# 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:** 135
**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:** [January 2, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2681 "2026-01-02T15:09:42Z")
Connections Puzzle #936 🟨🟩🟨🟦 🟩🟨🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Same as Chronos. That saved me from the red getting lane i had been going down. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2682 "2026-01-02T18:17:04Z")
Connections Puzzle #936 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Green leapt right out at me, so I got it out of the way. Then I was _pretty_ sure I had blue and green, but they were both kind of vague and boring categories. So I highlighted the remaining four to see if I could find that connection first. EEK made me think it was a ”minus a letter” gimmick, and Bob’s your uncle. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2683 "2026-01-02T20:39:45Z")
It’s **Saturday** , and I am ashamed to say this is the first time I have cheated to confirm a guess. Sometimes this game gets so frustrating it drives you to extremes. Puzzle #937 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2684 "2026-01-03T05:38:16Z")
Connections Puzzle #937 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Didn’t get blue but no mistakes otherwise. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2026, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2685 "2026-01-03T07:25:41Z")
Connections **SATURDAY** Puzzle #937 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Quite surprised what I thought might be a red herring - wasn’t at all. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2686 "2026-01-03T14:18:43Z")
I think I found the red herring, though I didn’t fall for it: blanket, umbrella, general, overall But it didn’t matter, because, first, I had none of the relevant knowledge needed for blue, and second, lacking that knowledge, I assumed that SOS must be one of the purples, and so there was no chance I’d have figured out what purple was, either. Crash and burn. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2687 "2026-01-03T14:46:40Z")
Connections Puzzle #937 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I debated between starting with the actual yellows or the red herring suggested by @Chronos and then got lucky. I legitimately saw the greens. I would never have gotten purple, and like @Chronos , don’t have the domain knowledge to get blue. My husband and i tried it for a while, and made a bad guess that we knew was two and two. And then gave up. But instead of guessing completely randomly until the game showed me the answers, i decided to use what i knew about how many of each group of words could go together, and assumed the red herring would have one from each color. And was surprised that worked, and i got purple. I read the blues to my husband before clicking them, and we still had no idea. I suspect I’d recognize the songs if i heard them, but don’t know the names of them. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2688 "2026-01-03T15:36:37Z")
Connections Puzzle #937 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Not a good day. Jumped at green too soon so there goes RR. Then went for wet WORK instead of wet BAR to complete the screwup. Blue was leftovers. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2689 "2026-01-03T20:11:57Z")
Connections Puzzle #937 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 I was so absolutely certain that yellow was a red herring that I resisted it to the very end, even though I had no idea what blue was. The error was that I included WET WORK with purple (instead of BLANKET). Shoulda figured that was a little too… much for NYT. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2690 "2026-01-03T21:09:34Z")
Blue was the category I had to cheat with, I had picked them and thought I knew the category they might have been in, but it was just guessing, so I Googled to double-check. I’ve never done that before, but I felt a need. I was right, though, so I should’ve trusted my instincts. Anyway, here’s **Sunday’s** puzzle, and it was a tough one. I was never going to get Blue as it’s another sporty Americanism. Puzzle #938 🟦🟩🟩🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2691 "2026-01-04T06:58:41Z")
Connections Puzzle #938 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩πŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Again,went too fast and didn’t stop to think but did get it eventually. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2026, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2692 "2026-01-04T07:33:13Z")
Connections SUNDAY Puzzle #938 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**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:** [January 4, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2693 "2026-01-04T15:49:43Z")
Connections Puzzle #938 πŸŸͺ🟩πŸŸͺ🟩 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩πŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Had a lot of trouble with this one. Fell for a red herring, played leftovers for purple on first guess and crashed. Compounded it by playing the red herring next. Yuck. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2694 "2026-01-04T16:01:45Z")
Connections Puzzle #938 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Never heard β€œcan” used that way. Is that where β€œthe can can” comes from? ---
**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:** [January 4, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2695 "2026-01-04T19:55:39Z")
**Monday** again. But I’m still on break, so it’s just another day. This was not easy, but I managed to do it clean, in rainbow order. Puzzle #939 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2696 "2026-01-05T06:13:53Z")
Connections Puzzle #939 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Couldn’t resist doing blue first. Did eventually get them all. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2026, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2697 "2026-01-05T06:24:24Z")
Connections MONDAY Puzzle #939 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [January 5, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2698 "2026-01-05T07:16:02Z")
Well, with two categories down, 8 items left, and being tired of looking at it, I used process of elimination to get the last two categories in the nick of time. Connections Puzzle #939 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ 🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**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:** [January 5, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2699 "2026-01-05T20:37:09Z")
I object! Mannerism is not an art style. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/2700 "2026-01-05T20:39:52Z")
It [isn’t](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=134) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=136)