# If You Like "Wordle", Try "Connections" **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [August 19, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796 "2023-08-19T13:01:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 120
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2381 "2025-12-01T04:24:17Z")
Connections Puzzle #903 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Actually got purple first. Guessed that Luffy was a pirate since it didn’t fit anywhere else. Accidentally hit submit instead of unselect all when I was sorting out the last two so lost my RR. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2382 "2025-12-01T05:08:20Z")
Felt like the Blue should have been the purple. Connections Puzzle #904 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2383 "2025-12-01T05:45:13Z")
Connections Puzzle #904 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Blue was hard for me. I knew that two were from the category but hadn’t heard of the others. If it wasn’t leftovers I might have googled it. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2384 "2025-12-01T17:07:51Z")
Connections Puzzle #904 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Purple seemed way too easy to be purple. No way I’d have gotten the reverse rainbow, though, since I only knew one of the blues (the most famous one). ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2385 "2025-12-01T17:32:49Z")
Connections Puzzle #904 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Blue was the leftovers today. Purple was easier but was purple because ”contains homophone of” categories are almost always purple. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2386 "2025-12-01T19:52:50Z")
It’s **Tuesday.** Blue was an Americanism so no surprise it was last. Puzzle #905 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2387 "2025-12-02T01:19:23Z")
Connections Puzzle #904 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 It’s late enough so I won’t spoiler, blue was the first one I saw, as one of his books is the only reading material I took to the hospital last month when I had surgery. So square in my wheelhouse. I figured it was a blue, even though it’s somewhat niche, so waited to find purple before putting that one in. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2388 "2025-12-02T04:23:02Z")
Connections **TUESDAY** Puzzle #905 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Wasn’t quite thinking on Purple even though I knew the connection, I initially chose **Bro** ad for Bro not **Bro** w ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2389 "2025-12-02T06:41:46Z")
Connections Puzzle #905 🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺ🟦🟦πŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I kept trying for the red herring. The initial mistake was just trying to get a guess out of the way too quickly when there were five possibilities. But I even resorted to googling for the red herring. I really thought I had it when I found that there is a Sisi Museum in Austria. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2390 "2025-12-02T12:54:38Z")
Went down a wrong path and never found my way back. Connections Puzzle #905 πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2391 "2025-12-02T13:36:41Z")
The red herring beat me on Tuesday, too. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2392 "2025-12-02T15:25:57Z")
Sounds like I was lucky not to see the red herring. Still don’t see it actually Connections Puzzle #905 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2393 "2025-12-02T15:29:50Z")
Connections Puzzle #905 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟩🟦πŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Can’t remember what I fumbled, but I thought I had it all solved before I hit the first submit button. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2394 "2025-12-02T15:33:58Z")
Is the use of sugar as a mild oath a regionalism? I don’t think I’ve ever heard it. (Now, of course, I’ll run into it six times in the next three days.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2395 "2025-12-02T15:36:27Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Sounds like I was lucky not to see the red herring. Still don’t see it actually It was museums. Tate, MOMA, and Frick are all famous museums, and there were a couple more that could be museums (Royal, Sisi). I thought that it was too obscure to be the red herring, and that it HAD to be an actual category. I did sort of see the purples, but thought that THOSE must have been the red herring. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2396 "2025-12-02T15:46:24Z")
Tate wasn’t a choice but Met was. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2397 "2025-12-02T15:52:01Z")
Ah, right, that. I was going by memory. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2398 "2025-12-02T17:19:03Z")
I was totally caught by the red herring this time. Maybe because I go to a lot of art museums, MET, FRICK, MOMA and BROAD stuck out immediately ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2399 "2025-12-02T17:43:01Z")
I seem to remember Marge Simpson said it once. Other than that, not for me either. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2400 "2025-12-02T19:53:52Z")
**Wednesday’s** was a pretty straightforward one for me. Puzzle #906 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=119) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=121)