How does that happen? Iβm off to Google this. My son also does this puzzle and his answers are the same as mine.
I Googled. No real concrete answers, but it has happened to others. On Reddit, a couple mentioned it could be the browser being used. Safari vs Chrome, but that doesnβt make sense.
Originally, when I first tried Connections, I got a different puzzle. It was not from the New York Times. So there was something else out there that is similar.
I haven't been posting my puzzles, but I sometimes follow along. Yes, I had those words in my puzzle today. I also had breaking yesterday in the olympic sport category.
I access the puzzle from my NY Times subscription through Firefox. Weird the colored boxes are there when I hit paste, but disappear when I hit post.