# 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:** 21
**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:** [December 23, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/401 "2024-12-23T23:41:27Z")
If you pay for a subscription to NY Times games, you get to play all of the old puzzles. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/402 "2024-12-23T23:48:52Z")
I’ve been going through old Connections puzzles for a while. I think I’m back almost two years ago by now. And I asked them to add the Spelling Bee archives. (I’ve been going through the Wordle and Connections archives but those games only take a few minutes but Spelling Bee takes a while to get through.) ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/403 "2024-12-24T00:35:46Z")
Never mind… ---
**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, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/404 "2024-12-24T02:03:58Z")
Dec 24th made me want to smash my computer with a sledgehammer. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/405 "2024-12-24T02:05:55Z")
Frankly, in the Connections puzzle of December 24, 2024, there is a misdirect (in the yellow category) that turns out not to be so. ---
**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, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/406 "2024-12-24T02:09:11Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Dec 24th made me want to smash my computer with a sledgehammer. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Frankly, in the Connections puzzle of December 24, 2024, Oh, goody! I can hardly wait until tomorrow! ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/407 "2024-12-24T02:10:33Z")
You don’t have to wait; just set your computer or phone’s time zone to after midnight (I think GMT would work), and you can do tomorrow’s Connections, Wordle and Strands puzzles. ---
**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, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/408 "2024-12-24T02:11:53Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > You don’t have to wait; just set your computer or phone’s time zone to after midnight I’m not that anxious. I can wait until I wake up tomorrow morning. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/409 "2024-12-24T09:19:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Frankly, in the Connections puzzle of December 24, 2024, there is a misdirect (in the yellow category) that turns out not to be so. Yes, that’s why I decided to delete my post. It’s a double red herring! ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/410 "2024-12-24T13:16:24Z")
I thought yellow was hilarious. Got purple by elimination, would never, ever have gotten it otherwise. ---
**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, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/411 "2024-12-24T15:26:50Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > I thought yellow was hilarious. I thought yellow was too obvious, especially since it was comprised of the entirety of the top row. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/412 "2024-12-24T15:33:29Z")
That was the misdirection. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/413 "2024-12-24T15:35:19Z")
Total dick move. I’m annoyed. (What do they call it when it’s even sillier that a first world problem?) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/414 "2024-12-24T16:59:59Z")
I remember a puzzle a while ago (I probably even mentioned it earlier in this thread) that was four very obvious movie titles and I spent a long time looking for something deeper but there was nothing else there. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/415 "2024-12-24T17:09:09Z")
That’s why it was hilarious, because that sort of thing is _never_ actually a category. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/416 "2024-12-24T17:14:27Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Dec 24th made me want to smash my computer with a sledgehammer. You were snookered into thinking “lions and tigers and bears, oh my” was a misdirect, too? > [@Railer13](#): > > Oh, goody! I can hardly wait until tomorrow! Me too. I really look forward to that fucking robot telling me “Go ahead! Add to your zero day streak!” I need to find contact information for whoever coded the page. They need to be reminded (or informed) that a _losing_ streak is still a streak. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/417 "2024-12-24T22:06:10Z")
I kinda liked today’s Connections. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I need to find contact information for whoever coded the page. They need to be reminded (or informed) that a _losing_ streak is still a streak. I have a beef with whoever coded the Wordle page. I had a streak of 419 wins. I got the next day right, but it didn’t get saved for some reason, and the streak started over. I should be around 500 by now. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/418 "2024-12-25T21:06:53Z")
Reindeer! ---
**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:** [December 25, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/419 "2024-12-25T21:26:37Z")
It was funny because my 8-year-old called it out as a cat egg, and I very carefully explained to her how they do this sometimes and it’s just a red herring, only to lose and tell her she was, in fact, correct. I kinda knew they would do this at some point, but let my guard 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:** [December 26, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/420 "2024-12-26T06:09:20Z")
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