# 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:** 73
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1441 "2025-08-13T04:21:30Z")
Connections Puzzle #794 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Once I saw blue, it was relatively easy. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1442 "2025-08-13T05:17:18Z")
Connections Puzzle #794 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨πŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Couldn’t find the fourth yellow. I was using the wrong pronounciation for ENTRANCE and I just kept looking for the fourth. The first two were easy. Once I realized the last one for yellow I figured out purple. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1443 "2025-08-13T09:03:50Z")
Quick and easy reverse rainbow this morning. Connections Puzzle #794 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:** [August 13, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1444 "2025-08-13T12:11:37Z")
Connections Puzzle #794 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Straightforward. ---
**Author:** ![mattgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mattgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattgg)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1445 "2025-08-13T15:00:03Z")
sorry, wrong thread ---
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1446 "2025-08-13T15:56:53Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Couldn’t find the fourth yellow. I was using the wrong pronounciation for ENTRANCE and I just kept looking for the fourth. Heh. Until I read this message, I had no idea why that word belonged with the other three! ---
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1447 "2025-08-13T15:58:32Z")
Relatively common trick for Connections – always be on the lookout for those! ---
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1448 "2025-08-13T16:31:50Z")
Connections Puzzle #794 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ I was surprised blue wasn’t yellow. It jumped out at me with flashing neon lights and sirens. (There _is_ a band called β€œThe Thrills,” but they aren’t a girl group.) ---
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1449 "2025-08-13T17:00:10Z")
Yeah, blue was conspicuous, but it’s not the type of clue that is usually yellow. At least not to me. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1450 "2025-08-13T17:18:39Z")
Yeah, yellow is usually just simple synonyms. When the puzzle is easy, I often struggle figuring out which is going to be yellow. My dream is an ultra-hard version in which every category is purple, going from mauve, plum, violet and purple; but each category is equally difficult. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1451 "2025-08-13T19:17:51Z")
I had the same problem with that one word ---
**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:** [August 13, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1452 "2025-08-13T20:47:17Z")
**Thursday’s** puzzle is extremely easy. If you struggled with them at all this week, this one is the opposite of that. Puzzle #795 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1453 "2025-08-13T21:57:29Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Heh. Until I read this message, I had no idea why that word belonged with the other three! Ditto ---
**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:** [August 14, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1454 "2025-08-14T04:49:35Z")
Connections Puzzle #795 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Easy enough. I liked purple. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1455 "2025-08-14T04:51:21Z")
Connections Puzzle #795 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Pretty straightforward. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1456 "2025-08-14T11:07:35Z")
Fat finger error, but a mistake is a mistake. Connections Puzzle #795 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:** [August 14, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1457 "2025-08-14T13:34:51Z")
Connections Puzzle #795 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I’m getting tired of totally missing reverse rainbows. I just can’t judge the non-purple categories most of the time. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1458 "2025-08-14T14:05:53Z")
That’s odd. I never really vared what order I solved the puzzle in until posters here started mentioning it. Today I got purple first, so I tried to do the reverse rainbow thing. I succeeded, possibly for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1459 "2025-08-14T14:14:17Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m getting tired of totally missing reverse rainbows. I just can’t judge the non-purple categories most of the time. I long ago came to terms with the fact that I utterly suck at guessing which category will be yellow vs green vs blue. Purple is usually fairly obvious, but the others can go any which way. It does tend to be more likely that synonyms will be lower difficulty than collections of items with something in common, which was the case today, so I actually got a reverse rainbow on this puzzle. But while I make a moderate effort to get purple first, I don’t spend more than a moment’s concern over getting the rest in reverse order. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1460 "2025-08-14T14:14:47Z")
Sometimes it’s pretty clear to me which are which, but when everything is pretty easy, I can’t tell. Like I mistook yellow for blue today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=74)