Punnett square

And “Winterfell” is so dedicated to presenting every conceivable character pairing that it sometimes feels like watching a Punnett square.

There is no Punnett square for life.

According to the Punnett square, two kids at my table, Mike Henninger and Christina Stapleton, had a 100��percent chance of having a blue-eyed baby.

As the genetic counselor is drawing the diagrams, I am remembering a similar one from seventh-grade science class, the Punnett square: almost fortuneteller-like, better than a Ouija board and those folded-up cootie-catchers — when the grown-up self is almost equally conceivable and impossible.

There was a lot of competition in this category—Kreb’s cycle, Higgs boson, Venn diagram, Van Allen belts—but for sounding like a cube of pudding nobody ever eats that’s served with beef Wellington, Punnett square wins.