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

SATURDAY: Interesting. No recollection whatsoever of colour-related stuff, but it felt straightforward. Respeck in advance for any RR's!

Fun and fairly.straightforward but definitely felt kind of random with the colours other than maybe yellow

YGPB. Was a bit intimidated and couldn't see purple so didn't go for an RR but in retrospect that is the colour order I'd probably have picked so slightly kicking myself I didn't play my leftovers first.

Yeah although I'm wondering if there's also a bit of confirmation bias. Like if Y & G and B & P were the other way around today I'd have probably still thought that seems about right

I guess I'm just going by the order I saw them (which I don't always do).

xGYxBP

bag of shite

^^ yep, two mistakes

Two mistakes trying to make G happen, then YBGP

YGP and I’ve been staring at the remaining 4 going “gah I should know this…”

YxBPG

nice to finally see this site mentioned in a puzzle

YPGB - like WmC, 2 mistakes trying to get G first

finished this with three mistakes then promptly threw my phone out the window

lol symsymsym

SUNDAY: a bit of a mess until I belatedly saw what P was getting and narrowed the field for the remainder. At least Pips required mere seconds per level today!

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"getting AT"

GYPB - down to my last guess. just couldn't figure out the BP categories

xYGPB, no idea what makes that P

RR, straightforward

Straightforward though B was leftovers, I should say

RR, agree with Alba re: straightforwardness

xYGBP, fell for the obvious red herring then locked in

YGPB - struggled a bit then sorted it out

Easy RR today

RR in my head but then I mashed the wrong buttons

YPGB. didn’t notice the red herring til after i solved it

Connections
Puzzle #973
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Same as Nag! Nag! Nag!

High five! :)

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#974 (MONDAY): RR today. Fairly straightforward. Though several hours on I certainly can't articulate why it's *that* B/G/Y order!

BYPG - quick, P was leftovers

PGBY. It wasn’t obvious which was the blue and which was the green to me

BGPY

I couldn’t tell what the theme for P was until I was clicking on the submit button, so I was hesitant to submit it.

YBGP - fell for the red herring then sorted it out

#975 (TUESDAY): PGBY. Another fairly straightforward one, though I thought G was going to be B, as I solved it as further 'word play', but in the end it's not really is it!

BGPY - hail mary speedrun

PGBY did while having a piss

^a piss take perhaps?

GPYB old man piss speed

I hate posting here this far ahead of the western hemisphere BUT

#976 (WEDNESDAY): PYGB -- not too taxing, except perhaps rainbow-wise?!

where are you btw?

Lost my streak today.

Saw yellow then was stupidly sure of bag being the fourth green rather than return so in pursuit of a RR I was convinced I just had to get a fourth roller_____ from what remained. Argh. Those cases aren't really called roller bags in the UK but I still should have played my greens to be sure of them. D'oh

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sweating on that one P i'd never heard of

GYBP

found it very straightforward! altho I get thrown by ones you guys find a doddle.

gybp. roller bag? ROLLER BAG?

- I know right! That 4th P was very much a "never heard of it but can at least visualise such a thing" sort of lucky guess here!
- kinder: I'm in GMT+11 (eastern Aust DST)

YPGB— utterly surprised that this was rated 5/5

One mistake, was convinced roller cake was a thing

GYPB - probably an easy on since i had the general categories figured out early, however there was one item in both yellow and purple i'd never associated with in their categories that completely derailed ite

this might be considered cheating but when I know I have 3 of a category but can't find the 4th I usually use Google to see if something is a thing or not...so often Connections includes stuff I've just never heard of. what's funny is a lot of other people clearly do the same thing so I'm now seeing half the Connections words appear in the autocomplete!

GYPB - tried a hockey theme first then sorted it out. Took a moment to figure out the P category, B was leftovers mainly because didn't see puck as fitting

YGPB

I tried to do this in the morning and was completely baffled by what P and B could be (I was confident in Y and G)

I waited until after lunch, submitted the two categories I was sure of, then P practically jumped out at me

xxp that's definitely cheating!