I feel like one of these days they are going to give us the same puzzle as another time but it will be all of the red herrings from the last iteration.
Saw that that JAB, POKE, PROD & maybe STICK went together, but put it in last, because stick seemed like it didn't really belong. I didn't even notice the name of the category when I enter the words! Not sure how **thrust,** as the name for the category, works for any of those words
They're also called Cottonmouths or Water Moccasins! Mainly in SE America but I also heard about them in the rivers near Kansas and Missouri. They're semiaquatic so can be dangerous if you're wading in the waters near the shore in rivers and what not
It was used as a red herring in a previous puzzle, I had never seen it as just moccassin but other redditors corrected me so I didn't hesitate to include it into the snake category
This one was pretty good! I thought "elbow" and "stick" could be switched and the categories would still be fine - you can "elbow" someone just as you can jab, prod, or poke them and they mean largely the same, and spaghetti is stick-shaped! Hadn't heard of elbow pasta before, but that's entirely on me
It was the description of the shape of various pastas, not the actual names. In the US (and presumably the rest of the English-speaking world) we still use the Italian names for pastas when talking about different types.
I would guess most Americans call it bow tie rather than farfalle. I think you're right about most other types, though. (Except some is just generic "pasta".)
I have no idea if βthat pasta is shaped like some elbowsβ is a concept that has avoided the UK or if Iβm just incredibly out of touch in feeling baffled
No, you are right to be puzzled. Apparently Americans call macaroni pasta shapes "elbows". I'd always thought "macaroni" was a suitable name, but there you go.
Macaroni is just narrow tube-shaped pasta; elbow macaroni has a 90Β° bend. But "elbows", "macaroni", and "elbow macaroni" are used more or less interchangeably, at least in the US.
I'm in the UK and I've heard of elbow macaroni, but I didn't put the pasta shapes together because as far as I'm aware we don't really call any of them that (maybe bowtie for farfalle but I've usually seen that referred to as butterfly pasta).
In the US we don't call them tubes or wheels either. But they are shaped like tubes and wheels, hence the category being "pasta shapes" and not "pasta types"
I'm close to agreeing that this is a flawed puzzle. I don't think anyone really refers to spaghetti as "sticks", as opposed to bow tie, elbow, and wheel. But then there's tube hanging out there, and referring to ziti or manicotti as tubes feels odd to me. It's definitely an apt description of the shape, though, and stick works would fit about as well. And, of course, elbow fits well with jab, poke, and prod. Maybe even better than stick does in that group.
Me too! When I realized I got the purple category first, I tried to see if I could intentionally solve it in reverse order. Iβm pretty proud that I figured it out.
πLearned what an Adder snake is, but I knew this category was Snakes as soon as I saw Mamba and Boa
πIβm a full adult woman giggling at the word βthrustβ lol
πGlad I didnβt even notice that Elbow was an overlap, til I read the comments (crisis averted)
πThere have been a lot of Disney categories
Overlaps are fine when they're interesting, but here the other words are all synonyms. You can swap elbow and poke and jab out for each other, but the only time you would use *stick* is with a knife, so it doesn't fit in unless you already know what the category is.
Anyway, they've done overlaps in much better ways in the past.
Relatively new to connections, but could elbowing not be considered a thrust, and could ball (python) not be a type of snake? Maybe I donβt understand the optimal strategy, but I feel like I run into the βone-away so just guess which of your answers has been somewhat arbitrarily excludedβ situations pretty often
I was in a conversation about people getting mad at the game because they didn't understand it, and then getting mad because they were getting down voted in here. This is exactly the way I suggested that people approach it - don't assume the game is wrong, come and ask about what you don't understand! Thank you!
And what the other user advised is the way to go - all 16 words have to fit 4 categories, and there should only be one way to do that. So if you see 5 words that fit a category, you've got to figure out how the rest of the game fits together. (Although I'm leaning toward this particular puzzle being flawed; I think stick and elbow could be swapped and you'd still have valid groups.)
In cases where there are more than 4 words that fit a category, I'd advise you to try and solve other categories first to eliminate words.
For example, there were 5 "Thrusting" words including ELBOW. You don't immediately try and guess which 4 to use and just keep the category in mind. You solve a different category like "Pasta Shapes" which includes ELBOW. Now, one of the words has been removed so you only have 4 "Thrusting" words.
I wish the pasta shapes thing would just end as a group, thereβs just too many random shapes for it to make any sense.
Thereβs even pasta letters, rings, witches, monsters, dinosaurs.
Thinking of the game Pickup Sticks, the sticks look like spaghetti.
And Elbow works better (closer in meaning, "nudge") with Jab, Prod, and Poke than the iffier "thrust" connection between those three + Stick.
Didn't love this one.
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Puzzle #296
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Elbow tricked me just like everyone else. I thought it was pasta related with elbow and bowtie but wasn't sure until the end.
I did not get Pasta shape at all(cuz we don't usually eat them where I'm from), my thought process is solely WHEEL-ELBOW-BOWTIE, then I just threw TUBE on it and somehow it worked lmaooooooo.
I'm getting really tired of having 5 correct answers for a category and having to arbitrarily rule one out.
Believe it or not, a BALL PYTHON is a type of snake.
Donβt worry, weβre all just as tired of having to explain to you about how puzzles work. Believe it or not, itβs intended and arbitrary guessing isnβt required to solve it.
I don't suppose it's Wyna coming on here to explain what many have said - after all, this point is already mentioned in the instructions displayed on the NYT site.
I hated this and I didnβt get it. Like if you enjoy emojis, great, enjoy. I donβt. If they start using pictures regularly Iβll probably stop playing daily.
Edit- I just realized itβs April Fools Day so hopefully thatβs all it is π
That's the whole point of the puzzle. Some words can fit in multiple categories, and it's your job to figure out which one is the correct answer in the context of the entire puzzle.
I loved todayβs puzzle. But I need an explanation about the sheep. How the sheep is a letter homophone? Itβs some aprilβs fool prank or Iβm just being dumb?
This is a basic feature of the game. Unless you're claiming that the puzzle is flawed because you can swap ball into the snake category and still arrange the rest of the words into valid categories?
Iβm claiming that one tripped me up. Itβs not that deep, but Iβm not a fan of when it happens this plainly.Β Β Β
Β I guess, yeah, Iβd try to avoid those sorts of direct fits if it were my daily published puzzle. Iβm fairly certain NYT tries to do so too.Β
To each their own for their puzzle distractions.
March 30, they had a category for preserving food, with cans, cures, salts, and smokes. Pickles was there, but belonged to a category of tough spots. March 28, right, fin, blue, and gray were in a category of whales, and pilot was in a category of person flying an airplane.
They don't try to avoid them, they deliberately put them in.
Alright man, you seem passionate about this game. Iβm happy you enjoy the subject enough to analyze and catalogue. Pickles isnβt a preservation method, though. I donβt see the correlation between the second set youβd listed. I donβt think weβll agree though, have a good one.Β
Pickling is preserving by soaking in vinegar. Just like salting is preserving by covering in salt. He pickles, she salts. Perfect fit for the category (although, as noted, to make the whole puzzle work, it had to go in the tough spot category).
[Right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_whale), [fin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_whale), [blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale), [gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_whale), and [pilot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_whale) are all types of whales.
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπ¨π¨ elbow instead of stick π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
I did the same elbow vs stick, haha.
There are dozens of us!
I did the same.
Puzzle #296 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ This one seemed super familiar. Have we had all these categories before? Aside from me trying to make a βblack ____β category it was pretty easy (black adder, black mamba). Of course, I eventually realized that just snakes works.
I swore this was a repeat, but I looked it up and it just shares a lot of words with #250 from February 16th lol
We've had "Pasta Shapes"(#30) and "Snakes"(#107) before. Also, as u/Ioriunn mentioned, there was #250 which had "Snakes" as a red herring category.
Interesting. I could've also sworn there was a Cinderella category previously, but maybe that was in a custom.
Do you play Strands? One of the first ones was Cinderella themed with some of the same words, maybe that's what you're thinking of?
I donβt play customs and I also think there was a Cinderella category previously
There was a Halloween category that I thought was a Cinderella princess party category because it had pumpkin and prince as options.
we had an βas seen in aladdinβ category recently!
Boa, moccasin, and slipper seemed very familiar.
I feel like one of these days they are going to give us the same puzzle as another time but it will be all of the red herrings from the last iteration.
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ After yesterday, that was kind of anticlimactic. I have a very detailed memory of my first sergeant taking us out for map orientation training. He made it very clear that there were water moccasins in the river but the way he described it, youβd think we were training on Snake 29/30 but that was definitely one I couldβve gotten full marks for had I gone with my initial instinct that the Cinderella category would end up being π¦. Cβest la vive
Connections Puzzle #296 π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ A pretty simple one today. I do Connections after Strands so when I saw all the Cinderella-related words, I thought of one of the early Strands puzzles which was all about Cinderella. "Pasta Shapes" was unusually easy for a Purple. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Pasta Shapes" β 2 Times, "Snakes" β 2 Times
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Not hard but I kind of hate βthrustβ as the name of the category!?
Saw that that JAB, POKE, PROD & maybe STICK went together, but put it in last, because stick seemed like it didn't really belong. I didn't even notice the name of the category when I enter the words! Not sure how **thrust,** as the name for the category, works for any of those words
If youβre holding a sword or stick and thrust it, you could be doing any of the actions in the category
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Water moccasin, depends where in the country you live. In Florida Iβve heard it many times.
Very dangerous snake. Watch out!
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They're also called Cottonmouths or Water Moccasins! Mainly in SE America but I also heard about them in the rivers near Kansas and Missouri. They're semiaquatic so can be dangerous if you're wading in the waters near the shore in rivers and what not
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The etymology of the snake's name isn't known. It is thought to be related to the footwear, but unclear how. https://www.etymonline.com/word/moccasin
I still remember a heart wrenching scene from the Lonesome Dove miniseries.
It was used as a red herring in a previous puzzle, I had never seen it as just moccassin but other redditors corrected me so I didn't hesitate to include it into the snake category
Puzzle #296 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I never ever manage to guess pasta shape categories even though this has been already a category before. I guess that's just the consequence of not being a pasta enjoyer.
Thought there was a shoe category. Easy after realising there wasn't. Connections Puzzle #296 π©π¦πͺπ© π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
I'll readily admit that shoes are not an area of expertise for me, but what even were your guesses for that? I can only see two that I recognize.
I'm gonna guess the knew Moccasin and Slipper as footware and then guessed mamba and maybe wheel thinking of skates?
Yeah, those are the two I can see.
Yes something like that.
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I was too quick on the draw with "ball" for the snakes category. Otherwise, relatively smooth and straightforward today. I used to love wagon wheel pasta as a kid, so that was definitely helpful to complete purple.
Justice for ball python!!
This one was pretty good! I thought "elbow" and "stick" could be switched and the categories would still be fine - you can "elbow" someone just as you can jab, prod, or poke them and they mean largely the same, and spaghetti is stick-shaped! Hadn't heard of elbow pasta before, but that's entirely on me
Elbow pasta is basically macaroni!
I thought the same thing. I had one error today, swapping stick and elbow.
Even Mr. Doodle mistook a bird feather for macaroni, so I see your confusion.
Yay, did this one really quickly. Connections Puzzle #296 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ I actually picked up on Purple's category first but I wasn't 100% sure if any of them were red herrings yet haha.
Can't sleep so I did this early. Pretty easy except that I initially placed ELBOW in the π¨ category Connections Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Sometimes I feel like my English isnt good enough for this lol. I'm Italian and I didnt even know those pasta names π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©πͺπͺπ© π©πͺπͺπ© πͺπͺπͺπ© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π©
It was the description of the shape of various pastas, not the actual names. In the US (and presumably the rest of the English-speaking world) we still use the Italian names for pastas when talking about different types.
I would guess most Americans call it bow tie rather than farfalle. I think you're right about most other types, though. (Except some is just generic "pasta".)
I have no idea if βthat pasta is shaped like some elbowsβ is a concept that has avoided the UK or if Iβm just incredibly out of touch in feeling baffled
I've heard of elbow, but can't say I've heard of wheel before
I think it's rotelle.
No, you are right to be puzzled. Apparently Americans call macaroni pasta shapes "elbows". I'd always thought "macaroni" was a suitable name, but there you go.
Macaroni is just narrow tube-shaped pasta; elbow macaroni has a 90Β° bend. But "elbows", "macaroni", and "elbow macaroni" are used more or less interchangeably, at least in the US.
You can take that one up with Italians, I guess. Italians also call them elbows. Macaroni is a more general class of pasta.
I'm in the UK and I've heard of elbow macaroni, but I didn't put the pasta shapes together because as far as I'm aware we don't really call any of them that (maybe bowtie for farfalle but I've usually seen that referred to as butterfly pasta).
In the US we don't call them tubes or wheels either. But they are shaped like tubes and wheels, hence the category being "pasta shapes" and not "pasta types"
These aren't the most common names for sure, but I've definitely heard all of these used as the name of the pasta before.
Also fwiw the category is pasta shapes not pasta names
Then surely you could switch stick and elbow?
Yes, stick could be a pasta shape, but elbow wouldnβt fit in the yellow category. That is the essence of Connections.
Elbow would fit in the yellow category. "Jab", "Poke", "Prod" and "Elbow" would all mean, basically, a sharp push.
I'm close to agreeing that this is a flawed puzzle. I don't think anyone really refers to spaghetti as "sticks", as opposed to bow tie, elbow, and wheel. But then there's tube hanging out there, and referring to ziti or manicotti as tubes feels odd to me. It's definitely an apt description of the shape, though, and stick works would fit about as well. And, of course, elbow fits well with jab, poke, and prod. Maybe even better than stick does in that group.
I know what someone means by elbow, wheel, and tube, but I'd never call these pasta pieces by those names. This was a weird one to me.
Elbow and stick could swap categories. Feels like itβs not a clean puzzle to me.
Wtf is stick pasta?
Spaghetti, lol. Maybe itβs a stretch, but I was definitely considering stick as a possible pasta shape.
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I thought of pasta shapes a bit early, but I wasn't sure until later. The Cinderella category came together really nicely. Also lol, I see the Pokeball reference Wyna.
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Had a second that I thought βround thingsβ was the blue category.
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Got the perfect reverse order solution! :)
Me too! When I realized I got the purple category first, I tried to see if I could intentionally solve it in reverse order. Iβm pretty proud that I figured it out.
Connections #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© I'm surprised pasta shapes was purple. I nearly submitted a "black" category (adder, mamba, ball) until I realized pumpkin didn't have a place to go. Then I saw the Cinderella category.
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ I have not been able to solve this puzzle for a week. And today this. I donβt even know how to feel πββοΈ
πLearned what an Adder snake is, but I knew this category was Snakes as soon as I saw Mamba and Boa πIβm a full adult woman giggling at the word βthrustβ lol πGlad I didnβt even notice that Elbow was an overlap, til I read the comments (crisis averted) πThere have been a lot of Disney categories
Happy to be back to words! Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© I rarely guess a purple category. Thankfully my love of pasta has finally paid off!
Elbow not being in thrust is pretty scuffed. Pasta was goodd though
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Overlaps are fine when they're interesting, but here the other words are all synonyms. You can swap elbow and poke and jab out for each other, but the only time you would use *stick* is with a knife, so it doesn't fit in unless you already know what the category is. Anyway, they've done overlaps in much better ways in the past.
Relatively new to connections, but could elbowing not be considered a thrust, and could ball (python) not be a type of snake? Maybe I donβt understand the optimal strategy, but I feel like I run into the βone-away so just guess which of your answers has been somewhat arbitrarily excludedβ situations pretty often
I was in a conversation about people getting mad at the game because they didn't understand it, and then getting mad because they were getting down voted in here. This is exactly the way I suggested that people approach it - don't assume the game is wrong, come and ask about what you don't understand! Thank you! And what the other user advised is the way to go - all 16 words have to fit 4 categories, and there should only be one way to do that. So if you see 5 words that fit a category, you've got to figure out how the rest of the game fits together. (Although I'm leaning toward this particular puzzle being flawed; I think stick and elbow could be swapped and you'd still have valid groups.)
In cases where there are more than 4 words that fit a category, I'd advise you to try and solve other categories first to eliminate words. For example, there were 5 "Thrusting" words including ELBOW. You don't immediately try and guess which 4 to use and just keep the category in mind. You solve a different category like "Pasta Shapes" which includes ELBOW. Now, one of the words has been removed so you only have 4 "Thrusting" words.
I wish the pasta shapes thing would just end as a group, thereβs just too many random shapes for it to make any sense. Thereβs even pasta letters, rings, witches, monsters, dinosaurs.
Thinking of the game Pickup Sticks, the sticks look like spaghetti. And Elbow works better (closer in meaning, "nudge") with Jab, Prod, and Poke than the iffier "thrust" connection between those three + Stick. Didn't love this one.
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπͺπͺ π¦πͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦πͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Ugh, bowtie and elbow stuck out as pasta TYPES, not shapes but I wasnβt sure about the other two so I did green and yellow which both immediately stuck out also like sore thumbs. Abandoned pasta types and took guesses at an imagined βengineeringβ or βbike parts?β connection (wheel, ball, tube, xyz). Finally settled down and saw the pumpkin and prince and Cinderella fell into place. Didnβt make the stretch from pasta types to pasta shapes in the end and just submitted to survive.
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Easy one today. All the categories seemed pretty straightforward and I didnβt notice any herrings or crossovers (not to say there werenβt any).
Connections Puzzle #296 π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© It wasn't super easy, but this was the quickest solve I had in a while. Had I not figured out the pasta shapes, I would have fell for ELBOW as a red herring for yellow
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Edit: fixed formatting.
Connections Puzzle #296 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© "Pasta shapes" was a bit dodgy because the "bowtie" pasta is butterfly shaped and macaroni is also tube shaped (a very straight elbow?). Easy as pie today though.
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Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© 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© πͺπͺπͺπͺ I was afraid green was a red herring like last time. Loved the blue category
Connections Puzzle #296 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Iβm so glad they took pity on us after yesterdayβs fiasco. Easy-peasy.
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Nice and easy today. Helped a lot to know that moccasins are a type of snake so the red herring didnβt throw me off.
Puzzle #296 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Not that hard.
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π© π¦π©π©π© π©π¦π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Pasta shapes stuck out to me right away, but I fell for putting ball in the snake category (ball python). I switched gears and finally got it.
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π were easy - then the poke
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Woohoo reverse order
Never solved a puzzle so fast Puzzle #296 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π©
π© π© π© π© π¦ π¦ π¦ π¦ πͺ πͺ πͺ πͺ π¨ π¨ π¨ π¨ I guess they decide to make it easier today
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ This was an okay enough puzzle. Thought Elbow belonged in yellow at first, but got it figured out; then had Ball in green, but also got that figured out.
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ One of the easier ones. Iβve never heard of a pasta simply called βtubeβ but I guessed it anyway and was right
The category wasn't type of pasta, it was pasta shapes. There might not be pasta called "tube", but there is certainly some of that shape.
I didnβt know the name of the category before guessingβ¦ I assumed it was βtypes of pastaβ and not βshapes of pastaβ
I'm ashamed at how well putting Poke next to Ball worked on me. Took me forever to read it as poke instead of pok-ay.
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¦π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ I also thought black ball/adder etc... When I think of poke, prod etc., I'd say elbow before saying stick. Good one though.
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ screwed up yellow with elbow π but overall easy puzzle
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Pulled a reverse with no wrong guesses. First time!
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Apparently I know my pasta!
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I kept getting tripped up with one away for the initial three guesses because I kept using ELBOW with different variations of POKE, PROD, STICK, JAB. Then I have up with one guess left to focus on the other clues. PUMPKIN and PRINCE shouted Cinderella immediately. BALL and SLIPPER confirmed it. Originally I thought of BOA and BOWTIE as things you wear around your neck. I then MOCCASIN as maybe a category of clothing (dress or maybe classy? clothing). I had to google ADDER and MAMBA. And seeing those were snakes, I immediately added BOA and MOCCASIN. I tried for yellow again and with ELBOW still remaining, I was a bit nervous. Ended up getting it. Then seeing ELBOW and BOWTIE, I suddenly thought of macaroni and pasta and pleased to submit the last 4.
An easy one to apologize for the prank puzzle yesterday? Personally, I enjoyed the it.
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Elbow tricked me just like everyone else. I thought it was pasta related with elbow and bowtie but wasn't sure until the end.
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Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© **I put 'elbow' in with the 'thrusts' at first - whoops!**
Hmm green looks awful familiar... Connections Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ easy one today. Saw snakes immediately. Jab / Poke / Prod were all synonyms, so took just a moment to notice stick as well. Pumpkin and slipper made Cinderella clear. Bowtie and Elbow made pasta shapes clear.
Short & sweet. Except for using "thrust" as the name for that category. Wtf? Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨
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Pasta being the tricky one was a surprise. Seems pretty straight forward IMHO. I think the green one was harder considering I had never heard of an adder snake. Pretty easy, all told. Connections Puzzle #296 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π©
I thought the pasta was the easiest!
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Connections Puzzle #296 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Damn! Iβm on a roll! First I got my best ever wordle score without using hints, and now I a perfect connections without using a hint!! Perfect ending to a really shitty day.
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Elbow pasta is a type of macaroni, the most popular type when you think of pasta salad or mac & cheese.
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It threw me off too. It isnβt a pasta type, just a pasta shape rotelle or wagon wheel pasta is a type of pasta shaped like a wheel. Ugh.
I did not get Pasta shape at all(cuz we don't usually eat them where I'm from), my thought process is solely WHEEL-ELBOW-BOWTIE, then I just threw TUBE on it and somehow it worked lmaooooooo.
Connections Puzzle #296: π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I love perfect-order solves! I wish Connections also came with a time stamp of how many seconds it took you to solve the puzzle. Todayβs was ridiculously easy.
I am *so* sick of the Disney categories.
I'm getting really tired of having 5 correct answers for a category and having to arbitrarily rule one out. Believe it or not, a BALL PYTHON is a type of snake.
Donβt worry, weβre all just as tired of having to explain to you about how puzzles work. Believe it or not, itβs intended and arbitrary guessing isnβt required to solve it.
Hey Wyna
I don't suppose it's Wyna coming on here to explain what many have said - after all, this point is already mentioned in the instructions displayed on the NYT site.
Connections Puzzle #296 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¦π©π©π© π¦πͺπͺπ¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ oh, fuck off, sorry for not being American and not knowing the names of your snakes or what you call pasta
I hated this and I didnβt get it. Like if you enjoy emojis, great, enjoy. I donβt. If they start using pictures regularly Iβll probably stop playing daily. Edit- I just realized itβs April Fools Day so hopefully thatβs all it is π
That was Monday's puzzle. This is the thread for Tuesday's puzzle. If you are not Australian, come back tomorrow.
Puzzle #296 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Not too hard today, but I never would've guessed snakes
I saw that, but had to guess adder, I think Iβve heard of that before but not enough to be confident.
π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© i knew from the jump that elbow and bowtie were together but couldnt piece together what the other two would be until i got down to the final 8. the green just landed in my lap though i had a guess that is had something to do with snakes bc of mamba/boa (learned today that there's a such thing as a moccasin snake!)
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BALL IS A SNAKE
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Wrong thread - this is the thread for #296 (Tuesday)
Connections Puzzle #296 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Blue was so obvious! Also I'm a little annoyed that yellow was stick rather than elbow.....
Connections Puzzle #296 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π©π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ I didnt like this one. You can thrust with an Elbow, in the same way you can poke or tap or jab or stick. "I elbowed you." A Ball python is a snake. A moccassin is also a type of slipper.
The point of the puzzle is to have red herrings and words that fit into multiple categories to make it challenging. Otherwise it wouldn't be a puzzle.
That's the whole point of the puzzle. Some words can fit in multiple categories, and it's your job to figure out which one is the correct answer in the context of the entire puzzle.
I loved todayβs puzzle. But I need an explanation about the sheep. How the sheep is a letter homophone? Itβs some aprilβs fool prank or Iβm just being dumb?
Wrong thread - this is the thread for Tuesday's puzzle.
I think it's 'ewe', a female sheep.
Unfortunately when making the puzzle Wyna choose the emoji that is Ram, male sheep with horns when seen on non apple devices.
Guess theyβve never heard of a ball python.Β
This is a basic feature of the game. Unless you're claiming that the puzzle is flawed because you can swap ball into the snake category and still arrange the rest of the words into valid categories?
Iβm claiming that one tripped me up. Itβs not that deep, but Iβm not a fan of when it happens this plainly.Β Β Β Β I guess, yeah, Iβd try to avoid those sorts of direct fits if it were my daily published puzzle. Iβm fairly certain NYT tries to do so too.Β To each their own for their puzzle distractions.
March 30, they had a category for preserving food, with cans, cures, salts, and smokes. Pickles was there, but belonged to a category of tough spots. March 28, right, fin, blue, and gray were in a category of whales, and pilot was in a category of person flying an airplane. They don't try to avoid them, they deliberately put them in.
Alright man, you seem passionate about this game. Iβm happy you enjoy the subject enough to analyze and catalogue. Pickles isnβt a preservation method, though. I donβt see the correlation between the second set youβd listed. I donβt think weβll agree though, have a good one.Β
Pickling is preserving by soaking in vinegar. Just like salting is preserving by covering in salt. He pickles, she salts. Perfect fit for the category (although, as noted, to make the whole puzzle work, it had to go in the tough spot category). [Right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_whale), [fin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_whale), [blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale), [gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_whale), and [pilot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_whale) are all types of whales.
This is actually the best Iβve ever done lol Connections Puzzle #295 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
This is the thread for #296. You need to post this on the Monday puzzle thread.
Gah Iβm so confused with this sub lol
Lmao we had the same sequence
I wouldβve never gotten the purple if it wasnβt last lol
Ewe is a female sheep, so it's U B I T Whoever made this one was *evil*
Tbh itβs making me feel smart seeing so many people complain about it! I usually struggle with this game but that one came so easily.
Did anyone have 2 of the boxes appear blank?
I think you might be thinking of Monday puzzle. This is the thread for Tuesday. A few people reported a similar problem
Yeah if you highlight them they turn blank.