# 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:** 29
**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:** [March 1, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/561 "2025-03-01T16:59:30Z")
Yes, I completed purple first this time, which is rare. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/562 "2025-03-01T17:01:06Z")
Phanton Tollbooth, LoL. Liked the book, didn’t care for the animated film. I felt like there were three purple categories today. Yellow was kind enough to volunteer to simplify the board. I recognized blue as a category early on (I was a theater kid in HS), but didn’t know “Sunset”, so that had to wait for a late guess. Actual purple wasn’t so purple-y, but I’ve not heard of “Drugstore Cowboy”. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/563 "2025-03-01T17:11:02Z")
I got purple first which is really astonishing because that’s an area I know the least about in trivia contests. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/564 "2025-03-01T17:37:53Z")
I was generationally advantaged to get purple first ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/565 "2025-03-01T18:01:29Z")
A 1989 movie by Gus Van Sant. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/566 "2025-03-02T04:35:19Z")
Figured something like that. I prefer “[Dime Store Cowgirl](https://youtu.be/Kw-9GLQCcwY)” anyway. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/567 "2025-03-04T03:28:20Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Today’s was very difficult for me. > > I didn’t know can openers come in left handed varieties, and barely remember that’s true of golf clubs and guitars. You can learn of them in _The Simpsons_, S3E3, _When Flanders Failed_. Personally, growing up in the 60s as a lefty, I learned how to operate right-handed objects (such as scissors and can openers) readily. OTOH, I have a twenty-one-year old lefty nephew who _cannot_ operate a standard set of scissors. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/568 "2025-03-05T15:13:49Z")
Not happy with purple today PICKLE, DODGE, KICK, SOFT and PAINT all equally fit. Guess who didn’t get the correct group in four. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/569 "2025-03-05T15:21:28Z")
Sometimes in Connections there are only three words that seem to fit a category, and sometimes, as in that case, there are five. This is usually a red herring and you should move onto another category. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/570 "2025-03-05T16:14:18Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > PICKLE, DODGE, KICK, SOFT and PAINT all equally fit. Guess who didn’t get the correct group in four. I didn’t even consider PAINT as a possibility for Purple, and solved it as my second category. Of course, I solved Green by thinking they were all computer terms, although one was misspelled. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/571 "2025-03-10T12:25:54Z")
Today (3/10/25), I guessed the blue category (more or less), but instead of STATUE OF LIBERTY I included SPHYNX, because of its missing nose. what is it about the STATUE OF LIBERTY that makes it fit the category? I honestly have no idea. Am I that ignorant of its history? ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/572 "2025-03-10T12:34:18Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > what is it about the STATUE OF LIBERTY that makes it fit the category? I wondered the same thing. And I really had no idea that RAGAMUFFIN was a breed of cat. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/573 "2025-03-10T13:02:00Z")
I Googled because a couple of other items were recognizable as cat breeds. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/574 "2025-03-10T13:08:26Z")
It changed color because of oxidation. When built, it was copper colored ETA the cat breed is spelled sphynx, but the landmark is spelled sphinx ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/575 "2025-03-10T13:14:23Z")
That change in spelling was a clue. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/576 "2025-03-10T13:22:31Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > It changed color because of oxidation. When built, it was copper colored One of these things is not like the other. The other three all have prominent features that are flaws. Cracked, leaning, missing arms. Oxidation of copper isn’t a flaw. I thought the fourth was going to be the Sphinx with its missing nose, but I figured it fit in the "cat"egory better than the Statue of Liberty. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/577 "2025-03-10T13:27:43Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And I really had no idea that RAGAMUFFIN was a breed of cat. They are soooo fluffy. I struggled a bit with the pangram today (but got yesterday’s as the first word), but otherwise plowed through fairly quickly. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/578 "2025-03-10T14:00:29Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > One of these things is not like the other. The other three all have prominent features that are flaws. Cracked, leaning, missing arms. Oxidation of copper isn’t a flaw. I thought the fourth was going to be the Sphinx with its missing nose, but I figured it fit in the "cat"egory better than the Statue of Liberty. But the word sphinx doesn’t appear in the puzzle, sphynx does ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/579 "2025-03-10T16:16:12Z")
The Statue of Liberty was originally built in France, then disassembled, and moved to New York. When it was reassembled, the upraised arm was attached a couple feet off from where it was supposed to be. I don’t what other issues that caused with the cladding or anything else. It’s not obvious to look at; more of a bit of historical trivia. When the Statue was refurbished a few decades ago, I believe there was some thought given to correcting the error, but it was left as it was. Plus, in its early days I think visitors were allowed up to the torch, bit that’s been closed for ages. So there are a couple alterations from how it was originally conceived. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/580 "2025-03-10T20:33:38Z")
Oh man, for the first time in forever I literally could not get a single group today (March 10). 1. I have zero knowledge of cat breeds. 2. I last saw The Big Lebowski about 20 years ago and remember almost nothing about it 3. I could conceivably have figured out the green and blue sets, but I would have had to be lucky and I wasn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=30)