# 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:** 57
**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 10, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1121 "2025-07-10T06:35:14Z")
Connections Puzzle #760 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 I see all of us found green first so far. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1122 "2025-07-10T10:15:18Z")
Me too, though I got green, yellow and blue pretty much instantly, did not get the purple link however. ---
**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 10, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1123 "2025-07-10T16:20:45Z")
Connections Puzzle #760 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Got blue quickly, the rest were equally apparent after that. It can be disappointing when they’re this easy. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1124 "2025-07-10T23:13:43Z")
Didn’t get any of Friday’s connection, closest I got was purple but only knew three of the connections Google is the only yellow I have ever heard used as a verb I have not used any of the greens used in this context though in hindsight am vague aware of a couple of them Blue was one of those groups I just missed the link I have never heard of Mien and was trying to find homophones like men and mine as I had no idea how to pronounce it. ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1125 "2025-07-11T04:08:08Z")
Kinda tricky today, but I solved it. Nearly a reverse rainbow, as the cool kids would call it. Connections Puzzle #761 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1126 "2025-07-11T06:26:07Z")
Connections Puzzle #761 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Another perfect reverse rainbow. Almost went for the red herring but decided to eliminate some other options first. ---
**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 11, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1127 "2025-07-11T07:14:12Z")
Connections Puzzle #761 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Saw yellow immediately, had to have a bit of a think about the others but not for too long. ---
**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 11, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1128 "2025-07-11T08:34:49Z")
End of the day, I rushed through it, so naturally I messed up. Puzzle #761 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1129 "2025-07-11T12:40:06Z")
Today was my 100th win in a row. I really increased my win rate when I began solving the entire puzzle before entering any answers. It helps to think of it like a Rubik’s Cube, getting one β€œside” is meaningless on its own. Connections Puzzle #761 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**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 11, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1130 "2025-07-11T12:58:59Z")
Connections Puzzle #761 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Even though I got purple third: OFFAL and _awful_ are not homophones in my dialect. Plus I learned I’ve been saying MIEN wrong all this time (as two syllables), though, to be honest, I don’t really use that word, perhaps for that reason. Yellow I just completely backed into. After the one away, I thought it was β€œstandalone apps” and I unclicked YAHOO and picked PHOTOSHOP. While I bet a Yahoo app exists, I had never heard of one, and it just felt like it didn’t belong in the category. I got lucky there. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1131 "2025-07-11T13:19:32Z")
Got purple first but made mistakes. Got hit by a red herring of Birds that I am not sure was intentional or just something I saw. ---
**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 11, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1132 "2025-07-11T14:16:19Z")
I saw that, but only three really fit and one was unsatisfying. FOWL didn’t work for me because it was a general category of bird, while the others were specific birds, and _usually_ Connections categories are neater than that. But not always. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1133 "2025-07-11T18:50:40Z")
Blue first for me today, followed by Purple, which I solved by saying offal and mien aloud.. Then I got semi-baffled by Yellow, which I thought could have five entries, but finally figured out which of those five fit with the remaining 3 (Green) clues. ---
**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 12, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1134 "2025-07-12T04:06:37Z")
Major fail for me. Completely missed them all. Only got Blue through luck. Really tough. Even Yellow was too hard. Puzzle #762 🟩🟨🟦πŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨πŸŸͺ🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟨πŸŸͺ🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨 ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1135 "2025-07-12T06:13:53Z")
Got 762 without too much trouble but one mistake. I got purple immediately, it is a category I am more familiar with than most. I thought I was able to identify the actual answers from the red herrings in what turned out to be blue but turned out to be wrong. With a bit of thought got yellow and green which obviously then gave blue. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1136 "2025-07-12T06:23:27Z")
Connections Puzzle #762 🟦🟩🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I missed on the time one, using second, minute, day and age. I then got yellow and green. I was pretty sure about blue then looked at the remaining ones, saw the NATO link and got the rest. ---
**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 12, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1137 "2025-07-12T13:14:29Z")
Connections Puzzle #762 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Purple stuck out for me. The rest took a little whittling. ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1138 "2025-07-12T21:54:51Z")
Sunday’s puzzle: I question one of the words in Green, and only got Purple by default as it’s not a field I am familiar with. Still, four for four. Puzzle #763 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1139 "2025-07-12T23:58:18Z")
I did get green I know which green Guanolad is referring to but am in no position to question it As I am not an American. Totally failed on the others, with hindsight I can see the blue link but I have not heard of **any** of the yellow and purple used in the context of the link. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1140 "2025-07-13T05:49:33Z")
Connections Puzzle #763 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=58)