Timeline for An Only Connect Wall
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 5:35 | comment | added | M Oehm | @JonathanAllan: I've played a few of the walls at the link that Vicky gave me and I think that I've now got the hang of it. I've learned that they often have rather obvious groups with more than four possible members, that I'm quite bad at general knowledge (both classics and pop culture) and that they like to include wordplay groups ("contains numbers" seems to be a favourite. And there's that wordplay tag attached to your question ... | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 4:08 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan | Re the question in this answer: No I won't confirm correct connections until it is matched with a correct grouping (just like the show). If someone gives the correct grouping with a connection I did not use (that makes sense) then I will confirm the grouping (just like the show) and will say that the connection is not what I used (this has not happened so far, both correct groupings used the same connection I did). | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 0:58 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan | @MOehm - yes, it is a very common feature for the walls on the show to have five or six items that could belong to a grouping (whether a correct grouping or not!) | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 12:37 | comment | added | Vicky | Yes, exactly right. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 11:41 | comment | added | M Oehm | Thanks for the link. (There goes the monday in the office.) I see where I've been wrong now: Black being used in the Penny group doesn't rule out a Jack group, although Black might go into both. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 11:13 | comment | added | Vicky | We might be talking at cross purposes. In the end there should only be one solution that gives four groups of four, but one of the groups could have other potential members that ended up being used in different ways. You can try some real ones here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Z79DzzJY8w2R58bpftq14k/quiz | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 11:06 | comment | added | M Oehm | I'm not familiar with the show, I'm afraid. So you say that the groups may overlap as long as you can uniquely find four groups of four? My impression was that there may be red herrings (such as the colours), but that each item should unambiguously belong to one of the final groups. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 10:49 | comment | added | Vicky | @MOehm, I do really agree with you about the complexity of that rule. However I don't think you should be too fast to discount the Jack connection, it is often the case on the real Connecting Wall that one of the groups has many many possible members. | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 20:24 | comment | added | M Oehm | And I think that the rule "Remove the last vowel plus trailing consonents by Y" is too complicated. I guess the solution will be more like "Green, Bond, Shaft and Sparrow are all murderes in Miss Marple mysteries" or some such. You will know it when you have it. (But then, we thought that about the Jack connection, too.) | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 20:21 | comment | added | M Oehm | The Jack connection isn't correct. It can be applied to too many words and one obvious connection, Black, is already used with Penny, which is one of the confirmed groups. | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | Vicky | I keep coming back to this, it is a very distracting puzzle! :) | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 19:55 | history | edited | Vicky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2016 at 21:11 | comment | added | Vicky | No, it's a place :-) | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 18:09 | comment | added | Dan Russell | @JonathanAllan No, like: "That ghost is unnecessarily booy." :) | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 17:49 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan | ...and the jack group just keeps on growing, now it has a fish too too. Not sure about "booy" though (do you mean buoy?) | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 17:15 | history | answered | Vicky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |