# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/741 "2025-05-03T17:59:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And I guess I’m too old to realize the slang meaning in all the Yellow words. I have a teenage son. I hear him using slang when he talks to his friends. That really helps with puzzles like this! ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/742 "2025-05-03T18:04:11Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Totally agree, although I managed to solve it with one guess remaining. Same. I got blue and yellow pretty quickly, but stared at the remaining eight boxes forever. There is, apparently, a thing called a milk pot, so I tried NETI, PASTE, MILK, and SMOKE (heh). Nope. Finally, in desperation, I thought, “I dunno, different viscosities of things?” and tried MILK, CREAM, PASTE, and SMOKE. When I got the “one away” message, I racked my brain to think of what three of those have in common, until it finally hit me. Hardest I’ve ever had to work for a Connections puzzle. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/743 "2025-05-03T22:55:05Z")
Huh. I got it pretty easily. My one mistake was putting ILL in with the other yellow category slang. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/744 "2025-05-04T08:41:49Z")
I had to try today’s fitting red herring even though I knew it would be wrong. Was my only mistake. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/745 "2025-05-04T09:20:03Z")
Red was too obvious today. I spent my time solving saying [this one goes there…](https://youtu.be/4IFUYg9IUgI)]. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/746 "2025-05-04T14:23:29Z")
Yeah, this one was scored as “Very Tricky” by the bot, but I think that was just because of the red herring, which I saw right through. Only Purple gave me any pause, but after getting Yellow and Green it was easy enough to parse out. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/747 "2025-05-04T14:33:39Z")
I had a super easy time today. I had to go back to see what the red herring was and could only find three of the four. Not a fan obviously ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/748 "2025-05-04T14:36:33Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > I had to go back to see what the red herring was and could only find three of the four. In case you are wondering, it’s Darth, Solo, Chewy, Boba. But agreed, that was the only tricky thing about it. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/749 "2025-05-04T14:40:41Z")
Note that today both the crossword puzzle and Strands in the New York Times were Star Wars-themed so that red herring _seemed_ to fit. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/750 "2025-05-04T14:45:27Z")
Also, today’s date. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/751 "2025-05-04T14:46:49Z")
The date is the _reason_ for the themed puzzles. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/752 "2025-05-04T14:47:47Z")
Yeah, I know. It’s why it works. I don’t do the othe puzzles and got the connection to the date. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/753 "2025-05-06T13:59:39Z")
I didn’t do today’s yet, but have a streak of three purple firsts (unintentionally) going, so I’m rather nervous to try it. Got a two day “reverse rainbow” streak, too. I often find it weird which ones they consider purple. Many times I feel the blue is more difficult. The purples can be easy when they have obvious “out of place” words, and then you start doing things like completing a phrase, chopping off beginning and end bits, looking at middle bits, checking if there’s a rhyme or homophone, whether they can refer to bits of pop culture like movies or musicals, etc. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/754 "2025-05-06T14:10:34Z")
I’d say your purple strategy is on point. Even if I have purple last and I feel like guessing it, I look for the weird word and try the same things ---
**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:** [May 7, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/755 "2025-05-07T15:11:59Z")
I thought that today (7 May) was exceedingly easy. Purple was my last category, but I saw the relationship as I was clicking on the clues. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/756 "2025-05-08T19:50:17Z")
Danny OCEAN is a hero of an action movie franchise? That’s kind of a reach. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/757 "2025-05-09T00:36:41Z")
Yeah, I had to wrack my brain to figured out what they were going for there, but it was my last category, so I didn’t have to know to complete 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:** [May 9, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/758 "2025-05-09T02:36:15Z")
I mean, it was last names of movie characters. I wasn’t worrying much about genres. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/759 "2025-05-11T18:34:02Z")
Should have guessed there’d be a mother-themed category today. Could have had purple first if I’d been looking for 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:** [May 11, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/760 "2025-05-11T19:45:50Z")
I got purple first because MAY I could only be one thing, really. Now I want to know if they’ve ever used The Five “D’s” of Dodgeball as a category or red herring. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=39)