If You Like "Wordle", Try "Connections"

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2101

Connections
Puzzle #871
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

I learned a couple of new words today! (But I didn’t look them up until after I’d finished the puzzle.)

2102

I did okay with Thursday’s game, except I did not figure out Purple. I still don’t know the specifics, so feel free to fill me in.

Puzzle #872
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

2103

Funny enough, the longer of the two oddball words showed up in a Youtube video today, completely unrelated to the Connections puzzle – a nice little bit of serendipity. (I had known that word before, but not the other one.)

2104

On Wednesday’s, purple jumped right out at me immediately, and blue felt like it should have been purple. And I also think that blue was inaccurate on one of the words.

2105

I think I’ve got Eugene Levy and Savannah Guthrie, but don’t know the other two.

2106

Connections
Puzzle #872
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

I figured the connection out,
Orlando Bloom, Austin Butler, Savannah Guthrie and Eugene Levy are who they meant, I think.
But I had to look up Savannah Guthrie because for fuck’s sake, she’s an obscure nobody outside the US.

2107

Thanks everyone. That’s a head scratcher for even the best players.

2108

Connections
Puzzle #872
:blue_square::purple_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

I knew what they were going for on blue but only was sure of three. Also didn’t get purple.

2109

A little embarrassed I didn’t see the yellow until it was the last one.

Connections
Puzzle #872
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:

2110

My blind spot in knowledge made purple impossible. Never heard of any of those. Fortunately the others were either obvious or pet subjects of mine.

Connections
Puzzle #872
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #872
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

I saw three of the blues right away (you know which three), but couldn’t nail down the fourth. My rationale for purple was ”Hey, Eugene and Orlando are cities! And Guthrie and Butler also look like people’s last names, so I’m going for it.” sometimes that works.

2112

For the Purple, While I didn’t know all the specific people, I guessed they were last names.

2113

It’s Friday! And they’re having fun at the NYT Puzzles section today.

Puzzle #873
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

2114

That’s how I got purple, too. The detailed connection, I had no clue of.

And the first thing I saw was three of the four blues, but I only got the last by process of elimination. Though having those three made me a lot more confident of the purple that I was iffy on.

2115

I got a purple first for the puzzle, and that’s exactly the logic I came to. Two of the answers are, to me, completely obscure and not anything I had heard of.

2116

That one totally flumoxed me. I kept thinking of Arlo Guthrie, (showing my age perhaps) and that got me nowhere :sweat_smile: obviously.

2117

That was fun. Not hard, though…
Connections
Puzzle #873
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

2118

Connections
Puzzle #873
:purple_square::green_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:green_square::purple_square::yellow_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::blue_square::green_square::blue_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

I failed. I did think of

Popeye, but after getting the anchor, spinach and pipe I couldn’t figure out the other one. I still see a Roomba, not a cap. Maybe I should have got Goldilocks but I was thinking oatmeal or rice, not porridge.

2119

Today’s was very cute and surprisingly easy for me.

2120

Could have been worse; I also thought of Woody Guthrie.