# 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:** 44
**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 11, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/861 "2025-06-11T15:24:36Z")
Big spike for that word in Google Trends today. I inferred its meaning once I figured out we weren’t stabbing anybody. My one mistake was putting ROOSTER in with yellow. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/862 "2025-06-11T15:32:39Z")
I went down a rabbit of rock-n-roll singers thinking ELVES = ELVIS and DAGGER = JAGGER. No PLANK or FERRY though. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/863 "2025-06-11T15:35:50Z")
Seemed like a tricky puzzle, so I scribbled down my 3 best guesses on an envelope. That left four weirdo words (the Blue cereal mascots), that I used as my first guess. Worked. ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/864 "2025-06-11T16:33:54Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > My one mistake was putting ROOSTER in with yellow. Heh, my mistake was putting PARENS in with Green. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/865 "2025-06-11T17:31:08Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I went down a rabbit of rock-n-roll singers thinking ELVES = ELVIS and DAGGER = JAGGER. No PLANK or FERRY though. Steve Perry? ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/866 "2025-06-11T17:42:54Z")
It really stuck out – I know the word well enough, but it tends to be informal. I’m not sure why they went for that instead of the normal form. I thought at first it couldn’t be right because of that. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/867 "2025-06-11T17:45:43Z")
I knew what it was and I thought the connection was things on the top row of the keyboard along with asterisk and numbers but I couldn’t find a fourth and then it hit me. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/868 "2025-06-11T18:45:40Z")
I had parens in with green for the longest time. I made one wrong guess then got yellow and blue and just guessed the right four for green. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/869 "2025-06-11T20:39:05Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Steve Perry? Chuck Berry ---
**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 12, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/870 "2025-06-12T16:52:52Z")
Today’s puzzle was…interesting. I had to stare at it for a while before I made my first solve, which was Purple. Then I got Yellow and Blue fairly quickly. Green was a stretch category, IMO. I was trying desperately to find four clues that contained something in the kitchen.. Alas. ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/871 "2025-06-12T21:44:36Z")
Dusty Springfield puzzle today. I loved blue. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/872 "2025-06-13T04:37:06Z")
Today went green, yellow, purple, blue. Had two issues. First, I’m really bad at 90s music. It crossed my mind with Iris but I didn’t know the others. Second, I got hung up on parts of the eye since Rod, Cone, Iris and Lens all made perfect sense. When I guessed and it didn’t say I was one away I knew I was on a completely wrong track. ---
**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 13, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/873 "2025-06-13T04:44:20Z")
I got the ice cream one first, then when I started looking for eye parts there were only three, so I didn’t fall for that red herring. I knew ONE WEEK and CLOSING TIME were songs, but didn’t know the other two. ---
**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 13, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/874 "2025-06-13T08:35:48Z")
I don’t know anything about pop music, I only got them correct through guesswork, I couldn’t figure out the Blue or Purple category at all. ---
**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 13, 2025, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/875 "2025-06-13T08:51:04Z")
I have never heard of any of Blue. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/876 "2025-06-13T10:15:03Z")
As I pointed out above there were definitely four good answers to the red herring. I’m not sure which one you missed. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/877 "2025-06-13T12:47:15Z")
Parts of an eye Iris, Lens, Rod and Cone definitely got me today. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/878 "2025-06-13T13:47:18Z")
I was misled by that red herring. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/879 "2025-06-13T14:11:17Z")
> **Summary** > > Never hear of a perspective called a BENT. A bend yes, but not a bent. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/880 "2025-06-13T14:19:12Z")
It’s more an inclination than a perspective, I would have said. But maybe the puzzlemaker is of a different bent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=45)