If you pay for a subscription to NY Times games, you get to play all of the old puzzles.
I’ve been going through old Connections puzzles for a while. I think I’m back almost two years ago by now. And I asked them to add the Spelling Bee archives. (I’ve been going through the Wordle and Connections archives but those games only take a few minutes but Spelling Bee takes a while to get through.)
Never mind…
Dec 24th made me want to smash my computer with a sledgehammer.
Frankly, in the Connections puzzle of December 24, 2024, there is a misdirect (in the yellow category) that turns out not to be so.
Oh, goody! I can hardly wait until tomorrow!
You don’t have to wait; just set your computer or phone’s time zone to after midnight (I think GMT would work), and you can do tomorrow’s Connections, Wordle and Strands puzzles.
I’m not that anxious. I can wait until I wake up tomorrow morning.
Yes, that’s why I decided to delete my post. It’s a double red herring!
I thought yellow was hilarious.
Got purple by elimination, would never, ever have gotten it otherwise.
I thought yellow was too obvious, especially since it was comprised of the entirety of the top row.
That was the misdirection.
Total dick move. I’m annoyed. (What do they call it when it’s even sillier that a first world problem?)
I remember a puzzle a while ago (I probably even mentioned it earlier in this thread) that was four very obvious movie titles and I spent a long time looking for something deeper but there was nothing else there.
That’s why it was hilarious, because that sort of thing is never actually a category.
You were snookered into thinking “lions and tigers and bears, oh my” was a misdirect, too?
Me too. I really look forward to that fucking robot telling me “Go ahead! Add to your zero day streak!”
I need to find contact information for whoever coded the page. They need to be reminded (or informed) that a losing streak is still a streak.
I kinda liked today’s Connections.
I have a beef with whoever coded the Wordle page. I had a streak of 419 wins. I got the next day right, but it didn’t get saved for some reason, and the streak started over. I should be around 500 by now.
Reindeer!
It was funny because my 8-year-old called it out as a cat egg, and I very carefully explained to her how they do this sometimes and it’s just a red herring, only to lose and tell her she was, in fact, correct. I kinda knew they would do this at some point, but let my guard down.
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