# 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:** 42
**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 25, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/821 "2025-05-25T06:35:12Z")
I got so hung up on the wrong idea I used up all my guesses on blue, and didn’t figure out purple in time. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/822 "2025-05-25T11:32:57Z")
I had zero idea of what the blue was but it was my last one. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/823 "2025-05-25T12:31:25Z")
Same. How are conch, helix, and rook parts of the ear? ---
**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 25, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/824 "2025-05-25T12:41:51Z")
[Here ya go](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0583/4532/4698/files/30990-Ear_Stacking_101.png?v=1650185101). Appears to be standard ear piercing terminology. Granted, it’s something I know nothing about, but I figured I’d look it up. Like everyone else so far, blue was my last category today. ---
**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 25, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/825 "2025-05-25T12:56:08Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > There almost always one false grouping. Something that looks like it would be together but isn’t an answer. Often there will be five which is a sign it isn’t one of the answers. I suspect that the red herring is often where the puzzle constuctor starts. Start with something like SEAN, ROGER, PIERCE, DANIEL, and then build a category around each of those. I don’t think that having a category with five possible answers is a sign of a red herring. Four of them probably do form a category, but you could burn three wrong answers if you start guessing which four. I try to figure out which of the five could also be something else. ---
**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 25, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/826 "2025-05-25T13:13:28Z")
Today’s yellow was so obvious I was convinced it was a red herring but decided it couldn’t group with anything else so I guessed it. Sometimes you get these meta red herrings, but they may just be in my head. “Lions, tigers, bears, oh my”, was another puzzle like that. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/827 "2025-05-25T13:30:39Z")
There was a puzzle some time ago that was just four four word movie titles and I spent a long time just looking at the words because I had convinced myself that couldn’t be the answers but it was. ---
**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 25, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/828 "2025-05-25T15:28:13Z")
Sometimes I’ll bite the bullet and risk a guess on something I think might be a red herring. It might turn out to be correct. I might get the “one away” message; then I know I’m close but not right on the details. If neither of those, then it’s a true red herring and those four clues are probably four different categories. ---
**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 25, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/829 "2025-05-25T19:44:21Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Today’s yellow was so obvious I was convinced it was a red herring but decided it couldn’t group with anything else so I guessed it. Well, my first guess was to put ROOK in that category. And, as it turned out, that was a better fit than its correct category, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/830 "2025-05-25T20:15:04Z")
After solving today’s (took a while), I saw that a popular herring/pitfall was Bed Sizes — Twin, Double, Queen, King. That called for a brow wipe; after resisting several other herrings, that one would likely have pushed me over the edge. Fortunately it hadn’t registered at all. ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/831 "2025-05-25T20:25:20Z")
Ah, nice. I completely missed that possibility. So there was a red herring, it just depends on which grouping of four you saw first (which happens often enough.) ---
**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 25, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/832 "2025-05-25T21:16:18Z")
I fell for that red herring. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/833 "2025-05-25T22:50:13Z")
I tried to force DNA Related: Double, Helix, Clone, Chain and Crenelated/Convoluted: Lobe, Rook, Snail …Conch? but they were a pinch too fishy. ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/834 "2025-05-29T08:43:04Z")
Joke for the kids / > **Summary** > > photograph ejaculators today with > **Summary** > > glaze as a red herring for > **Summary** > > praise ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/835 "2025-06-01T04:42:25Z")
Weird one today. I thought purple was the easiest and blue was second although I couldn’t find the fourth 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:** [June 1, 2025, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/836 "2025-06-01T09:46:57Z")
Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow for me. And one of my quickest solves ever. Saw the first three almost immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/837 "2025-06-01T11:53:26Z")
Maybe I am having a brain cramp but I have never heard Ice in the context of its answer today. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/838 "2025-06-01T22:18:30Z")
Me either. I commented this elsewhere and it was explained to me, but I couldn’t see any logic to it even then. It’s something to do with blocking an opposing team from progressing. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/839 "2025-06-04T10:53:59Z")
Very proud of getting purple third and not last today. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/840 "2025-06-04T14:24:45Z")
I got green and yellow right away today but couldn’t find any more. I even made a wrong guess that ended up being similar to blue but not completely correct. I set it aside for a few hours and finally got what a thought was a hail Mary for purple but it turned out to be correct. So also proud of myself for getting purple even though I never actually got blue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=43)