NYT Games released the Dark Souls of Word-games: Connections

[Dr. Mario]

Connections
Puzzle #280
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟨🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I imagine this wasn't that hard for native speakers, but I didn't know the expression deep six so I went with deep nonsense, before figuring out I'd have to do the others first to make sense of it.

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #280
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

 

[FTF]

Connections
Puzzle #280
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟦🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I rushed again smh

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #280
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
The rare in-order solve from me today.

 

[wideface]

Connections
Puzzle #281
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

 

[Why would you do that?]

Completed 281 in under 2 minutes! Got purple first, too. For some reason I found this one to be pretty fun.

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #281
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

ACTIVE DAILY STREAK LEADERBOARD

UberTag - 20 In a Row
Doorman - 7 In a Row
ravn0s - 4 In a Row
Blackpuppy - 3 In a Row
wideface - 2 In a Row

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #281
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Make that 3 in a row…

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #281
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #281
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
Got through that right quick.

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #281
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Yeah, quite a quick one for me, too, but I found the connections involved pretty enjoyable!

 

[Dr. Mario]

Got this one in under 40 seconds, not sure that happened before

Connections
Puzzle #281
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

 

[Animus Vox]

Been slacking posting here but glad to see we're picking up more regulars. Today's was indeed straightforward and what I consider "fun", ie not super obscure. They kind of threw us a bone here by making purple not be a fill-in-the-blank.

 

[Catchphrase]

Connections
Puzzle #281
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Quick one today

 

[wideface]

Connections
Puzzle #282
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #282
🟨🟦🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Made a stupid choice in my first try.

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #282
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

ACTIVE DAILY STREAK LEADERBOARD

UberTag - 21 In a Row
Doorman - 8 In a Row
ravn0s - 5 In a Row
wideface - 2 In a Row

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #282
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #282
🟩🟨🟪🟩
🟨🟦🟨🟨
🟨🟩🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I might have got to the end, but my *word* I ballsed things up on the way through!

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #282
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
The fact that this turned out to be a perfect, in-order solve really camouflages how much I struggled on this one. Got through blue and purple more on a hunch than actually knowing either category.

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #282
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
The fact that this turned out to be a perfect, in-order solve really camouflages how much I struggled on this one. Got through blue and purple more on a hunch than actually knowing either category.

Click to shrink...

I stalled out on green for a solid 30 minutes after solving for yellow. So it was by no means an easy clear.

 

[Dr. Mario]

Crashed out on this one after only getting yellow. I don't have the patience for thirty minutes searching, lol. I broadly understood what green and blue were going for, but in the end couldn't get the exact category down. Purple makes sense in hindsight but there were too many words open to nail it down.

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #283
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Felt good figuring out purple.

 

[UberTag]

Yeah, today's connection was super clever.

Connections
Puzzle #283
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

ACTIVE DAILY STREAK LEADERBOARD

UberTag - 22 In a Row
ravn0s - 6 In a Row
wideface - 2 In a Row

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #283
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟪🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟪🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Yellow was annoying and purple was… yeah.

 

[Why would you do that?]

If you play Strands, I found today's game to be an especially fun one.

But otherwise, I failed the Connections because I thought Kisscam and Creamsicle were in other categories. I should've thought them both through a little harder, but I was trying to rush a bit.

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #283
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[mclem]

Rather pleased that Purple was the first I completed (Well, not the first I saw - that was Yellow, mostly - but when I was looking for where my mistake might be I saw Purple!)

Connections
Puzzle #283
🟨🟨🟪🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #283
🟨🟨🟪🟨
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
I fell for the obvious bait. Ugh.

 

[Dr. Mario]

Connections
Puzzle #283
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟪🟨
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[construct]

what the fuck

Connections
Puzzle #284
🟨🟨🟩🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟪

 

[FTF]

Connections
Puzzle #283
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Had no idea on purple, but thankfully never need it ha.

 

[UberTag]

<casually glances at today's Connections puzzle>

No way I'm even bothering to attempt this while I'm barely awake. This 3-letter nonsense can wait until the morning.

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #284
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Took me a while to get this one.

 

[Zocano]

I like these more when you know they're playing you

Connections
Puzzle #284
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Had to look up an alternate definition for some, in this case jaw since I've never ever heard it used in that context! Knew the category, just couldn't find the fourth readily.

 

[Dr. Mario]

Actually surprisingly straightforward

Connections
Puzzle #284
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

also didn't know jaw could be used as a verb so I went with pop first, as in pop off, pop a question, before looking up jaw in the dictionary

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #284
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Almost evil but one of those where you really had to go with your gut. Saw the palindromes early on but couldn't imagine it was that. Was largely torn on YAK since it was also an animal. Got stuck on the animals because I assumed it was animals you'd find on a farm, but DOE wouldn't really fit but went with it anyway and lucked out. Purple was clever and I gave up trying to figure it out, even thought "wtf planet begins with EAR...oh".

 

[Blackpuppy]

Faillllllled.

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #284
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Purple's group feels like a pretty cheap way to make their puzzle-wide gimmick work today.

 

[UberTag]

Had no clue what PURPLE was. Just glad that the only plausible guess I had for BLUE worked out.

Connections
Puzzle #284
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

ACTIVE DAILY STREAK LEADERBOARD

UberTag - 23 In a Row
ravn0s - 7 In a Row
Animus Vox - 2 In a Row

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #284
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

OC has sometimes done fun walls like this, and I *think* the very first grand final might have had one wall that was all three-letter terms (The other wall, I distinctly remember, was all numbers)

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #285
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟦

Apparently, I didn't get the memo that breakdancing has now been abbreviated to breaking. And - even if you did get that memo - good luck isolating volleyball (also an Olympic sport) for the "set the" PURPLE theme.

And here I was thinking knowing skeleton was an Olympic sport was the tricky part. Gave myself clever props for that one and it still led me to ruin. Nasty, nasty category split here. And with it goes my 23-day streak.

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #285
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟪🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Breaking got me too.

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #285
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟪🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦

Perfectly fair, but I do feel a bit cheated. I'm quite *good* on Olympic Sports, even obscure ones - I like to watch random extra things during the Olympics, so I've seen bits of many current sports and know a few bits of Olympic history that I know some odd early ones (Architecture!) - but this one hasn't happened yet! To be fair, though, had I approached it the other way I had a way into it, if I'd just had the aha.

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #285
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟦🟪🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟪
🟪🟪🟦🟪
🟪🟦🟦🟦

Back to square one for us all then.

Never heard of breaking or skeleton as sports. Not familiar enough with volleyball as something you set. You can set a bone, but not close enough to skeleton I guess.

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #285
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟦

I am glad I am not alone

 

[BrightLightLava]

What a way to find out about breakdancing being a sport.

 

[wideface]

Connections
Puzzle #286
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #285
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟪
🟪🟦🟦🟦

Go fuck yourself, Connections.
I will never be convinced that one of these answers was not thrown in specifically for the express purpose of getting as many people to fail as possible.

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #286
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Super easy one today.