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

Oops, I meant free reign above, which I see they subsequently corrected

#1184 (MON) GYBP -- ended up confirming the first two before even seeing the remainder. Finally saw B, but P remained very leftover-y. Mostly mysterious even now. (Early-ish post -- impractical later!)

PBYG, RR denied

GYBP. uh, turps and christmas trees??? I have never noticed or read about that aromatic connection and now that i have it doesn't seem that plausible. I'll have to wait until we get our christmas tree this year to open my big bottle of turps and check.

GPYB

RR though I thought fish story was maybe meant to be fishy story – perhaps it a US idiom.

I assume it's a reference to anglers' proverbial exaggerations and I guess that particular formation is USian

^ Yeah, was exactly my hunch.

#1185 (TUE) BPYG -- Not too taxing, but B was leftovers; gambled on it being P, though I arguably already had a better cluster for P tbh!

Tuesday BxPYG had never heard of SKOR before

I feel like 2/4 of that category sounded familiar only from previous Connections rounds lol!

Skor and Heath are the 2 common toffee-covered-in-chocolate bars in the U.S. I wish there were more toffee options in this country.

Meanwhile, here's some unnecessary words so the entire post is not hidden.

SORRY, DELETE THAT POST! It was supposed to be hidden.

xYBxPG, took the red herring

RR, saw P and B then G then Y ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

today marked my 200th time getting Purple first

squeaked through today after falling for the RH

doves unknown to me in that context

I think Dove is basically US version of Galaxy

probably could've solved todays in 30 seconds flat but I really thought yellow was a red herring and it actually was not

I'm with darraghmac (XXP) basically, except that that's the other instance where I think I vaguely recall Wyna going there before.

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#1186 (WED) RR -- probably my most quickly resolved in quite a few days.

GBYP, almost offputtingly easy today

yeah today wasnt a minute's work and no real conflicts

PGBY - did not care for green just because it felt like they were going for small unit prefixes but then just went lazy and threw minivan in there

Hehe, had similar thoughts. 'millipede' or whatever could have kept it more satisfyingly Système International, dammit.

Yep thought the same. PGBY today

PBYG dammit

#1187 (THU) xBGPY -- Hehe. Felt compelled to, er, 'test' a red herring before belatedly grasping P properly.

ill break character, today's rh was in fairness a doozy

xPBGY— i couldnt figure out what i thought were Y and G so i started entering what i thought was P, had it rejected, scrapped my whole plan and started over.

xBGYP

OK I took the red herring but I think i was mostly thrown out by the rubbishness of this one

xBYPG. Green was leftovers. My first time with"catio".

YBGP. I held off playing blue because it seemed obvious enough to be a red herring

BYPG - holy red herring hell

xYPGB. I hesitated because there were five entries that fit the red herring, but ultimately still bit on it haha

BxYGP

bit that herring hard

#1189 (FRI) xPGYB -- Had a weird amount trouble with small errors and generally trying to get into a sort of Instagrammer mindset with B and Y lol.

PxxGYB

PYBG. I liked today's, but YGB were all about the same difficulty

easy RR today

RR - categories were all over the place

PBYG. G was kind of bullshit though.

Sorry, I mean B.

#1190 (SAT) GYBP -- just entered them as I saw them in the grid today.

Connections
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good puzzle imo

RR, quick one.

#1191 (SUN) Pretty straightforward IIRC. (I seemingly forget everything about them by the afternoon lol.)

RR, not too bad

yeah same

BPGY. Double doses of wordplay becoming more frequent.

PBYG. i feel like i will never understand the color meta game