# 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:** 184
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3661 "2026-04-25T12:30:48Z")
Connections Puzzle #1049 🟩🟩πŸŸͺ🟩 🟩πŸŸͺ🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ > [@psychobunny](#): > > They had as much trouble describing green as I did. Yeah. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3662 "2026-04-25T12:58:45Z")
I fell for the same red herring yesterday. And for today, my description of green was β€œIt’s hard to find something in them”. Which is still clunky, but I think better than what they had. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3663 "2026-04-25T15:07:47Z")
Connections Puzzle #1049 🟦πŸŸͺ🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Took longer than usual. Green was pretty clunky. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3664 "2026-04-25T22:10:31Z")
Connections Puzzle #1049 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Reverse rainbow. I thought green was fair and was the second clue I got: Lost in the CROWD A needle in a HAYSTACK A drop in the OCEAN One in a MILLION ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3665 "2026-04-25T22:17:40Z")
I fell for **Sunday’s** red herring. Bah! Puzzle #1050 🟦πŸŸͺ🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3666 "2026-04-26T04:12:02Z")
Did not figure out purple but it was leftovers. Connections Puzzle #1050 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3667 "2026-04-26T11:03:18Z")
Connections Puzzle #1050 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Did not get purple. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2026, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3668 "2026-04-26T14:52:45Z")
Connections Puzzle #1050 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Confident leftovers for purple and a second consecutive reverse rainbow. Blue took me back to first grade. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3669 "2026-04-26T15:05:24Z")
Scary purple leftovers for me and a lack of confidence in the fourth blue led to the following floundering for me. Connections Puzzle #1050 πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3670 "2026-04-26T16:39:04Z")
I was sure blue was a red herring so didn’t get it till the end. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3671 "2026-04-26T21:07:11Z")
**Monday!** More American sports nonsense. Puzzle #1051 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3672 "2026-04-27T04:26:32Z")
Connections Puzzle #1051 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well after getting purple first I tried for the reverse rainbow but failed. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3673 "2026-04-27T04:28:25Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > **Monday!** More American sports nonsense. Not only that, but… …you have to solve that clue. Ordinarily, when you get to the last two categories you can solve either one, and then finish the puzzle with the four leftovers. With today’s puzzle, I had five movie title and three leftovers. The only way to solve it without guessing was to figure out the category for the leftovers, and which movie fit the pattern. I kind of enjoy the puzzles with good red herrings, but I really dislike the ones where there’s a category with five possible answers. You can’t just solve that category and take those four clues out of the puzzle. You have to solve the others first; that annoys me. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3674 "2026-04-27T12:58:51Z")
For the people I know who don’t play Connections this is often their issue with it: they feel you aren’t really solving something; you are just getting into the head of the person who made it. I think some of them are more like that than others. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3675 "2026-04-27T13:35:27Z")
Connections Puzzle #1051 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 No real sense of order past purple. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3676 "2026-04-27T14:46:33Z")
Yes, today i inadvertantly cheated. Connections Puzzle #1051 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I got to my third guess, and thought, β€œholy shit, another of those is a movie?” I did not know that β€œRoman Holiday” was a move. So i started googling the other 4 words, to see which one was a movie. I got as far as β€œrotary clipper”, and the search preview of the results for that included solutions to today’s connection puzzle. I would never have gotten purple. I’m annoyed. This doesn’t feel like a fair puzzle. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3677 "2026-04-27T14:49:24Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Not only that, but… > > …you have to solve that clue. Ordinarily, when you get to the last two categories you can solve either one, and then finish the puzzle with the four leftovers. > > With today’s puzzle, I had five movie title and three leftovers. The only way to solve it without guessing was to figure out the category for the leftovers, and which movie fit the pattern. > > I kind of enjoy the puzzles with good red herrings, but I really dislike the ones where there’s a category with five possible answers. You can’t just solve that category and take those four clues out of the puzzle. You have to solve the others first; that annoys me. I was in the same pickle and ultimately failed today’s puzzle. Today’s purple could have been more specific: Ending in NBA players who are sitting on their buttocks at home while the playoffs are going on ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3678 "2026-04-27T17:10:54Z")
Yeah, I was sure that one of the categories was something like Academy Award winning movies, so kept including Raging Bull with the movies. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3679 "2026-04-27T19:34:54Z")
Connections Puzzle #1051 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 I was on the right general track for purple, as in how it was constructed, but took me a bit to see it. I liked it. Then I watched an episode of Only Connect to remind myself of how dumb I am. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/3680 "2026-04-27T20:51:16Z")
**Tuesday** , and I failed this one. They weren’t tricky answers, but I just couldn’t see them. Puzzle #1052 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦πŸŸͺ🟦 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦🟦 🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦 πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ🟦 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=183) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=185)