No way that's purple: the NYT Connections thread

Because it's just not Wordle

Ha nice title :)

Didn't think today's was "exceptionally tricky" at all. I guess there was crossover but seeing the four categories unlocked what was what

https://i.imgur.com/f80rGy7.png

Got beaten by today’s too. Got purple first, then blue, then crapped out on the synonyms for zest, and missed the palindromes altogether (I think since that kind of connection is usually reserved for purple)

prefixes, lame.

That’s one I saw right away but was afraid to guess because, as you say, lame

Yes, I expected the final description to be more qualified than just that.

I guessed it first but in my head the category title was Latin prepositions. Made an underwhelmed noise out loud when the real one popped up.

(One of them is only an adverb anyway so I guess I should make the underwhelmed noise at myself)

The fuck is a California King?

It's a size of mattress.

ah! I got it, but only just.

Thanks for all the hidden text. I’ve been staring at the 4 purple words off and on all day.

California king I had never come across, whereas super king I had (in two contexts!) so yesterday I was a special snowflake

https://i.imgur.com/kJGlAOw.jpeg

I am from California and the only context I have encountered the term is online shopping for bedding…

I was honestly thinking for a few minutes… did the Sacramento NBA team change their name ? …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBorPm6JjQ

Never heard of California king in my life.

And so I forgot to just reveal yesterday’s purple and lost my streak.

How are everyone's stats looking? Here are mine

https://i.imgur.com/DwM5Cq9.jpeg

I kind of wonder if the better players (not me!) will start deliberately aiming for higher score achievements like Reverse Rainbow now that the Bot exists? Personally, I just like getting the game right.

i can’t hear “california king” without thinking of chappell roan’s “red wine supernova”

My pal and I aimed for reverse rainbow already – slightly annoyed it's now a thing with a name!

omg i didn't get a single group! i spotted the yellow but whip and pump were also possibles for that, saw three of the blue group but would never have got the green.

I got them all in reverse rainbow order , but the order was a bit of a fluke as I strongly disagree with it. "Fire" only fitting with the other three when "up" is appended made it a ridiculous yellow imo, esp given the "pump" red herring.

And it was made harder by my knowing slides as sliders

funny, i thought today’s was the easiest in a long while.

But Alba, that category was get excited, with “up”, so that seems like a spurious complaint

I made three awful mistakes in a row before going “I’m not awake, don’t do this right now”. I later solved it after having coffee but yeesh

Dan, what I meant was amp, hype, pump and maybe psych all worked as the category without the up, so having to think of the 'up' bit to get that fire also belonged, was tricky! Connections Bot says only 19% of players got it as the first category, which is pretty low for a yellow)

oic, carry on

didn’t we have types of shoes as a category relatively recently?

On August 19 last year

I'd clearly not learned then that sliders can be called slides, as the four shoes were CLOG, PUMP, WEDGE and SLIDE (with MARY JANE as red herring) https://connections.swellgarfo.com/nyt/69

Ooo I didnt know there was an archive for Connexions.

Today’s was fun

Hard! Count myself lucky for only making one mistake (LAD was a clever one)

I managed a perfect score, blue first

i screwed up today. got the disney dog one but not having heard of a sizzle reel screwed up my "reels"

only yellow correct today :( wasted some guesses on green that went wrong

Got it in perfect order today, no mistakes.

Was also a bit thrown by reels, though I insisted on trying to get that one early on, rather than moving on, thus mucking up my score a bit. Got dogs right off the bat.

I managed a perfect score, blue first

High five to another member of today's 96 club.

Oof. Today's (Thurs) purple might trip up some people. I didnt get it, it was just the only category left. Luckily the others were easy. Also lol at the initial placement or row 1.

OF row 1 that should say.

i got purple second, pretty good category imo

I got it perfect reverse rainbow: though Angers isn't a place I know and I didn't know the PBS category, green and yellow were quite easy and Angers was the only likely sounding place that remained so the whole thing only took me 4 mins I think

reverse rainbow too. didn't actually spot the parties - i'm hopeless at the ones where you have to add a word! but i had an inkling about frontline and masterpiece (just as 'some kind of american tv thing') and the other two were by far the most likely to fit.

didn't have a clue about the Blue group but got all of the others easily enough

It got a 5/5 rating on the Connections Bot calculus so ilx has overperformed today

I would have trouble trying to go for reverse rainbow because I can never really see what is meant to distinguish the three easy ones from each other (and I don’t remember the order of the colours). Purple are easy to spot because they tend to be of a few particular types but you could put the others in any order & I’d be like ok sure

Yeah I think it helps that it's the same setter each day as you have to kind of get inside her head. I do quite often get yellow and green in wrong order

also GYPB, didn't have much trouble with it tho, kinda thought about a Chaucerian red herring for a little while

GYBP but tbh went on surname vibes for B without getting it. Didn't think of Chaucer but avoided the butcher, baker, candlestick maker red herring

normally I try and guess the wordle bot difficulty, I am normally very good at picking the score out of 5 but I would have said today's was a 2/5 and very surprised to find it deemed VERY TRICKY

I'd give it 4/5. I think purple was really hard cause no obvious way in, so it all depended on whether you saw blue or not.

GBPY

One stupid mistake because I accidentally clicked BLOW instead of BOW when submitting purple

BPGY - i should've RR'd this but wasn't focused enough and just hail mary'd the last names assuming it was a category. i think on first glance it looks trickier than it actually was.

this is the hardest puzzle in weeks afaic

Yeah, usually I try to fix most of the categories in my mind before I make a move, but had to place yellow and green so I could shuffle the remainder to get the blue connection. I agree that purple didn't have an easy way in until other stuff was eliminated.

BGYP, no mistakes. spotted the red herring pretty quickly and divvied it up from there, though P was leftovers

YBGP, no errors. I saw 3/4 of G immediately but had a long think before committing to it because I wasn't sure about wrench.

GYBP, with 2 mistakes. Glad I'm not the only one who found this really hard despite the musical category.

Finally got it with one life left. I had been focused on the wrong sorts of names, then I saw flack and immediately got it

^ Still disappointed to have not managed the latter!

Thursday: YGBP. A cautious step-wise effort as I found P impenetrable, leaving me (needlessly) doubting *everything* lol.

GYPB with two mistakes. First life lost assuming my leftovers were right but turned out fore was part of a ship too. Eventually saw purple so could sort out B and P

P absolutely jumped out at me today. Which then meant the others were fairly easy as you'd eliminated BOW from the ship parts

fuck today, broke my longest streak

GPBY, took about a minute

unsatisfying puzzle, particularly purple

PGBY, i found it pretty straightforward.

P also jumped out today, got RR

RR, I thought today was really satisfying/well constructed

YGPB with two mistakes, still a little miffed about it. A bow is a part of a ship!! Fuck you!!

I just don't like "components of a well-known caricature" as a category, there's something smugly conservative about it, like we're treating this meaningless detritus as intangible cultural heritage. - also table otm.

RR - holy shit i nearly failed that because i had purple as leftovers and kept subbing in the wrong ship term until i saw the purple category

table – but that's the whole point of the game, to spot the red herrings.

Phew GYBP. Agree with table, almost broke my streak due to that BS

It's not BS! It's an inherent part of the game! Sheesh.

Xpost complaining about connections is an integral part of the game…

Busted because I thought B was sides of a ship, fml.

My only 'problem' with Thursday's P (though I had the cluster correct anyway, as leftovers) was all in my head: I know 'diaper' only via US pop culture, and not realising it's centuries old, I tended to think of new-fangled disposable nappies up until yesterday. Plus it seems mainly to be greeting card depictions that avoid a naked Cupid in the first place. Classically, it's often an adolescent anyway.

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Anyway, seeing as I'm already here...

Friday: quite a quick one -- PYBG.

BPYG - i'm actually embarrassed that i didn't realize the handholding to get an RR on this one until after!

YBGP - very easy, but this is why I don't bother trying to guess which colour is which

PGYB - purple was obviously purple but blue was obviously yellow.

My first RR … on my birthday… however I would vehemently argue that relish is not always green

Y was leftovers today, out of my wheelhouse

RR here too, just went with it after getting purple first

YPGB. Barely thought about it.

Immediately fell for the red herring, then RR’d.

What was the red herring?

I think it was dances - polka, salsa, hula and swing.

PYBG

YGPB quick one

Today was tricky for this colour-blind Englisher, but I got there.

Just grasped what Western® with Bacon Flavor was referring to, a day later. Oof!

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Saturday: Fairly straightforward, and an RR. It surely helps that that was also more or less the order in which they revealed themselves.

BGYP. I saw what P was gonna be right from the off, thanks to "Ching", but I wanted to narrow it down to be sure.

RR - purple was 75/25 leftovers

RR, once again got purple first and guessed the rest from there, no mistakes

YPGB - green gave me a bit of trouble also with pronounce and body on the board, I looked for a murder or death category but alas

PYGB, purple really jumped out today

Brag: Got purple even before seeing 'ching'