# 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:** 36
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/701 "2025-04-17T12:36:02Z")
The red herring about the Earth got me and I made a few wild guesses about alcohol containers but I got it. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/702 "2025-04-18T03:34:12Z")
Possibly the easiest Connections I’ve ever done. I solved it in perfect reverse order, purple to yellow, in about 30 seconds. ---
**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 18, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/703 "2025-04-18T03:41:42Z")
Nice! I’m always a little disappointed when they come together that quickly. I got a little sidetracked by the red herring today, but got it green blue yellow purple (and paused to figure out what the category was) with one mistake. ---
**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 18, 2025, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/704 "2025-04-18T10:35:44Z")
Purple first today! Would never have gotten blue except as a remainder. ---
**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 18, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/705 "2025-04-18T11:41:46Z")
I knew Speed as “Spit” - a game of blistering velocity. Spoons is a game where too much focus on the cards leads to a 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 18, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/706 "2025-04-18T12:41:56Z")
Ah, Spit I know. Spoons is new to me. I used to read cover-to-cover through books like Hoyle’s book of card games and an Oxford compendium for fun but either never saw those games or quickly forgot them. It would definitely be on the Pagat website if it’s still around. ---
**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 18, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/707 "2025-04-18T14:00:54Z")
Just did it and had a harder time than usual but just barely got it. Blue was the hardest for me and left for the end. I don’t think I would have gotten it unless it was a leftover. Definitely felt that was the purple clue. Purple was vexing me but turned out to be a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, so my brain was thinking way more laterally than it needed to. Good day in Wordle in two (I play by picking a new word every day based on my environment, like what I see or am thinking about. Playing high percentage words every time bores me.) Mini in 0:35. Spelling bee pangram I got in about 40 seconds. (I don’t play beyond the pangram.) ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/708 "2025-04-18T18:20:26Z")
Yellow, purple, green, and then I stared at the last four (blue) for a while trying to figure out the category before finally giving up and just clicking. I should have channeled my 13-year-old self. ---
**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 19, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/709 "2025-04-19T11:14:55Z")
There is no way I would ever have gotten purple today. The rest was straightforward ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/710 "2025-04-19T11:45:40Z")
Yeah that was one of those that only made sense in hindsight. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/711 "2025-04-19T14:35:28Z")
I actually saw the possibility of purple relatively early, but didn’t pull the trigger because 666 is the number of the beast, who is an evil earthly ruler and not the devil. And also because I didn’t think they’d actually go with that. ---
**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 19, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/712 "2025-04-19T14:38:07Z")
Hmm, I saw purple right away. In retrospect except for me having encountered three out of four in the last week (and probably not any in years before that) I wouldn’t have seen it. ---
**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 20, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/713 "2025-04-20T01:48:25Z")
I object to equating the devil and the beast. Otherwise, it was a typically stupid stupid category. I sussed out red before even starting. ---
**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 21, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/714 "2025-04-21T23:35:49Z")
I found today’s puzzle to be easy (got purple first with assistance from Seinfeld, and the rest in short order) ---
**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 21, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/715 "2025-04-21T23:38:20Z")
Yes, Seinfeld was helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/716 "2025-04-24T09:05:55Z")
Just motored through today’s. Boom, boom, boom, boom. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/717 "2025-04-24T10:18:37Z")
No mistakes, but I took a while overthinking it, since everything but purple just seemed too glaringly obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/718 "2025-04-24T14:04:11Z")
Can someone please explain the purple category to me? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/719 "2025-04-24T14:13:16Z")
They are all things that that can be described as having ears. Ears of corn. Musicians have an ear for music, the Walls have Ears, pitcher handles can be called ears. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/720 "2025-04-24T15:43:09Z")
Thanks. never knew that about pitchers, and blanked on the walls phrase. For some reason I was thinking about baseball pitchers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=37)