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

Got 2, then had to leave it and come back, because the 8 remaining words all looked like newspaper sections

thought there were 4 of those, that were a red herring

Longest struggle in ages

Connections
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Only saw yellow for the longest time and actually suspected purple early on but couldn’t see more than two. Nearly broke 293 day streak. Blue is out of my wheelhouse but eventually saw it.

BGxPY. Had to look up afterwards what a pop fly was

^ Yeah, same.

#1134 (SUN) PGYB -- another pretty quick one (I keep typing the same thing -- Monday is due to be too much for my tiny brain innit) though rainbow-related hunches were off the mark.

PYGB. Luckily there was no fourth poker hand for the red herring .

RR, glad that the poker clue was a RH because i know nothing about poker or gambling and inevitably fuck puzzles up when they include that stuff

PYGB here too. Every category was easily gettable with purple being obvious and the other three whatever.

GYBP. P was not obvious to me at all

#1135 (MON) PBYG -- can't say it was particularly quick today, but all became clear eventually.

RH... then YBPG

RR

PBYG, can't remember my last RR anymore

Oh they keep track of that for you... July 7!

fell for the RH but that just made spotting the RR easier

GxPBY. Foolishly put swine with the alcoholic beverages even though the wine was at the end .

#1136 (TUES) PGBY -- another pretty quick one. (Indeed, I did it before getting out of bed, several hours ago, atypically.)

PYGB. Quickest in a while. Probably should have thought harder about colours.

RR, easiest purple ever prompted me to try for it though the other colours felt like a bit of a gamble.

RR, truly the easiest in weeks imho, did it in less the 3 minutes

Very easy, colors once again tricky

PGYB, yes easy, yes stupid colours

feel like every week there's a "halter"

PYGB - kinda felt like everything after P was up for grabs.

#1137 (WED) PGBY -- another pretty straightforward one. But the same imperfect (non-)rainbow as yesterday.

YGBP. spotted the RH immediately which helped sort the groups

PBYG, RR foiled by a Y/G toss-up.

As is often the case, the stats give Wyna support though – 61% got yellow first compared with 15% for green .

RR, fun RH too

GYPB - incredibly dumb one

Rolled my eyes at the actual category for "white stripes"

#1138 (THU) RR -- yet another fairly straightforward one IMHO. Rainbow even fell into place again after at least a week.

This feels like quite a long stretch now without regional brand names nor cocktails, etc.

(Wednesday) BPGY. Actually tried to go for a RR this time but failed.

there's a red herring in there that i totally fell for, but otherwise GYPB.
words starting with jan, feb, mar, apr

Fell for it too, and what a weird red herring

Connections
Puzzle #1138
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straight for the red herring. scrappy puzzle, glad i beat it

PYBG. Didn't see the red herring

First time I remember seeing a wordplay rh. It really threw me off as I usually look for purple first

RR, B was leftovers

Fell for that red herring, and was amused that the Connectionsbot couldn't explain the connection. "SIX-LETTER?"

Connections
Puzzle #1138
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if I'd seen the herring I would definitely have fallen for it

Gee. Me too, I suspect.

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#1139 (FRI) GYBP -- slowest completion in a little while. I couldn't untangle B/P for a surprisingly long time in retrospect.

PYBG. Didn't see the red herring

same

YGBP, P was leftovers altho i almost kind of intuited it, but the homophones don't land with my pronunciation

PGBY pretty quick though purple leftovers.

Connections
Puzzle #1139
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i dont think I'll ever get into the mindset of worrying about the colour order, im too wary of US context to watch for anything else rly

RR, P was leftovers

So convinced I had RR, but PBYG

GxxYBP. This one had me pretty stumped.