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

anybody try sports connections? they seem pretty boring so far.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/connections-sports-edition

I tried it once, failed miserably, and went “don’t need another puzzle in my life”

However I did do today’s WordAll in 36 seconds so maybe I’ll give it another chance

36 seconds was my time too!

47 but I was demonstrating it to someone so not doing my best!

mentally lobbing tomatoes at today’s purple

Not able to do today's, presumably because the preceding ad won't load :(

PBGY - think that may be my first RR? i generally don't shoot for that but after quickly knocking out purple and blue i went for it.

pretty easy today

This one was pretty easy but also a bit uninspired. "Modal verbs" as a category is surely far too basic.

Agree even though it was the first one I got.

GYPB, blue is dumb today, but I did like purple.

Saturday: I was not aware of these Famous Puppets

i think that's Sunday's?

Yeah, not aware of Triumph or Lamb Chop but thankfully I saw the dog breeds so a pleasing RR

me neither- luckily I was left with that group

I was also pleased to get purple first, also had not heard of Lamb Chop, though I remember seeing clips of Triumph from American friends.

BGPY, couldn't figure out the yellow category even after solving the other three (though I do get it now)

bgyp here

Bgpy — the purple stood out because of this X Files meme I loved with a smiling dog that says I Want to Retrieve

Lamb Chop is kinda ancient history, but if you’re of a certain age you remember Shari Lewis guesting on many 1960s/70s variety programs. I don’t recall the 90s PBS show at all.

BGPY - i knew immediately that purple had to be puppet related but had never heard of Punch before. had to wait until getting blue and green done to guess

re: Punch finally something our British friends have an advantage over Americans.

This is the song that doesn’t end / Yes it goes on and on my friend / Some people started singing it not knowing what it was / And they’ll continue singing it forever just because / This is the song that doesn’t end / Yes it goes on and on my friend / Some people started singing it not knowing what it was / And they’ll continue singing it forever just because / This is the song that doesn’t end…

iykyk

GPYB - never would have guessed the blue category

i think that's Sunday's?

― adam t (dat), Sunday, 16 February 2025 02:58 (twenty hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

oops sorry I have lost my grip on time - hope I didn't spoil for anyone

I thought it was going to be WW2 beaches for a while today. Got there in the end. YBGP.

I got blue on a total shot in the dark on my last available guess. Didn't know double or turkey as bowling terms.

turkey i knew as a bowling term but double i didn’t, so got stuck there for a bit. rest was pretty easy. GBYP.

purple today (tuesday) feels like trolling imo

Including exactly four adjectives with body parts was totally trolling. But I solved it after that wrong guess

Seemed too easy to me. Got RR in almost no time.

one for the folks who think the puzzle is too US-centric. Ofc the next 20 puzzles will have obscure US sports, TV, geography and food categories

Spelling Bee had a cutely meta pangram today.

Thought today's was gonna be some Connections After Dark for a second.

today's blue felt a bit like they were running out of novel categories

for thursday's i spent too long trying to remember the 4th rihanna single, which i assume was intentional??

I found this really hard but just managed to get out without mistakes, GYPB.

well I for one associate "alarm" with early morning

PBYG with no mistakes but I'm surprised it rated 1/5 for difficulty. I guess a lot of people have seen Squid Game, which I haven't, so that made it tricker

RR - squid game surfaced just as i clicked submit, my main thought was just shapes, and they didn't fit into the other categories which were pretty clear and only had one red herring

dumbass me got purple and yellow right away, figured out what the category for blue was, and still managed to lose

PBYG again for Friday's. Seemed insanely easy even if purple was leftovers but rated 4/5. I guess not everyone has used Photoshop

Indeed it defeated me, that and me being right-handed I guess. I thought I had four things that you could throw/swing, I looked for cowboy/camping stuff, and with magic wand I was convinced there was a movie reference and the only one I could think of was HP so I was like: did he have a can opener ?

spotted blue right away, got purple through elimination - didn't get RR though as i picked blue first even though i suspected the other lot was purple.

got it quickly as familiar with photoshop and that immediately stood out. Thought this a good one, nice mix of red herrings and clever connections, nothing too arbitrary, though scissors would have been a more obvious left-handed item.

Yes blue does not seem like general cultural knowledge but sure made it easy if you do know.

Could not get blue at all as I didn't have the knowledge, but did eventually manage to work out purple, though I was surprised to find I'd got it right as it felt very tenuous.

Yeah purple felt very random today. There were four other objects there that just as easily fitted that loose connection

Should not getting purple count as a fail y/n? I didn't get it today, but still consider it a completed puzzle. Eh.