Global Eye-Roll: How the NYT Connections Puzzle on 9/11 Became the World’s Most Awkward Icebreaker
The New York Times’ daily puzzle, Connections, usually serves as a harmless, caffeine-free stimulant for the globally scattered knowledge-worker class. Yet on the morning of 11 September—date already overloaded with symbolism like a suitcase past the weight limit—those four innocent columns of words became a miniature geopolitical flashpoint. From Lagos to Lisbon, solvers noticed that…