that badly. Just too many wrong guesses. I guess I needed to do more letter-elimination lines up front…
Daily Sequence Quordle 830
Connections
Puzzle #327
This game sure can be annoying. Like, I’m supposed to ignore “yard sale” and come up with “sample sale” instead? What the heck is a “sample sale”?
I guess solving the whole thing before entering any guesses is the way to avoid that.
Framed #785
Aw. The very first frame was familiar, but I couldn’t think why, and I didn’t recognise the actors. Just way too long since I’ve seen it…
Wordle 1050 2/6
Woo!
Daily Quordle 831
Daily Sequence Quordle 831
Connections
Puzzle #328
That was the worst. “Literally” is not a “filler word” to me, and the purple line was just horrible even knowing the words in question. Other categories I tried:
Replace ‘i’ with ‘a’ and it’s still a word: pin, spring, like, literally.
Prefix ‘s’ and it’s still a word: pin, tumbler, um, well.
Framed #788
I knew it on the first one. I typed in the key word from the title Dalmatians and it didn’t come up as an option. I entered the title anyway and it was wrong. I tried again on the second image because I knew I was right and it worked changed 101 to spelled out. I’m unreasonably annoyed at this.
I got a score of 2725 on today’s Chronophoto: 5/7/2024
Round 1: 708
Round 2: 708
Round 3: 242
Round 4: 777
Round 5: 290