Been using a Tub Shroom for the past few years and it works great!

The amount of upvotes on this "photo" is mind boggling

Generally I agree, some of the niche media/culture stuff is rough.

It was the same on the British game this is based on (the "Connecting Wall" round from Only Connect). Some categories would be football/soccer players I would never get, or presenters from a kid's TV show.

It's pretty satisfying when it's something in your wheelhouse though!

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Green had a pretty tough red herring!

Connections Puzzle #302

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Strands #36 “It goes by fast”

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Strands #35 “This’ll all blow over”

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Connections Puzzle #301

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Looks like a lot of us went for the green red herring 😬

Connections Puzzle #300

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Strands #34 “Picture this”

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Strands #32 “Consumerism”

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Strands #31 “Play time!”

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Strands #30 “Rolling in the aisles”

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Connections Puzzle #295

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Got purple for the wrong reasons and gave up on figuring out blue before I just accepted it 😀

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Strands #25 “Off the shelf”

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Connections Puzzle #290

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Strands #23 “That’s fantastic!”

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Odd one that I got the spangram and first 2 relatively quickly then took a while to find the rest