# 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:** 35
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/681 "2025-04-14T14:01:13Z")
I might have watched it be played played once as a kid but it was still the first thing I thought of when I saw dysentery . ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/682 "2025-04-14T14:27:48Z")
Same here. Never played the game and didn’t make the connection. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/683 "2025-04-14T16:13:56Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I might have watched it be played played once as a kid but it was still the first thing I thought of when I saw dysentery I didn’t play it, but I certainly watched my kids and their friends play the game. And that’s the first thing I thought of as well when I saw dysentery. Actually, I thought all of today’s game was rather easy. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/684 "2025-04-14T16:30:00Z")
I’m too old for that reference too, but somehow I recognized it ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/685 "2025-04-14T16:33:22Z")
Me too. As my third category after yellow and green ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/686 "2025-04-14T17:07:57Z")
I would have thought it was an old reference not a young one. I remember seeing it when I was in college (or maybe highschool) which was a scary number of years ago. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/687 "2025-04-14T19:51:29Z")
For the typical American it’s an old reference- for the typical SDMBer, a young one ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/688 "2025-04-14T21:32:30Z")
I got it thinking it was something completely different! ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/689 "2025-04-14T23:07:57Z")
Totally up the alley for Gen Xers like me. Two of the words were immediately apparent to me, but it took me a second guess to get the third and fourth. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/690 "2025-04-14T23:09:05Z")
Nah. They have categories involving musicals I’ve never heard of and other stuff like that from time to time, so it’s fair enough for me. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/691 "2025-04-15T01:20:07Z")
They’ve used names of characters in TV shows I don’t watch. Those days I just take the loss. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/692 "2025-04-15T01:26:39Z")
I mean, usually, you have one of the other categories to support you. If I can’t figure out two categories, then, well, try another day. You can’t win 'em all. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/693 "2025-04-15T05:44:09Z")
American references confound me, especially sports teams or something to do with coins or other familiarities. Though Oregon Trail is a US game and was not a thing where I grew up, I’m used to being stumped by local references. Having said that, I got that one and the Fords pretty easily. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/694 "2025-04-15T12:29:05Z")
Totally hooked by Tuesday’s red herring, but after that I cleared the board fairly quickly starting with Purple. I’m unfamiliar with SPEED and SPOONS in that context, though. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/695 "2025-04-15T16:04:04Z")
I recognized the silverware for what it was - but the fast one was harder, since I knew that one by a different name ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/696 "2025-04-15T16:07:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m unfamiliar with SPEED and SPOONS in that context, though. So am I. Plus, PAN is a card game that the mom of my childhood best friend regularly played. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/697 "2025-04-15T22:19:56Z")
I’ve never heard of either of those and I thought I was pretty well read on the subject. I got immediately suckered by the red herring, and audibly groaned when it wasn’t even a “one away.” ---
**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:** [April 16, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/698 "2025-04-16T06:47:03Z")
Once again the yellow group of direct synonyms saved me from the red herring. What ended up as blue and purple both felt like candidates for red. But since… Hearts is my favorite card game, I connected green. Speed was a competitive game in my household, and I remember having fun playing Spoons. Bridge is that old person’s thing with weirdly small cards. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/699 "2025-04-17T08:28:22Z")
Some wild stabs in the dark from me today. It had a theme that was somewhat American so I had to make some lucky guesses. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/700 "2025-04-17T11:32:50Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Some wild stabs in the dark from me today. And I thought today was incredibly easy. I guess it helped that I like beer, baseball, and pizza. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=36)