I REALLY want to love Connections because I love taxonomy. Sadly i am too autistic and the commonalities I find are often "incorrect" even if they're accurate. And then I'm reminded that the game is actually to read the puzzle editor's mind, not to find a correct taxonomic category, and I get upset.
IN FAIRNESS: crossword puzzles, and lots of other kinds of puzzles that I enjoy, also are primarily "read the editor's mind" challenges. So i recognize that this is 100% a Me Problem.
You may enjoy the UK TV Show 'Only Connect' because if you can justify your answer to the host, she will award you the points, even if it's not what the question-setter had in mind :)
This! I do still think the puzzle should be "proofread" as to not have other possible commonalities aside from the intended one. Of course this will never be 100%, but it should not happen as often as it does lol
This is so life affirming!!? Thanks, I feel so seen!
I fully get why my complaint is 100% inactionable, but I still wish a bitch could get like half-credit for finding AN accurate taxonomic grouping. Like c'mon how come I gotta be "wrong" just cuz I didn't get the specific jokey answer u wanted
hahaha yes, it happened constantly to me too. (I think it also comes from 1 me not being american and 2 english not being my first language) I truly feel like there should be SOMEONE making sure there weren't other possible answers!
Oh I know! I'm in the minority here, I recognize that and wouldn't want to ruin the game for everyone else. I just get frustrated when the red herrings are also correct answers to "what do all of these have in common" and even moreso when I can name multiple commonalities that all aren't the answer
This! Additionally I am not “good” at pop culture, which means some days the puzzles are just puzzling for an entirely different reason. Between this and missed connections, it became more frustrating than fun overall. Alas…
No, I have exactly the same problem. I can make connections, but I'm supposed to guess what connections someone else made. And that's much less satisfying than a crossword, IMO. A crossword has a clue system built into its design because intersecting words have to make sense.
I love Wendover & those boys so much. Can't get enough. I hope @legaleagle crushes criminally acting honey for their duplicitous greedy scheme too. Nebula rocks.
I always only ever get the purple correct by default bc they're the last four tiles left. and bc of this, I don't feel like I deserve to call myself good at connections 😂
There is no game that I hate more but still play than Connections. Enjoyable when I get it but only like 1% of failures come with an "ohhh, I get it now" instead of "that's dumb, you made a bad puzzle"
I picked up on the blue pretty quickly, but forgot the 4th one so that led to some wrong guesses. Ended up getting there though. The purple is some nonsense though.
Yeah I gave up, it just didn't make any sense to me. I should have just come back to it later, it usually clicks better later in the day, but I was desperate to know where the hell Sonic the Hedgehog fit in.
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I barely got it. But I got it.
I fully get why my complaint is 100% inactionable, but I still wish a bitch could get like half-credit for finding AN accurate taxonomic grouping. Like c'mon how come I gotta be "wrong" just cuz I didn't get the specific jokey answer u wanted
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Eight is five letters, as in a figure eight.
Clove is five, and so is hitch, so both words of a Clove Hitch.
Noose is five.
Twine is five, but that’s the rope not the knot.
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Oof for that purple
centipedes have tails
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Blue jumped out at me but feel stupid for dropping that purple in it, as soon as I'd done it I was like no dur
No I’m extremely salty about missing RR why do you ask?
the ingredients for an Old Fashioned were first a few days ago, which drops a hint at the demography of the regulars
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My big ridk was guessing on the order or yellow and green. I got lucky and got them right for RR.
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I almost didn’t get it. Tricky one
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i am a wee bit of a cheater as i do them every morning in bed with my girlfriend to wake up our brains
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Where do people find uniqueness statistics?
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Don’t think I ever would have gotten purple today
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I liked this one though, some days I roll my eyes. Like the one with just four words from a song lyric.
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Some are easy.
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I had juuust enough video game knowledge to guess what blue was but not what was in it.
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One small miscalculation, and then it came together.
As usual, purple was "Really????"
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one of the better ones i've done in a while!
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Purple made me crazy
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Purple made me smile right away lol
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I used to be so good at Reverse Rainbows, but I'm getting this far more often than (k)not lately.
Also, I thought you were being much more literal than you were, since "knots" is the theme of the NYT Crossword today.
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Me when I lose connections: What narcissist gets to be the arbiter of how words go together?
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Hammered it after a confusing start. It was a bit diabolical.
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In the order I found them. Purple was leftovers, I didn't make the connection.
Knowing blue made the rest of the puzzle fairly easy for me.
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Whew, if I hadn’t gotten blue first I think I would’ve struggled a lot more