# 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:** 229
**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 14, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4562 "2026-08-14T04:50:17Z")
Connections **FRIDAY** Puzzle #1160 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Sub-30 seconds, for me. Getting BLUE right away really sped things up, and avoided the red herring. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4563 "2026-08-14T05:17:50Z")
Connections Puzzle #1160 🟨πŸŸͺ🟩🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I consider this a semi-fail. After falling for the rainbow herring I had purple and yellow left. The herring was NATO alphabet. I was left with three yellow/black and two red triangles and after resorting to google for the Bass Ale logo I had three red triangles. Had to google both Wolverine and google drive and Wolverine gave me the yellow/black. Google Drive gave me little definite except a vague triangle. In any case I don’t really see why purple was not yellow. ---
**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 14, 2026, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4564 "2026-08-14T07:26:26Z")
Connections Puzzle #1160 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Order after purple was a toss up. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4565 "2026-08-14T08:36:10Z")
Only saw the red herring after I avoided it. Not sure I would have ever gotten the blue. Connections Puzzle #1160 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**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 14, 2026, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4566 "2026-08-14T13:08:35Z")
I had no idea what a Bristol board was, but I guessed correctly that it’d go with the others. Two of the purples, I just completely didn’t know at all, so that was total leftovers. Still, clean win. ---
**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 14, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4567 "2026-08-14T13:23:08Z")
Connections Puzzle #1160 🟦🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 A win is a win. I’ve never heard of a Bristol board, and I had no idea that Wolverine (or a wolverine) is black and yellow. ---
**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 14, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4568 "2026-08-14T14:29:03Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I had no idea that Wolverine (or a wolverine) is black and yellow. That’s because he’s not. Wolverine’s usual comic book uniform is yellow and blue. I submitted the category thinking it was β€œthings with stripes” and that it was wolverine, not Wolverine. ---
**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 14, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4569 "2026-08-14T14:37:11Z")
On a quick image search, only about half of the images seem to show him in the yellow costume at all. Of the ones that do, most seem to show the stripes on the spandex part as black but the separate accessories (shoulder pads and gloves) as blue, but some show both the same (either) color. Complicating this, of course, is the fact that comic-book-black often has blue highlights. ---
**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 14, 2026, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4570 "2026-08-14T22:31:05Z")
**Saturday**. I did much better today than yesterday. Puzzle #1161 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**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 14, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4571 "2026-08-14T23:11:29Z")
Connections Puzzle #1160 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺ🟨πŸŸͺ🟨 🟨πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨πŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Struggle ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4572 "2026-08-15T05:08:22Z")
Connections Puzzle #1161 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Quick and easy today Didn’t have time to look for a reverse rainbow. ---
**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 15, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4573 "2026-08-15T11:29:41Z")
Connections Puzzle #1161 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**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 15, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4574 "2026-08-15T12:48:57Z")
I did hit the red herring today (speed away, with β€œit”), but clean beyond that. There were two purple categories, though. ---
**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 15, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4575 "2026-08-15T14:20:55Z")
Connections Puzzle #1161 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 > [@Chronos](#): > > There were two purple categories, though. I got lucky, jumped at the first one I saw and it ended up the real purple. ---
**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 15, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4576 "2026-08-15T21:58:12Z")
**Sunday**. Argh. Puzzle #1162 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟦πŸŸͺ🟩🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4577 "2026-08-16T05:09:18Z")
Connections Puzzle #1162 🟦πŸŸͺ🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Burned by the rainbow herring and still don’t get purple. ---
**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 16, 2026, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4578 "2026-08-16T05:16:28Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > still don’t get purple Early [hominids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo): Homo Sapiens = Wise Man Homo Erectus = Upright Man Homo Habilis = Handy Man Neandertal Man = bones were first located in the Neander Valley ---
**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 16, 2026, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4579 "2026-08-16T09:36:59Z")
Connections Sunday Puzzle #1162 🟦πŸŸͺ🟩🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fell for the red herring (pianos - that’s what got the rest of you, right?) and then another mistake. ---
**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 16, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4580 "2026-08-16T21:01:31Z")
Somehow it’s **Monday** already. Puzzle #1163 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:** [August 16, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/4581 "2026-08-16T23:57:44Z")
Connections Puzzle #1162 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟨πŸŸͺ πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺ🟦πŸŸͺ🟨 🟦πŸŸͺ🟩🟨 Rode the red herring into the ground for a crash and burn. Interestingly my app is not showing all of the humiliation, only the first four missteps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=228) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=230)