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

tbh i just went in reverse order of when i solved each category and it turned out to be RR

I had no idea of the colors, as borne out by my GPYB solve order

#1098 (SAT) BPGY -- quickest for a little while, though I couldn't really grasp B. Gambled on it being P, quite unsuccessfully.

RR though no way that's purple crossed my mind .

PYBG - how the hell tea service is yellow will forever confound me

PBYG— agreed

Bacon otm, I presume Wyna is ABC so she ought to be aware that tongs are the tools of the oppressor, we drink our tea bitter (except of course when it comes to boba tea).

#1099 (SUN) PBYG -- Not toooo vexing, kinda fun. Though careful deliberation over Y vs G didn't yield a happy ending!

RR, fun one, got taken in by a red herring or two but then reversed course

What NNN said. Y and G interchangeable imo

PxBYG. Purple leapt out first so I steamed in without doing my usual thing of trying to work it all out first but got a messed-up yellow as a result.

Another PBYG

PGBY, nearly taken in by the RH but because the groups all seemed pretty clear, aiming for RR actually saved me from making a mistake.

#1100 (MON) RR -- rushed through this one somewhat but earliest hunches turned out to be fine and dandy.

PBYG, seems obvious that Y is a more challenging category than G to me, oh well

BPYG, b inadvertently also could've been reclassified as purple i.e. SEA blank.

Regular rainbow but made a meal of getting there xYxxGBY. Was working under the assumption sea ___ was a category right up to and including playing the zodiac one.

xYxxGBP, rather.

#1101 (TUE) RR -- one of those games where I didn't *entirely* grasp what P was getting at, but entering such leftovers first worked out well.

I'm on a streak of PBYG for the past few days

YPBG. Would have been RR but I started entering them in the wrong order.

I'm surprised I actually saw purple first, as "what x might mean" is generally a type I struggle with

RR

BPGY. Never heard of green goddess, since I hate salad.

This one looked insurmountable at first. Wasn't familiar with green goddess either. Took ten minutes but surprised that in the end I didn't have to make any true guesses

Wait, you hate salad?

I literally live on salad. At least one meal a day

Yeah, and I'm a vegetarian too! Most of my dislike comes from it not being fun to eat (in terms of taste AND texture -- you really have to have a good dressing), and the fact that American restaurants usually make their servings disgustingly enormous to make up for the calorie deficit. Don't get me wrong, I love leafy greens, but I prefer them cooked, too, and accompanying other macros.

#1102 (WED) PBxxGY -- can I call it a RR-with-intermission? Not sure why I was impatient to enter stuff while G/Y still looked faintly dodgy.

Wed: yet another PBYG, I even tried identifying which one I thought was G and then picked the other one

LOL. Can dig it. I'm having uncharacteristically good luck with the coin-tossers this week, at least.

BYPG

I figured P was something like what it was but I couldn’t see it until I got B and Y out of the way

For the second day in a row I messed up an RR by accidentally playing Y first.

Had several PBYGs recently but RR'd today

BPYG, order today was nonsense

#1103 (THUR) BYGB -- I *misread* one of the clues and created an almost-plausible but non-existent cluster. Things suddenly got easier once I noticed lol.

BYGP, rather.

PBYG *gnashes teeth*

BGxxYP. Had not heard of one of the Ys, and would never have gotten P

RR, P was leftovers. did agonize over Y and G for a bit but eventually just tossed a mental coin and lucked out

I was very pleased with myself for figuring out P, and then ended up PBYG because I flipped the coin the wrong way

i'm going to guess there's a massive disparity between NYT's 1.7 out of 5 rating vs. the actual solve rate.

GxBPY

#1104 (FRI) GxYPB -- Casually solved it wholly at the NYT for once. I did probe a red herring early on, but I'm guessing difficulty estimates are not particularly high today.

RR, with B as leftovers. one of those where i quite literally felt like i was grasping at straws and then they happened to be the right straws lol

RR. Sometimes when I find the wordplay category, I'll enter it before locking down the others, knowing it is P. Didn't do that today luckily, as B was also a wordplay category!

GPBY - their grading feels off. it was easy for me only because one of my kids is taking piano lessons but the yellow/umami would on any other day would be a green or blue

connections related content if you feel inclined to get mad at the game

https://defector.com/i-can-no-longer-accept-being-condescended-to-by-the-little-game-on-my-phone

RR but more and more green and yellow are seeming like a total crapshoot

#1105 (SAT) PBYG -- felt pretty straightforward. Standard lamentation over Y vs G, however lol.