# 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:** 58
**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 13, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1141 "2025-07-13T08:45:17Z")
Connections Puzzle #763 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 My initial β€œglance around” survey saw ZIN and CHARD and sussed out purple. My mistake was putting RAG as an insult (yellow). ---
**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 13, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1142 "2025-07-13T13:07:00Z")
Quite easy for me today Connections Puzzle #763 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 ZIN stood out like a sore thumb. The only possible categories for it I could think of were wine or one of those β€œadd a letter” categories. I was expecting it to be blue, at most, and was surprised to see it purple. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1143 "2025-07-13T22:08:35Z")
Quick and easy today. Started with blue and then purple, and was surprised at the color each time. Then again, there wasn’t a purplish group in the bunch. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1144 "2025-07-14T05:00:57Z")
Connections Puzzle #764 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 I found this one incredibly hard. I saw blue first. Got purple although put flounders in as a guess because I wasn’t thinking of dropping just one letter and semi-guessed on green. I never actually got yellow. They were just the last four left. Also saw the red herring but luckily was looking for posh and never realized there were actually four answers there. ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1145 "2025-07-14T05:39:36Z")
Connections Puzzle #764 🟩🟦🟨πŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I did fall for the red herring. Otherwise it was easy enough. Had to think about purple for a bit though. ---
**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 14, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1146 "2025-07-14T09:10:00Z")
Really struggled with this one until I finally eliminated the Purple. Puzzle #764 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟦🟨🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1147 "2025-07-14T09:53:32Z")
Same - went straight for the red herring. After that it was smooth sailing. ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1148 "2025-07-14T10:17:33Z")
Got Green right away, followed quickly by Blue. Then had to think about it for a while before I got Yellow (which really should have been the Blue category!). Not sure I would have ever gotten Purple. After reading the preceding comments, I realized I have no idea what the red herring is today? I’m obviously missing something! ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1149 "2025-07-14T10:34:05Z")
Today’s [red herring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Girls). ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1150 "2025-07-14T10:37:16Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Today’s [red herring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Girls) OK, got it, and thanks. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1151 "2025-07-14T11:16:21Z")
Serves me right for thinking I’d got an easy one in my worst area. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1152 "2025-07-14T11:43:49Z")
Not too much difficulty for my forward rainbow. Got yellow straight away, then saw the red herring but as one had already gone it didn’t create a wrong guess. Green came shortly after then got 3 of the blues and guessed the 4th as it was the only one to make sense. Would never get purple Belle was the only one I got after I saw the connection ---
**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 14, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1153 "2025-07-14T12:31:39Z")
Connections Puzzle #764 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I don’t think I would ever have come up with purple. Not my wheelhouse. I had three of the four correct words sussed out from the beginning because they didn’t seem to fit the puzzle otherwise For example, BELLED is obviously an outlier of a word, and FLOUNDERS looked off, as the ending S didn’t reallly fit with the form of the other answers. I suspected ABUT as well, and I did remove letters, but the only Disney character I actually knew for sure was BELLE. I think ABU was a monkey, right? FLOUNDER? No idea? And is it SCAR or CARY, as I don’t know either of those, but I couldn’t find the link between them or what the fourth could be. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1154 "2025-07-14T13:15:24Z")
I fell for the red herring and am still angry that it wasn’t a correct answer. I never would have guessed the purple one without the process of elimination. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1155 "2025-07-14T13:25:46Z")
I didn’t make any mistakes but I had no idea hat the purple was until I saw the answer. I also didn’t see the Red Herring mentioned above because I got green immediately. ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1156 "2025-07-14T15:35:13Z")
The red herring was obvious - they omitted POSH but included ICE. I worked out green and blue first, but I _really_ should have seen purple earlier. I recognized three of them as suspiciously violet, but was stuck thinking The Simpsons instead of Disney. ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1157 "2025-07-14T15:39:07Z")
Yeah, my mind went there too, but it was too much of a stretch for me I was seeing FLOUNDERS\>Flanders and ABUT\>Apu somehow, but that seemed well beyond the type of mangling Connections accepts ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1158 "2025-07-14T16:31:23Z")
For the purple: Abu=monkey in Aladdin Flounder=fish in The Little Mermaid Scar=evil lion in The Lion King ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1159 "2025-07-14T19:01:56Z")
Connections Puzzle #764 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 > [@psychobunny](#): > > I never actually got yellow. They were just the last four left. Same here. First time that’s ever happened. ICE blue??? ---
**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 14, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1160 "2025-07-14T20:02:31Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > ICE blue??? Actually, it’s [blue ice.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(glacial)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=59)