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 crashed out after blue and green. I just kept picking the wrong combos for yellow! Oh well

Connections
Puzzle #1125
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections
Puzzle #1126
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

^ Yeah, same.

#1126 (SAT) GYBP -- first two were straightforward; the remainder possibly should have been too but it was more a 'vibes' thing again.

PYBG. Couldn't believe it was quite that easy. Thought B was bound to be a red herring

same (YBGP)

P felt a bit too clever for its own good

PYBG, echoing Alba

RR, P was leftovers

One of those purples that was easy to isolate as leftovers but impossible to pinpoint the specific connection

yeah, agreed

P was a more intricate connection than I had come up with when I got it … B was leftovers I haven’t seen any of those movies and I don’t have or work with kids

BGYP P was leftovers

I got P Right away as a grouping but not to the degree of hyper-specificty that they went with

BGPY. I've had a lot of blue firsts lately

PBYG, got P to the same degree as djp

#1127 (SUN) YxPxBG -- A lot of luck and dependence on 'one away' messages here. Only Y came quickly. B + G were basically unfamiliar. No doubt I'll hear that it is 'easy' in about 12 hours lol.

1127 - reverse rainbow but I used all my free guesses. Green has an "odd one out" -- 3 are Willy Wonka brand candies, then Dots is Tootsie.

yeah that one was for the yanks and the yanks only, no way at all to get g/p imo

YBxxPG had to brute force the last 2 really but they were educated guesses

RR but without figuring out which capital PHO was, only just came to me a moment ago (an hour after doing it) & I was oh yeah obviously lol

BYPG, squeaked this after a couple of "one away"s. weirdly about two weeks ago I was wracking my brain trying to think of what runts were called, having only seen them in the early 90s here, and had gone down a Google rabbit hole on that specific subject... so that was floating near the surface of my brain, but didnt know spree .
i got the group pho was part of but didn't really know mad .

PGBY, not too bad but a little sore about order as usual

PGYB

B was a weird one

GBYP, took me a while but somehow had no misses

YBGP. Possibly the hardest (for a non-American) one I've ever completed with no mistakes. Green I thought might be that from Nerd but none of the others were familiar to me so just a good guess. Purple I'd never have got in a million years.

YBPG. I was sure about three each of purple and green so I guessed at the fourth. Luckily it was right first time

GBxYP. Could only solve P as leftovers, really don't think I would have ever named that category

YGBP, as god who doesn’t believe in RR intended

#1128 (MON) -- I shan't claim to have actually solved today's, as I sought hints after cobbling together P + Y. (Perhaps running low on patience after recent demonstrations that Wyna is likely referencing things I've never heard of. I'll try harder tomorrow lol.)

BYPG

Spotted 3 of the RHs and decided that probably was a RH.
Got 3 of the purples but no idea what the 4th one was ( buss?! ) until I had only P and G left.

YBPG, pleased I navigated the RH possibilities

YBGP. Figured out what P was fairly early but had not heard of "buss" as a slang for kiss so had to solve it as leftovers

Regarding buss - it's old, possibly even Shakespeare old, i knew it from old literature

RR, P as leftovers

PYBG - i had G as leftovers and the best i could come up with was old timey movie ways to prevent rain from landing on you in a house

YPGB. Bit tricky as I don't know the word buss, or the cats Salem and Figaro

#1129 (TUES) RR -- Quickest one in a few days here IIRC.

Todays was some bs

PBYG

GxYBP, P was leftovers

BYGP, colors very dumb today but w/e

PBYG, talked myself out of a RR

GYBP

#1130 (WED) PBYG -- another relatively breezy one IMHO. Though Y & G didn't want to play nice in the end.

GBYP, toughie today. Was unsure about each guess but somehow got there without mistakes

one strike due to a finger slip then RR. sigh.

YPBG, might have RRed it if I was the patient type

GYPB

In retrospect I should have been able to RR but I couldn’t see P or B until I submitted G and Y

RR, though weirdly blue was leftovers I couldn't figure out