r/NYTConnections

I have asked a number of times about connections and wordle puzzle creators because certain words used seem to use colloquial words- things an American would not typically use with an apparent regional biases towards the UK, (possibly even specific to Australia?) but AI does not support this.

Hey everyone,

My grandparents are huge history buffs, and they have a morning ritual where they drink coffee and challenge each other to random trivia questions. For my granddad's birthday, I wanted to build them something special, so I created ChronoFive.

It’s a simple daily browser game where you get 5 historical events, one at a time, and you have to guess the exact year they happened. There's also some interesting stories and facts for every single event!

I've gotten some feedback that the last couple events are hard, would love to hear your thoughts.

Link: https://www.chronofive.com

Had fun making this, all words are backgammon related (but not all groups!).

The Movie Game 🎬 #9 The Devil Wears Prada 2 ↔️ Fight Club
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themoviega.me

It's Connections-meets-Six-Degrees: two clue films, find the movie that shares a cast member with both. 4 rounds, ~3 min, free, no signup.

What separates it from Framed/CineNerdle: when you solve, you get a custom film page with Wikipedia-grounded trivia, soundtrack tracklist, video clips, and where-to-watch. The win opens a rabbit hole instead of ending in a results screen. Practice mode after the daily so you can keep playing.

Built by a husband-and-wife team. Would love this community's feedback in particular... Connections folks have the highest bar for daily-puzzle design.

I have always felt that the puzzle just giving you the last category for free was a little too easy. My solution Ala the connecting wall would be for after you get the first 3 a text box comes up and you need to put in what the connection is for the last category.

Been playing Connections every day for a year and kept thinking this would be so much harder with sci-fi characters. So I built it.

It's called Stargrid. Same idea: 16 characters/ships/planets... find the 4 hidden groups. Instead of "things that come before BALL" it's stuff like "assassins" or "characters who came back from the dead."

Today's puzzle has Luke Skywalker, John Connor, Fenring... and a few others. Took me an embarrassing amount of time to finish my own game.

Free, no signup, new puzzle every day. Would love to know if the difficulty feels right — I'm worried it's too hard for casual fans and too easy for the nerds.

playstargrid.com

On the May 12th Connections, there was a category in which currency names had a letter added at the end to form another word: REAL + m = REALM, WON + k = WONK, RAND + o = RANDO, and FRANC + i = FRANCI.

I understand the currency names: 'real', 'won', 'rand', 'franc'.

I understand most of the longer words: 'realm' is a very normal English word, 'wonk' is a slightly colorful 20th-century word, and 'rando' is a recent piece of slang. But I have no idea what 'franci' or 'Franci' is.

Merriam-Webster doesn't know, Wiktionary doesn't know, I can't find anything promising on Google, and as far as I can tell the online discussions on Reddit and the Connections Companion don't provide any information.

Does anyone know what word they were going for? Presumably there's a reason they had FRANCI rather than FRANCH or FRANCJ or FRANCX, FRANCY, or FRANCZ.

I'm not a big player, but every so often when I can see all of the answers at once I'll try and go for the reverse rainbow, but I haven't been able to reliably guess which is green and which is yellow (blue and purple I normally accurately guess). Is there some category of answer or way to reliably predict/distinguish whether a category will be yellow or green?

Purple seems like it's often a "_______ word" or some similar type of category, blue just falls in the category of tricker, or more clever or more specific knowledge, but green and yellow both usually seem equally obvious to me so it's pure guesswork on my part to decide which is the "easiest"(ie. yellow) answer.

Is there something I don't know about what type of answer each category holds?