# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/321 "2024-11-25T14:40:24Z")
Okay. Sorry but I do subscribe and forget that not everyone does. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/322 "2024-11-25T15:35:25Z")
I have to take issue with the purple category for 11/24/2024. Red “licorice” is no more _licorice_ than spaghetti squash is spaghetti. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/323 "2024-11-25T15:44:22Z")
And I take issue with today’s because really? That’s the category? ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/324 "2024-11-25T15:44:52Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I have to take issue with the purple category for 11/24/2024. I believe that’s actually 11/23. Not sure what you’re then supposed to call the stuff that’s labelled and marketed as red licorice. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/325 "2024-11-25T15:45:19Z")
“Sweetened plastic” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/326 "2024-11-25T15:48:34Z")
I would not have recognized today’s purple category; ASSOCIATED PRINCIPLES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/327 "2024-11-25T16:34:31Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > I have to take issue with the purple category for 11/24/2024. > > Not sure what you’re then supposed to call the stuff that’s labelled and marketed as red licorice. You’re not SUPPOSED label and market it as “red licorice” in the first place. I might even like to eat the stuff, if it didn’t have a fraudulent cognomen, but until that day arrives, it’s not my problem. Actually, when my MegaMillions ticket hits this week, I think I’ll open a candy factory that makes actual licorice-flavored candy that’s colored red.\* I’ll patent, tradename, and trademark it as RED LICORICE and vigorously defend the name (the way that Bayer didn’t with “Aspirin”). \*(unless there’s a reason that’s technologically infeasible) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/328 "2024-11-25T16:59:07Z")
I got blue and yellow right away. Green took a bit. Purple was tough even though I knew that Yang is the masculine part of Yin Yang ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/329 "2024-11-25T19:05:47Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You’re not SUPPOSED label and market it as “red licorice” in the first place I didn’t. But somebody did, and everybody calls it red licorice, even if there really isn’t such a thing. Including whoever creates the Connections puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/330 "2024-11-25T19:07:24Z")
Please drop the damned hijack about red licorice. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/331 "2024-11-25T22:56:16Z")
Sunday’s puzzle I got within two minutes, in the order purple, green, yellow, blue, no errors. Today’s was a bit tricker for me, and took all my guesses to get. Took three before I got my first one, the blue category. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/332 "2024-11-25T22:59:49Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I got my first one, the blue category. Yep, that’s the one I got first as well, after one miss. Followed by Yellow and Green. I would never in a million zillion years have gotten the Purple category. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/333 "2024-11-25T23:07:03Z")
I saw three of the four, but couldn’t figure out the fourth. expansive ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/334 "2024-11-26T08:48:04Z")
ELOISE is featured in ELOISE. Good to know. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/335 "2024-11-26T09:07:42Z")
Never heard of it. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/336 "2024-11-26T11:38:35Z")
Easy game today except I had no clue about the purple category or what it is. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2024, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/337 "2024-11-26T11:56:44Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Easy game today except I had no clue about the purple category or what it is Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/338 "2024-11-26T14:04:24Z")
Me neither ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/339 "2024-11-26T14:19:40Z")
I never read the source material but heard of it. That was enough for a good guess. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/340 "2024-11-26T14:53:35Z")
Yeah I was vaguely aware of it but it was still the last one I got. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=18)