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

Took me a while.

GxxYPB. Less than 1% of people got B first. Was leftovers for me.

To explain, I know bicuspid teeth as premolars

No.1240 (MON) YxxxGBP -- I thought I knew what I was doing with G, B (and P, to some extent) but got bogged down in the 'one away' zone.

GPBY. fairly simple one

PGBY, very chill for me

PBYG yeah pretty straightforward

RR to make up for yesterday’s PGBY

PxxBGY. Just a little trouble deciding on the Bs

Categories straightforward, order not. Yet somehow RR

No.1241 (TUE) RR -- one of the straightforward of recent weeks, IME. Though I think I still swapped a pair quite late.

"more straightforward" rather. Not sure how I swallowed the 'more'.

Plain old R today

I couldn’t see P to save my life

RR with P as barely examined leftovers.

RR, B was my leftovers

No.1242 (WED) I was impatient but it's weirdly satisfying pictorially. Confession: I clarified what one term meant, which was helpful. Judge me harshly if you must.

🟩🟦🟪🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

PYBG. Fairly easy today, realizing there was a rainbow herring helped a lot

YGPB with B as leftovers. Took me a while.

No.1243 (THU) BGxxPY -- back to the TWO-categories-I-really-can't-see blues. Unfortunately Y was largely unfamiliar.

PBxxYG. Lot of guessing required on the last two, was lucky to get it

GBxxxx fuck's sake i couldn't see what the other 2 were going for

GBYP. Made more sense to me than yesterdays puzzle

RR, hard but got it

BGYP - burned through every guess but one trying to figure out the last Y. that is not a 1.3

xGYBP. Getting the Sound of Music red herring helped .

No.1244 (FRI) RR -- possibly the most straightforward for me in a... month or so?!

PYGB Saw P straight away, the rest were easy but no idea on colour order for the rest

PYBG

PBYG, P was leftovers, rest were easy

PBYG. Don't know a semi truck and G and Y order was impossible to know but otherwise fine.

No.1245 (SAT) xGYBP -- thought I largely grasped this but had a false start. Couldn't see P at all!

GYPB. did actually spot P after G and Y had gone

PGBY

B and G should have had their colors swapped

YPBG. Took a while to see P and B, was satisfying when I did

BYxxxGP. Fluked it in the end as I didn't see P at all and I've never heard of henley, raglan or ringer shirts so was never going to figure out G

I know right: henley and ringer were dimly familiar at best, to me.

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No.1246 (SUN) xBxYxPG -- this is probably 'easy' but I misidentified something as a red herring and saw phantom clusters everywhere before belatedly seeing P.

PxxBxGY.

So, RR but in the most round the houses way. Did not know that meaning of cut so disentangling G and Y was painful given trim seemed to fit in Y.

A quiet day on Sunday?! Still time in the western hemisphere, I guess.

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No.1247 (MON) RR -- didn't look particularly promising at a glance, but all was dandy.

Just you and me, Nag.
A somewhat hasty xxBGPY where I saw all the categories but mixed up yellows and purples before abandoning attempt to get an RR

YBGP, didn't like the look of it either but yeah, straightforward enough

GBPY
Didn't know that's what flimflam was - thought it was waffle/hot air

xxxxps I've been looking for raglan shirts recently as they've been making a comeback on highstreet sites!

Another somehow RR

No.1248 (TUE) PGBY -- I seem to recall these clusters fell into place without toooo much of a struggle.

Also PGBY, easy but fun

Also PGBY, kinda low effort on both sides

One of those puzzles where there’s not much ambiguity in word meanings but full of long singsongy words that take a bit to hold in one’s head

P was leftovers but pretty easy RR

PGBY. Pretty straightforward.

No.1249 (WED) GBPY -- Hmmmmm. Not the greatest P I've seen.

(Wed) P was very much leftovers for me today