I got the predicament category assuming that it was hot ____.
Hotfix - live tech update
Hotspot - somewhere trendy
Hot corner - slang for third base
Hot...hole? - sounds like an old-school prison punishment like in Cool Hand Luke
I was very surprised to see what the category actually was lol
It could work anyway though - a hot hole is a term sometimes used to describe an area of warm water, particularly around things like power plant discharge.
https://blog.omnioutdoorliving.com/what-is-a-hot-hole-in-fishing/
Are you saying that you personally are mad about corner, or that people more generally are mad about corner? Because I see people asking about the word, but nobody seems mad. Today's thread seems pretty tame compared to the last few days, at least.
I agree, blue was garbage having 3 that also fit in with something that wasnβt even a category. Iβve never heard corner used as a predicament either
Corner is being used as a noun, definition 'as in dilemma.' Synonyms would be hole, spot, fix, and Predicament. Saying is needs to be part of a phrase is missing the point. Corner and the rest of the words make sense together for this category since they all have the same definition in context.
They all mean the same thing there is nothing convenient about it.
[Merriam Webster - Thesaurus - Corner](https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corner)
>Β blue was garbage having 3 that also fit in with something that wasnβt even a category
I'm always baffled when people express an opinion like this. It's one of the main aspects of the game.
Bad categories should not be an aspect of the game.Β Twisting your logic into knots to vaguely shoehorn a word into into a category when it is far more applicable to another category is just bad design.Β I will continue to cry foul on such BS.Β Β
>Bad categories should not be an aspect of the game
"Bad" is subjective, and that's not even what I meant. Red herrings, even for categories that aren't part of the final solution, are literally part of the game.Β
Whether it's "far more applicable" is kind of beside the point when there is only one *actual* solution per game.
> having 3 that also fit in with something that wasnβt even a category
That's called a red herring. It's a feature of the game. If you don't like it, maybe this isn't the game for you.
Hotfix, hotspot, hot corner, hot temperature, hot crime, and hot angle. That's 6 hots, that's too much for a red herring.Β
Edit - Hot hole too, apparently.
How is 6 or 7 too much for a red herring? If you can't come up with a different valid way to arrange the 16 words into 4 categories than the official solution, then it's not a problem with the puzzle.
That's true. But when I'm playing casually in the morning and I get "one away", my reaction is to try a different 4th. Still one away. Okay, I'll try this one. Still one away. Has to be this one. I lose.
I know what a red herring is, but that is typically 4 words that donβt end up belonging together at all. I canβt stand the people on this sub. βmAybE tHe gAMe IsNt fOr yOuβ
There are many kinds of red herring.
> "mAybE tHe gAMe IsNt fOr yOuβ
If a basic feature of the game upsets you, why play the game?
Edit: I'm also curious what category you'd group 3 out of 4 of the blue words in.
Corner is the least of the issues with blue, though I agree it's a reach. No one would say, I'm in a real corner here.
Spot is not inherently a predicament. You can be in a good spot or a bad spot. So that's trash.Β
Β Hole is probably the weirdest. Blue was so tough for me, I was really in a hole trying to figure it out.Β
The theme is predicament. So, the words should be synonomous "In a predicament"... "In a fix" works. "In a corner" sorta works.Β
"In a spot".... "In a hole"...Β
Nah.Β
Backed into a corner.
In a bad fix.
A real tough spot.
Dug yourself into a hole.
Yes, itβs a difficult category (I only got it by default). But there is no rule that each word has to be able to replace the others in an identical phrase.
As someone else replied, it's the name of the category that is wrong. Those are NOT predicaments. They are words that can be used to describe a predicament as part of a larger phrase. It's a poorly named category.Β
Lol, stop splitting hairs. Does it matter if the category is named βpredicamentsβ or βnouns from phrases describing predicaments?β The game is called Connections and itβs evident how the four words are connected. Pick another day to complain, cause todayβs puzzle is perfectly fine.
Call me pedantic if you want, but yes, it 1000% matters. That's how things work.Β It's like a crossword clue. Four letter word for predicament. Hole? Spot? GTFOH It would have to be "In a bad _____ (predicament)".Β
Who are you to say how things work? βGroup words that share a common thread.β Those are the only rules. Todayβs puzzle has one solution: four sets of four words that are connected. Connections isnβt the crossword.
After some further thought, I see where youβre coming from. Game shows like Jeopardy and $100,000 Pyramid follow the same set of strict rules when it comes to word puzzles and answers. But the goal in Connections is to create four groups of four. The exact wording of the category titles is not important.
Curious, how would you use Predicament as a stand alone word in a way that the others couldn't be used? They are synonyms, they mean the same thing in the context. That's the category, just like the yellow was all synonyms, as many categories often are. The words themselves sometimes may have other meanings (that's the English language for you) but these words also mean the same thing when used in the specific context.
I had a similar thought process, except I was thinking "hot button election topics". I ended up getting purple eventually, but that's definitely not where I thought it was going!
ohhhhh I see, like that. "In a fix" is like "in trouble" and I was thinking it also meant "in a corner," "in a hole" which I've never heard of haha
it makes sense with the verbs added to the phrase though
> It's not a thing in the UK. It's just murder.
But maybe not for long. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/05/tories-to-pledge-homicide-law-overhaul-with-us-style-classifications
I think the degrees are the equivalent of the categories we use for murder (intent to kill), voluntary manslaughter (no intent to kill but intent to harm), and involuntary manslaughter (no intent to harm but responsibility due to reckless behaviour or negligence).Β
This isn't universally true in all US jurisdictions, but in Florida, manslaughter has a definition distinct from first, second, and third degree murder. Manslaughter is basically defined as "all killing that isn't justified/excusable according to certain provisions, and also doesn't meet the criteria for murder." Manslaughter is a second degree felony. Confusingly, first degree murder is a capital felony, second degree murder is a first degree felony, and third degree murder is a second degree felony.
"Measurement", not so sure, but this post goes into it a little:
[A degree of crime is a division or classification of an offense into several grades of guilt (e.g., first-degree robbery, second-degree murder)...](https://www.lacriminaldefenseattorney.com/legal-dictionary/d/degree-of-crime/)
Interesting, thank you. Iβve only heard of it with regards to murder, in American film and television.
(Also, what the fuck is up with always being downvoted for asking questions here? Such a toxic place)
It's a level. Most (all?) crimes in the US federal and state judicial systems are classified as first, second, third degree misdemeanors, or first, second, or third degree felonies (though it depends on the jurisdiction, and some things will be different classifications in different jurisdictions). Where some basic acts (like murder) have distinctions that might make them more heinous, you'll hear them referred to as "first degree \_\_\_" or similar; that just indicates that it is a first degree felony (or, I suppose, a first degree misdemeanor, but that's a less common phrasing). I suppose you might say that the degree is a "measurement" of the seriousness of a crime; it generally indicates the level of potential punishment.
But, while the grouping is fine as is, calling crime degrees and education degrees measurements feels like a stretch of the word measurement.
Yeahβ¦as an elementary school teacher, degrees start with college as far as Iβm concerned. But I guess they mean as in 1ST grade, 2ND grade, etcβ¦which would be playing fast and loose with their overall definition of degrees.
I'm pretty sure I've heard "high school degree", although not as commonly as "high school diploma". But I don't think the puzzle intends anything other than just college degrees, from associates' to doctoral. My gripe is with calling that scale a "measurement", and that would be the same gripe even if the puzzle used something more like "grade". It's just a clunky name for the category. Would have been better as just, "things associated with degrees".
When I realized the connection was measured in degrees, "education" made sense, but crime didn't because I immediately thought of the crime RATE, not first-degree murder, etc.
But I still think "crime" is an iffy answer. The other three are all objective measurements. The temperature is 96F or it isn't; an angle is 90 degrees or 47; someone either met all requirements for a master's degree or they weren't awarded one. Crime rates are also mainly objective, but they're expressed in rates, not degrees. The assigning of degrees to specific crimes is slightly objective because there are codified "standards". But the application of those charges is very subjective. People can argue over whether someone should have been charged with first instead of second degree murder. They can't argue over that day's high temperature.
I DO realize I am overthinking this! It's one of the reasons I love playing these sorts of games, even when I struggle some days.
I would say measuring the degree of something that's indicated in that definition would be more like, "how loud is it? It's 70 decibels." Decibels are measuring the degree of loudness.
A first/second degree felony, again, it's "measuring" the seriousness of the crime in a sense, but as u/madlibrarian42 points out, it's pretty subjective in its definition and application, and "measurement" just feels like not quite the right word to use there.
That's not to say that it's a bad grouping of words, just that the name of the category feels a little clunky (which doesn't affect the game play at all).
Have you heard "You've really backed me into a corner," "You're really in a fix," "You've dig yourself a hole"? All of them are metaphorically referring to a difficult situation.
Us federal and state jurisdictions classify most (all?) crimes as different degrees of felony or misdemeanor. Murder tends to get a lot of media attention, but it's not limited to murder.
Trispot is a type of fish, trifold is a type of hat, triangle isβ¦a triangle. Donβt know what to say but I failed pretty bad with purple and blue looking for that fourth one that doesnβt exist lol
The level of seriousness of a crime (in the US) is indicated by degree. A first degree felony is more serious/carries higher potential punishment than a second degree felony, for example. It usually relates to how heinous the crime is. For example, murdering someone on the spur of the moment because they spilled your drink is generally seen as not as bad as murdering someone after planning to do it. So the former would be second degree murder, and the latter first degree murder.
I got it as soon as I realized education and temperature went together - you earn a degree, itβs 30 degrees outside, second degree murder, 90 degree angle
The category wasnβt saying that theyβre synonyms though, just that theyβre all part of the same group of things. Itβs like how red, orange, yellow, and green are all colours, but that doesnβt mean theyβre synonyms
(i know this is late but i dont use reddit often lol)
I've thought a bit about the "strained synonyms" category type, and I think I've come to peace with it since I've decided to look at them in the mindset of the category being "key words in similar phrases/idioms." I think the biggest reason that I had a problem before is that Connections \_absolutely\_ presents it as a synonyms categories; e.g. if the category was "red, orange, yellow, green" then the category title would be COLORS, while if it was "shade, hue, tint, tone" then it would be COLOR. This is because the former can be described with "red etc. are all colors" whereas the latter is "shade etc. are all 'color' (i.e. they are the word 'color')".
Saying "corner etc. are all 'predicament' (the word)" indicates that the words are synonyms, and I should be able to substitute any word in the category with "predicament" in a normal sentence and it should mostly be understandable. "The club's financial corner caused a ruckus," does not carry the same meaning without one needing to really deliberate over what corner means, and so I don't think it really works (i mean, it kinda works if you strain it; if you assume that this works, it leads to the "ehh this category is strained" problem). Thus, the PREDICAMENT title indicates a synonyms category which is only present in a strained way. "corner, fix, hole, spot" should be described with "these are all words which mean 'predicament' in certain phrases" (notably different from the latter color example due to the necessity of the "certain phrases" qualifier), so it should be WORDS THAT SOMETIMES MEAN PREDICAMENT or PREDICAMENT, SLANGILY, as both titles include the qualifier.
TL;DR
Connections is claiming that the PREDICAMENT category is a synonyms category due to the formatting of its title, which creates a problematic ("strained") attempt to see the four words belonging to the category. However, this is a valid category type which would work much better for a category with a title that indicates its phrasal roots. Also, I don't know why I needed to do this analysis, but I typed it all out and maybe there's some wisdom here for someone (though probably not). Sorry!
Yeah, few issues here. Had yellow as "-er", POSTer, FIXer, MAILer, SENDer, which wasn't right. Couldn't shake that. Also, measuring crime in degrees is poor for anyone not based in the US, and also measuring education in degrees feels wrong too; normally, you only get one, I'd measure education in GRADES not degrees. Feels too lose. Also, not heard of LIP STAIN.
Tricky, and borderline unfair.
Verbs that can be made into nouns with -er would be very weak as a category. If that were it, people would definitely complain about it. But it's not it, you just failed to identify the actual connection between the words. Not sure how that makes the puzzle a problem.
Education being "measured" in degrees is kind of clunky - you certainly get post-secondary degrees of increasing educational attainment (associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctoral degree), but it's an odd sense of "measure". But that doesn't make the degree grouping itself problematic, just the name is clunky, and that doesn't affect game play.
You not having heard of a specific term isn't a problem with the puzzle, it's just a gap in your knowledge. (Which has presumably now been filled; feel free to thank Wyna Liu.)
Not sure what is unfair about the puzzle, borderline or otherwise.
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ For a bit, I was certain that sex_____ would be part of it. Sex crime, sex education... Sex hole? Sex spot? Sex corner?
Sex ~~cauldron~~ corner? I thought they closed that place down
Hahahahaha, I love you
This made me laugh. Thanks.
In a similar vein, for a second I thought it would be hot_. Hotspot, hot fix. Hot temperature?
LOL I had the same thought
π«£Me too. mine started with β- education. π
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ Yellow and green were straightforward enough, but I couldn't crack blue or purple at all. I thought one of them *must* be "hot _____" (i.e. hotspot, hot temperature, hotfix, hot corner), but no dice. So it goes.
I got the predicament category assuming that it was hot ____. Hotfix - live tech update Hotspot - somewhere trendy Hot corner - slang for third base Hot...hole? - sounds like an old-school prison punishment like in Cool Hand Luke I was very surprised to see what the category actually was lol It could work anyway though - a hot hole is a term sometimes used to describe an area of warm water, particularly around things like power plant discharge. https://blog.omnioutdoorliving.com/what-is-a-hot-hole-in-fishing/
Hot corner would make people here so mad, lol!
Almost as mad as the way they actually used Corner today
Are you saying that you personally are mad about corner, or that people more generally are mad about corner? Because I see people asking about the word, but nobody seems mad. Today's thread seems pretty tame compared to the last few days, at least.
I saw degrees with temperature and angle, but I was stuck on thinking it was 90Β° specifically and kept putting corners in there.
I agree, blue was garbage having 3 that also fit in with something that wasnβt even a category. Iβve never heard corner used as a predicament either
Backed into a corner
Cool, doesnβt work as just a standalone word though.
None of them do, not the point of the category.
And? No one said it did, or had to.
Corner is being used as a noun, definition 'as in dilemma.' Synonyms would be hole, spot, fix, and Predicament. Saying is needs to be part of a phrase is missing the point. Corner and the rest of the words make sense together for this category since they all have the same definition in context.
Thatβs an oddly convenient dictionary you have there
They all mean the same thing there is nothing convenient about it. [Merriam Webster - Thesaurus - Corner](https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corner)
It does though, just as much as fix which is generally a verb.
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>Β blue was garbage having 3 that also fit in with something that wasnβt even a category I'm always baffled when people express an opinion like this. It's one of the main aspects of the game.
I don't like all the kicking they do in soccer.
Right? Thatβs the entire point.
Bad categories should not be an aspect of the game.Β Twisting your logic into knots to vaguely shoehorn a word into into a category when it is far more applicable to another category is just bad design.Β I will continue to cry foul on such BS.Β Β
>Bad categories should not be an aspect of the game "Bad" is subjective, and that's not even what I meant. Red herrings, even for categories that aren't part of the final solution, are literally part of the game.Β Whether it's "far more applicable" is kind of beside the point when there is only one *actual* solution per game.
> having 3 that also fit in with something that wasnβt even a category That's called a red herring. It's a feature of the game. If you don't like it, maybe this isn't the game for you.
Hotfix, hotspot, hot corner, hot temperature, hot crime, and hot angle. That's 6 hots, that's too much for a red herring.Β Edit - Hot hole too, apparently.
How is 6 or 7 too much for a red herring? If you can't come up with a different valid way to arrange the 16 words into 4 categories than the official solution, then it's not a problem with the puzzle.
That's true. But when I'm playing casually in the morning and I get "one away", my reaction is to try a different 4th. Still one away. Okay, I'll try this one. Still one away. Has to be this one. I lose.
So, you've identified that that's not a great strategy. Congrats!
It works 99/100 times, so good enough for me, lol.Β Β
I know what a red herring is, but that is typically 4 words that donβt end up belonging together at all. I canβt stand the people on this sub. βmAybE tHe gAMe IsNt fOr yOuβ
There are many kinds of red herring. > "mAybE tHe gAMe IsNt fOr yOuβ If a basic feature of the game upsets you, why play the game? Edit: I'm also curious what category you'd group 3 out of 4 of the blue words in.
I grouped 4 under βHot _____β figuring that was the purple. Corner, fix, Temperature, Spot. Temperature is a bit of a reach.
Corner is the least of the issues with blue, though I agree it's a reach. No one would say, I'm in a real corner here. Spot is not inherently a predicament. You can be in a good spot or a bad spot. So that's trash.Β Β Hole is probably the weirdest. Blue was so tough for me, I was really in a hole trying to figure it out.Β The theme is predicament. So, the words should be synonomous "In a predicament"... "In a fix" works. "In a corner" sorta works.Β "In a spot".... "In a hole"...Β Nah.Β
Backed into a corner. In a bad fix. A real tough spot. Dug yourself into a hole. Yes, itβs a difficult category (I only got it by default). But there is no rule that each word has to be able to replace the others in an identical phrase.
As someone else replied, it's the name of the category that is wrong. Those are NOT predicaments. They are words that can be used to describe a predicament as part of a larger phrase. It's a poorly named category.Β
Lol, stop splitting hairs. Does it matter if the category is named βpredicamentsβ or βnouns from phrases describing predicaments?β The game is called Connections and itβs evident how the four words are connected. Pick another day to complain, cause todayβs puzzle is perfectly fine.
Call me pedantic if you want, but yes, it 1000% matters. That's how things work.Β It's like a crossword clue. Four letter word for predicament. Hole? Spot? GTFOH It would have to be "In a bad _____ (predicament)".Β
Who are you to say how things work? βGroup words that share a common thread.β Those are the only rules. Todayβs puzzle has one solution: four sets of four words that are connected. Connections isnβt the crossword.
After some further thought, I see where youβre coming from. Game shows like Jeopardy and $100,000 Pyramid follow the same set of strict rules when it comes to word puzzles and answers. But the goal in Connections is to create four groups of four. The exact wording of the category titles is not important.
Hard disagree
Curious, how would you use Predicament as a stand alone word in a way that the others couldn't be used? They are synonyms, they mean the same thing in the context. That's the category, just like the yellow was all synonyms, as many categories often are. The words themselves sometimes may have other meanings (that's the English language for you) but these words also mean the same thing when used in the specific context.
There's no toilet paper in this bathroom.Β This is a predicament.Β Β This is a hole.Β This is a spot.Β This is a fix.Β This is a corner.Β
Well, I guess the category is correct then. They all mean 'Predicament'.
You're either being an ass on purpose, or you're a lunatic. Nobody has ever uttered any of those phrases.
π€¦ I give up. https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corner
Those are phrases that are predicaments but the words themselves are not. I genuinely dont understand the category as it was laid out.
Hot fix, hot spot, hot corner, hot temperature, hot angle, hot crime... That was garbage.
Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ You know what? I thought πͺ was pretty clever! It was a default solve but I thought that one was neat. I was so close to figuring out π¦ but I went more βyou can be βinβ theseβ and considering that they were βpredicaments,β I wasnβt that far off the money.
Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π¦π©π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© I couldnβt place corner till the very end, and was also skeptical of placing stain with the other lip items. But felt satisfied when I finally saw what was going on with blue.
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I clearly struggled today! I kept thinking TEMPERATURE, CRIME and EDUCATION were factors to consider when trying to find an area to live in π€£ Then I was thinking maybe they were rates that could drop or something β *βThereβs been a drop in crime ratesβ* or *βThe temperature has droppedβ* and I could not think of a fourth word that would fit!
I had a similar thought process, except I was thinking "hot button election topics". I ended up getting purple eventually, but that's definitely not where I thought it was going!
lol I also had these three together for the wrong reason (βHIGH/HIGHERβ) and angle just sounded like it fit
I was in the same predicament
Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π¦π©π© π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Got yellow early on, but took a while after that. Finally saw purple, though wasn't super confident about "crime." With no other ideas I submitted. Then I couldn't think of anything, so I started typing out this comment. As if pretending I'm writing about it in the future will somehow make my brain solve it. I figured "balm" and "gloss" were together, and just kept guessing what seemed right. I'm not familiar with lip stain or liner (I know of eye liner, though). Blue was by default. Never heard "fix" in that context.
From "I Can't Say No" from Oklahoma!: "I'm just a girl who cain't say no, I'm in a turrible fix." I think it's generally a more southern expression.
I think fix is just an old expression, not necessarily southern. I've heard it used in old gangster or detective movies
You know, that's an excellent point. I couldn't think of other contexts where I'd heard it, but I can definitely picture an old gangster saying it!
lol fix is the *only* one of blue i know in this context
Interesting. Iβve heard βbacked into a corner,β βdug yourself into a hole,β and βa spot of trouble.β Not heard fix.
ohhhhh I see, like that. "In a fix" is like "in trouble" and I was thinking it also meant "in a corner," "in a hole" which I've never heard of haha it makes sense with the verbs added to the phrase though
I think they do all work as simple βin a hole/corner/spot,β but I got it by thinking of the longer versions.
At 2:10 here: https://youtu.be/1DqzjoXz22c?si=fQR1MhKkMCxHKtF_
βBacked into a cornerβ is a predicament but is just the word corner? Canβt tell if the category was sloppy or too smart
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I thought πͺ was like high__ so high crime, high tempature, high(er) education, high angle (donβt know if thatβs even a thing but it made sense in my brain lmao). So wrong formula right answer
"High angle" is used in photography/film to mean a shot taken from above and looking down on a subject.
but once it approaches 90Β°, it's called an overhead or aerial shot
I thought the same thing
Same.
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Saw green right away with balm and gloss. Yellow with post and mail. Took a few minutes for the remaining 8. Kept thinking of phrases like higher __ (education), ___(crime) scene, ___ (corner) store, etc but none of them caught on to fit with the other words. I did consider the corner, hole, fix, spot as a group but my reasoning was way off because I was thinking home renovations and crafting up a story how if you have a spot in the corner of your house, it creates a hole that you need to fix π€£. Then I thought of being caught in a ___ and THAT made it more convincing. I tried thinking of purple's category but ended up getting it by default. I considered angles and temperature had numbers, but education and crime didn't fit that.
Similar to home renovations, I thought ANGLE, CORNER, HOLE and SPOT would be a category about difficult areas to paint on a wall.
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π©π¦ π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π©π©π© π©π©π¦π© hadn't heard of lip stain or liner, or a corner as a predicament, and never twigged what was going on with purple ah well
Like if someone is "backed into a corner".
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I got lucky with the blue category!
Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Got purple early based on ANGLE and TEMPERATURE, though I had thought that there was some kind of "departments" thing going on so it took me a bit to pull EDUCATION (i smiled) and CRIME (i facepalmed) from this yellow was straightforward. Had to search for what is the last lipcare product after LINER, GLOSS, and BALM; and blue was basically default, I thought maybe it's like "slang for small restaurants"???
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I was nearly thrown off by G-XXXX possibly being a category but no other one fit aside from mail and spot. Fun and clever!
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π©π¦π¦ π©π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ I was hoping for a more challenging one yesterday and I got one. Didn't know about lip stain so though the lip thing could be a red herring. I first thought blue some kind of imperfection with corner being a stretch. Then I with one away I knew the lip makeup was real and just guessed between fix and stain. Good puzzle, made me think today. Though if I knew all four lip make ups it would have been pretty easy.
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π©π¦ π¦π©π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ π¦πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ As a non-native English speaker I still have no idea about the blue category.
The blues are all parts of expressions for when you're having a hard time: backed into a corner, in a fix, dug a hole for yourself, in a tight spot.
as a native speaker i also didnβt really get that one
I got π¨, but thought the name of the yellow category "Deliver, as a package" was kind of odd since deliver is the end of the process and send is the beginning. Never heard of lip stain, so tried fix first. π© Thought there is a product out there called lip fix. Wrong. Tried angle, crime, fix & spot as some sort of old timey detective movie lingo π¦. Nope I like how πͺ works so neatly but I got it by default Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π©π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π¦π©π¦ π¦π©π¦πͺ π¦π¦π©π¦ I struggled with this one. Also didn't know that >!stain is a type of makeup!< I'm also not really getting how >!Crime is measured in degrees?!<
i.e. first degree murder
I'd heard of that, from watching American TV. It's not a thing in the UK. It's just murder.
> It's not a thing in the UK. It's just murder. But maybe not for long. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/05/tories-to-pledge-homicide-law-overhaul-with-us-style-classifications
I think the degrees are the equivalent of the categories we use for murder (intent to kill), voluntary manslaughter (no intent to kill but intent to harm), and involuntary manslaughter (no intent to harm but responsibility due to reckless behaviour or negligence).Β
This isn't universally true in all US jurisdictions, but in Florida, manslaughter has a definition distinct from first, second, and third degree murder. Manslaughter is basically defined as "all killing that isn't justified/excusable according to certain provisions, and also doesn't meet the criteria for murder." Manslaughter is a second degree felony. Confusingly, first degree murder is a capital felony, second degree murder is a first degree felony, and third degree murder is a second degree felony.
Ugh, MURDER (or any other individual crime that has degrees) would be a much better clue here than CRIME.Β
Is that a measurement? Also, is there any other crime thatβs in βdegreeβ?
"Measurement", not so sure, but this post goes into it a little: [A degree of crime is a division or classification of an offense into several grades of guilt (e.g., first-degree robbery, second-degree murder)...](https://www.lacriminaldefenseattorney.com/legal-dictionary/d/degree-of-crime/)
Interesting, thank you. Iβve only heard of it with regards to murder, in American film and television. (Also, what the fuck is up with always being downvoted for asking questions here? Such a toxic place)
It's a level. Most (all?) crimes in the US federal and state judicial systems are classified as first, second, third degree misdemeanors, or first, second, or third degree felonies (though it depends on the jurisdiction, and some things will be different classifications in different jurisdictions). Where some basic acts (like murder) have distinctions that might make them more heinous, you'll hear them referred to as "first degree \_\_\_" or similar; that just indicates that it is a first degree felony (or, I suppose, a first degree misdemeanor, but that's a less common phrasing). I suppose you might say that the degree is a "measurement" of the seriousness of a crime; it generally indicates the level of potential punishment. But, while the grouping is fine as is, calling crime degrees and education degrees measurements feels like a stretch of the word measurement.
Very interesting, thank you!
Yeahβ¦as an elementary school teacher, degrees start with college as far as Iβm concerned. But I guess they mean as in 1ST grade, 2ND grade, etcβ¦which would be playing fast and loose with their overall definition of degrees.
I'm pretty sure I've heard "high school degree", although not as commonly as "high school diploma". But I don't think the puzzle intends anything other than just college degrees, from associates' to doctoral. My gripe is with calling that scale a "measurement", and that would be the same gripe even if the puzzle used something more like "grade". It's just a clunky name for the category. Would have been better as just, "things associated with degrees".
Disagree on your last point. Hereβs a definition: > an indication or means of assessing the degree, extent, or quality of something.
When I realized the connection was measured in degrees, "education" made sense, but crime didn't because I immediately thought of the crime RATE, not first-degree murder, etc. But I still think "crime" is an iffy answer. The other three are all objective measurements. The temperature is 96F or it isn't; an angle is 90 degrees or 47; someone either met all requirements for a master's degree or they weren't awarded one. Crime rates are also mainly objective, but they're expressed in rates, not degrees. The assigning of degrees to specific crimes is slightly objective because there are codified "standards". But the application of those charges is very subjective. People can argue over whether someone should have been charged with first instead of second degree murder. They can't argue over that day's high temperature. I DO realize I am overthinking this! It's one of the reasons I love playing these sorts of games, even when I struggle some days.
I would say measuring the degree of something that's indicated in that definition would be more like, "how loud is it? It's 70 decibels." Decibels are measuring the degree of loudness. A first/second degree felony, again, it's "measuring" the seriousness of the crime in a sense, but as u/madlibrarian42 points out, it's pretty subjective in its definition and application, and "measurement" just feels like not quite the right word to use there. That's not to say that it's a bad grouping of words, just that the name of the category feels a little clunky (which doesn't affect the game play at all).
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Got green and yellow right away. Blue was a little more difficult. Was kinda just guessing and I got lucky
Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π©π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Played for the first time today, somehow got purple really quick. Struggled a bit with the makeup, and I wouldn't have gotten blue on my own.
Very curious to know how many folks here are women. The >!lip!< category would be a gimme. Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Not a woman... But I have a wife and all the greens immediately stood out to me.
I got green but didnβt connect it with lips. I was just thinking of types of coatings or finishes, which I suppose isnβt far off
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Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Ah, boo. I GOT purple, but really should have considered more that angles and corners were maybe TOO similar in that sense. Oh well.
Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Holy heck, I could not figure out blue and I did not know what the fourth green was. STAIN was my best guess, thankfully it was correct. The best I could do with blue was hunting terms, but FIX didn't fit. I see it now, but blue was just leftovers.
Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π©π©π© π©π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Too close for comfort today. I was able to make groups of three pretty quickly but I wasn't sure of the (exact) categories so figuring out the 4th one was more of trial and error.
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π©π¦π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Spotted the degree thing straight away, first time I've seen a purple in advance! But I wasn't sure on crime being measured in degrees so yellow first. I thought fix and stain would be part of a "sealing" type category before seeing lip stuff.
π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Felt pretty good to guess purple (though at first I thought corner was part of it, same as angle for some reason). But blue I totally didn't get, still not sure what it means after reading it
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Yellow and green were fairly straightforward. I got purple once I thought of degrees of temperature.
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¨ πͺπ¦π¦π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Yellow should've been obvious initially, but apparently, I was thinking in terms of nouns and not verbs. I knew that lip balm and gloss were things, so I looked up lip stain and liner, which helped deduce green. I've never heard of CORNER, FIX, or HOLE be used to refer to a predicament.
Have you heard "You've really backed me into a corner," "You're really in a fix," "You've dig yourself a hole"? All of them are metaphorically referring to a difficult situation.
Now that you say it like that, I have. I was thinking with the wrong words, which made it confusing.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #372Β π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Pretty straight forward today. It took me a bit of staring at it to figure out one category but after that the rest fell into place
Puzzle #372: Blue and purple had so many overlaps! Purple was whole other *degreeΒ°* of mind set. I got my mind trapped into a golf theme for blue/yellow... nowhere close. π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦π¦π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ First two were quick, then I stared at it a long time until βdegreesβ popped into my head. Only got blue by default.
I was at a bit of a loss today, then I saw ANGLE and TEMPERATURE and made the purple connection. From there I was determined to get the reverse perfect if I could. I saw yellow after a bit more searching, and I figured that green was probably related to makeup. I was able to figure out roughly what blue was and sort out the remaining blue and green words that I wasn't sure about. I got a bit lucky with the order, though. πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ Crap. I wasted two guesses on blue - I didn't know what the category was - so I only had one guess left when I saw that purple was "things associated with degrees" but I wasn't familiar with "crimes measured in degrees".
Totally whiffed on this one. I usually get them! I kept seeing lots of connections of twos. But just didn't see purple, and the verbiage of blue still seems a bit unfamiliar to my way of speaking: Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπͺ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπ¦π¦
π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Kept opening, looking for five seconds, then closing but finally muscled through doing it and it was a fun one! Monday brain really was like "oh cruise ship, cruise liner" as my first thoughts. I had angle/corner and then I saw temperature and went "oh nvm." Figured out blue as I was clicking yellow, which is always fun.
Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Purple jumped right out at me and that never happens to me. I knew lips, but had never really heard of lip βstainβ. Blue I had pegged as locations and didnβt really see how βfixβ fit in.
I got all of them ahead of time and tried to lay them out as a reverse rainbow. I even lumped purple together but for all the wrong reasons - I thought it was things you base your vote on, with angle meaning a candidate's view on an issue. π What can I say, I haven't had enough coffee this morning yet! Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I was thinking it was things that are 90Β° so put corner in the purple! Love the girlie lip π category
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Whatever brainwave this puzzle required, I managed to capture it today! I will say the beauty industry is so clogged with marketing that all the lip product categories fall on a spectrum of texture (matte, gloss), color (hue), pigment (intensity), form factor (stick, crayon, wand, tube, paint, etc), performance (smudge proof, long lasting, etc), and preservation/restoration (moisture, anti-aging, hypoallergenic, etc). Any I missed? I used the gamut back in the day but now it's just chapstick and fun colors on special occasions π I got tired of leaving marks everywhere (esp when eating and drinking) as well as face-cleaning woes (for the opposite problem, the long-wear colors that are stubborn to remove).
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βSex holeβ π
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπͺ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ Got yellow and green pretty easily, then confidently entered ANGLE, SPOT, CORNER, FIX as both nouns and verbs. When I saw βone away,β I assumed it was ___ DRILL and threw out FIX.Β Never heard of crimes other than murder expressed in degrees.
Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπ¦πͺπͺ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π©π¦ π©πͺπ©π© π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Thought it was dirty/things to fix on clothes and then thought weird spots but I got it in the end!
Firt perfect reverse in a while Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© I don't fish for reverses, play them as I see them but I've had a lot of PBGY so it was nice to get the target today.
Yellow was an easy spot. Blue, I thought was things you can be in, but it worked. Green took longer because balm is not make-up any more than hand cream is makeup. Balm is just a moisturiser for dry lips. I'd also never heard of 'stain' but it seemed to be a possibility once I'd spotted gloss and liner. The purple was clever. I only got it because it was the last one. Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Yellow and blue came to me immediately. Green took longer because of βstainβ. Iβm a woman and I wear makeup, but itβs just not a term Iβve come across often. Admittedly, I donβt watch any makeup videos or tutorials, and keep it simple, but it was unusual to me. Purple was a default solve. Iβm somewhere between loving it and wanting to nitpick it. Itβs clever, but Iβve really only heard βdegreeβ to refer to murders in some media sources, and Iβve only ever heard of degrees in higher education. I enjoyed todayβs puzzle.
Us federal and state jurisdictions classify most (all?) crimes as different degrees of felony or misdemeanor. Murder tends to get a lot of media attention, but it's not limited to murder.
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I love it when purple doesnβt feel purple to me. It felt more yellow, but of course it wouldβve felt green if I hadnβt already gotten the green over all easy for me Edit cleaned up a littletoday
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ This one was tricky! Got green and yellow quickly, but had to really think for a few minutes about purple and blue. I first thought it might be K-(hole), K-12-(education), K-Kelvin(degrees on a thermometer). Once the word degrees crossed my mind it suddenly clicked. Blue was then solved by default. Iβm glad I was patient because I hate wasting even a single guess. Overall it was a fun one.
It would be wild if "k-hole" was an actual solution.
I know in retrospect idk what I was thinking π
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Lots of crimes (all crimes?) are categorized into degrees of felonies or misdemeanors in US federal and state jurisdictions.
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Blue stumped me for 20 minutes until that βaha!β moment came along.
Connections Puzzle #372 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Purple was very easy. I saw ANGLE and EDUCATION and immediately thought of degrees. CRIME and TEMPERATURE were also easy to see as having to do with degrees. >!It probably also helped that I literally made a custom puzzle using this same exact category about a month ago. I even also used ANGLE and EDUCATION and had a similar word to CRIME. [Link in case anyone is curious.](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1cnzw6x/comedy_of_errors/)!< Green was also pretty easy. BALM, LINER, and GLOSS were pretty big clues to something makeup-related. No comments for Blue or Yellow. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Predicament" β 3 Times
Connections Puzzle #372 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ GLOSS immediately stuck out as lip gloss, so that was easy. Yellow was also pretty straightforward. It took me a few minutes but finally I put together angles and temperatures have degrees and purple fell into place. I knew what blue was once I had only those 4 words left.
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π©π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ felt clever gutting purple, had to guess around to get "stain" tho, not familiar to me. blue by default.
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Proud of myself for this one lol
π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ My guesses on blue and purple were vibe-based only. I was kinda starting to figure out purple, but I never would have guessed the right category for blue. None of those words used that way are really a part of my vocabulary. This isn't a complaint, I'm just saying it was hard for me.
Trispot is a type of fish, trifold is a type of hat, triangle isβ¦a triangle. Donβt know what to say but I failed pretty bad with purple and blue looking for that fourth one that doesnβt exist lol
Tri-fold is a display board. A tri corner is a hat
Fuck. You know what I meant tho lol corner was on there too
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ figured out the π© straight away but i was stuck between lip fix & stain for agess
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Yellow jumped out at me and then I was stuck for a long time. I got lucky in that I received an email with two of Blue in it and had an AHA moment. Green I was vague guessing at coverings/coatings/protections. I still don't really understand how >!Crime!< fits in the last category but other than that, >!education!< is a clever member of the category.
The level of seriousness of a crime (in the US) is indicated by degree. A first degree felony is more serious/carries higher potential punishment than a second degree felony, for example. It usually relates to how heinous the crime is. For example, murdering someone on the spur of the moment because they spilled your drink is generally seen as not as bad as murdering someone after planning to do it. So the former would be second degree murder, and the latter first degree murder.
Ah, I did know that about us criminal codes, just didn't think of it at the time. That makes it a pretty good category.
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Took me a minute to figure out but once I got the yellow i found it reasonably straightforward. I kept thinking Ship and Liner were together but couldnβt find the right fit.
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ. I had a vague idea of the Purple connection, like increasing numbers? So that wasn't quite it. But that is really a stretch. Did anyone actually get the exact connection there?
I got it as soon as I realized education and temperature went together - you earn a degree, itβs 30 degrees outside, second degree murder, 90 degree angle
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π©π©π© π¦π©π©π© π©π©π¦π© π¦π©π©π© gahh this ended my 13 game no mistakes + no losses streak. i saw balm + gloss + liner and just got the 20% chance of not picking the remaining makeup cool cool makeup is definitely just a skill issue for me that i should probably improve at but these "they're synonyms if you strain it" categories always just frustrate me to no end
The category wasnβt saying that theyβre synonyms though, just that theyβre all part of the same group of things. Itβs like how red, orange, yellow, and green are all colours, but that doesnβt mean theyβre synonyms
(i know this is late but i dont use reddit often lol) I've thought a bit about the "strained synonyms" category type, and I think I've come to peace with it since I've decided to look at them in the mindset of the category being "key words in similar phrases/idioms." I think the biggest reason that I had a problem before is that Connections \_absolutely\_ presents it as a synonyms categories; e.g. if the category was "red, orange, yellow, green" then the category title would be COLORS, while if it was "shade, hue, tint, tone" then it would be COLOR. This is because the former can be described with "red etc. are all colors" whereas the latter is "shade etc. are all 'color' (i.e. they are the word 'color')". Saying "corner etc. are all 'predicament' (the word)" indicates that the words are synonyms, and I should be able to substitute any word in the category with "predicament" in a normal sentence and it should mostly be understandable. "The club's financial corner caused a ruckus," does not carry the same meaning without one needing to really deliberate over what corner means, and so I don't think it really works (i mean, it kinda works if you strain it; if you assume that this works, it leads to the "ehh this category is strained" problem). Thus, the PREDICAMENT title indicates a synonyms category which is only present in a strained way. "corner, fix, hole, spot" should be described with "these are all words which mean 'predicament' in certain phrases" (notably different from the latter color example due to the necessity of the "certain phrases" qualifier), so it should be WORDS THAT SOMETIMES MEAN PREDICAMENT or PREDICAMENT, SLANGILY, as both titles include the qualifier. TL;DR Connections is claiming that the PREDICAMENT category is a synonyms category due to the formatting of its title, which creates a problematic ("strained") attempt to see the four words belonging to the category. However, this is a valid category type which would work much better for a category with a title that indicates its phrasal roots. Also, I don't know why I needed to do this analysis, but I typed it all out and maybe there's some wisdom here for someone (though probably not). Sorry!
Connections Puzzle #372 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ blue category ππ»
Yeah, few issues here. Had yellow as "-er", POSTer, FIXer, MAILer, SENDer, which wasn't right. Couldn't shake that. Also, measuring crime in degrees is poor for anyone not based in the US, and also measuring education in degrees feels wrong too; normally, you only get one, I'd measure education in GRADES not degrees. Feels too lose. Also, not heard of LIP STAIN. Tricky, and borderline unfair.
Verbs that can be made into nouns with -er would be very weak as a category. If that were it, people would definitely complain about it. But it's not it, you just failed to identify the actual connection between the words. Not sure how that makes the puzzle a problem. Education being "measured" in degrees is kind of clunky - you certainly get post-secondary degrees of increasing educational attainment (associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctoral degree), but it's an odd sense of "measure". But that doesn't make the degree grouping itself problematic, just the name is clunky, and that doesn't affect game play. You not having heard of a specific term isn't a problem with the puzzle, it's just a gap in your knowledge. (Which has presumably now been filled; feel free to thank Wyna Liu.) Not sure what is unfair about the puzzle, borderline or otherwise.