# 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:** 55
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1081 "2025-07-04T23:45:08Z")
pretty straight forward for me as well, no UScentric clues. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1082 "2025-07-05T01:07:56Z")
Everyone complaining about the U.S.-centric clues could just watch _Only Connect_ on youtube. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1083 "2025-07-05T05:25:04Z")
Connections Puzzle #755 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ People were right. That literally took less than a minute. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1084 "2025-07-05T07:38:19Z")
Connections Puzzle #755 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I got purple right away and green and yellow were also easy. Blue took embarrassingly long to see…I was stuck on fitting nouns didn’t think of them all as verbs ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1085 "2025-07-05T09:34:40Z")
The only connect wall is far more difficult than the NYT and I 5hink 9nly 0ossible 2ith unlimited tries until you only have two left. Watching it you can try and work out tge connections but you can not really work out which of the 5 or 6 connected words form a group. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1086 "2025-07-05T10:37:29Z")
Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow (with one error). Purple was so easy… ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1087 "2025-07-05T10:39:20Z")
My experience with today’s blue was the same. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1088 "2025-07-05T12:34:39Z")
> [@mattgg](#): > > (…) I take a screenshot of the puzzle and mark up the groups I find. (…) Thanks for the idea. Writing down the words/groups seems too obsessive, but taking a screen grab and highlighting the groups in different colors is easy and fun. I play on an iPad and the markers and erasers pop right up when I grab the screen. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1089 "2025-07-05T18:41:19Z")
Connections Puzzle #755 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not much excitement here. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1090 "2025-07-05T23:17:23Z")
Today’s Purple is… well, I’ll let you all discover it for yourself. Puzzle #756 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1091 "2025-07-05T23:20:38Z")
**Sunday** Failed on this one. Yellow and green I found very easy but only know 2 of the blue group. Regarding Purple I would disagree with of the answers. Decaf ends in β€œcaf” which is not a homophone for calf which is pronounced β€œcarf” and the end of Prussian I would pronounce β€œshun” which I assume they are claiming is a homophone of shin. Are they closer with any American accents? ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1092 "2025-07-06T00:04:11Z")
yeah purple doesnt work at all for me I only got it from the other three categories being so easy. After purple could not really predict the colour of the other categories - they all seemed equally obvious ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1093 "2025-07-06T04:15:09Z")
Not a fan of that purple but it was my last one. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1094 "2025-07-06T05:07:37Z")
Connections Puzzle #756 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Purple was tough but I saw it at the end. I thought it was fair enough as I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this category type before. I just didn’t like one of the words for it PRUSSIAN. I don’t pronounce that last syllable quite as β€œshin” but with a schwa. In my accent, β€œcalf” and the end of β€œdecaf” are pronounced exactly the same, though. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1095 "2025-07-06T05:35:15Z")
Connections Puzzle #756 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ No way was I ever getting purple. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1096 "2025-07-06T07:51:13Z")
Connections Puzzle #756 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Yeah, only got purple by process of elimination. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1097 "2025-07-06T09:30:20Z")
There’s a reason I refer to purple as the stupid category. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1098 "2025-07-06T11:50:15Z")
I find it the most fun one, honestly. That and blue are usually the only ones that require some creative thinking. Usually. Every once in a while even the yellow is a bit tough. Then again, my favorite NYTimes crossword day is Thursday, and some people really hate that one for being less straightforward and often gimmicky. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1099 "2025-07-07T05:17:42Z")
Connections Puzzle #757 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Those were all reasonable, nothing hard to guess. My one mistake was actually a miss-click but ah well.. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1100 "2025-07-07T06:23:01Z")
Connections Puzzle #757 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Another straightforward one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=56)