# 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:** 222
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4421 "2026-07-24T07:08:50Z")
Connections Puzzle #1139 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ No issues, even the Americanism was _fine_. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4422 "2026-07-24T11:42:30Z")
Connections Puzzle #1139 πŸŸͺ🟦🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4423 "2026-07-24T11:50:45Z")
Twinsies. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4424 "2026-07-24T13:18:48Z")
Connections Puzzle #1139 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 No clear order beyond purple. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4425 "2026-07-24T13:21:42Z")
Connections Puzzle #1139 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Didn’t get purple although I saw two of them while trying to figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4426 "2026-07-24T15:05:57Z")
Connections Puzzle #1139 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4427 "2026-07-24T22:06:15Z")
I failed **Saturday’s**. Too many words I didn’t know. Puzzle #1140 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟨🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟨🟦 πŸŸͺ🟨πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺ🟨πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4428 "2026-07-24T23:16:39Z")
Connections Puzzle #1139 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Another easy one. Green seemed way too obvious to lead with; smelled like a red herring but wasn’t. I probably could have gone for an RR, but I might not have caught on to purple before yellow was out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4429 "2026-07-25T05:18:06Z")
Connections Puzzle #1140 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟨🟨πŸŸͺ 🟦🟨🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Total disaster. I had to google the options for blue because I knew the category but was not sure of the answers. Also I saw hijo as huo and couldn’t find the fourth yellow. Never got purple. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2026, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4430 "2026-07-25T06:55:58Z")
Connections SATURDAY Puzzle #1140 🟦🟨🟩πŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I did jump on the red herring too quickly…kicking myself now because I thought BLUE was _actually_ going to be the red herring. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4431 "2026-07-25T12:43:12Z")
I didn’t see Saturday’s red herring, but it was still hard. I saw the blues first, because I happened to know a couple of them, and only needed one wrong guess to get the other two. Purple was mistaken leftovers… I thought that club and steak were \_\_\_\_\_ sandwich, and guessed that the other two were things I just hadn’t heard of. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4432 "2026-07-25T13:51:10Z")
Not my best work but still aliveβ€‹πŸ’ƒ Connections Puzzle #1140 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟩πŸŸͺ🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**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:** [July 25, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4433 "2026-07-25T22:27:33Z")
**Sunday**. Did okay, but Purple remains a mystery. Puzzle #1141 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 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:** [July 25, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4434 "2026-07-25T23:02:02Z")
Connections Puzzle #1140 🟦🟨🟦🟨 🟦🟨🟩πŸŸͺ 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟦🟨 Complete crash and burn today. So bad that Connections was too ashamed to let me share my whole failure, only the first four awful guesses. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4435 "2026-07-25T23:21:26Z")
Connections Puzzle #1140 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Yellow (!) took me two tries, but I didn’t have to google anything, so I’m considering that a win. I didn’t see the fourth Sierra (which I later realized was CLUB); otherwise I probably would have fallen for it. Had no idea on blue. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4436 "2026-07-26T04:22:24Z")
Connections Puzzle #1141 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Easy. Didn’t get purple but I was in a hurry. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2026, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4437 "2026-07-26T07:14:15Z")
Connections Puzzle #1141 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Recovered from yesterday’s fiasco with a reverse rainbow. Avoided the red herring, but purple was very scary leftovers. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2026, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4438 "2026-07-26T10:19:47Z")
Connections SUNDAY Puzzle #1141 🟨🟦🟩πŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Fell for the red herring but after that it all fell into place. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4439 "2026-07-26T14:02:12Z")
Connections Puzzle #1141 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 ---
**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:** [July 26, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4440 "2026-07-26T21:05:35Z")
**Monday**. I did okay, but once again, did not figure out Purple. Puzzle #1142 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=221) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=223)