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

i knew not to fall for Wire, not The Wire, so initially I thought that whole category was a red herring. knew Succession, Euphoria and Entourage, but took a couple of guesses for the last one.

My head is apparently further in the cultural sand than Table’s. Never heard of any of that blue stuff, but guessed it as leftovers.

not to be weird, but i will say that the show that people seem to be missing is primarily geared toward a Black audience, and got a lot less mainstream media coverage outside of certain markets. in Chocolate Cities like Philly, it was all over

2 categories solved, 3 strikes, the probable red herring was still in play, suddenly remembered to 4th HBO show we're all missing and kept my current streak going.

Not sure how I solved today's. After getting G, I got stuck on thinking there was an alcohol category. A couple "one aways" and I had accidentally solved P, which I guess might be alcohol adjacent? Then I noticed the jeans category but had to guess on the fourth word - another wrong guess before getting "boyfriend". Took to my final guess to get it right

unbelievable that today’s was a 5/5, solved it GYBP with no mistakes in less than two minutes

disaster today, don't know what "boyfriend jeans" are and "flare jeans" are either "flared jeans" or just "flares" afaict. Purple category is just horribly phrased, rubbish combination of obvious and convoluted

GYPB no mistakes. Saw G immediately, selected and held it. Thought Y had something to do with “dresses” (sun dress, bell dress) but the correct answer made sense. Hoped to puzzle out B and P before guessing officially but the correct answer for P smelled like a red herring, and B was a stupid. Guessed what I knew was right, bit the bullet and correctly guessed P, and then B was leftovers, rmde, what a dumb clue

PYGB: I didn't recognize P as glassware specifically, but all of the words were cocktail-related and didn't seem to fit any other categories.

PGBY with one mistake. Good one.

Mistake being knock on effect of an in retrospect ridiculous guess at a category: things that wake you up

YBPG dunno why I didn’t clock G immediately ugh, two mistakes

GBPY, weird one

PGBY, easiest in a while!

After a rough night of sleep, I needed an easy puzzle. Thank you, puzzle gods

Easy one today I thought. Lol at yellow, is that the best they could come up with? Thought the NYT was supposed to be cultured.

who did they think they were gonna fool with that red herring

cran? *bangs knife and fork on table* cran?! *pushes everything off table in one motion and jumps up on it* CRAN?????!!!!!!!!

got yellow before I spotted the red herring. which makes it easy as you assume each of the red herrings generates its own category.

I fell for it today but still an easy puzzle. When you don't see a "One away" on a clear guess, you can safely assume it's a red herring and the words go into four different categories

what was the red herring?

cran, rasp, blue, straw — first two were on the top line and one is an obscure word, that was an instant “lol nice try” from me

I never look at the puzzle the way it’s set out, I always mix at least ten times before piecing things together.

Easy today, GYBP.

It’s worth a glance before shuffling both to see the attempts to mislead and also there are often little jokes along the top row

yeah I leave it like it is because the placement of the red herrings is quite predictable.

GYPB - I forgot to usual my usual 10x shuffle of the words because I assume they put a glaring red herring front and center, which I fell for. I do a good deal of woodworking and have never heard the word rasp I thought it was just a rougher grit file

It’s worth a glance before shuffling both to see the attempts to mislead and also there are often little jokes along the top row

yeah i don’t care about any dumb jokes from the NYT

who did they think they were gonna fool with that red herring

46% of respondents, including me

GYPB. lol at shuffling more than once

<3 to eat herring

I fell for it too since two of those words don't mean anything to me otherwise

Quick RR today

First RR in what feels like forever.

Bust, never heard of three of the blues but my fault for not spotting the purples. Did get G & R despite 95% of my salads not involving cheese or protein.

did think it was funny that three of the four salad ingredients were not vegetables

don't know if famous Steves was a deliberate red herring or just one I made up myself.

two mistakes today, YGBP

one silly mistake today. i though "lettuce machine" might be a term for an ATM.

don't know if famous Steves was a deliberate red herring or just one I made up myself.

The two obvious in that category and guessing two others that might be baseball players or NJ regional weather presenters took out a couple of strikes but led me to the right answer.

BGYP, no errors. I confidently had Y as "components of a burger" in my mind and had to laugh when the actual category was shown.

PGBY, giggling at “Stevie Lovelace”

I got yellow but it's a bit weird. Most salads I have don't have cheese or a "protein" in them, let alone both. I guess I mostly eat sure salads but still.

typo sorry - side salads not sure salads

Almost got reverse rainbow but guessed wrong about which was green and which was yellow.

Todays made me LOL because I totally should have got the Bros category, but I guess I didn't expect the chems to end up as a clue so it just never occured to me!

Warning, the above is Fridays not Thursdays.

Friday's had me going to Wikipedia to see if there was a Marx Brother I hadn't heard of

GYPB today— got the bros only because Chemical and Marx ended up next to each other on my board and i was like “wait a sec”

Very fast RR

As for the red herring I've noticed that general cultural knowledge of the Marx Brothers has fallen off a cliff. I don't think half the folks out there would know that groucho glasses are referencing a specific character.