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

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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

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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

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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

Though the purple is highly regional, even to the US. I think it's pretty easy have moved around the USA a good bit without encountering Kroger

Also it's duck tape not duct tape

ilx "prescriptivism is bullshit"
also ilx: "can't believe the heinously wrong answers in these puzzles"

(gaffer and duct tape are both very common usages!)

Alba - the first major argument I had with my other half was on that matter. One is a brand name and he hadn't heard of the generic term.

I actually thought of the IDEA one but not living in the US had no IDEA about the others

I also objected to the magic category because Ive never said "whats the magic word" when someone didnt say thanks, and what else would it be instead?

Yes this was dumb, magic words are for getting a result, and "thank you" comes after you've already gotten what you wanted.

kinder - I was really just doing a callback to an ILX argument of yore, not quite on a level with "another think coming"/"another thing coming" but less rancourous. I think it started as Duck tape (a brand, as you say) then people misheard it as the plausible duct tape, which then took over

not to be a weirdo but Kroger is the largest grocery chain by revenue in the US, and the fifth largest general retailer— even if you haven’t encountered a Kroger grocery store, you have encountered a grocery store that is actually owned by Kroger

not to be a weirdo but [Hidden text. Tap to view]

KRONER KEEDIS STAPH GROWL

I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMOWL

Kate Bush would tell you the tape is Gaffa obviously.

xxxp I have terrible news, you're not being a weirdo, you're being a dumb american :)

Table was replying to a comment that it was hard even for Americans, Andrew

Enjoyed #508 - the red herring was glowing quite red though. First RR in a few days

Yeah it was clear right away that Halloween was to be soundly ignored :D

That could have been clearer but fair enough, Alba - apologies to table.

The hide tag does make it harder to follow these things sometimes

FPed, what a completely unnecessary insult.

#509, Nov 1 - I had never heard of Cheez Doodles. I don't think they exist in Canada.

I got purple first today! Don't think Ive managed that often.

me too!

Never would have guessed blue today. Good thing it was the leftover category

Blue was last for me too, and I haven't heard of one of its items before. Really difficult puzzle overall, too.

FPed, what a completely unnecessary insult.

Yeah, that's fair. I want to be clear that I'm not saying that something being a joke excuses anything, but the humour (inside my head) was because you are a weirdo (and proudly so, and rightly so) and you're definitely not a dumb American.

appreciated, thanks.

Xd out today

I got two mistakes even after getting all the categories

Yeah I'm not that familiar with either of the last two categories - I guessed blue but hadn't heard of two of them and thought it was CRUNCH / PLANK / DROP / ??? no idea about purple, crashed out.

despite being very familiar with the rest of the category, I didn't know what boat was

Yup, no idea of half the terminology for the two hard ones. Fail

Boat is the name of a yoga pose, it's also called a V sit or V hold.

My first guess was pieces of wood used in construction but after that was wrong I got purple easily

I had no clue about the blue and purple categories, asked my partner for help, and we ruined the streak anyway.

boat = fail for me today

I wasted one turn trying to guess the exercises then spotted the earrings category, where I was sure of two, pretty sure of one more and the chandelier just seemed like the other one that could fit

45 day streak ruined. i got blue first because i am a jock but purple and yellow had so many that could have gone either way, i ran out of guesses. really pissed off about it frankly

Tbf we all have much more important things to be really pissed off about that not knowing enough about yesterday’s purples and blues

okay CIA enjoyer El Tomboto

“This is bullshit because I didn’t get it” is dweeb stuff and so is caring about your streak tbf. I’ve never lost or had 4 wrong guesses & doubt I ever will unless this takes a major swerve into being a difficult puzzle but if it happens I won’t throw a fit, wgaf

It's certainly evident from your posts that you don't care about it.

I honestly think the inclusion of stats on this app is p baleful if canny

“This is bullshit because I didn’t get it” is dweeb stuff and so is caring about your streak tbf. I’ve never lost or had 4 wrong guesses & doubt I ever will unless this takes a major swerve into being a difficult puzzle but if it happens I won’t throw a fit, wgaf

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you’re a piece of shit! <3

I guess this is what I get for thinking “a lot of stress going around, gonna relax on the Connections thread for a bit”

Tensions are high!

Suggesting this is a deranged thing to throw a fit about is also a deranged thing to throw a fit about

I don’t think anyone is really throwing a fit?

I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.

aren’t you supposed to be ending your streak anyway?

It's official, @NYTGuildTech is on ULP strike! No Games or Cooking until the strike ends! Break your streak! https://t.co/Q9f0n6kZTM

— Annie Shields (@anastasiakeeley) November 4, 2024

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