# 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:** 129
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2561 "2025-12-21T20:11:12Z")
Connections Sunday Puzzle #924 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I didn’t get purple, either. I got green immediately, and yellow with a little thought. Then the four blues were next to each other, and the connection seemed obvious, and then… I clicked the purples to learn the answer. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2562 "2025-12-22T05:44:11Z")
Connections Puzzle #925 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Easy reverse rainbow. ---
**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 22, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2563 "2025-12-22T06:44:23Z")
Yeah, that’s probably the most confident I’ve been of which color is which since I’ve started playing. Connections Puzzle #925 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 ---
**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 22, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2564 "2025-12-22T07:06:58Z")
Connections **MONDAY** Puzzle #925 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 No problems ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2565 "2025-12-22T13:01:59Z")
Connections Puzzle #925 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Once again, i didn’t get purple. Basically, I’m not very good at this game. 😟 ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2566 "2025-12-22T14:33:28Z")
Connections Puzzle #925 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Solved without resorting to leftovers. Got purple first thanks to CYA. Messed up green vs. yellow yet again, seemed equally easy. ---
**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 22, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2567 "2025-12-22T19:47:41Z")
It’s **Tuesday**. This went okay, but for me Purple was all my own kryptonite of this game, Americanisms and food, which I only figured out from pop culture. Puzzle #926 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2568 "2025-12-23T05:44:04Z")
Connections Puzzle #926 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Pretty straightforward. As soon as I eliminated a set I saw the next one. ---
**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 23, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2569 "2025-12-23T07:43:40Z")
Connections Puzzle #926 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2570 "2025-12-23T12:39:16Z")
Connections Puzzle #926 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I got purple today! Although not until i was down to those four words. Still… I don’t, usually. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2571 "2025-12-23T14:07:46Z")
Connections Puzzle #926 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Maybe I could have pulled off the reverse rainbow if I’d tried. Or maybe yellow needed to be out of my way before I saw purple. Either way, pretty quick solve today. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2572 "2025-12-23T14:25:51Z")
I got a clean rainbow on Tuesday, but I was completely off about what Purple was. I figured it was something about movies, like maybe released in some particular year or something, but I wasn’t pop-culture-savvy enough to say what the binding trait was. In retrospect, the real category was more obvious. ---
**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 23, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2573 "2025-12-23T21:55:50Z")
It’s **Christmas Eve!** And this one was tricky in places. I saw the red herring but managed to sidestep it. However the Yellow category is completely weird, I have never heard of most of them used that way, I assumed they were the contents and accoutrements of a burger. Puzzle #927 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2574 "2025-12-24T01:01:26Z")
Ditto but I would blur out the last sentence as if could give the group away if people haven’t done the puzzle yet ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2575 "2025-12-24T05:53:28Z")
Connections Puzzle #927 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 All pretty straightforward but I didn’t think yellow was the easiest. What was the red herring? ---
**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 24, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2576 "2025-12-24T07:19:47Z")
Connections Puzzle #927 **WEDNESDAY** πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 All good. Nice 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 24, 2025, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2577 "2025-12-24T07:26:10Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > What was the red herring? MUNCH, BACON, POLLOCK, WHISTLER are all artists. ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2578 "2025-12-24T13:24:23Z")
Connections Puzzle #927 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Got purple once I sorted the red herring. Yellow was leftovers so I assumed was blue, so that messed up my RR. ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2579 "2025-12-24T13:43:34Z")
Yeah, I did figure out yellow eventually, but I’ve never heard of cheese used that way, and only vaguely paper. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2580 "2025-12-24T14:29:39Z")
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