The colors are coded “straightforward to tricky,” according to the How to Play Connections info. Yellow->Green->Blue->Purple.
Interesting, I did not see that in the instructions. Thanks.
I’m not sure what the point of that is, since you only see the color after you’ve solved a group.
Someone upthread said that there was a puzzle made up only of two-letter words; does anyone have a copy of that, or know what day it was?
I do remember an episode of Only Connect where the connecting walls (both puzzles) consisted only of numbers.
Today’s (9/7) was kind of dumb. I thought they were being super clever by using something obvious as something else so I sat staring at it for a long time but it was just the thing that was obvious. To be more specific, I was like, oh that’s cute they used four movie titles but in different ways. It wasn’t different ways; it was literally just the four movie titles.
Glad I wasn’t the only person to have this opinion!
Agreed. Disappointing. They’re generally getting better overall, but the movie title thing was just stupid.
I miss the math quiz the NYT puzzle page used to have. I rather liked that.
Agreed. One trick pony today.
I’ve been looking at it off and on for hours trying to find some clever connection between the words. I came here to confirm that I’m wasting my time. I don’t know what they were thinking. I’m not even going to bother putting in the answers.
I found it stupid enough to almost put me off the game entirely.
Can anyone come up with a single other non-answer movie title with any four of those words?
There are four man’s first names: Max, Harry, Roger, Rocky
Otherwise, I got nuthin’.
Agree that it was stupid today.
It was August 13. The words were:
MA LA NA NU
PI NI TI HE
FA XI PA FE
DO CO MU ME
Thank you.
If I had to guess…
DO FA LA TI (Notes in solfege)
MU NU XI PI (Greek letters)
HE NA FE NI (Atomic symbols)
CO ME MA PA (Two-letter postal abbreviations of states)
I copied a couple walls from Only Connect. Try this one:
| 1999 | 1500 | 5,6,7,8 | 27 |
| 1837 | 1 | 1702 | 400 |
| 125 | One | 110 | 343 |
| 1558 | 10,000 | 5.15 | 1952 |
Answers should probably be spoilerd.
There is a Facebook group for “Only Connect Questions”, where people make up their own questions for the other group members to solve, drawing from any of the four rounds on the show:
Round 1 – find the connection
Round 2 - What comes fourth in the sequence
Round 3 - connecting wall
Round 4 - Missing vowels
Most of them are ridiculously hard, because any that aren’t get solved almost immediately. Red herrings often abound.
Here’s one of my R3 efforts - I can’t do a grid so I’ll just do a list:
- Anne
- Caly
- Emma
- Glenda
- Helen
- Helena
- Judi
- Madison
- Oliver
- Olympia
- Pierre
- Quentin
- Remi
- Rosetta
- Sharon
- Thora
Good puzzle. If I had to guess:
Emma, Oliver, Rosetta, Sharon (______ Stone)
Helena, Madison, Olympia, Pierre (U.S. state capitals)
Caly, Glenda, Judi, Thora (male names with an ending which makes them feminine)
Anne, Helen, Quentin, Remi (haven’t a clue, but maybe film directors)
I feel good about the first two groups; not at all sure on the last two.
Correct on the first two, way off on the second two (and the groupings are wrong).
Of course they’re hard; it’s Only freakin’ Connect. Sometimes I’m surprised if I get any of the questions correct (I’m not a dolphin). I did have a proud moment on one of the sequences that Victoria said was impossible, but I got it in two clues.
And I’m decent at the missing vowels round, as long as it’s not something UK-centric.
My turn to guess:
1,27, 125, 343 - cubes of the first four positive odd numbers
One, 5,6,7,8, 5.15, 1999 - song titles
1558, 1702, 1837 1952 - years the reigns of English/British Queens began (E I, Anne, Victoria, E II)
110, 400, 1500, 10000 - no idea yet
All correct so far.
Olympic races distances?