# 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:** 65
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1281 "2025-07-25T06:03:37Z")
Connections Puzzle #775 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I saw blue immediately but was sure it was a red herring. I finally tried it when I had nothing else. I saw purple only when they were the only ones left. ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1282 "2025-07-25T08:50:09Z")
Rainbow order. I couldn’t figure out Purple’s category, and once it was revealed I say Queen Size Bed, so it wasn’t going to happen. Puzzle #775 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 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 25, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1283 "2025-07-25T11:39:26Z")
Connections Puzzle #775 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ---
**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 25, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1284 "2025-07-25T17:59:43Z")
Connections Puzzle #775 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Pretty easy today. I saw green right away, but figured it was the red herring. ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1285 "2025-07-25T20:20:54Z")
Connections Puzzle #775 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 That was too easy to be blue ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1286 "2025-07-26T00:17:19Z")
Saturday’s game. It got a bit tricky, but I managed a clean sweep. Puzzle #776 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1287 "2025-07-26T05:12:57Z")
Connections Puzzle #776 🟦πŸŸͺ🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Clearly fell for the red herring. Also did not get purple . TBH, Americans suck at geography. I thought Luxembourg was only a country and didn’t realize it was also the name of the capital and when I see Sarajevo I think of Yugoslavia which isn’t a country anymore so I didn’t realize that it was still a capital. In case you didn’t see it, the red herring was STAR\_\_\_\_ ---
**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 26, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1288 "2025-07-26T05:14:49Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Clearly fell for the trap. What was the fourth? I couldn’t figure out what they wanted me to click so abandoned it. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1289 "2025-07-26T05:15:20Z")
I put hunter.It made as much sense to me as Bottle green ---
**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 26, 2025, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1290 "2025-07-26T06:03:30Z")
Connections Puzzle #776 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Thought blue and green should have been switched in order of difficulty. I had never heard of BOTTLE green as a specific named shade of the color, but after staring at the board I guessed it must have been the fourth as nothing else made sense.Purple was fair but I wouldn’t have seen it without eliminating all the other categories. ---
**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 26, 2025, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1291 "2025-07-26T06:20:55Z")
Connections Puzzle #776 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Came together quickly for me. ---
**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 26, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1292 "2025-07-26T07:52:14Z")
Connections Puzzle #776 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Took until I unraveled blue to see what the actual purple link was, but those first three could have gone in any order really. I definitely knew all the kinds of -Green. Maybe you need to be in a wine-drinking area for the BOTTLE one And for that red herring, what was the fourth? I see 3 : ANISE, TREK and WARS ---
**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 26, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1293 "2025-07-26T08:30:27Z")
I think you can still call it a red herring if it’s only three. Those three were not accidentally there β€” they were there to throw you off the trail. But they did not make a complete set so easy to discard. ---
**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 26, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1294 "2025-07-26T20:50:34Z")
Connections Puzzle #776 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Tough one for me today. LUXE seemed more likely to be a shade of green than BOTTLE. Ah well. Never did figure out purple. ---
**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 26, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1295 "2025-07-26T22:58:08Z")
Sunday’s puzzle. I think I got lost in vernacular I am unfamiliar with. Puzzle #777 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩πŸŸͺ🟩🟩 πŸŸͺ🟩πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩πŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1296 "2025-07-27T05:47:05Z")
Connections Puzzle #777 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I thought this one was very straightforward. ---
**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 27, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1297 "2025-07-27T07:40:30Z")
Connections Puzzle #777 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟩🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Damn red herrings got me. Twice. Also, the purple connection was dumb. ---
**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 27, 2025, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1298 "2025-07-27T10:56:25Z")
Connections Puzzle #777 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Reverse rainbow pretty straightforward puzzle. I relish the non-Americans complaining in the connections comments at The NY Times. It’s always the Brits and Aussies, never the people from other countries. ---
**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 27, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1299 "2025-07-27T13:53:30Z")
Connections Puzzle #777 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟩πŸŸͺ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Just a little hiccup. Relatively straightforward. ---
**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 28, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1300 "2025-07-28T04:30:39Z")
Connections Puzzle #778 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Relatively easy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=64) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=66)