r/NYTConnections

Does anyone else's board have orange and beige squares today? I hate it! Is there a setting I can change to set the squares to all beige?

I wish they were different streaks :( It absolutely sucks ro lose my streak because a puzzle was too hard when I just care about playing daily. I'm not saying get rid of win streaks, it would actually be cool to compare. But I hate getting reset to 0 aka the same result as if I didn't bother playing at all.

I understand the game is made by a US company so it's not unexpected that there'll be the odd US-specific reference, but it seems like almost every puzzle has not one but multiple US-specific cultural references/brands/word uses/homophones etc. 90% of the time when I don't get a word, I'll Google it after and it turns out it'll be something like a US slang definition of the word, or something to do with a sport that's only popular in the US etc. At this point it actively feels intentional rather than occurring naturally, even though I have no idea why they'd deliberately do that. And I watch a lot of US TV shows/movies but never hear any of these things come up either.

not much else to add but i do find it kind of frustrating! if i dont know the word, how am i supposed to play the game? especially if its like four or five words on the board. also i kinda like the idea of it being a way for people to learn new words! kind responses only please! :)

Happy to hold my hands up and say that I sometimes just don’t see what links the things - especially when it’s brand names, etc, that the U.K. doesn’t share.

But more recently I’m having a hard time seeing what differentiates between colour categories. Sometimes I’ll get what seems a really niche link and it’s just the green one. Similarly there’ll be an overly simple word connection and it’s the purple. Today (15th August) the blue and the purple are almost identical - what’s going on in terms of grading these? I’m sure it used to be more intuitive and clearer.

Select the key word first, then the synonyms, so the order does matter! This is not the same rules as connections so be careful. Let me know any feedback you have :)

Sorry if this has been asked before, but do the Connections games start out easier on Monday and get harder during the week?

I had a 99 day streak going!

uuugghghh dammit.

I don't even really care about streaks that much, I just wanted the badge.

And I got a reverse rainbow when I finally did the puzzle. Figures.

Today's connections inspired this question: What is the easiest connections ever made so far? Based on solve rate. There's a lot of discussion and articles about the hardest ones, but what about the easiest?

Sometimes I just don’t know what a word or phrase means, and I need to look it up. The other day there were several phrases I didn’t understand and when I looked them up, they were the same kind of thing, which at that point felt like cheating. What are your self-imposed rules / honor codes?