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

[UberTag]

Both Animus Vox and ravn0s will be looking to clear one full month of perfection with tomorrow's Connection puzzle (#3`16).

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #315
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🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
Not the biggest fan of how they set that up, but doable.

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #315
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

I honestly thought I would fail today's…

 

[Spectromixer]

Connections
Puzzle #315
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟩🟪🟦🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

 

[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Easy.

 

[Why would you do that?]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
Completed in 1.5 minutes. Among my fastest times.

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 31 in a row
- ravn0s - 31 in a row
- UberTag - 21 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 11 in a row
- construct - 2 in a row
- Doorman - 2 in a row

Closing in on my own personal best from last month.

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[Spectromixer]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
Always fun when you put in an answer and the reaction to it is "that's purple today?"

 

[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

i was looking at a map of guam today which came in very handy for blue

 

[FTF]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Didn't need purple but

Spoiler

Kitty means money

??

 

[Dr. Mario]

I cheated and looked up synonyms for fund, have never of heard kitty to mean this. Getting a perfect was easy after that.

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I've appreciated how easy the last two days have been. I solved both in less than a minute.

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[Why would you do that?]

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I was a little concerned about the blue and purple ones, but I managed to finish this one in roughly one minute. Not bad!

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Fun one.

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #316
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Didn't need purple but

Spoiler

Kitty means money

??

Click to shrink...

I cheated and looked up synonyms for fund, have never of heard kitty to mean this. Getting a perfect was easy after that.

Click to shrink...

My Dad used to say "ah another dollar for the Kitty" when he had some extra money to put aside. Must be an older expression.

Edit: today's was easy!

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 32 in a row
- ravn0s - 32 in a row
- UberTag - 22 in a row
- Blackpuppy - 12 in a row
- construct - 3 in a row
- Doorman - 3 in a row
- Spectromixer - 2 in a row
- Why would you do that? - 2 in a row

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
I was almost worried over how easy getting the first two groups was, but once that was clear the rest also fell in really quickly.

 

[Spectromixer]

Connections
Puzzle #317
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Hah the movies seems so easy but I didn't make the connection at all

 

[construct]

#318

still working on it. i know the third row (blue or purple) for sure, but not familiar enough with the category to choose the 4th word 😭

 

[UberTag]

#318

still working on it. i know the third row (blue or purple) for sure, but not familiar enough with the category to choose the 4th word 😭

Click to shrink...

Facing the same conundrum you are with those last two groups. Have a guess as to what they could be but I think I'm going to sleep on my decision and approach it with fresh eyes in the morning.

 

[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

wow, maybe the most satisfying win for me. i thought about this all day and finally had an AH-HA moment for purple which filled in the missing word for blue. i'm so glad i didn't take any guesses out of lack of patience

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

There goes my streak…

God I am so mad at green. Never would have gotten purple…

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Geez, a few easy ones then they hit us with this one. Took me a bit but eventually got there.

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Purple was a stretch because I thought it'd be a fill in the blank as usual so my guesses didn't immediately feel right.

Also I couldn't let go of MOLE being a unit of measurement or a Mexican sauce so it took a bit to rule it out of the other categories.

 

[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Purple was a stretch because I thought it'd be a fill in the blank as usual so my guesses didn't immediately feel right.

Also I couldn't let go of MOLE being a unit of measurement or a Mexican sauce so it took a bit to rule it out of the other categories.

Click to shrink...

mole was the one tripping me up for all of purple for the same reasons but randomly after hours of thinking about it i thought "mountain on a mole hill" which because i'm an idiot first went "mountain capital, mountain foot, mountain faith" and was like wait a minute

for blue i knew everything but "wrap". i need to up my skirt knowledge

 

[Animus Vox]

mole was the one tripping me up for all of purple for the same reasons but randomly after hours of thinking about it i thought "mountain on a mole hill" which because i'm an idiot first went "mountain capital, mountain foot, mountain faith" and was like wait a minute

for blue i knew everything but "wrap". i need to up my skirt knowledge

Click to shrink...

Lol it was capitol hill that helped with purple since I couldn't think of any other combination for the word unless it was some other obscure category like homonyms .

 

[Spectromixer]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟪🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

🙃

 

[UberTag]

Glad they made us work of this one. Feels better to piece together a solution to keep a streak alive after being absolutely stuck for a while versus the 1-minute quickies. (Looks like I went through the same process that Animus Vox did to wind up at the result via capitol hill... I just plugged in blue first so I could get the natural solve.)

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 33 in a row
- ravn0s - 33 in a row
- UberTag - 23 in a row
- construct - 4 in a row
- Doorman - 4 in a row
- Why would you do that? - 2 in a row (through #317)

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Fortunately, I did not have to try and deduce what purple was before answering.

 

[FTF]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Prob wouldn't have gotten blue so glad I didn't need it ha

 

[Dr. Mario]

Connections
Puzzle #318
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Stared blankly for ten minutes and suddenly purple dropped. Pretty hilarious combination.

 

[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #319
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #319
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Back to an easier one.

 

[UberTag]

I stared at BLUE and PURPLE for like 20 minutes despite having both groups parsed out because it just looked wrong. Was honestly expecting something out of left field... but nope.

Connections
Puzzle #319
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Ongoing active daily streaks...

- Animus Vox - 34 in a row
- ravn0s - 34 in a row
- UberTag - 24 in a row (new personal best)
- construct - 5 in a row
- Doorman - 5 in a row

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #319
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟩🟪🟪
🟪🟩🟪🟪
🟩🟪🟩🟪

I'm quite mad because I knew where the two groups were going… but I was slightly off in my deduction. I should avoid rushing this in between looking after the kids.

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #319
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[Doorman]

Connections
Puzzle #319
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
Pretty straightforward, all in all. I had green figured out pretty early and felt pretty confident in blue's category even if not all four words, but wanted to fish a little first just to make sure my hunches were right.

 

[mclem]

Connections
Puzzle #319
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Blue felt weak. Three out of four are *elements* of a spreadsheet specifically, so having the fourth just be 'a term associated with spreadsheets', when it's a very generalised term that isn't spreadsheet-specific, was a bit uncomfortable.
Purple was *okay*, although I think I'd be more inclined to say "The language of love" rather than "love language". I was going back and forth on whether Romance and Love belonged in the same category, because they were so similar, I do like the misdirect that they *are* in the same category but with a somewhat different meaning of Romance to the obvious one!

 

[UberTag]

Blue felt weak. Three out of four are *elements* of a spreadsheet specifically, so having the fourth just be 'a term associated with spreadsheets', when it's a very generalised term that isn't spreadsheet-specific, was a bit uncomfortable.
Purple was *okay*, although I think I'd be more inclined to say "The language of love" rather than "love language". I was going back and forth on whether Romance and Love belonged in the same category, because they were so similar, I do like the misdirect that they *are* in the same category but with a somewhat different meaning of Romance to the obvious one!

Click to shrink...

I went through this exact same dilemma and thought process. Body and sign language worked too well in my head and romance and love clearly weren't overlapping with the spreadsheet group. The combination of those two highly similar terms and the presence of generic SHEET for the blues just had me staring at it dumbfoundedly for like 15 minutes until I finally compelled myself to pull the trigger and accept whatever the end result was going to be.

 

[construct]

Connections
Puzzle #320
🟪🟩🟪🟦
🟪🟪🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

bleh. i would have been fine if i didn't go for purple first

 

[Spectromixer]

Connections
Puzzle #319
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

boom perfect

 

[ravn0s]

Connections
Puzzle #320
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

 

[UberTag]

Connections
Puzzle #320
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Ongoing active daily streaks...

- ravn0s - 35 in a row
- Animus Vox - 35 in a row
- UberTag - 25 in a row
- Doorman - 6 in a row

 

[Animus Vox]

Connections
Puzzle #320
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Caught purple and thought, yeah they're not going to like this.

 

[Blackpuppy]

Connections
Puzzle #320
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪