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Connections
Puzzle #857
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🟪🟪🟪🟪Okay this is the first one that had me kinda frustrated-
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Is it just me or is there a whole ass correct answer that doesn’t count, in “pinto, kidney, lima, navy”. None of those are misspellings or anything right?? Why is there an entirely correct answer that doesn’t count as a connection? That feels kinda bs to me.
Like it’s fine if it’s almost an answer, or it looks kinda like an answer but isn’t, or there are three that clearly fit and the last is a stretch, but there really shouldn’t be 100% correct answers that loose you a life, right?? Am I missing something?
but there really shouldn’t be 100% correct answers that loose you a life
There should only ever be one way you can solve the whole puzzle. But for there to be a full red herring category which, if you were to use it, would make it impossible to get the other three categories is well within the spirit of the puzzle IMO.
I feel like that that treats submitting individual connections like the wrong way to play. Obviously there’s nothing wrong with finding everything first and putting them after but the game isn’t designed as though doing otherwise is playing it wrong
Its just feels bad on such an explicit and clear connection, on a different day that could be a right answer and I don’t feel like I was playing incorrectly by submitting it before finding every other category
I dunno, maybe I’m being unreasonable
Edit: if the red herring overlaps with every group like here so you don’t have to find everything to know it’s the red herring, that at least makes it feel a bit less unfair. I still don’t really feel like I’m playing the game wrong by submitting a clear connection though. I guess the designers disagree.
Obviously there’s nothing wrong with finding everything first and putting them after but the game isn’t designed as though doing otherwise is playing it wrong
IMO it is, because the objective isn’t just to solve all four categories, but also to solve them in order, purple first, yellow last. Which is very hard to do if you don’t solve it all first.
The game doesn’t communicate that as a goal in any way does it? I know people try to, but like it doesn’t tell you to in the “how to play”… It doesn’t tell you to solve it in any particular order at all…
Does it give you any indication you’ve done something special if you get them in reverse difficulty order? I understood that to be a thing people decided was their goal, not the way you’re supposed to be playing and doing otherwise is playing it wrong… 😅
Anyway. It does tell you to watch for things in other categories. I just thought that didn’t include entire complete sets of four that very clearly all belong together. Clearly I’m wrong and the designers consider that to be a part of the puzzle 🤷♂️
Apologies for the late reply. It’s been that long since I’ve done Connections.
but like it doesn’t tell you to in the “how to play”… It doesn’t tell you to solve it in any particular order at all…
Does it give you any indication you’ve done something special if you get them in reverse difficulty order?
It does, but only if you use the “Connections Bot” option it displays after you’ve solved it. I think you’re supposed to have an account to use it, but I think the “Bypass Paywalls Clean” extension works to let you view it without. Something I’ve done in my browser is letting me access the Connections Bot without an account, anyway.
Connections Bot gives you a score out of 99, with 99 being for a no-errors reverse rainbow. I got 97 today for 🟪🟨🟩🟦 with no errors.
I don’t know the connection there, but sometimes they put red herrings. Like, one time it was “up, down, left, right” which obviously are directions or whatever; but each was actually part of a different connection.
Theyre all types of beans. I guess if you solve everything in advance then red herrings that 100% make sense and could be correct answers make sense, but the game isn’t designed as if it’s only correct to play by finding everything everything first, so it doesn’t feel like I’m doing anything wrong by selecting a correct answer and submitting it to take it off the board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_bean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_bean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinto_bean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_beanEdit: if the red herring overlaps with every group like here so you don’t have to find everything to know it’s the red herring, that at least makes it feel a bit less unfair. I still don’t really feel like I’m playing the game wrong by submitting a clear connection though. I guess the designers disagree.
Yeah, exactly. I think the idea is that the red herring might be a legit connection, but you won’t be able to solve any other connections if you keep it.
I guess if it overlaps with every other category then you only have to find a second one to prove it was a red herring, which makes it feel less unfair. But to me it still doesn’t feel like I’m playing the game wrong by finding a clear connection and submitting it to take it off the board…
I guess the designers or people who make the puzzle for each day disagree
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Puzzle #857
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Uniqueness 1 in 637Wow. I had no idea about purple today. And only a vague idea about blue.
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At one point I had beans with pinto, lima, and kidney. I had golf in with the cars, and it wasn’t until very late that I remembered bronco is a type of car too. Had no idea they were all by the same manufacturer.
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Puzzle #857
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The red herring got me because I first assumed the green NATO alphabet was the red herring. Then I screwed up the cars because I didn’t realize they were all Fords at first. It came down to types of pools and I suppose I’ve heard of a kidney-shaped pool from that old Cake song, but I didn’t know it was an actual type common enough to have a name. It would’ve been my next guess because of that. Purple was clever but I never would’ve gotten it because I didn’t know “great seal”.
Connections Puzzle #857 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦Actually saw purple today!
Wow this shit is actually impossible
!I’m infuriated that they put exactly 4 types of beans in the list and that wasn’t a solution !<
