# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/21 "2023-09-07T04:40:11Z")
The colors are coded “straightforward to tricky,” according to the How to Play Connections info. Yellow-\>Green-\>Blue-\>Purple. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/22 "2023-09-07T08:03:39Z")
Interesting, I did not see that in the instructions. Thanks. I’m not sure what the point of that is, since you only see the color after you’ve solved a group. Someone upthread said that there was a puzzle made up only of two-letter words; does anyone have a copy of that, or know what day it was? I do remember an episode of _Only Connect_ where the connecting walls (both puzzles) consisted only of numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/23 "2023-09-07T11:07:37Z")
Today’s (9/7) was kind of dumb. I thought they were being super clever by using something obvious as something else so I sat staring at it for a long time but it was just the thing that was obvious. To be more specific, I was like, oh that’s cute they used four movie titles but in different ways. It wasn’t different ways; it was literally just the four movie titles. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/24 "2023-09-07T12:37:32Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Today’s (9/7) was kind of dumb. Glad I wasn’t the only person to have this opinion! ---
**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:** [September 7, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/25 "2023-09-07T12:42:30Z")
Agreed. Disappointing. They’re generally getting better overall, but the movie title thing was just stupid. I miss the math quiz the NYT puzzle page used to have. I rather liked that. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/26 "2023-09-07T14:30:29Z")
Agreed. One trick pony today. ---
**Author:** ![mattgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mattgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattgg)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/27 "2023-09-07T14:33:03Z")
I’ve been looking at it off and on for hours trying to find some clever connection between the words. I came here to confirm that I’m wasting my time. I don’t know what they were thinking. I’m not even going to bother putting in the answers. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/28 "2023-09-07T23:41:29Z")
I found it stupid enough to almost put me off the game entirely. Can anyone come up with a single other non-answer movie title with any four of those words? ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/29 "2023-09-08T01:01:44Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Can anyone come up with a single other non-answer movie title with any four of those words? There are four man’s first names: Max, Harry, Roger, Rocky Otherwise, I got nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/30 "2023-09-08T01:33:49Z")
Agree that it was stupid today. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/31 "2023-09-08T03:49:01Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Someone upthread said that there was a puzzle made up only of two-letter words; does anyone have a copy of that, or know what day it was? It was August 13. The words were: ```auto MA LA NA NU PI NI TI HE FA XI PA FE DO CO MU ME ``` ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/32 "2023-09-08T04:13:45Z")
Thank you. If I had to guess… DO FA LA TI (Notes in solfege) MU NU XI PI (Greek letters) HE NA FE NI (Atomic symbols) CO ME MA PA (Two-letter postal abbreviations of states) ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/33 "2023-09-08T05:00:09Z")
I copied a couple walls from _Only Connect_. Try this one: | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1999 | 1500 | 5,6,7,8 | 27 | | 1837 | 1 | 1702 | 400 | | 125 | One | 110 | 343 | | 1558 | 10,000 | 5.15 | 1952 | Answers should probably be spoilerd. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/34 "2023-09-08T10:42:23Z")
There is a Facebook group for “Only Connect Questions”, where people make up their own questions for the other group members to solve, drawing from any of the four rounds on the show: Round 1 – find the connection Round 2 - What comes fourth in the sequence Round 3 - connecting wall Round 4 - Missing vowels Most of them are ridiculously hard, because any that aren’t get solved almost immediately. Red herrings often abound. Here’s one of my R3 efforts - I can’t do a grid so I’ll just do a list: - Anne - Caly - Emma - Glenda - Helen - Helena - Judi - Madison - Oliver - Olympia - Pierre - Quentin - Remi - Rosetta - Sharon - Thora ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/35 "2023-09-08T12:13:29Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Here’s one of my R3 efforts Good puzzle. If I had to guess: Emma, Oliver, Rosetta, Sharon (\_\_\_\_\_\_ Stone) Helena, Madison, Olympia, Pierre (U.S. state capitals) Caly, Glenda, Judi, Thora (male names with an ending which makes them feminine) Anne, Helen, Quentin, Remi (haven’t a clue, but maybe film directors) I feel good about the first two groups; not at all sure on the last two. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/36 "2023-09-08T12:14:33Z")
Correct on the first two, way off on the second two (and the groupings are wrong). ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/37 "2023-09-08T12:25:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Most of them are ridiculously hard, Of course they’re hard; it’s Only freakin’ Connect. Sometimes I’m surprised if I get any of the questions correct (I’m not a dolphin). I did have a proud moment on one of the sequences that Victoria said was impossible, but I got it in two clues. And I’m decent at the missing vowels round, as long as it’s not something UK-centric. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/38 "2023-09-08T12:28:46Z")
My turn to guess: 1,27, 125, 343 - cubes of the first four positive odd numbers One, 5,6,7,8, 5.15, 1999 - song titles 1558, 1702, 1837 1952 - years the reigns of English/British Queens began (E I, Anne, Victoria, E II) 110, 400, 1500, 10000 - no idea yet ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/39 "2023-09-08T12:33:50Z")
All correct so far. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/40 "2023-09-08T17:26:38Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > 110, 400, 1500, 10000 - no idea yet Olympic races distances? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=3)