I got green and yellow, which left only blue and purple. I took a guess, and did NOT get a “one away” message. Thinking about it a bit, that meant I must have had exactly two correct, and two not.
I find it interesting to reverse engineer puzzles, sometimes. You can get information that leads to a solution, sometimes. I remember a case of someone doing something similar on a game show, once.
I almost blew it trying to brute-force it after yellow and green. Things you’d find in an entryway? Sherlock Holmes? Baseball coach things, maybe? With one try left, I hit shuffle a couple times. I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne… I mean art history. Then an obscure Paul Simon song started in my head.
Yesterday’s was my first bust since April 1. I kept getting one away for blue and purple and was just a little off in my category theme that I just started throwing words at the wall. Odd thing is, I actually had the purple category correct, then switched out one of the words. Oh well. I could’ve put it aside and let it dwell in my brain and probably have gotten it later on, but I’m impatient, and don’t really care if I break a streak.
I was at a bit of a loss today. I found yellow but was stumped until I figured out purple. Then it all fell into place.
Green, yellow, purple, blue for me today (with one error)
Saw the Purple but doubted it so got yellow first then purple and then the rest.
Got Purple first (a rarity for me), but only after a couple of hiccups. Then Yellow, followed by Green. Blue was a bit of a stretch category, IMO.
I saw yellow first and made one wrong guess. There were five possible answers, and I didn’t want to burn too many guesses trying to find the odd one out. Then I solved blue and purple. I still had five possible answers for yellow, so I clicked the other three and figured out which other word went with them. That left the four yellow.
I got purple first today because LUTE stood out as having nothing matching it as a musical instrument. BRED was similar, so homophones it was. Then yellow, green and blue with no mistakes.
Sometimes the category descriptions the NYT use are so bizarre or specific, it’s kind of absurd. If I am within an astronomical unit of them, I am pleased and consider it a win.
Today got blue, yellow, green but didn’t get purple.
I knew it had to do with adding a letter with mazing but I was stuck after that.
Thought it was just words missing a vowel and made enough wrong guesses to fail. Was already one guess down because I picked the wrong criminal group, Order.
As is often the case, I thought Purple today was more than a bit of a stretch as a category. Fortunately I got the other three with just one miss.
My daughter caught the trick for purple, and we got the category fairly easily, but not for the way the category was specifically described. We were thinking more generally. I got “Amazing” from “mazing,” obviously, and she’s the one who saw “Good” for “goo” and “Genius” for “genus.” I spotted “Solid” for “sold” but I just thought the category was something like “positive evaluative adjectives” or something like that.
Got green and yellow then wasted three guesses on blue before finally figuring out purple. I knew what blue was but just had five options.
I made too many mistakes regarding slang.
I was down to two categories, one of which was the one you just referenced. I was on the same wrong track as you, so I gave up and was able to solve the other (Purple) category, leaving slang as my default.
I blame Back To the Future for my one mistake getting blue today.
Purple first day! Got yellow next, struggled a bit with green and took blue as the remainder
I had to look up PARENS. I have, never, ever seen that used in the wild.