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

BYxxGP

I was probably an odd child but I long wished for a pitcher plant to sit alongside my Venus flytrap!

#1022 (SUNDAY): YPGB -- I found this a little harder than I probably should have. Only saw B when everything all else was stripped away. And I think I wasted some time wondering about whether "American Robot" etc could be an unfamiliar film!

GBPY - absolutely not a 1.5

RR. Swerved the red herring.

Only 6% of people fell for the American ______ herring. I guess there are not enough cinephiles out there

Oh right, yeah, there *was* actually a fourth one there. I locked Graffiti into Y almost immediately so overlooked it for those purposes.

GBYP

Similar to Nag, I found G immediately so missed the red herring (but did see it immediately after)

BPGY

100% missed the red herring

BPYG, easy

GYBP in a flash

RR, missed the herring, but I really wanted to make loanwords work (robot, coup, psycho, graffiti).

#1023 (MON): PBYG -- Needed a little bit of guesswork here, as a couple of things were only faintly familiar to this foreigner. And: grrrr re G vs Y.

yep - PBYG too

PYBG— colors not coloring other than purple, imho

BGPY - once i saw P after locking in blue and green i struggled massively due to my lack of snack brand knowledge

BYPG home field advantage today

xYBxxPG

This will teach me to try to do this before 5:00 AM

PBYG too

#1024 (TUESDAY): xPxGxYB -- probably my messiest for some time. Even with 2 categories remaining the 4th Y term could have belonged in B, for all knew!

PBYG again. I got yellow but it seemed kind of messy (I don't think of pinch exactly meaning a shortage) so opted for the clearer pirate ship stuff in pursuit of an RR). Rest seemed quite straightforward .

Oh I've just noticed that having worked it out I actually played them in GYBP order not PBYG. Half asleep still.

fell for red herring, then YGPB.
oddly we don't really call "wireless" that here (as far as I've seen? ). It's usually non-wired

PBYG, Y and G seemed like they needed to be switched

xxGxPBY

Lotta red herrings to blunder onto today

PG and then my gender broke me

I took a lot more care today to really think things through and got a perfect RR as a result. The exercise herring was hard to resist, while the pirate stuff also looked like the obvious red herring. I agree that Y feels like a stretch. Had to guess the fourth bra, though, which felt grammatically incorrect.

ditto with Western

i also realized about every fail i've had involves exercise moves and clothing fashion.

#1025 (WEDNESDAY): GxBPY -- Interesting. Didn't spend any time pondering the colours. I could discern the broad categories but I'm surprised I got through it without further mistakes after concluding that MOON must have been some sort of Y, as well as a B. Some *deeply* unfamiliar stuff for me.

reverse RR - fun but would never have bothered figuring out which was the proper RR order

bgpy, good one.

GPBY, hated it, fuck off with this shit

i like this one! PBYG. tried for RR after first two but colours pretty much out the window

these are just rebuses, not particularly difficult ones either. it's fine to throw something different into the mix every now and then

YGPB. Colours I had no clue – all
seemed about equal difficulty.

Fun puzzle. I nearly put Blue Moon into the movie category before realizing it could go elsewhere

fun but insanely easy, and honestly no way to discern colors from one another. GBYP.

I’m pro gimmick but this feels extremely low effort & kinda makes you question the whole premise of an April 1 puzzle, like what makes this a prank/joke? It’s just a slight tweak of format such as they do periodically. I guess EASY in big letters is a mildly funny self own

Also insane to label that category purple when two of the squares contain the actual word city

I loved rebus puzzles when I was a kid so this was a fun albeit very easy change of pace, but yeah the colors were almost interchangeable. PGYB.

#1026 (THURSDAY): RR -- a quick one, though P was leftovers! ( Brand names are clearly my Achilles heel and that's quite enough of them for one week kthx lol )

GPBY - tried to RR but busted early because i thought the B and P categories were male animals (correct!) and beginning names of rappers (incorrect!) but couldn't figure out the final blue one

PBYG - stared into the heart of the red herring and refused to plunge, for once. then got robbed of an RR by the frankly bullshit allocation of Y and G

P was there to make me feel very seen

YGBP
kind of got what purple was before guessing the leftovers, but I didn't like it

PBYG and yes, Y was definitely harder than G.

Though apparently not according to the WordleBot stats.

Was shocked after getting Y and G to enter four rappers and not even get a One Away! But did figure it out quickly after that

GYxxBP— this one was much harder than the past days’ “hard” puzzles imho