UK connections word game baffles yanks

A British version of the popular word game Connections is baffling Americans.

'It sure is tough, heavy, onerous, hard,' complained Jake Pegg, a puzzle addict from Landfill View, Illinois. 'To find the connections you need an extensive knowledge of UK soccer teams, cockney rhyming slang, British snack foods, and early sixties sitcoms. And there's a lot of stuff about beer, class, the Empire, WW2 and the royals. On a bad day I can't get any of the connections at all.

'I can always do the American version in one or two minutes, but the UK version is a doozy, astonishing, incredible, awesome.'

British puzzle compiler Colin Corbyn says he invented the game because he found the American version annoying, pesky, trying, vexing. 'You need to know about weird American sports, bizarre US TV shows, strange Yankee politics and odd Stateside customs.

'I invented the UK version to let the Yanks know that they aren't the boss, chief, head, master of everything.

'I'm reclaiming English for the English, and I'm doing it with proper spellings.'

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