My Connections performance from Tuesday.

I lost Connections on Wednesday.

Until recently this wouldn’t have been news - I lost Connections pretty frequently.

But then something in my brain clicked and I went more than a month without losing it once.

My previous best streak was somewhere around 30 - I don’t exactly remember - it could have been 26, it could have been 35.

But this most recent streak I blew past that one.

I can’t explain it - there are certain days I just can’t figure out one of the groupings for anything.

But for 45 consecutive days I didn’t have that problem.

I try not to spend a long time on these games - if I did it would drive me a little crazy and probably dominate my day and keep me from being productive in other ways.

So when I lose, perhaps if I had spent a little more time thinking about it, the groupings would come to me.

But in that same amount of time every morning for 45 straight days, I was able to figure out all of the groupings so I don’t know if that’s an accurate breakdown.

I also don’t know if the games changed and they were easier for me - or if my brain adjusted in some way to help me figure the patterns out better.

It’s kind of fascinating to think I re-trained my brain.

The math of Connections is interesting to me too - I’ve had weeks where I win two of every three and somehow my overall winning percentage dips to 89%…and here I am having just gone 45-0 and I couldn’t boost that percentage to 91%.

But maybe 90% is where it belongs.

I’m really more of a 9 out of 10 guy than I am a 45-0 guy.

On Wednesday I lost Connections and I lost the Sports Connections and I couldn’t get a 9/9 on the Immaculate Grid…so my brain might not have been firing on all cylinders Wednesday morning.

We’ll see if the ol’ brain does better Thursday morning…or any morning that follows.

Losing the streak always stinks…but it’s always possible a new streak will begin right behind it.