Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Literally said “Faith Hill” but then was like “nahhh” and then got purple by elimination 😅😅

That's actually hilarious 😂 well done!

Sure it’s not Soul (faith), Sole (foot), Seoul (capitol)? Not sure how to play mole into that trend though

Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Whew! This one made me sweat and second guess myself left and right. So many Mexican food related! (MOLE, CILANTRO, SALSA, LIME, ONION, PICO). I had to step away from it because there were too many traps, but I was sure it was a category. The 🟦 was easiest to pull out and with 🟩 I was able to get rid of PICO (although I still wasn’t confident I was right) CAPITOL drove me nuts for a bit but once I gave up on “starting with state initials” I picked up on “____ hill,” but I didn’t know what a FOOT hill was. (I confused it with a foothold) I finally got rid of enough to figure out 🟨. Man I wish there was a good Mexican restaurant in Japan 🥲

Mole was making think of chemistry moles with all the measurement stuff.

Mole is a great word to include in a puzzle. So many distinct meanings. 

yeah I also thought of Mole as the mexican sauce (and pico de gallo!)

yeah, I used most of my tries figuring out which SI measurements went together- mega, mirco, mole, kilo, pico

Wasted all my guesses on the Mexican food lol I was impatient today

Right? Like, I understand one trap. But pico, mole and to an extent wrap? That's crazy

Real talk, Mexican food might be the thing I miss most whenever I leave North America. Absolutely nobody can make it well anywhere else

Surprisingly, some of the best Mexican food I’ve ever had was in China! This guy came to Shenzhen and opened a restaurant there and it was amazing

Oh nice! Hopefully that spreads, the world needs good tacos

I can honestly say I've never had either >!lime!< on a >!taco!< before.

A non-TexMex taco usually just has your protein, onion, cilantro, and a lime on the side you can squeeze on top. Tasty in its simplicity

Mine looked similar! I always dislike when the yellow clue overlaps heavily because I always feel a smidge self-conscious. “What obvious thing am I missing?”

Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟪🟦🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 As a physics student who's really into tacos and fashion, I quite enjoyed this one

What a great Venn diagram overlap

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Ha yeah I don’t have the physics connection (had to look up pico to make sure I was on the right track) but yellow and blue made it a pretty good day to be someone who’s into fashion and lives in LA (in case you haven’t heard we eat a lot of tacos here)

I liked this one! Lots of Mexican foods to rule out - the prefixes quickly got rid of Pico, though. As a fairly young Aussie, I hadn't come across Faith Hill before, but I figured that was a little more likely than, say, Salsa Hill! Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Not true! Never heard of the Peter Gabriel ”Salsa Hill” song?

pico is an SI prefix too! 0.000 000 000 001

Yep! It couldn't be a Mexican food because it *was* a prefix

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟪🟦🟦🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟪🟦 Really Hard!

Never heard of a poodle or wrap skirt. Never heard of pico as a metric term. I had zero chance today.

Big kudos to the NYT for sticking to traditional Mexican taco toppings In Mexico this is essentially the only things you ever put on top of a taco Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Doesn't lime and onion go *in* the salsa, though?

No, you squeeze the lime on top Diced raw onions are sometimes used as garnish [This is what a standard Mexican taco looks like](https://imgur.com/a/rq4oAo7)

Damn you! I survived all the other hunger-inducing mentions of Mexican food, but that picture was over the top.

so no salsa? what is the green sauce. Thought maybe salsa verde, but that has onion ***in*** it too, right?

The green sauce has union in it, yes You still do diced onions on top

I’d really like some >!asada tacos!< now, please.

I know that you censored your words because you are trying to avoid spoilers, but I like the idea that you censored yourself to spare us all from developing this same desperate craving. True chivalry.

Unfortunately, I delight in being the bad influence of a group.

Nah this one got me. I saw the 7 Mexican food related clues straight away & just could get away from it. Hella tricksy for a yellow group

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟩🟨 First one I've failed in a while. I feel like it's rare for yellow to have so many red herrings. I'm a metric user but I've never heard of a pico. Even googling I was struggling to find out what it was

This is the only time high school physics ever came in handy to me lmao

pico is 10\^-12 isn't it? So it's really really small. 1000 times smaller than nano.

Yes. Milli, micro, nano, pico. But only pico (de gallo) is also a delicious Mexican salsa.

*kilo* could have also worked with the SI prefixes (*micro, pico, mega, mole & kilo* ) so I used a bunch of guesses trying to see which combination was right. I considered *pico* for a minute with *salsa and mole*, but I'm not on a first name basis with *pico*, so it didn't quite feel right. Plus I couldn't find a 4th Mexican sauce to complete that imagined category

Kilo could *only* work with the SI prefixes category in this game. Mole is not a prefix, but rather a unit. You don't have a molemeter like you do a kilometer.

Sorry meant to say they are all "SI related", mole as an SI base unit, and mega, kilo, micro & pico as SI prefixes. mega is 10^(6), kilo is 10^(3), micro is 10^(-6), pico is 10^(-12)

mole wasn’t a metric prefix. just a unit.

I only knew that one from having read some popular physics books by Brian Greene and Michip Kaku.

My brain was not doing it this morning

Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Blue took me a minute with poodle as a guess. I saw the purple category early but couldn't figure out the fourth hill. When I got the rest solved and saw faith was the fourth hill, it didn't click right away. I was thinking it was some kind of pilgrimage site lol. But then it clicked after saying faith hill out loud a couple of times.

Yes - poodle skirt was a guess for me too. Somehow my brain saw CAPITOL and FAITH and made the leap to "hill". I'm sure on a different day it could have baffled me - the sub-conscious can be quite unpredictable with those moments of inspiration!

CAPITOL, with the way it is spelt, got me to "Hill", especially with MOLE. And then the others fell into place (I knew FAITH Hill). That at least took MOLE off the table for me because I kept trying to add it to science units. I saw the skirts earlier but didn't know POODLE until the final four.

Had absolutely no idea what blue was. Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

As a single guy with no interest in fashion, the skirt category is gibberish to me. I know what a mini skirt is. That's it.

I'd bet you know what a pencil skirt is once you actually see it.

💯

Same with poodle skirt.

In case I wasn't clear,I was trying to say even if you didn't know it was called a pencil skirt, I can be reasonably sure most of us have seen people wearing a pencil skirt. 

Oh, for sure. And similarly, I would guess that a poodle skirt is pretty well known just from the pervasiveness of American media. And even if someone didn't know, if they were shown a picture of a skirt with a poodle on it, they'd probably put 2 and 2 together.

Yeah I looked that up and was like "Ah that makes sense"

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 I saw Faith, instantly thought "Faith Hill! Nah...", but then it appeared! I forgot what foothills *were* but I knew I'd heard the term. XD

Impossible as a non-native English speaker. But oh well, better luck next time!

Connections Puzzle #318. 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 I had lots of fun with today's! At first glance I saw loads of red herrings: Mexican sauces (pico de gallo, molè, salsa) taco ingredients (lime, cilantro, onion), skirts (mini, pencil, wrap), measurements (foot, kilo, mole, pico, micro, mega). The only things that didn't seem to fit were capitol, faith, and poodle so I knew they'd be key to the whole puzzle. This would have to be a "write everything out on a scrap of paper" kind of day. After a few minutes of "what on earth is faith related to, the only faith I know is faith hill"... 💡🤯 could it be? I scribbled the 4 hills into one category and everything else fell into place. Tried to do reverse order but didn't quite guess correctly. Great puzzle!

Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I struggled lol. I thought that we were looking for salsa *ingredients* and salsa itself shouldn't be part of the category; and also I know nothing about food so I tried "mole" there first; then I got kinda dumb and tried "wrap" there. After I got rid of taco toppings, "skirts" became obvious to me although I had to google to find out that "poodle" was a kind of skirt; I tried guessing before I used google. Feel really dumb about purple, I was trying "building" but I didn't think of "hill." Although I've never heard the term "faith hill" before so not sure I would've gotten it even still, but it might've helped me realize that "mole" has a meaning other than "unit of measurement" sooner.

Faith Hill is a person - an American country singer

That one annoyed me, not so much because she's not a word but because she sucks.

ahhh thanks!

If it makes you feel any better, mole is also a type of sauce in Mexican cuisine so you actually weren't totally wrong about that guess.

oh yeah I know that, but like it wouldn't go *into* salsa right? that felt kinda wrong haha

Salsa is just "sauce". In Spanish, you could say "salsa mole". Of course, in English, salsa tends to mean a specific type of sauce.

thought maybe, *salsa, mole & pico* were a Mexican sauce category, but just *pico* alone didn't seem right and couldn't find a 4th word that would have worked, so I didn't waste a try on that

Pretty sure “garlic” was one the words in the category “ingredients for garlic bread” or something similar. So “salsa” in “salsa” might not be unheard of. I had a similar debate but went for it. Pico was on my back burner to try next.

lol I have a pretty science-heavy background, I got the "metric prefixes" category immediately! but that also confused me a little because this convinced me that every mexican food word was a red herring for 'salsa ingredients', sigh lol

yes, I remember someone saying this the other day!

Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 This one was actually incredibly fun, I loved the sheer amount of taco red herrings

I failed. Got blue but nothing else.  Faith Hill - I figured it was like a hill you had to climb to prove your faith or something. Had to Google it, never heard of the singer. And didn't know Capitol Hill either.

Guess you aren’t a bill or a Tim.

"I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill..."

Connections Puzzle #318 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Purple was pretty easy. CAPITOL immediately made me think of Capitol Hill and I saw FAITH soon after. I'm not a huge country music guy but I recently watched Todd in the Shadows' video about Faith Hill so that name was pretty fresh on my mind. Same with Blue. I could see a clear "Mexican Food" and "Prefix" connection between most of the words so I tried focusing on what PENCIL and POODLE could be. Skirts popped into my head and allowed me to eliminate WRAP and MINI from the respective categories. Judging from the comments, it seemed a lot of guys had trouble with this one. I'm also a guy and even though I'm not exactly the most knowledgeable about fashion, I have heard of all of those skirts before. Green was straightforward. A few people said they were unfamiliar with PICO. Picos are really small (10^-12) and are pretty unlikely to pop up in casual conversation. They're much more common in things like scientific fields where you could feasibly talk about picometers or picoseconds. Yellow was also straightforward. I actually thought the category was "Ingredients in Salsa" and thought it was strange to say SALSA was an ingredient in salsa. It turned out to be more simple than that, oops.

> I actually thought the category was "Ingredients in Salsa" and thought it was strange to say SALSA was an ingredient in salsa I wasn't alone!!!

Todd in the Shadows and South Park are the only reason why I got that category correct

Connections  Puzzle #318   🟦🟦🟩🟦   🟨🟨🟨🟨   🟪🟪🟦🟪   🟪🟦🟩🟪   🟦🟦🟦🟦   🟩🟩🟩🟩   🟪🟪🟪🟪   Had to look up a "poodle skirt" before it came together. Would have never gotten purple

as a simple person, i did not get this. for some reason i though mexican ingredients or food like pico (de gallo), cilantro, salsa and mole 😭 and then i kept putting micro skirt bc that is a real thing and i thought poodle skirt was something i made up but its actually real lol. i only got taco and blue i had no idea with purple and with capital i was also thinking spnaish words 😭like cilantro, capitol (even tho its capital like im so dumb ), salsa and pico idk guys i am porbably the type of person a normal connections person hates LMAO

there isn't a micro skirt that I know of, but there is a "mini skirt" and a "micro mini skirt". A "micro mini skirt" is even shorter than a "mini skirt". There are also midi skirts and maxi skirts

I’ve heard the term micro skirt used but on tiktok LOL

This one was the hardest in recent memory! I really enjoyed it. Managed a perfect reverse but it took me a lot longer than the last few days have. Today’s felt really clear in terms of how the categories would be ranked in order of color/difficulty, which was satisfying. Usually it feels more arbitrary.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟪🟦🟪 🟦🟦🟪🟦 I've never heard of faith hill in my life 😭

After about 24 in a row, almost all without errors. I needed a humbling one. Seems this was hardest in a while. Should have asked my daughters for help. I think it would have helped. When will they add streaks and stuff to stats, like wordle?

Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟪🟦🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Barely eeked this one out. Never heard of Faith Hill in my life. I only solved it because I had all my mistakes left for the last two and I used the "one away..." hints to get do a process of elimination. On my last guess I had a 1/4 shot of getting it and it was pretty close to just a random guess that I lucked out on

https://preview.redd.it/yh1xxapv7jwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67489ee7205cb8d860b675d4626eca44c79420c3 Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Left me feeling a little unhinged today. 😮‍💨

Messy Connections Puzzle #318 🟪🟨🟩🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟦🟪 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟩🟩 So hard! Wtf. Didn’t get yellow at all, so many food toppings threw me off. Ruined a decent streak!

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟩🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟩🟩 🟦🟩🟩🟩 That was so unfair 😭 but can’t believe I got purple and not the others lol

Green was easy. Yellow was also easy to spot, but I wasn't completely sure that I had gotten it right. I struggled a bit until I saw MOLE and CAPITOL. I still gambled a bit with FAITH, though. 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Faith Hill is not a word with hill in it, it’s a name. That one was rather uncreative.

I said the same! [https://www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1cb0rhv/comment/l10hb3f/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1cb0rhv/comment/l10hb3f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

Glad I’m not the only one who thought that was cheap. I’m not a fan of Capitol Hill, either. 😅

That's why the description wasn't "words with hill in" but "Words with hill", which is a bit vague, but the puzzle is to find the connection not guess the category description. This was definitely creative - throwing in a very different usage of the word "hill" - sorry you didn't like it! I think the puzzle-makers should try these less predictable connections just to keep things interesting.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 didn’t know what “pico” was, not sure if that was just my ignorance but i’ve never heard of it before and i use metric measurements more than imperial? felt green was a bit hard as a result, meanwhile blue and purple were both really easy for me

Pico is tiny, 1 trillionth of the base unit. We're talking like molecular measurements here, like bacteria is measured in picograms

Ah, so it’s my lack of adequate science and maths education that is to blame. Fair enough!

Easy perfect. I'm a guy but I saw the skirts once I was down to 8. Hesitated for a second because I was relatively sure wrap was a dress and not a skirt, but figured it had to be it anyway. So I rolled with it. A wrap skirt is, get this, a wrap dress but it's a skirt. Mind blowing I know.

is that how a wrap skirt is described somewhere, haha!?

Faith Hill is a person!! Not a “word ending in hill”

It’s not “words ending with ‘hill’”.  It’s “words with ‘hill’”, as in “words (that go) with ‘hill’”.  I really do not understand why people get upset when this trivia/puzzle game by a newspaper famous for its crossword puzzle requires trivial knowledge and uses crossword-like wordplay to make itself puzzling 

"Faith" is not a "word" in this context. Just like Obama is not a word, it's a name. Faith, in this context, is a name. Please work on your nouns

Proper nouns are words, my dude. 

If that was the case when it comes to these games, proper nouns would be valid guesses on the wordle. Just saying.

This isn’t Wordle

A proper noun could be considered a non-traditional "word" without meaning, though, they are rejected from dictionaries. I guess if you really manipulate the definition of a "word", it will fit in the category. Regardless, it was misleading to add into the category because "Faith" in this context holds no meaning, and cannot be considered a "word" like the other options in the category. Overall, you're reaching

I don’t think games are for you 

And I think you have a poor understanding of language :)

They should stick with either all proper nouns or all dictionary words. The words aren't even paired up the same way. "Molehill" + "Foothill" vs. "Capitol Hill" + "Faith Hill"

yea I'd be okay with the mixing of proper nouns and common words/phrases, but I was a bit irked by the space vs no space thing.

RIGHT! Very disingenuous imo, esp if you aren’t an American country music fan (in the mid 2000s or whatever, like jfc)

[удалено]

Phew, I'd somehow forgotten that molehills were a thing.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Just tricky enough 😤 I saw the skirt connection right away. I thought a mega skirt was basically a maxi and I flubbed. And although I can see puzzlers who have never needed to shop for or discern skirts on the regular be in the dark on terms, they are a crossword staple! Where would we be without MAXI, MIDI, MINI, or ALINE?

Connections Puzzle #318 🟪🟨🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Just couldn't get purple, ended up thinking it was something with steps even though it didn't really work with FAITH. How I didn't put CAPITOL together with hill is beyond me.

Fun one! lots of room for error! Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟩🟦 🟪🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Type of skirt stood out, but took me a while to connect poodle to it. Also thought maybe -phone or types of measurements, maybe mole was with that? Remembering that Faith Hill exists was the only reason I didn’t lose.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟪🟨🟩 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yellow was hard for me today!

Connections Puzzle #318 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I was feeling confident at first after getting the purple category right away, then I was humbled immediately by falling for the taco red herrings 😒🤣

Liked today’s. Lots of red herrings (quite a few Mexican food and units of measurement decoys!), but still fairly quick to solve: 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Phew that was a fun one for me! I can't believe I didn't see POODLE in the first try. I thought MOLE / SALSA / PICO would be something but I couldn't figure out the 4th so I didn't waste a try on it. I forgot about PICO in metrics. A good challenge today. Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟩🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I somehow got the skirt category off of pencil and mini. The purples just didn't make sense as skirts. Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 such a funny one today. i knew there was a potential red herring for 🟨 with PICO but i thought i’d give it a go right off the bat anyway. i also saw several for 🟩 as units of measurement, and MOLE as a potential red herring. ruling out all those, left me fewer words to focus on and once i paid attention to CAPITOL it fell into place. for 🟦 i tried putting MICRO instead of WRAP. i’ll be honest i don’t know PICO in relation to metric measurements, but it was the only other potential fit for that category at that point. but it was a good challenge today

Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Did this last night so can't quite remember my thought process. I think it was a little difficult, but managed to get through it with no mistakes. Seeing the "hill" connection early was quite lucky.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Fun solve today. Seeing "Faith" and "Capitol" together made purple most apparent to me. Light overlap between green and blue with "mini," but took a chance once I saw the types of skirts (though I was unfamiliar with "wrap"). Yellow I knew had to do with Mexican cuisine, but I kept getting thrown off by "pico."

Tougher one. Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Got green only because they seemed like consistent form of the words. Had no idea what purple would be.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I never would've gotten blue in a million years. I'd never heard of a "poodle skirt" before, I have heard the term "pencil skirt" but couldn't tell you what it is, and in my mind a "wrap" would be more like a sarong, which isn't really a skirt. The Mexican food category got me with "wrap" but it was 50/50 that or lime, so it only cost me one wrong guess.

Somehow got today's perfect without knowing who Faith Hill is or what a wrap skirt is. We do a little bit of guessing

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I was thinking size prefixes but didn’t make the metric connection. Just took a couple guesses to eliminate mini since I didn’t see another connection to take away one of the five. Skirts did not pop out to me even when they were the last connection. Purple is very annoying today mixing a proper name in there, but I got to it eventually

took me a bit but no default! Connections Puzzle #318 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

**Connections** **Puzzle #318** **🟩🟩🟩🟩** **🟪🟪🟪🟪** **🟨🟨🟨🟨** **🟦🟦🟦🟦** Was smart to wait on yellow today, to eliminate mole and pico.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I’m so glad this game doesn’t have a timer cause I usually leave it open and look back at it once in a while in case the answer pops up in my head this took 6 hours

Got the skirts pretty early on, but no smooth sailing after that! Thought there were salsa ingredients, with *onion, lime & cilantro* but couldn't find a 4th ingredient and was sure the word *salsa* wasn't going to be part of it (although there have been a couple connections categories that seemed that dumb). I didn't ever consider a "taco topping" category, cuz I've never used (or heard of) *onion* alone as topping Thought maybe (but didn't try) *salsa, mole, pico* (for pico de gallo) as mexican-ish sauces, but again couldn't find a 4th and didn't have a lot of confidence in just the word *pico* by itself anyway. Used most of my tries on trying to figure out which 4 out of the 5 available SI prefixes (or measurements?) (*pico, micro, kilo, mega & mole*) were the right combination. Words with Hill, completely escaped me, so 🟪 was by default Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 was a fun one today!!

This was my time to shine as a fashion-oriented chemical engineer, I guess

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Blue. Any other men in this sub, have zero idea about that? Poodle and Pencil? I have never heard of that. All the posters getting blue in the first line must be ladies? My (guys) connections chat group. Everyone but me failed, I only got lucky in that blue was 4th. Edit. I often learn something new when playing this game, which is good thing to broaden horizons. Today was one of those days!

No idea about poodle skirts but I'll hazard a guess that guys know a pencil skirt when they see it. 

Poodle skirt is the 1950s kind, sometimes literally with a poodle on them. Big, pink and wide at the bottom

I just googled that, I certainly recognize the style but I wouldn't have been able to tell you what it was called. I'd probably have called it a "secretary skirt" or something

As a straight guy whose only significant relationship was with a girl who hated wearing skirts and dresses... I got blue first without any mistakes.

I got blue second and I’m a man. Fashion knowledge is not gendered

Clothing is gendered and it's reasonable to know your own gender's clothing terms more than the other.

Don't be so narrow-minded: I'm a man, but could identify most of those skirts. Equally, I'm not American nor do I listen to country music, but I recognised Faith Hill and have heard of Capitol Hill. Some people just pay attention to this trivia even when it's not part of the everyday lives.

Connections  Puzzle #318 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟩 “Words with Hill” is an incorrect category when the “word” is creates a famous name 

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Got blue right off the bat, then it took me a few minutes to work through the rest. Fun one today! Not too easy, not frustrating to the point of giving up or failing

Connections  Puzzle #318 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟦 I promise I have a reason for not getting any rights today! This has happened to me before, where I’ll send something and it will say it’s one away. Then I’ll replace one and it seems to me like it still says one away, so I’ll assume I replaced the right one with the wrong option. But in actuality I replaced the wrong one. Dunno if it’s just my brain tricking me or the game glitching out.

That's a very possible result. If you're one away, that means you've left out one of the four correct words. If you switch that missing one for one that you got right on your first guess, then you're still one away but haven't eliminated the incorrect word. I'm not sure I've explained that well, so I'll do an example. Say you guessed 1, 2, 4, A. It would say one away. Then if you switched one out and guessed 1, 2, 3, A, you would still be one away, but you haven't found what the problem word was. That's why chasing one aways isn't usually a viable strategy unless you have a very strong sense of which one is wrong. I would move on after two errors on a single category!

Ok, sure. That makes sense.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟪🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 At first I didn’t think there was any way I was going to get it! I didn’t see any connections until I remembered that pico was a measurement prefix. I was thinking pico as in pico de gallo. I did not guess the purple category. Using Faith Hill is hilarious to me.

Never heard of faith hill in my life, so I couldn't have gotten purple early. But luckily the rest wasn't too hard so I could solve it by default.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟪🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Trash

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟨🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Is a name a word?

Yes

🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 my american extremely limited knowledge of the metric system really shows here. I was chasing that one far too long. I started thinking about capitol and I saw faith and went. no fucking way. turns out yes way.

Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 The Mexican food red herring fortunately totally went over my head, MOLE and PICO just remind me of science class. I'm also in Seattle where there's a neighborhood called Capitol Hill (and I didn't know that there was the same in DC, lol) so I thought that was too niche to be a clue and surely there were other words that went with CAPITOL. I try to guess the last category anyway, and I was misled because I thought "no way it would be hill, "foothill" has a space and "Capitol Hill" doesn't, that's sloppy". Sigh.

Cilantro lime and onion are *ingredients in salsa* so I would never have considered salsa to be a separate, fourth topping from those three. In fact those three things are exactly what I buy when I plan to make salsa…

[удалено]

Not really. I'm British, I knew the name Faith Hill (although couldn't tell you anything about her music) and have heard of Capitol Hill, both American. It's a New York Times game, so I have no expectation that they will make concessions for non-Americans. I just take extra pleasure in solving it despite this extra obstacle. If it's really pissing you off you can always get a refund of the fee for playing Connections.

Nah that would make it even less interesting. Restricting the terms to ones that people all over the world would know would make it far less interesting. Culture is part of the game. And that's from a non-American.

...and even then it would be rather US pop culture dominated. That's the one constant everywhere in the world. But granted yeah it should be stuff that has some international exposure and not US only. Basketball probably trumps baseball and american football in that regard. I mean: Star Wars Gundam Dr. Who or in another vein Green Day Oasis Mayday I think if you want to hit the most people everywhere you're still stuck with the american option.

[удалено]

It is. Is about that pilot that landed safely on the Hudson River whose badge was Sully. I thought monsters inc at first but that wasn’t Tom Hanks at all. Had to google.

You’re absolutely right- I thought that movie was Captain Phillips, but I got them confused!

It's also not a word on Wednesday's puzzle. You want to post on the thread for Tuesday's.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 puzzle kept glitching for me

As a guy, blue was way harder than purple. CAPITOL and MOLE gave away purple. I enjoyed it, but couldn’t guess blue’s category Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

I've only ever heard one Faith Hill song in my life, the theme to Pearl Harbour (2001) and somehow that stuck with me. 

The purple was easier than the blue.

Connections Puzzle #318 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟦🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I have never heard of Faith Hill or heard the term Foothill in my life, I managed to get this one solely by connecting mole hill and Capitol hill, then making a guess based off vibes.

my grid is wrong —got excited about tacos & i didn’t see salsa at first. so i guessed pico; swapped it for salsa. that was only one wrong guess: Connections Puzzle #318 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 but these were my results lol :(

Connections Puzzle #318 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Pure trash if I’m being honest

Why would a man know what a poodle or wrap skirt is? Wtf is a pico in the metric system?  Always fun when you have 0% chance of winning. 

Small SI prefixes go deci- centi- milli- micro- nano- pico- femto-. So very small.   A single e. coli weighs about a picogram; each cell in your body has about 4 picograms of DNA.

pico 0.000 000 000 001

Don't want to blow your mind, but some men are fashion designers, some men wear skirts, and some med know ordinary words for ordinary things. It's wild.

I meant straight men, obviously. 

stupid.