# 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:** 24
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/461 "2025-01-23T10:17:20Z")
Not sure I would have gotten today’s purple in a million years but it was my final one so I got through it. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/462 "2025-01-23T13:27:01Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Not sure I would have gotten today’s purple in a million years I was quite proud of myself for getting purple as my third category today. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/463 "2025-01-23T15:23:26Z")
I got purple before blue today as well. I was on the right track for blue but only two clues made sense to me. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/464 "2025-01-23T16:50:30Z")
As soon as I saw FEDORA and WHIP I knew what was up, and the other two fell right in. Surprised that was the blue category. Yellow and green followed quickly, and then I stared at the remaining four words for a couple minutes and came up empty. I like to “solve” the last category in my head, but couldn’t do it today. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/465 "2025-01-23T17:55:26Z")
I found the blue one first. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/466 "2025-01-23T19:11:38Z")
I got yellow first because blue felt like a red herring. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/467 "2025-01-24T02:48:19Z")
I got purple off the bat. When I saw VIXEN, it leapt out at me, and, for whatever reason, I thought “hey, that rhymes with Nixon…wait a sec, and PAGAN rhymes with Reagan. Those two words stuck out to me, so I got lucky my rhyming brain had the right instinct. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/468 "2025-01-26T16:43:36Z")
Once again rolling my eyes at purple. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/469 "2025-01-26T16:50:16Z")
I got purple second because I knew DISCOG and BALLY were fucky words so I looked for the silly connection and then found the other two ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/470 "2025-01-26T22:01:41Z")
Same logic at you, and got a reverse rainbow today. (Hardest to easiest). And I actually did find yellow the hardest to spot today for some reason—I didn’t set out to get them in reverse order of difficulty. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/471 "2025-01-27T12:01:20Z")
Today was a purple first day. As soon as I saw Hedge Maze I found the rest. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/472 "2025-01-27T12:03:33Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Today was a purple first day. Second for me. I got Yellow right away, followed by Purple, Green, and Blue. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/473 "2025-01-27T12:06:51Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Today was a purple first day. As soon as I saw Hedge Maze I found the rest. Same - in fact it was Purple, Yellow, Green, Blue, mostly because I was convinced the Blue group must be a red herring. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/474 "2025-01-27T13:00:21Z")
Same about the blue ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/475 "2025-01-27T13:10:34Z")
be honest, I saw twins and virgin and thought Zodiac symbols. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/476 "2025-01-27T13:11:30Z")
Scales too. Which _was_ the red herring. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/477 "2025-01-27T13:12:49Z")
Right. I was looking for a fourth symbol. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/478 "2025-01-27T13:50:34Z")
And now that I can be spoiler free, as I’m talking in general, that’s my strategy for maybe hitting the purple first. Look out for words that just look “off” and don’t seem like they belong with any other words. Try to think of something that may fill in the blank before or after (those seem to be the most common). See if there are homophones that work. See if adding a letter in front or back turns up anything. See if subtracting a letter from the front or back works. See if subtracting an entire ending works. See if rhymes for that word work. All that sort of thing. Looking at all of last weekday’s puzzles, I see I got purple first three times, once second, once last. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/479 "2025-01-27T17:37:26Z")
I got yellow then green pretty quick, so blue was worth trying out since I hadn’t made a mistake. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/480 "2025-01-27T21:26:36Z")
Same here. Purple was one where I didn’t see it but smacked my head afterwards. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=25)