# 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:** 43
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/841 "2025-06-04T14:30:50Z")
I got green and yellow, which left only blue and purple. I took a guess, and did NOT get a “one away” message. Thinking about it a bit, that meant I must have had exactly two correct, and two not. I find it interesting to reverse engineer puzzles, sometimes. You can get information that leads to a solution, sometimes. I remember a case of someone doing something similar on a game show, once. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/842 "2025-06-04T15:14:41Z")
I almost blew it trying to brute-force it after yellow and green. Things you’d find in an entryway? Sherlock Holmes? Baseball coach things, maybe? With one try left, I hit shuffle a couple times. I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne… I mean art history. Then an obscure Paul Simon song started in my head. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/843 "2025-06-04T16:52:56Z")
Yesterday’s was my first bust since April 1. I kept getting one away for blue and purple and was just a little off in my category theme that I just started throwing words at the wall. Odd thing is, I actually had the purple category correct, then switched out one of the words. Oh well. I could’ve put it aside and let it dwell in my brain and probably have gotten it later on, but I’m impatient, and don’t really care if I break a streak. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/844 "2025-06-08T10:11:06Z")
I was at a bit of a loss today. I found yellow but was stumped until I figured out purple. Then it all fell into place. ---
**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 8, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/845 "2025-06-08T12:56:23Z")
Green, yellow, purple, blue for me today (with one error) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/846 "2025-06-08T13:42:21Z")
Saw the Purple but doubted it so got yellow first then purple and then the rest. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/847 "2025-06-08T14:22:06Z")
Got Purple first (a rarity for me), but only after a couple of hiccups. Then Yellow, followed by Green. Blue was a bit of a stretch category, IMO. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/848 "2025-06-08T17:53:46Z")
I saw yellow first and made one wrong guess. There were five possible answers, and I didn’t want to burn too many guesses trying to find the odd one out. Then I solved blue and purple. I still had five possible answers for yellow, so I clicked the other three and figured out which other word went with them. That left the four yellow. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/849 "2025-06-08T22:34:35Z")
I got purple first today because LUTE stood out as having _nothing_ matching it as a musical instrument. BRED was similar, so homophones it was. Then yellow, green and blue with no mistakes. ---
**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 8, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/850 "2025-06-08T23:13:17Z")
Sometimes the category descriptions the NYT use are so bizarre or specific, it’s kind of absurd. If I am within an astronomical unit of them, I am pleased and consider it a win. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/851 "2025-06-09T04:22:48Z")
Today got blue, yellow, green but didn’t get purple. I knew it had to do with adding a letter with mazing but I was stuck after that. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/852 "2025-06-09T11:10:45Z")
Thought it was just words missing a vowel and made enough wrong guesses to fail. Was already one guess down because I picked the wrong criminal group, Order. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/853 "2025-06-09T12:46:02Z")
As is often the case, I thought Purple today was more than a bit of a stretch as a category. Fortunately I got the other three with just one miss. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/854 "2025-06-09T19:39:06Z")
My daughter caught the trick for purple, and we got the category fairly easily, but not for the way the category was specifically described. We were thinking more generally. I got “Amazing” from “mazing,” obviously, and she’s the one who saw “Good” for “goo” and “Genius” for “genus.” I spotted “Solid” for “sold” but I just thought the category was something like “positive evaluative adjectives” or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/855 "2025-06-10T04:34:37Z")
Got green and yellow then wasted three guesses on blue before finally figuring out purple. I knew what blue was but just had five options. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/856 "2025-06-10T06:50:54Z")
I made too many mistakes regarding slang. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/857 "2025-06-10T13:34:28Z")
I was down to two categories, one of which was the one you just referenced. I was on the same wrong track as you, so I gave up and was able to solve the other (Purple) category, leaving slang as my default. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/858 "2025-06-10T16:29:41Z")
I blame _Back To the Future_ for my one mistake getting blue today. ---
**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 11, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/859 "2025-06-11T11:46:34Z")
Purple first day! Got yellow next, struggled a bit with green and took blue as the remainder ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/860 "2025-06-11T14:41:11Z")
I had to look up PARENS. I have, never, ever seen that used in the wild. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=44)