# 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:** 226
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4502 "2026-08-05T10:15:33Z")
Connections Puzzle #1151 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Purple was leftovers. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4503 "2026-08-05T14:55:03Z")
Connections Puzzle #1151 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Purple leftovers worked out, but messed up green vs. blue. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4504 "2026-08-05T15:57:49Z")
Connections Puzzle #1151 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Entered them as I found them. I danced all around purple but didn’t quite figure it out. Still counts though. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4505 "2026-08-05T21:05:19Z")
**Thursday**. Purple was never going to happen. Puzzle #1152 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4506 "2026-08-06T04:59:20Z")
Connections Puzzle #1152 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Had no idea what Barclays Center was so purple was 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:** [August 6, 2026, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4507 "2026-08-06T05:09:15Z")
Connections Puzzle #1152 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 I cheated because I saw an obvious Americanism in Barclays Center and looked it up, which gave me the last one that connection. Also, to me a Jacob’s Ladder is a fun sparking electrical gizmo not a wooden toy. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4508 "2026-08-06T13:03:54Z")
Connections Puzzle #1152 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩 🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩 🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 solved blue right off then almost lost it. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4509 "2026-08-06T14:40:08Z")
Connections Puzzle #1152 🟩πŸŸͺ🟩πŸŸͺ πŸŸͺ🟨🟨🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟩πŸŸͺ🟩 Made every possible mistake today. Fell for a red herring that left me with bad leftovers, avoided what I thought was a red herring but wasn’t, then wasted the rest of the moves looking for wordplay when there wasn’t any. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4510 "2026-08-06T16:59:32Z")
Connections Puzzle #1152 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Yeah, I didn’t care much for this one. Cup-and-ball is a magic trick, and Jacob’s Ladder is what @MrDibble said. Looks like a lot of us bit on the same red herring, too. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4511 "2026-08-06T19:44:16Z")
I got blue and yellow pretty quick, and then found enough wrong connections in green and purple to run out of wrong guesses. And for those wondering about Jacob’s Ladder, it can also be a [toy made from thin blocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_ladder_(toy)) joined together with ribbons. When I was a kid, we called them β€œflip flop blocks”. It’s also the principle behind the Rubik’s Magic toy. Oh, and for @Wheelz , cup-and-ball is a wooden cup with a handle and a string attached to it and a ball on the end of the string. You hold the handle and swing the ball and try to catch it in the cup. Sometimes the ball has a hole through it and there’s a spindle on the other end of the handle, so you can also try to catch the ball on the spindle. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4512 "2026-08-06T21:11:43Z")
It is **Friday** in my house. So easy, I overthought it and missed one. Puzzle #1153 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4513 "2026-08-07T04:24:17Z")
Connections Puzzle #1153 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Blue was leftovers. I saw that the words went together but couldn’t get the exact answer. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4514 "2026-08-07T06:57:28Z")
Connections **FRIDAY** Puzzle #1153 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Easy. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4515 "2026-08-07T12:22:38Z")
Connections Puzzle #1153 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Avoided the red herring by the simple expedient by already having one of them categorized before I noticed the RH. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4516 "2026-08-07T12:45:19Z")
First thing I saw was that buckyball had to be a wordplay, but I never did actually get the category correct. I was thinking violent things animals do. Still got a clean win, though. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4517 "2026-08-07T13:09:58Z")
Connections Puzzle #1153 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 An easy A+ today ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4518 "2026-08-07T13:38:46Z")
Connections Puzzle #1153 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Today is a bittersweet day. NYT thinks my streak is now 77, but it somehow lost my previous streak of 288, which means I would have gotten my 365 badge today but for a database error. ☹ (No, I didn’t miss a day. My Strands streak extends across the gap, and while I have sometimes skipped Strands I never skip Connections.) ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4519 "2026-08-07T14:55:42Z")
Connections Puzzle #1153 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yellow vs. green gets me. Again. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4520 "2026-08-07T16:23:03Z")
Connections Puzzle #1153 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 This game has trained me to look at the beginnings and ends of the given words, and that made purple an easy first get. I utterly failed at the Reverse Rainbow, though, as all the others seemed about equally likely to be any color. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4521 "2026-08-07T22:06:57Z")
It’s the weekend! **Saturday’s** was easy peasy. Puzzle #1154 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=225) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=227)