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

don't think i would've thought of the purple category in a million years. i don't know most of them.

another perfect, no misses tho the teapot etc was more generic guess than specific tbf

No. 557
saw 4 related to donkey kong, but I thought, no way is that a category. a really hard one with all that furniture and woodwork.

apparently table means the exact opposite in uk/us english.

thanks to that and other red herrings, i failed.

xxp i almost started that one but as a different category - construction related items! gorilla glue/tape, hammer, ladder, etc.

I was just doing the May 15 puzzle and got the first three groups figured out with little fuss.

The last four standing were AURA BUCK DOGE HODA. Absolutely could not get a handle on that group. I could have clicked submit and moved on with my life, but really needed to know and I wanted to have figured it out myself.

AURA BUCK DOGE HODA.

It was car companies minus one letter

I haven’t clicked on the spoiler text but I think I remember this one: car brands minus a letter?

Absolutely the worst type of category, should be stomped in the gonads repeatedly

i got purple category first today 557 - realised there wouldn't be keg and barrel in the same category.

thank god you said that Ledge - I spent all of today thinking I'd misunderstood what that meant.

> apparently table means the exact opposite in uk/us english.

I have no idea what colleagues mean when the they say stuff like “let’s push back the meeting and table the proposal”. There’s double contradictory definitions there.

I would think they mean, “lets delay the meeting and come back to this proposal later”

Yes the ambiguity of "table" in a transatlantic context requires one to simply ask. "Excuse me, Jane, but just to clarify, do you mean that we should discuss this now, or at another time?"

A tricky one is "moot," which can mean both "debatable" and "not worth debating."

everyone's going to love Saturday...I got it in the end but then went straight to Google

Saturday was one of my worst ever- although partly because I overlooked an easy one - I was convinced they were playing 4D chess!

worst result ever, only got one group!

Wasn't too bad? Except I initially put 'O' in the wrong group. I don't know what some of those things are but two of them were obvious and the O I suppose is sort of a thing.

It’s from this: https://militaryalphabet.net/

That was easy … but I am American

Ohh yes thanks DJP - I was thinking it's the O in EGOT, but that still applies to the statuette. EGOTS on my mind after them appearing in two quizzes this week! Had no idea about the baloney though, but was left with that

got it but it took awhile, mostly because i’ve never heard of a sleigh bed, and also the Oscar-baloney connection took me some time to remember

Gotta admit baloney took me a bit as well, and I even remember the song parodies and the wienermobile jokes; O I assumed was also a reference to the award, like in the trendy acronyms where E equals Emmy, T equals Tony, and G equals Grammy; a bougier GAPDY lol

That was easy … but I am American

Ditto. Blue first today

Yeah, bollocksed it up today.

For the non-Americans: https://www.oscarmayer.com/

It’s hard to describe exactly how much of a cultural phenomenon this brand was for several decades, to the point where they’re now just embedded into the American psyche (I don’t remember seeing any of their commercials in the past 10 years)

It was the chuffing Murphy and Sleigh beds that did for me, tbh.

would understand "table" as putting up for discussion xps

would understand moot as _both_ debatable and not worth debating, the point being that moot surely centres the "not worth" as the point

theres a thread in this stuff he said nudging the ilxors

do american people say "everything is on the table" to mean nothing is up for discussion?

as i am beginning to understand it, they table things to ensure that nothing is on the table

a fascinating people ive always said it

so despite what I've been led to believe, the table isn't the table?

“Everything is on the table” would mean either “I’m being completely transparent and not holding anything back or trying to deceive you” or “all possible options are under consideration” depending on the context

However, “let’s table this” would mean “let’s move on to the next thing and come back to this

as i am beginning to understand it, they table things to ensure that nothing is on the table

The table that you "table" things on is like a side table, behind you. Maybe it's technically a credenza. The one with the coffee urn and the fake plant.

When "everything's on the table," the table being imagined is the one in front of you, the one with the glitchy speakerphone and a coffee cup filled with dried-up whiteboard markers.

what happens when you chair a discussion

You call on people to talk and cut them off when they go on like the windbags that they are

youre going to tell me thats not the same thing as a bag you wind up arent you

my remark about "everything's on the table" was not intended to be taken seriously

Let's table this discussion, please.

we have been?

is there any article about the person(s) that devised this? i'm genuinely curious.

idk how things called "oscar" got approved with one of the options just being the letter O.

It's a tricky category, but that usage isn't out of bounds, as standardized phonetic alphabets are reasonably common knowledge, I think.

Yeah I think of it as being solid puzzle knowledge

Yeah had no idea about today's even after seeing the answers. I guess I should have seen the Oscar one despite the baloney – but no idea about any of the beds except bunk so I'd have had a lot of guessing to do anyway

I misread the O as a zero, which didn't help

disagree YM if you're doing crock and pot in the cooking category.

is there any article about the person(s) that devised this? i'm genuinely curious.

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Failed today as didn't see the very obvious green group. Got yellow and purple first.

I saw green, blue, and yellow all right away today

Today was a relative breeze for me after yesterday though I didn't know Key & Peele so that was just the leftover one in the group

Xpost Key and Peele are hilarious… look em up on YouTube

were they throwing uk readers a bone with fry and laurie or is there another US comedy duo?