Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

[CellarDweller]

🙂 Daily Quordle 1053
9️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ RATIO
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 PLUME
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ GRIEF
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRIER
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRIER
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ DRIER
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ STORY
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ STORK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ MILKY

🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ RATIO
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 PLUME
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ GRIEF
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRIER
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRIER
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DRIER
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ STORY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ STORK
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

[CellarDweller]

Connections
Puzzle #550
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟪🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟪🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟪🟪

https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

[CellarDweller]

Strands #284
?Shape and bake?
🔵🟡🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵🔵

https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

[Sason]

Wordle 1 272 6/6

⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ OUIJA
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ TYRES
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 LYING
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 DYING
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 HYING
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 VYING

Phewing!

[Sason]

Strands #284
?Shape and bake?
💡🔵💡🔵
💡🔵💡🔵
💡🔵🟡🔵
🔵

I did have an inkling what it was all about, but I simply couldn't find the words.

But it's right up your alley, Chuck! 

[Sason]

Connections
Puzzle #550
🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟪🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟪🟪

 

I'm glad I at least got green and yellow. The pictures made it much harder, most of them could be interpreted in more than one way.

[serious crayons]

Wordle 1,272 5/6

⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ SHIRT
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ DANCE
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 FLING
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 GOING
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 VYING


Connections
Puzzle #550
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟪🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟪

Let's hope they never do that again!

[serious crayons]

That too, but I was more thinking of "flying into through the air"

That's what I thought you meant. But I hadn't picked up on it until you mentioned it, so I felt I should add something to the conversation.

[serious crayons]

I've been to Ketchum too. Skiing trip in the winter and fishing trip in the summer. That word was what tipped me off that wordplay was going on. Ketchum belongs in no other category than that.

Good point. I hadn't thought about that. I was kind of looking for something located beside a more famous thing (for those not familiar, Ketchum is the town next to the famous ski destination Sun Valley).

I lived there in the summers of '78 and '79, I think, then visited briefly a year or two later. What if we walked right past each other, as I did Steve McQueen in a Ketchum grocery store parking lot? But we wouldn't have suspected our futures would someday be intertwined!

[Front-Ranger]

Wordle 1,273 6/6*

🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜   ROOST
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩   CODER
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩   MOVER
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩   LONER
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩   GOFER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩   BOXER

Whew!

I fared better at Connections:

Connections
Puzzle #551
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🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪