No way that's purple: the NYT Connections thread

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

I liked that the word choices today started with Champagne Super and Nova. Wonder if the setter is an Oasis fan?

Reunion was in there too

Probably a good way to kick things off for a puzzle-maker, take current headlines and search for double meanings.

i got the PBS one first, then green yellow purp

imo today's purple was the ideal version. some common words that could fit with other categories in the puzzle but also have non-obvious second meaning

I almost submitted the Oasis row as a guess because it made me laugh

Haha yeah thats what I was referring to further up. When I see something like that I have to immediately hit shuffle, otherwise it throws me off.

Nothing distinguishing the colours at all today, purple as straightforward as the rest

I found today very tricky and didn't see purple at all but I seem to be in a minority

PGBY very straightforward despite never having heard of grape milk must.

PGYB, it was easy but i couldn't intuit the gradations for GYB, also P was leftovers

Yeah p easy but appreciate the rare double red herring (starting with article of clothing/tv acronyms, although the former was too obv a misdirect & the latter only had 3 afaict)

well that passed me by but now I see

PGBY very straightforward despite [Hidden text. Click to view].

Not sure how the milk crept in there.

This time there's a Britishism I'm not familiar with (bubble-and-squeak), a reverse of the usual problem for our non-US ilxors. But it was the only one I didn't know so pretty easy puzzle

i feel like bubble and squeak might be one of those things that's a "lol Britishes" signifier in the US because of the funny name out of all proportion to the extent that anybody in the UK ever eats it or thinks about it nowadays

Heh I wondered if that might be the case but I had never heard of it either way

It's an old-fashioned thing that's gone out as cabbage becomes less popular as a cooked vegetable and there are fewer people having leftovers from a Sunday roast, but still popular enough that convenience versions of it are available in freezer cabinets .

That's quite interesting. I didn't think twice about it -- it'd familiar to most in this godforsaken former British colonial outpost, I think. But yeah, certainly wouldn't want to assume any given person could prepare it off the top of their head, etc.

PYBG— other than P, colors seemed totally off today, what else is new

RR even though B is obviously foreign to me, though I'm sad Wyna didn't include my favorite, spotted dick. P was unusually easy and had me second-guessing whether it was real or not.

I think you'd be disappointed if there was potato in your spotted dick, Leee.

Hah fair enough.

#1088 (SUN) BYGB = the order in which I became content with them. B and Y were mostly straightforward but G drifted into stranger territory than anticipated, upon moving items out, and P was barely familiar at all but vaguely graspable.

SUN lol? WED, rather.

Wednesday PGYB - I enjoyed how this one came into focus as I stared at it

YBPG. G was silly

RR, found this one simple after multiple days of not being able to get the colors right or falling for red herrings

RR

g is stupid

YxBGP. Lost one life guessing the fourth pastry thing (don't know fatayer), didn't see purple and yes green was a bit stupid.

#1089 (THURS) PYBG -- P was a gamble on the leftovers and I still have to figure out what 2/4 of them mean! Certainly should have anticipated that B was indeed classed as B.

got the "red herring" first but that actually helped differentiate the groups, especially as I had to guess on vinegar .
YGBP

YxxGBP, P was leftovers, both of my wrong guesses for the 4th G were perfectly legit imo

Oh yeah, G was... interesting. The bit kinder mentions was totally a "I suppose it's plausible?!?" situation, at best, for my feeble brain.

salt and pepper both used in a similar way imo

BYxGP— somehow thing i have never heard the term ghost kitchen , which made P next to impossible. similar feeling as NV to G.

YGxBP

Dammit, Pepa

YxxxBGP. Phew. Tried salt and pepper as the fourth green before finally going for vinegar even though I had to rely on the leftovers being purple.

#1090 (FRI) PBGY -- I was slow today. Saw only a bunch of tiny groupings for some time.

Er, no, that's PGBY. I should just paste the squares if my fingers can't reliably summarise it, dammit.

PBxYG

BYPG

RR

I saw 3/4 right away, which helped

RR, saw P and B right away then just had to look for a few seconds to catch the other two

RR - likewise

#1091 (SAT) BYGP -- Failure to see P sometimes leads me to doubts about the entire universe. Finally just went and entered stuff at the NYT and was basically fine and dandy.

BxYPG

x was the red herring, I knew i shouldn't but I couldn't help myself

YBxPG, had to leave it and come back

I stared at this for a while going WTF and eventually put it down. When I came back, I realized I had found a cross-category red herring and torturously ground out a BPGY

xBxPYG, hardest for me in a while