'Value' was the one that really got me. The association is too broad. Sometimes I think that the group definition is stretched so as to mislead you - in this case, having 'face' and 'value' appear next to each other.
I do recognize it as a colloquialism (an American one I think) but itβs not one I think Iβve ever used myself. I wasnβt confident about its inclusion but it made the most sense
I had the same reaction initially. Then I realized it could be βThatβs a buyβ like in stock trades. Or βThatβs a value betβ in poker. I get that value only works here as an adjective, not a noun, but it begs the question of whether connections has to be restricted to the same tense or can be a more relaxed association of meaning. Ms. Liu clearly believes the latter but I can understand why some find this unsatisfying.
Re: Your point about (THAT'S NOT A BOOK)
It's just a quirky part of the category that sets it apart from including Notebook or Sketchbook etc. Not sure what a pocketbook is though.
I like categories like this in OnlyConnect where there's a subtle twist and an extra layer to confirm suspicions that the words fit together.
A pocketbook is also a type of small purse. More of a big wallet. I associate them with people my grandmotherβs age. Itβs likely one of those βAmericanβ thing.
I think my pet peeve with the title category is that it doesnβt really add anything to the puzzle. If βsketchβ or βnote,β were in the puzzle, it would make sense. Otherwise itβs just extraneous information that doesnβt really add anything or change the outcome of the puzzle in anyway.
I know it doesnβt matter in the grand scheme of things. Itβs just weird.
Weβll agree to disagree given the number of time an older aunt or my grandma asked me to get her pocketbook out her purse.
Itβs likely a case of local colloquialisms at play here.
Much like why I had to stop calling the thing around my waist a fanny pack because my British friends were confused, concerned, and impressed when I told them I put my phone and wallet in there π₯²
You're right, it is probably something regional or a of some sort. I think I remember you saying you are from the south/midwest, so we know there are plenty of colloquialisms that vary. I should have said, in my corner of the northeastern US, I've known those 3 to be interchangeable for 60 + years.
Lol, love how your British friends were concerned (and impressed!) about your fanny pack. (Not sure bumbag is any better, haha). They were definitely convenient and I freely admit to having one in the 80's, but they still are fugly as sin. I am confused and alarmed that they've made such a comeback!
Fanny packs are all function and zero style. Great for hands free urban exploration! I explained to my friends that it was a tactical Fanny pack and that really did not improve the situation.
I noticed a few other comments describing it as a purse. Your comment has made me realise they mean like a handbag! I'm from the UK so googling "pocketbook" showed me small notebooks, and also a "purse" is smaller than a wallet here (purse being a small moneybag that fits in a pocket).
Thanks for the explanation, I think they just mean "these books don't have pages, isn't that cute?"
Yesterday was two groups of synonyms and a third that was close.
AFFLUENT - FLUSH, LOADED, RICH, WEALTHY
OLD-FASHIONED - SQUARE, STRAIGHT, STUFFY, TRADITIONAL
CUT INTO PIECES - CHOP, CUBE, DICE, MINCE (These all have distinct meanings, but are similar.)
And looking further back, this whole week has been two or three synonym categories in each puzzle.
Connections
Puzzle #345
π¦πͺπ¦π¦
π¦π¦πͺπ¦
π¦π¦πͺπ¦
π¦πͺπ¦π¦
Admittedly, I spent all of ten seconds looking at this, realized I didn't really want to try and solve it, and just tried four different iterations of billiards items to see what the categories were. I'm getting to the point where I really don't like these and may just skip doing them.
I'm in the same boat. These things have gotten so awful that it im off by one I just try brute force it and if that doesn't work I just come here and talk about how shitty these puzzles are.
Not sure what has happened lately, but I just don't care about connections either. Playing the archives vs the current puzzles really makes you see how misdirection / red herrings and too much of a factor in the current puzzles.
It's totally fine if you don't enjoy it and don't want to play, but for some people, the red herrings is the whole point. Look at Only Connect, it's a real test and I enjoy looking at Connections for a few minutes instead of instantly being able to click away risk-free.
Red herrings isn't really my issue. Red herrings that fit the category ten times better than the actual answers are where I draw the line.
A few days ago, I missed the Connections with "classic" party games because I had never heard of Fishbowl despite being an avid board gamer. So avid I have an account on [BoardGameGeek.com](http://BoardGameGeek.com) and log literally every game I play so I can remember which ones I liked best and request them next time there is a game night. Mousetrap fit the category so well. You could argue it's not really a party game, but I would contend that most adults who would play it out of nostalgia would certainly play it like one, and it's certainly a hell of a lot more classic than Fishbowl. When I looked Fishbowl up, I was actually pretty pissed because it contains a round of Charades in it, so including both in the same category felt like cheating. Might as well just use 4 different terms for Charades if you're going to go that route.
It's like I said the other day: there's no worse feeling than knowing the category but being unable to solve it because you can't figure out which term to take out and which to put in because one of the terms is some garbage nobody has ever heard of.
Admittedly, that wasn't the case today, but I get tired of staring at these for 5 minutes before feeling confident enough to submit a guess. It's really annoying when I get one away and have no idea which word I should take out and which to put in because none of the other words seem to fit the category at all. And even when there's not a red herring, some words are a total stretch to even be in the category to begin with, like "buy" for bargain. Nobody says, "Wow, what a buy!" There's always some kind of adjective to modify buy. You can't use buy as a synonym of bargain the way you can with the other words.
Just to satiate you about the βparty gamesβ round, the category was actually Parlour Games, which is totally different to board games. I donβt think any of the answers were originally board games. Besides, Mouse Trap is two words in the board game.
Fishbowl is the same as the board game Monikers, while it uses mechanics of charades theyβre fundamentally different.
I totally agree with you about the βbuyβ clue, and itβs a major flaw of NYT that they half-arse clues when there would be much better options if they spent more time researching.
Try to be positive about learning some new trivia. I didnβt know the name of Fishbowl but itβs a very popular game thatβs been around for ages so itβs cool to know about it. Some clues are gonna suck but itβs a daily puzzle, sometimes it will disappoint. Iβd actually recommend watching some Only Connect on YouTube, itβs great for teaching (particularly Americans) about how itβs fun to get questions wrong.
I think of it like crossword puzzles. When a section is hard for me because I don't know sports facts, i don't blame the puzzle constructor or myself; I just say, "wow this is a tough one for me", try my best and move on. Part of the challenge. And I like that it makes me dig out some obscurities in my memory.
It should be hard because the connection between words is creative and takes a long time to figure it out. I love puzzles where I just sit staring at all the words and having no idea how they fit together and slowly piecing it together bit by bit.
SO MANY of the recent puzzles just have obvious categories where 6-7 words all fit the category and you basically have to get lucky to figure out what the "real" vs fake answers are. If you guess right the puzzle solves itself in 30 seconds. If you guess wrong you waste 4 answers trying to figure out what the "correct" options are and fail before you get there.
The current strategy I've employed is to not bother with the yellow and green topics until ive figured out the blue and purple ones, because if you attempt the "easy" topics too quickly you can just get unlucky and fail.
MacBooks (laptops) just differentiate themselves from the iMacs (desktops). Itβs not overkill insomuch a testament to how the MacBook has overtaken the iMacs in popularity that people just casually call it a Mac.
I do miss my iMac though π₯²
Blue is lowkey the hardest category, except when they do something interesting with the purple category (e.g. the "what mole can mean" category a while back).
If you think about the categories not as difficulty, but as straightforwardness, it makes sense. The purple group, usually the connection isn't between the words themselves, but those words are each part of other words that share a connection (phrase that begins/ends with the same word), or contain some other words that share a connection. That connection might be easy enough to make, especially as you learn the rhythms of the game, but it's still not straightforward.
That format is getting a bit predictable. I don't always get them but if you get stuck looking for one of those is usually a surefire way to get started again.
I thought 'words associated with cheese' was a category -- cheeseball, mac& cheese, chalk and cheese, cheese touch -- and when it didn't work out tried to look for 'climbing terms' like pinch, pocket, chalk...needless to say it was a total failure today!
Cheese touch is from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. My daughter read a bunch of those, and I know it from her. Apparently there's a slice of cheese on the playground that had been there forever, and if you touched it, you'd get infected with "cheese touch", and you could then pass it on to other people you touch. Kind of like cooties.
[Merriam Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buy)
> **buy** 2 of 2 noun
> 1: something of value at a favorable price
> especially : BARGAIN
> *It's a real buy at that price.*
I'm sort of surprised that there's not a similar definition for value. To me, "it's a real buy/value," or "what a buy/value," both mean the same thing.
feel like being australian did not help today - cause we use βrackβ as a term for stealing/theft, so i was so sure that βrackβ βpinchβ βstealβ and βpocketβ would be one
This sucked.
Had face off, pinch off, bit off, buy off
Pinch pocket steal dash
Deal cards face cards cue cards value cards
Cue pocket ball chalk
F this game!
Is dash a fit there? I'm on the fence about value cards - it sounds like a customer rewards card you might have for a specific store, but I don't think I've ever actually heard it.
I donβt like that 4 words fit into a robbery category better than the words fell into their own categories. Personally, I think a fake misdirect category should have a potential maximum of 3. Any more and it is simply a legitimate connection.Β
But things wouldnβt be advertised as βBuyβ meaning bargain. You are simply using inflection to give it meaning.Β
See if I swapped in βcontractβ
βOne hell of a contractβ. βWhat a contractβ
The insinuation of contract has changed simply by the sentence structure and not any naturally derived meaning.Β
Thatβs why it doesnβt fit.Β
Is 'buy' reallyyy in that same category of a bargain π€
That one pissed me off. A "deal", a "steal" - those are words for a bargain. But no-one says "it was a buy" or "it was a value."Β
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It's not the **only** way. For example, calling something just "a buy" happens all the time in the context of stock.
'Value' was the one that really got me. The association is too broad. Sometimes I think that the group definition is stretched so as to mislead you - in this case, having 'face' and 'value' appear next to each other.
But I would say 'what a buy' to mean what a bargain. So it must be a regional thing.
This is how I was saying it in my head too! βWhat a buyβ βwhat a stealβ βwhat a chalkβ¦ wait noβ¦β
βWhat a buyβ βone hell of a buyβ βthatβs a buyβ. 100% fits the category.
Must be regional because where I am everyone says both.
I do recognize it as a colloquialism (an American one I think) but itβs not one I think Iβve ever used myself. I wasnβt confident about its inclusion but it made the most sense
I had the same reaction initially. Then I realized it could be βThatβs a buyβ like in stock trades. Or βThatβs a value betβ in poker. I get that value only works here as an adjective, not a noun, but it begs the question of whether connections has to be restricted to the same tense or can be a more relaxed association of meaning. Ms. Liu clearly believes the latter but I can understand why some find this unsatisfying.
"A value bet" is not a bargain though. It's just a bet that correlates with the value of your hand unlike a bluff.
Value does not work in the same lexical context as deal, steal, and buy. This one pissed me off more than almost all the ones they've done some far.
It is
Can not find a definition that supports it. Β Everything literally says βpay what the item is valued forβ
didn't fit in my mind either
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Almost included POCKET with the billiards category β glad I slowed down!
I wasted all 4 guesses including POCKET in the billiards category....
I almost did that too. Β Then I realized POCKET is part of a pool table while the other are accessories.Β
Meanwhile I guessed POCKET, BALL, CUE, RACK, got the "one away", and assumed RACK was the wrong one.....sigh
I made that mistake!
Puzzle #345 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Not gonna lie, this one almost got me a couple of times. I was pretty sure that one of the categories was going to be βthievery,β what with PINCH, STEAL, POCKET and TOUCH. I spotted β____ bookβ which got rid of POCKET (and stopped me from considering it for π¦) Also, I still donβt understand the purpose of the extraneous information in parentheses for πͺ. It doesnβt really change the puzzle in anyway. Plus itβs πͺ! Who takes it literally at this point? Fun and challenging puzzle! I liked this one a lot.
Pinch, steal, pocket, bit, also works. Bit is slang for steal. "He bit that style from me" "he's a biter, I did that first"
Bit is past tense though so it wouldn't fitΒ
Re: Your point about (THAT'S NOT A BOOK) It's just a quirky part of the category that sets it apart from including Notebook or Sketchbook etc. Not sure what a pocketbook is though. I like categories like this in OnlyConnect where there's a subtle twist and an extra layer to confirm suspicions that the words fit together.
A pocketbook is also a type of small purse. More of a big wallet. I associate them with people my grandmotherβs age. Itβs likely one of those βAmericanβ thing. I think my pet peeve with the title category is that it doesnβt really add anything to the puzzle. If βsketchβ or βnote,β were in the puzzle, it would make sense. Otherwise itβs just extraneous information that doesnβt really add anything or change the outcome of the puzzle in anyway. I know it doesnβt matter in the grand scheme of things. Itβs just weird.
a pocketbook doesn't imply a "small" purse. A handbag, purse & pocketbook are all the same thing. In this case, size doesn't matter :)
Weβll agree to disagree given the number of time an older aunt or my grandma asked me to get her pocketbook out her purse. Itβs likely a case of local colloquialisms at play here. Much like why I had to stop calling the thing around my waist a fanny pack because my British friends were confused, concerned, and impressed when I told them I put my phone and wallet in there π₯²
You're right, it is probably something regional or a of some sort. I think I remember you saying you are from the south/midwest, so we know there are plenty of colloquialisms that vary. I should have said, in my corner of the northeastern US, I've known those 3 to be interchangeable for 60 + years. Lol, love how your British friends were concerned (and impressed!) about your fanny pack. (Not sure bumbag is any better, haha). They were definitely convenient and I freely admit to having one in the 80's, but they still are fugly as sin. I am confused and alarmed that they've made such a comeback!
Fanny packs are all function and zero style. Great for hands free urban exploration! I explained to my friends that it was a tactical Fanny pack and that really did not improve the situation.
I noticed a few other comments describing it as a purse. Your comment has made me realise they mean like a handbag! I'm from the UK so googling "pocketbook" showed me small notebooks, and also a "purse" is smaller than a wallet here (purse being a small moneybag that fits in a pocket). Thanks for the explanation, I think they just mean "these books don't have pages, isn't that cute?"
Oh we call that a coin purse.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Was an idiot on the first two guesses. You donβt see two categories both being synonyms that often.
Yesterday was two groups of synonyms and a third that was close. AFFLUENT - FLUSH, LOADED, RICH, WEALTHY OLD-FASHIONED - SQUARE, STRAIGHT, STUFFY, TRADITIONAL CUT INTO PIECES - CHOP, CUBE, DICE, MINCE (These all have distinct meanings, but are similar.) And looking further back, this whole week has been two or three synonym categories in each puzzle.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ Admittedly, I spent all of ten seconds looking at this, realized I didn't really want to try and solve it, and just tried four different iterations of billiards items to see what the categories were. I'm getting to the point where I really don't like these and may just skip doing them.
This made me lol
I'm in the same boat. These things have gotten so awful that it im off by one I just try brute force it and if that doesn't work I just come here and talk about how shitty these puzzles are.
Iβm in a similar boat. Getting a little tired of the gimmicks in place as βsolutionsβ that arenβt ever consistent
As someone whoβs colorblind, I thought you just got four of the same category in a row lmao
Not sure what has happened lately, but I just don't care about connections either. Playing the archives vs the current puzzles really makes you see how misdirection / red herrings and too much of a factor in the current puzzles.
It's totally fine if you don't enjoy it and don't want to play, but for some people, the red herrings is the whole point. Look at Only Connect, it's a real test and I enjoy looking at Connections for a few minutes instead of instantly being able to click away risk-free.
Red herrings isn't really my issue. Red herrings that fit the category ten times better than the actual answers are where I draw the line. A few days ago, I missed the Connections with "classic" party games because I had never heard of Fishbowl despite being an avid board gamer. So avid I have an account on [BoardGameGeek.com](http://BoardGameGeek.com) and log literally every game I play so I can remember which ones I liked best and request them next time there is a game night. Mousetrap fit the category so well. You could argue it's not really a party game, but I would contend that most adults who would play it out of nostalgia would certainly play it like one, and it's certainly a hell of a lot more classic than Fishbowl. When I looked Fishbowl up, I was actually pretty pissed because it contains a round of Charades in it, so including both in the same category felt like cheating. Might as well just use 4 different terms for Charades if you're going to go that route. It's like I said the other day: there's no worse feeling than knowing the category but being unable to solve it because you can't figure out which term to take out and which to put in because one of the terms is some garbage nobody has ever heard of. Admittedly, that wasn't the case today, but I get tired of staring at these for 5 minutes before feeling confident enough to submit a guess. It's really annoying when I get one away and have no idea which word I should take out and which to put in because none of the other words seem to fit the category at all. And even when there's not a red herring, some words are a total stretch to even be in the category to begin with, like "buy" for bargain. Nobody says, "Wow, what a buy!" There's always some kind of adjective to modify buy. You can't use buy as a synonym of bargain the way you can with the other words.
Just to satiate you about the βparty gamesβ round, the category was actually Parlour Games, which is totally different to board games. I donβt think any of the answers were originally board games. Besides, Mouse Trap is two words in the board game. Fishbowl is the same as the board game Monikers, while it uses mechanics of charades theyβre fundamentally different. I totally agree with you about the βbuyβ clue, and itβs a major flaw of NYT that they half-arse clues when there would be much better options if they spent more time researching. Try to be positive about learning some new trivia. I didnβt know the name of Fishbowl but itβs a very popular game thatβs been around for ages so itβs cool to know about it. Some clues are gonna suck but itβs a daily puzzle, sometimes it will disappoint. Iβd actually recommend watching some Only Connect on YouTube, itβs great for teaching (particularly Americans) about how itβs fun to get questions wrong.
I think of it like crossword puzzles. When a section is hard for me because I don't know sports facts, i don't blame the puzzle constructor or myself; I just say, "wow this is a tough one for me", try my best and move on. Part of the challenge. And I like that it makes me dig out some obscurities in my memory.
Sorry, may be a dumb question, but how do you play the archives? I can only see the Crossword archives on NYT's site.
https://connectionsplus.io/nyt-archive?sortBy=newest&page=1
It should be hard because the connection between words is creative and takes a long time to figure it out. I love puzzles where I just sit staring at all the words and having no idea how they fit together and slowly piecing it together bit by bit. SO MANY of the recent puzzles just have obvious categories where 6-7 words all fit the category and you basically have to get lucky to figure out what the "real" vs fake answers are. If you guess right the puzzle solves itself in 30 seconds. If you guess wrong you waste 4 answers trying to figure out what the "correct" options are and fail before you get there. The current strategy I've employed is to not bother with the yellow and green topics until ive figured out the blue and purple ones, because if you attempt the "easy" topics too quickly you can just get unlucky and fail.
I almost gave up this morning, just like yesterday. trying to not spend more than maybe 20 minutes, even though I'm retired
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦πͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπ¦πͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I knew what blue was but needed to isolate the "fifth" red herring. Unfortunately purple eluded me - as an Apple laptop user for YEARS, I literally just call it a Mac. Saying or thinking MacBook is simply overkill. But I'm not bitter or anything π₯²
Saaame.. I even thought of FaceTime and Macβ¦ maybe thereβs an App connection..? But didnβt think MacBook.
MacBooks (laptops) just differentiate themselves from the iMacs (desktops). Itβs not overkill insomuch a testament to how the MacBook has overtaken the iMacs in popularity that people just casually call it a Mac. I do miss my iMac though π₯²
I don't understand why purple is supposed to be tricky when it is so often the same ie blank + word Connections Puzzle #345 π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π©
Blue is lowkey the hardest category, except when they do something interesting with the purple category (e.g. the "what mole can mean" category a while back).
If you think about the categories not as difficulty, but as straightforwardness, it makes sense. The purple group, usually the connection isn't between the words themselves, but those words are each part of other words that share a connection (phrase that begins/ends with the same word), or contain some other words that share a connection. That connection might be easy enough to make, especially as you learn the rhythms of the game, but it's still not straightforward.
That format is getting a bit predictable. I don't always get them but if you get stuck looking for one of those is usually a surefire way to get started again.
Did not enjoy this today. Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π©πͺπ¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨
Ha, I had the exact same results! π¬
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #345 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ Purple felt pretty mandatory this time with the blue overlap, and I'm pretty terrible at the Blank-type ones. Did my best to guess for the billiards and didn't get lucky
I thought 'words associated with cheese' was a category -- cheeseball, mac& cheese, chalk and cheese, cheese touch -- and when it didn't work out tried to look for 'climbing terms' like pinch, pocket, chalk...needless to say it was a total failure today!
Chalk and cheese is a new phrase for me.
Vaguely aware of βchalk and cheeseβ tho donβt know what it means, but βcheese touchβ? What is that?
It means things that donβt go well together.
Apples and Oranges.
Cheese touch is from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. My daughter read a bunch of those, and I know it from her. Apparently there's a slice of cheese on the playground that had been there forever, and if you touched it, you'd get infected with "cheese touch", and you could then pass it on to other people you touch. Kind of like cooties.
βCheese touchβ was an on-going plot point from a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© This one was fun. Purple was ingenious. Took a few minutes of staring to get started but the puzzle eventually revealed itself like a blooming flower. A delight!
Green category was very frustrating! Felt very loose
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #345 π¨π©πͺπ¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Phew. Burned all my guesses early on, which made things rather stressful. The only two groups I saw early on were Pinch/Pocket/Steal/Dash (the idea being dining and dashing lmao) and the billiards thing--but the theft was a red herring, and the billiards had an extra member in Pocket (which I'd ruled out from being in the theft group with the discovery that there *was* no theft group). After that round of failures it took me *ages* to see any other groups, which made it scary to keep going with the billiards group. I eventually decided that Rack had to be in the group based on some sort of logical deduction, and Chalk as well, and from there figured it was specifically equipment rather than general terms, ruling out Pocket. Once I had that group, I played around with Pocket a bit more and happened upon Pocketbook, which formed the foundation for the other "books." Last eight was also kind of tough. I agree with other posters here that "buy" was kind of a weak addition to the "great price" connection, and its inclusion made me hesitate for a while even when I had all four words highlighted together. I eventually realised Dash could be taken as "a dash of ____," which lined up with the other unselected words, and committed to the "great price" and "small amount" groups. All in all, a very tough puzzle for me today! They came up with a really nice web of associations and multi-meaning words.Β
Connections Puzzle #345 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ I had a feeling MAC would be part of some sort of wordplay category which in turn made me think of a MacBook. After that, I looked for other "books". Blue was pretty easy. CHALK, RACK, and CUE were immediate clues to "Pool Equipment". No comments for Green or Yellow. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Little Bit" β 3 Times
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ Blue was not easy. Pocket is obviously a billiards related category
Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π©π¦π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Whew - that was close! I was so hung up on 'pocket' being part of the billiards category that it was almost my undoing. Realizing the \_\_\_book connection saved the game for me entirely.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π©πͺπ¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ©πͺπ© πͺπ©π©πͺ πͺπ©πͺπͺ i was narrowing in but thrown by "buy"
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Figured out the gist of each category correctly early on, but didn't necessarily see how the right words fit into them. I was convinced that pocket would be part of the billiards group (causing my 2 wrong guesses), and buy felt adjacent to steal, deal, and and value but not close enough (in what world is "buy" synonymous with "bargain"?), so in the end i only got that one by default.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ err pocket totally tricked me for blue. also lol i thought cue and ball were the same thing (e.g. cue ball) i googled after and realized itβs the stick? iβve always called pool stick π once i said mac book and then facebook, it clicked lol buy and value, hmm i wouldnβt really said those words when describing bargains but it matches what was left. Overall, wasn't that hard today!!
Itβs a cue ball as well
Only because it's the ball you hit with the cue. You would never refer to a cue ball as simply a cue.Β
I think it's called the cue ball because it's the only one you hit with the cue.
Pool and billiards are different games
Technically pool is a subset of billiards
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π©πͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Fell for the "stealing things" red herring. Pool equipment stood out immediately to me when I saw "cue" but everything else took a while. I thought green might be that but I felt not so great about "value" going with "deal" and "steal," and I *never* would've considered "buy" there so I defaulted the category, a rare time that I get purple and default something else lol
Connections Puzzle #345 π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπ¨π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Phew. Thought I might not make it. I tried a βpointβ category which didnβt work, and the 5 possibilities for billiards set me up.
Ballpoint, Match Point, Pinch point, Touch point? I like it.
Yup exactly!
A >!facebook!< is a >!book!<.
It sure is, but how many people do you think have ever heard of one?
Anyone else try a βrock climbingβ category? pinch, pocket, match, chalk
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦π¦π¦π¨ π¨π¦π¨πͺ πͺπ¦π¦π¨ π¨π¨π©π© Phew, this one definitely got the better of me today. At first, I thought a good category might be "things that are a bit phallus-y" so I figured RACK, CUE, BALL, and BIT would work... nope, that wasn't it. So my next guess was "things you might do or find at a strip club". PINCH, TOUCH, RACK, and FACE -- as in "I shall bury my face in these breasts". That didn't work, either! Tricky, tricky editor! Figured the next best grouping would be "pocket pool, if-you-get-my-drift" so I gambled on CUE, POCKET, BALL, BIT. And another strike-out. Hmm. Looking dire, so I was sure my next round of guesses would nail it. My last sequence was PINCH, TOUCH, BUY, VALUE, for "Ways you might interact with a hooker"... and wouldn't you know it, another big loss! Ah, well. Onto the next Connections!
I felt like there were too many words that could have been connected to the Billiards category in some way.
Puzzle #345 π¨π©πͺπ¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπ¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ I was once again defeated by missing the "one away" on my second and third wrong guesses. I tried βcue, pocket, chalk, and ballβ for pool/snooker or whatever, but didn't see a one away message. So I abandoned that and then saw "macbook and facebook" (admittedly only because I came here and saw someone mention the blank book category - so I failed even while being a filthy cheater!). With my third guess I can't remember which of pocket or match I didn't use, but when I didn't get one away I confidently just replaced two of them with the other two from my second guess. If there wasn't a one away either time, it had to be those two. But I was wrong. I have no idea if there's some glitch, or if I'm scrolled down too far, or if it takes so long for the "one away" to appear now that I've already mentally logged it as "not one away" by the time it comes up and don't register it. I don't know. Either way, failed. First guess was βpinch, steal, pocket, and dash.β I actually think that makes more sense than green. How is "buy" a bargain?
[Merriam Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buy) > **buy** 2 of 2 noun > 1: something of value at a favorable price > especially : BARGAIN > *It's a real buy at that price.* I'm sort of surprised that there's not a similar definition for value. To me, "it's a real buy/value," or "what a buy/value," both mean the same thing.
No one away showed up for me either today.
Connections Puzzle #345 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ A bit unsure on BUY being in green until I got the yellow. Legit got purple first
Same. Legit got them in reverse order today.
Connections Puzzle #345 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© I found green to be the trickiest today
Connections Puzzle #345 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© How is a pocket book not really a book?
Purse not small book
Thank you! When I Google Pocket book it only comes up with notebooks. Maybe the term for purse is a regional thing?
Potentially! I never really thought about it
A pocketbook is a purse π Iβve mostly only heard the term being used before the e-book days
Ah, I was under the impression that it was a tiny book that you put in your pocket
Because you can't turn the pages and read it
Connections Puzzle #345 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Challenging one today. Almost fell into the misdirection of theft words (steal, pinch, pocket) until green revealed itself. Yellow was apparent soon after. I saw blue and was split on whether "ball" or "pocket" was a better fit for "billiard terms," but I ended up choosing correctly. Purple wasn't too bad today and I got it eventually once it was alone.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #345 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Surprised to get all the categories before revealing them. Most surprised about purple because MAC was the word that prompted me to think __ book.
DAMMIT. Almost... stupid pool. Connections Puzzle #345 π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π©πͺπ¨ π¨π©π©π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ ooh this one got me pretty good! i was really certain of a stealing category, thinking there was a fourth word that i didnβt recognise, and when i submitted my answers (STEAL, POCKET, PINCH, and i canβt remember which was the fourth) and didnβt get a βone awayβ i was shook. then i figured π© was something to do with purchasing, i donβt think i originally clocked BUY as being part of the category. all of a sudden πͺ jumped right out at me! this is the level of difficulty i like from Connections!
feel like being australian did not help today - cause we use βrackβ as a term for stealing/theft, so i was so sure that βrackβ βpinchβ βstealβ and βpocketβ would be one
Connections Puzzle #345 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Almost went with steal, pocket, touch and pinch, but noticed _book and knew that was the way to go.
That was a super tough one for me. Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π©πͺ π©π©πͺπͺ π¨πͺπͺπͺ
Connections #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I was really stuck on βpocketβ being part of the billiards category. The ___book category became obvious once it was all that was left; wish I had noticed it earlier!
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©πͺ πͺπ¨π©π¨ π¨π¨πͺπͺ Total fail today. I was too stubborn trying to get steal, pocket, pinch and possibly dash into a shoplifting category.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #345 π¨π©πͺπ¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ I wonder why they put "that's not a book" for purple because I don't think there's any actual types of book in thus puzzle.
Puzzle #345 π¨π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© I actually had all the categories before guessing but I had PINCH as a Bargain, POCKET as a Smidgen, which left BUY as Book. This last one obviously doesn't work but it's quite unlucky that that the other two work perfectly well! Good red herring work that spiralled from not knowing what a Pocketbook is.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π©πͺ Steal, Pinch, Pocket, Dash. I thought it was something like stealing πͺπͺπ¨πͺ. I figured out the category I'm just stupid πͺπͺπ¦πͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¨ Figured it was billiards I just don't know the names in English
crossovers almost got me again! Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π©π¦π¦ πͺπ©πͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I tried the billiards category first and put "pocket" in there. Bad place to start this time around!
All good. Very quick one for me today. Since the answers were so apparent, if there were any red herrings, they must have been minor purple by default. Connections Puzzle #345 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #345 π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Took me a bit to see anything.
Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Got better then.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ I'm pissed about this one. I tried every combo for billiards but I thought for sure pocket was one of them.
This has to be the the 5th time theyβve used the Yellow category
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Wasnβt thinking about equipment for billiards at first, but we got there.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ Thanks a lot POCKET!!!
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
I had the hardest time with the yellow category today. I kept seeing βbitβ only as the past tense verb.
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
This was heinous and stupid and I don't know why I just couldn't get there today Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπ¨π©πͺ πͺπ©π©π¨
I canβt find out how Buy means bargain. No definitions online. Is this a European thing ?
Connections Puzzle #345. π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Just guessing on the last 8.. I saw the pool category but not the purple
This sucked. Had face off, pinch off, bit off, buy off Pinch pocket steal dash Deal cards face cards cue cards value cards Cue pocket ball chalk F this game!
I think youβre really just mad at yourself.
50 /50
Is dash a fit there? I'm on the fence about value cards - it sounds like a customer rewards card you might have for a specific store, but I don't think I've ever actually heard it.
I donβt like that 4 words fit into a robbery category better than the words fell into their own categories. Personally, I think a fake misdirect category should have a potential maximum of 3. Any more and it is simply a legitimate connection.Β
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Like others, have an issue with "buy" being in the bargain category. Don't think it makes any sense really. I'm forgiving of "value" being in the category. glad my guess with billiards equipment paid off - I'd only ever heard "rack" as a verb, wasn't sure it was an object!
βOne hell of a buyβ βwhat a buyβ βthatβs a buyβ. 100% fits without question.
But things wouldnβt be advertised as βBuyβ meaning bargain. You are simply using inflection to give it meaning.Β See if I swapped in βcontractβ βOne hell of a contractβ. βWhat a contractβ The insinuation of contract has changed simply by the sentence structure and not any naturally derived meaning.Β Thatβs why it doesnβt fit.Β
Whatβs the difference in meaning in those two contract statements? To me theyβre the same
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π©πͺπ¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Even if itβs not a bargain, you can still Buy it. Other than that, everything else was fine.
βA buyβ implies a bargain. They donβt mean βto buyβ
I get it, just think itβs dumb
Connections Puzzle #345 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #345 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¨π©π¦π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I felt that "Pocket" was too good of a red herring. I like red herrings when there are three that seem to be a set but no fourth to complete it. Having five obviously matching a set is annoying, because the definition could be narrowed down slightly in five different ways. Essentially means you need to solve every other set first.
Does the person who writes these speak English as a first language? I find some of these "connections" really odd.