# 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:** 40
**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 16, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/781 "2025-05-16T04:05:45Z")
No, he was Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan. Alex Winter was Bill S. Preston. ---
**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 16, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/782 "2025-05-16T04:12:45Z")
I, too, thought blue was going to be purple. Which was the least common blue? I think of them as all pretty much on the same level of popularity or obscurity, depending on your wheelhouse. ETA: oh, purple. Yeah, one was not like the others but that’s the one that clued me in on the purple theme (got it second.) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/783 "2025-05-16T05:43:22Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > No, he was Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan. Alex Winter was Bill S. Preston. Excuse me but that is Bill S. Preston Esquire. ---
**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 16, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/784 "2025-05-16T06:54:41Z")
=air guitar= ---
**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, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/785 "2025-05-16T10:40:00Z")
And you were right not to consider 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 17, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/786 "2025-05-17T01:17:28Z")
Got had by the red herring today. Seemed perfectly reasonable; guess I should have known Rodeo Drive is in _Beverly Hills_ not Hollywood. I’m more embarrassed at how long it took for me to get blue after getting green and yellow. ---
**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 17, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/787 "2025-05-17T16:57:26Z")
I thought it was a quite challenging one today. Blue was last; I’d only ever heard of one of those types of penguins. ---
**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 17, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/788 "2025-05-17T17:56:23Z")
I got it relatively quickly, but blue was a big WTF for me. I did guess the category, but only knew two of them. I was on the right track early on but couldn’t even find a third one to fit. The semi-red herring was pretty obvious when there wasn’t anything that came close to fitting the fourth. ---
**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 17, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/789 "2025-05-17T18:23:26Z")
I got a perfect run, only because when I was down to the last eight items (blue and purple) I took a guess and got blue ---
**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 17, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/790 "2025-05-17T18:27:24Z")
Same here. Never heard of chinstrap or macaroni penguins. _May_ have heard of king penguins, ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/791 "2025-05-17T18:35:38Z")
Different people have diffent knowledge I got the blue group first as I knew all of them. I did find it a relatively easy puzzle today. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/792 "2025-05-19T18:07:07Z")
OK, you guys have sucked me in. I tried Friday and only got two categories and was frustrated because I didn’t know the answer. So I spent the weekend playing practice games and tried again today with success. The practice games always did the colors in the same order but I understand that in the real game they color denotes the difficulty. In that case, since I got purple third, I am feeling fairly good. ---
**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 19, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/793 "2025-05-19T19:37:15Z")
Today I learned that melon is a whale part. Am I the only one who didn’t know this? ---
**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 19, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/794 "2025-05-19T20:12:14Z")
No, you’re not the only person who didn’t know that. ---
**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 19, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/795 "2025-05-19T20:22:22Z")
Thirded. No idea that whales had one of those. ---
**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 19, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/796 "2025-05-19T22:31:15Z")
There are a minimum of four people who did not know that prior to today ---
**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 19, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/797 "2025-05-19T22:45:41Z")
Make that five. Thought that should have been the purple. Today’s purple leapt out at me. ---
**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 19, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/798 "2025-05-19T23:16:27Z")
Well, thanks everyone. I feel slightly less dumb now. ---
**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 20, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/799 "2025-05-20T03:28:33Z")
Penguins and whales. Did the puzzle setter go on a holiday to the southern hemisphere? ---
**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 20, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/800 "2025-05-20T16:06:23Z")
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