# 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:** 59
**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, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1161 "2025-07-14T22:34:32Z")
No, I think **Wheelz** had it the first time.The category is “shades of blue.” “Blue ICE” is not a shade, it’s a type of ice. [ICE blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_blue#Ice_blue) is a shade. ---
**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, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1162 "2025-07-14T22:51:23Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > The category is “shades of blue.” Yes, you are correct. However, in my somewhat-addled mind, ‘Blue Ice’ is what solved it for me. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1163 "2025-07-14T23:50:47Z")
Blue ice and not ice blue? The latter is what I hear more often. ---
**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 15, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1164 "2025-07-15T00:15:37Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The latter is what I hear more often. Not me. I hear the former more often. It used to be a brand name for those ice-pack thingies that you freeze and then use in your cooler to keep your food cold. Not sure if that brand still exists, but that’s how I associate ‘blue ice’. Obviously, YMMV. ---
**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 15, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1165 "2025-07-15T04:48:40Z")
Connections Puzzle #765 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 This was OK - I just had a couple of false friends - I thought NOPE was in and REMOVE was the fakeout for green, and then I thought FEATHERS sounded like a horror movie after I remembered NOPE was one. Didn’t have them down to one year, though. Purple I saw after blue was eliminated but before i clicked. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1166 "2025-07-15T05:18:46Z")
Connections Puzzle #765 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I was completely stuck after the first two. It took several minutes to finally see purple and even knowing the blue category I might have only picked out one. Just not my category. I tried shy before the purple words before finally seeing horse. ---
**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 15, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1167 "2025-07-15T09:26:44Z")
I got them all pretty easily. I knew what Blue had to be, but couldn’t determine which was the fourth until they were the last category left. Puzzle #765 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1168 "2025-07-15T09:47:34Z")
Blue was not in my area of knewledge. I feel I should have got purple but did not. However I actually lucked out and got blue pretty much randomly. ---
**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 15, 2025, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1169 "2025-07-15T10:56:23Z")
Connections Puzzle #765 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Reverse rainbow today, 104th win in a row. ---
**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 15, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1170 "2025-07-15T12:35:18Z")
Connections Puzzle #765 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Figured out which word was likely purple from the onset but took me a bit to figure out how it was being used. FEATHERS was the obvious outlier to me, but I haven’t heard or used the expression “horse feathers” in such a long time that it didn’t occur to me until later in the puzzle.. Blue was a big WTH for me. I only positively identified one of the words as belonging to the category. I would have been screwed if it wasn’t my leftover category, though I was on the right track with the one I knew. I just didn’t know any others. ---
**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 15, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1171 "2025-07-15T12:53:24Z")
In general, yellow is obvious and green is synonyms. Purple is often word+\_\_, or add a letter/drop a letter. I like to solve the entire puzzle and then try to enter it in reverse rainbow, if I can. Sometimes, I can’t figure out which is supposed to be which. ---
**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 16, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1172 "2025-07-16T01:12:50Z")
Connections Puzzle #765 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I recognized NOPE, SCREAM, and SMILE as horror movies, but didn’t see a fourth. So after getting green and yellow, I needed to figure out purple to get blue. I did. 😊 ---
**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 16, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1173 "2025-07-16T05:12:34Z")
Connections Puzzle #766 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 All quite OK, blue actually had to think about. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1174 "2025-07-16T05:13:37Z")
Connections Puzzle #766 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pretty straightforward today although I did make a guess at words staring with rhymes for AM. ---
**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 16, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1175 "2025-07-16T08:55:46Z")
Quite a straightforward one for me today. I saw Purple immediately, but was worried it was a red herring. Puzzle #766 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1176 "2025-07-16T11:05:08Z")
Blue was my last because I don’t think I have ever heard of tree in that context. ---
**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 16, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1177 "2025-07-16T11:23:16Z")
BYPG today, no mistakes. > [@Quimby](#): > > Blue was my last because I don’t think I have ever heard of tree in that context. Think “hunting”, as in an animal being chased and driven up a tree. > [@Wheelz](#): > > I recognized NOPE, SCREAM, and SMILE as horror movies, but didn’t see a fourth. Same - I’d forgotten all about Pearl. ---
**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 16, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1178 "2025-07-16T13:50:18Z")
Connections Puzzle #766 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Saw purple immediately though it took me a few seconds to find the fourth. The rest were equally easy to me, so while I tried to reverse rainbow, I completely failed at figuring out the order of difficulty. No problems with blue for me. All were common to me in the sense they were used. ---
**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 16, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1179 "2025-07-16T13:51:48Z")
Same for me, including exact same solve order. Connections Puzzle #766 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**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 16, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1180 "2025-07-16T14:02:39Z")
There was a red herring today, but I only noticed it after solving one of the groups, so there were only three RH clues left. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=60)