# 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:** 39
**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 11, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/761 "2025-05-11T20:20:15Z")
The what now? That’s one I’ve never heard, I don’t think. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/762 "2025-05-12T12:37:25Z")
From the film. The “Five D’s” are Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive and Dodge. Yes, that’s intentional. ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/763 "2025-05-12T14:34:57Z")
I even saw that film! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/764 "2025-05-14T10:08:48Z")
Yup the Keanu Reeves red herring got me on guess one. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/765 "2025-05-14T11:08:52Z")
Got me too, but then I saw purple’s pattern and knocked (heh) the rest off easily ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/766 "2025-05-14T11:34:56Z")
Absurdle > **[Absurdle](https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html)** > > An adversarial version of Wordle ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/767 "2025-05-14T11:53:37Z")
Played it just now - it took all six guesses but I got it ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/768 "2025-05-14T15:25:46Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Yup the Keanu Reeves red herring got me on guess one. Same here. Red herrings can give useful information, though. Once you know it’s incorrect, and you don’t get the “one away” message, that probably means that those four clues belong in four different groups. ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/769 "2025-05-14T15:29:55Z")
I couldn’t find a good fourth name, and just having the three obvious ones temporarily selected reeked of fish. Purple was so obvious today I was suspicious of that, too. ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/770 "2025-05-14T15:42:11Z")
I didn’t even notice that red herring. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/771 "2025-05-14T22:20:50Z")
Sometimes a red herring is so obvious and then it turns out it’s not a red herring at all and was a correct category. So I am not ashamed when I fall for them. ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/772 "2025-05-14T22:45:57Z")
Totally missed it myself. My ten-year-old daughter got the purple right off the bat. You go, girl! Been a few days since a purple first. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/773 "2025-05-15T01:56:03Z")
A sketch comedy show I used to watch would sometimes do these little quizzes of things that sounded vaguely similar. The only one I remember was “imported SUV, or Bruce Willis’s child?” Kinda reminds me of a good connecctions puzzle. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/774 "2025-05-15T11:14:34Z")
I foresee some possible grumbling about today’s puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/775 "2025-05-15T11:19:32Z")
I got today’s but was surprised that the one I was sure would be purple was not and there was a purple I had literally never heard of before (but luckily it was my final clue). So yeah, grumble grumble 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/776 "2025-05-15T11:25:43Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I got today’s but was surprised that the one I was sure would be purple was not Let me guess - blue? Yeah, I started with that one and was rather surprised it was only blue. No trouble at all with the rest, although I suspect I know which purple one you didn’t know too. It’s like when the puzzle refers to people and TV shows I’ve never heard of. What can you do but wing it? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/777 "2025-05-15T11:43:16Z")
Yep, blue was the one. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/778 "2025-05-15T16:22:52Z")
Unfamiliar references happen a lot when I watch Only Connect. If the category is something like Blue Peter Presenters, I’m not too disappointed not to get it. It’s almost scary how good the contestants are at questions of American trivia. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/779 "2025-05-16T01:17:59Z")
Which one were you missing? I saw Wick, Ted, Mnemonic, and Neo ---
**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 16, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/780 "2025-05-16T02:11:26Z")
Wasn’t he Bill? It’s not normal for them to mix first and last names, so I didn’t even consider it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=40)