I got Yellow and then Blue. Then I finally figured out Purple. When Green was revealed, it was definitely a ‘duh’ moment.
Today’s puzzle was tricky. Yellow first. Green took a few minutes. I took a guess on purple and got “one away”, so that meant the unguessed were also three-out-of-four. After staring at them for a while, I figured out the characters from greek myths, but I solved the purple first.
I bombed on today’s puzzle (12/4) and still don’t understand the purple category.
Other names for a bathroom: CAN, JOHN, LOO, TOILET
Thanks!
My office has a weekly meeting on Wednesdays, and my supervisor will usually put up the day’s Connections for us to solve collectively. It’s an ego boost to ID a foursome or two that ~15 co-workers couldn’t.
I got the needles right away. Then figured out the Greek myths soon after, prompting cries of dismay from those who said they liked that subject and should have known.
After a few days of hard ones 12/5 seemed easier. Got blue and purple first and second and the rest fell into place.
Once again, on 12/6 I got the purple category only by default. Perhaps somebody can give me an example of ‘Pilled’ being a colloquial suffix?
Otherwise, I thought yellow and green were pretty easy, and blue took just a moment of contemplation.
I’m stuck on blue and purple. I’ll have to circle back later and hope for an aha moment as I endlessly shuffle.
Summary
To my knowledge, “pilled” is only ever used in the case of “red-pilled,” which is a reference to The Matrix and means that you’ve had a dramatic awakening to the reality of a situation. I think this makes it a bad addition to the category, as the other three are frequently appended to a whole variety of words and transform the meanings in an understood fashion. “X-pilled” doesn’t mean anything in any other case, and hence imho “pilled” isn’t actually a colloquial suffix.
Well, there’s “black-pilled” but that is hopefully not in common usage.
I’ve never heard of pilled as a suffix, nor core
red pilled. Hardcore.
Tough puzzle today. I got yellow okay, then green. Took me a while, but I eventually got purple.
TIL that Pokémon is a portmanteau for Pocket Monster. I thought it was just a Japanese word/translation.
I suspected it because three others also appeared to be portmanteaux, so I read the Wikipedia article to verify.
I got purple before blue today, almost by accident, as I was down to one guess. I don’t think I would have ever gotten blue.
Today’s blue category was one of those where, if it’s the last four words left I can figure it out if I think about it, but never would have gotten it otherwise.
Dammit. I was on the right track with blue, but I didn’t see the “one away” comment, so I discarded that train of thought and did not finish. I would have gotten the last two categories if I had only seen the “one away.” (And I verified in the results there was a “one away.”)
Blue (portmanteaux) was the second one I got today. I did know about “pocket monster.”
I never did figure out the connection for green. Two of the four may or may not fit the category. Didn’t like that one.