# 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:** 76
**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 19, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1501 "2025-08-19T12:42:38Z")
Connections Puzzle #800 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Medium for me. ---
**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 19, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1502 "2025-08-19T14:37:39Z")
Connections Puzzle #800 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Second day in a row I got purple first without tryingβ€”it was just the easiest one. I have to admit I never figured out blue today. I got hung up on PLYMOUTH the car brand, and the other three were not much help. I mean, β€œTHE”? Come on. It could literally be anything. ---
**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 19, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1503 "2025-08-19T14:47:14Z")
Yeah I was certain today’s blue was purple. ---
**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 19, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1504 "2025-08-19T16:21:00Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I have to admit I never figured out blue today. > [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah I was certain today’s blue was purple. Proving yet again that everybody thinks a bit differently, Blue was my first category today. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1505 "2025-08-19T16:36:22Z")
I live in the South West of England, where we have both Dartmouth and Plymouth as place names, which threw me somewhat! ---
**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 19, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1506 "2025-08-19T17:02:29Z")
Blue was my first too, I just thought I for sure had purple given the type of category it was. ---
**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 19, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1507 "2025-08-19T20:53:41Z")
This is Wednesday’s puzzle, and the errors I made were thinking faster than I was moving. I should not have made them. Puzzle #801 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺ🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 ---
**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 20, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1508 "2025-08-20T05:32:18Z")
Connections Puzzle #801 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ This could have gone in any order really, I saw what the groups and their members were immediately and they all seemed of the same level of difficulty. Was there some sort of red herring? Couldn’t see one. ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1509 "2025-08-20T06:27:30Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > This could have gone in any order really I **be** saying this. And yet again. In retrospect, the one that needed a more complex definition was clearly purple. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1510 "2025-08-20T07:42:30Z")
Connections Puzzle #801 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ The error I made was I had no idea what claves were and I had two categories in which they could be the fourth since I missed dominos as being black and white and spent too much time avoiding being sucked into stripes and dots. ---
**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 20, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1511 "2025-08-20T11:14:07Z")
Another really easy one. Connections Puzzle #801 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 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 20, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1512 "2025-08-20T12:25:47Z")
Connections Puzzle #801 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Agree that these could have been any order, though I did suss out the one I thought was most difficult as purple. ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1513 "2025-08-20T12:29:11Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Another really easy one. Agreed. Done in less than 30 seconds, two days in a row. ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1514 "2025-08-20T12:43:12Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Agreed. Done in less than 30 seconds, two days in a row. I am worried that they’ve dumbed the game down, it seems like we’ve had a long streak of easy puzzles. ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1515 "2025-08-20T12:49:02Z")
I’m not really feeling them easier than baseline. But we all perceive difficulty differently. Today’s took me a couple minutes to suss out, but I was purple hunting and they didn’t have any obvious purple words (in my opinion) to start. I find a lot of times puzzles people find difficult I finish in under a minute and ones they find easy to be medium-to-medium hard. ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1516 "2025-08-20T12:50:53Z")
It’s funny, sometimes a puzzle is rated as hard and I breeze through it and sometimes I struggle with puzzles that are rated as easy. Often, it’s a matter of pop culture references closer to my age cohort being baffling to young people and vice versa. ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1517 "2025-08-20T12:51:49Z")
Anybody play the new game β€œPips”? Thoughts? I only played through easy mode and it didn’t seem interesting enough 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:** [August 20, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1518 "2025-08-20T13:07:38Z")
I played all 3, it was … fun enough. Certainly better than fucking _Tiles_. ---
**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 20, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1519 "2025-08-20T13:09:21Z")
Yeah, I’ve never ventured a full game out of that one, but I think my 9-year-old enjoyed it. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796/1520 "2025-08-20T13:17:16Z")
I never heard of claves as an English word. I also don’t think of the yin-yang symbol as black and white…just look at the flag of South Korea as a counterexample. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-wordle-try-connections/988796.md?page=77)