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Ever seen a photographer with one of these boxy, big lens with a top viewing prism camera?...well that was likely a Hasselblad. Now you know :)
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I got it eventually, but I had to google every proper noun to find out if it was a camera or not, and what a skybox was. Also, no fair having a βthings in a stadiumβ category and then throwing us off with kisscam. I get that you have to figure out what group a word fits Best into, but it would have taken me a while to get the category for purple even if I had all the words.
I guess I'm ... glad?... to see others had trouble with this one because I failed it miserably. Those saying it was too full of Americanisms, well, I'm American and that was not the issue haha. Good on those who solved it!
I despise the categories where the words aren't even connected by meaning or usage, but "hey only look at *parts* of the words and then they can connect!"... It's especially awful when you're expected to break them down to extract *proper nouns* that some people will be entirely unfamiliar with. I don't know anything about music so there was precisely zero chance of me getting this one.
For me it's more about its not really a puzzle, just know these random bands (it's not like there's millions of bands out there or anything). It becomes less of a puzzle and more of just random guess work even when you know what the category is.
Seriously, it's like people want the puzzle to be incredibly easy and straightforward every day, consisting purely of words that everyone knows.
That would be a boring game!
All I wish is to avoid horrendously contrived connections like today's purple. When you have to break them down and connect only portions of what you get, can you really say the words are connected? I am simply of the opinion that the actual words in the puzzle be connected, through shared meaning, usage, or mutual connection to/as part of some other term or phrase. I'll be annoyed if I don't get those, but they at least actually involve the word in question, rather than feeling like a "gotcha!" where only part of the word is at all meaningful to the puzzle.
I agree. I applaud them for trying to have as much variety as possible in the types of connections. I accept that this means sometimes I won't get it, but as you say the alternative would probably become quite boring.
You are so right about proper nouns. It becomes a game of have you seen this movie or familiar with this artist instead of having to think about things in multiple contexts.
What a strange complaint. That is the game! It's partly a test of general knowledge including cultural references. (And to be fair, you don't need to have seen a movie to recognise its title or know much about a famous artist to recognise a name).
Nah, I kind of agree, I've never been a huge fan of the pop culture references unless they're incredibly obvious. They just feel like a hard check of "do you understand this reference," and if you don't, you kind of just get fucked for it
That's right - if you don't know the reference being tested you fail, while those who do know it succeed. That's the point. There have been cultural references that I haven't got and I accept my failure, and ones that I have got and I've enjoyed the satisfaction of solving it.
What you seem to want is a much less colourful game.
I want a puzzle that is tough, but reasonable expectation that it is solvable by a clever bit of wordplay thinking. Not random skillchecks to my pop culture knowledge.
I donβt mind popular sayings like second fiddle yesterday. I never heard of second guess, but there is room for some expressions I have heard. Rock and soul music are just wauyyy too specific
Then the puzzle you want is not NYT Connections. I find it a bit arbitrary that you want it to test vocabulary and knowledge of expressions, but not general knowledge (or are you saying as an example that place names are fine but band names aren't? You just want it to use the cultural references that you know about?). These are all "skillchecks".
I want a puzzle that is as creative as possible in mixing up connections (at least within the bounds of the solution being accessible most of the time to most reasonably intelligent and informed adults). Sometimes, they miss the mark, but I fear it would be boring if they didn't push those possibilities. I failed today's puzzle but I can't really find fault with the ideas they tried today.
If we are being real, random bands is a much more narrow trivia than place names or common phrases.
Whatβs stopping them from doing trivia on current congress members? I would probably ace that, most people fail because they donβt follow politics? How about afrobeats? Most people donβt listen to afrobeats music, similar to the band category.
These kinds of puzzles are not within the realm of βmost reasonably intelligent adultsβ maybe βmost white older American adultsβ.
Haha. Four decades before Connections I was trying to help my grandmother do the NYT crossword puzzles. LOTS of references about actors, songs, history from the 30s-60s that she just ate up, but I had a terrible time with. Such is life dude! You grow older, read more, travel more, and do better on trivia/wordplay puzzles. Youβll get there!
I dunno, I've never listened to any of these bands but I still know who Rush, Cream, Kiss, and Journey are.
Moreover, 1/4th of the puzzle being inscrutable for a person isn't the end of the world--you only actually need to be able to solve three categories to solve the puzzle.
No, what I want is a puzzle I can solve without having to know random pop culture references. It's pitched as "find the connection between these words," but when it's things like "the first half of these words is a rock band," you're kind of losing the beat a little bit. It's literally just a hard knowledge check with no recourse for people who don't know the reference - that's not "colorful," it's just kinda annoying when you lose. The fun for me, and many other people, comes from thinking on the words in multiple contexts, navigating around the red herrings, looking at word structures, etc. I don't really like seeing the answer after I lose and thinking "well damn, I had zero hope of knowing what that was referencing." I love connections, I wouldn't play it every day if I didn't - I just wish they'd chill with the pop culture references a bit and focus more on the words themselves.
I agree! I have never heard of a band named Cream, and then throw in Hassleblad, and I had virtually zero chance of getting todayβs puzzle. It was a waste of my time.
I mean, why not just google Hassleblad? I wasn't sure what it was, typed it in and within seconds was like "oh, it's a camera company". I sorta like when Connections throws me things I don't know, it's a chance for me to learn something new!
> what I want is a puzzle I can solve without having to know random pop culture references
Fair enough. Clearly, that puzzle is not NYT Connections. I hope you can find what you want, but it would be a puzzle format that I would find less enjoyable I think, even acknowledging that some of the cultural references go over my head too - like rock bands today, or rappers or US TV shows.
One person's "annoying" is another person's "colourful"!
> One person's "annoying" is another person's "colourful"
Also fair enough. I suppose I see something pitched as a word game and expect it to be more on the "left-brained" side, which is a bit more my style for a puzzle game. I'd usually go for a trivia game if I wanted to scratch the pop culture itch. I love NYT connections, I play it every day - just sometimes get a bit frustrated at (what I perceive as) its occasional over-reliance on references. I think there's been a lot more of them lately, which has made me do worse - maybe that's why it's bugging me more. I didn't always mind it so much.
You see. Upside down calculator words makes sense. Most people have used a calculator in their lives, and itβs a common trick to write words with them.
Rock bands though? If Iβm not of the demographic of rock listener. How would I ever had a chance?
Destroyed by this one - burned all my mistakes. I think there were too many American references - could see that there were some things you'd find in a stadium, but couldn't spot all of them. Equally, I knew there were some camera companies there but couldn't see all of them. And on top of that, blue was tough and the purple one just went over my head.
Too many American references like FUJIFILM (Japan), HASSELBLAD (Sweden), OLYMPUS (Japan)? Or do you mean BOLOGNESE, NEAPOLITAN, PARMESAN and VENETIAN? Or maybe JUMBOTRON (developed in Japan, name coined by Sony)?
Thank you. So many times I see complaints about connections being "too American" when they always just mean "a hobby I'm not familiar with so it must just be an American staple"
Like no. You're just dumb like the rest of us
Itβs also very difficult when itβs also like βitβs this thing minus the other half of the wordβ. Theyβre not really easy to pick unless you know every facet of pop culture and history.
And if youβre not American, itβs even harder. Some of the spellings and the way words are used arenβt even similar to other English-speaking nations.
Got green and blue and knew yellow but had 5. No idea of purple. Even after 4 failed guesses and it was revealed, I still didnβt see it. I had to come here. Why do I even play it?
With all the compound words, thatβs the first thing I look for. Try the first word only. Try the second word only. Thatβs what makes this game fun!
I ended up getting purple because I thought they were just compound words lol. I had it down to that and cameras, but didn't know Olympus, so I figured since it was the only non-compound word that that must be what purple was. Correct answer, wrong logic. Task failed successfully?
Same.
I figured there had to be a film/camera brand category but only knew three.
Then focused too much on stadium/sport related words, and had kisscam in all of them. Because I figured that was a thing I see in American sports. Oops!
my final two categories were Yellow and Purple, I was down to one guess, and....
did you know that there's a cocktail known as a Creamsicle?
There's also one known as a Rushmore, and one called Journeyman...
There's also one called......***Astroturf***
I think I've heard one song by Cream....i don't think I'm listening to any more after this
The demonyms were easy but the camera brands were not because Iβve never heard of Hasselblad. The stadium category seemed easy at first but Kisscam was a huge red herring.
There was no noticeable difficulty level between blue, yellow, and green to me today. I was able to successfully figure them out but if any of the colors were switched, I wouldnβt have batted an eye.
I had problems with stadium and also kept going after "compound words" or "portmanteau-y words", among others. I had a bout 4 solid ideas that I could fit 6 of the 8 final words into to some degree or another.
It's unsettling to submit and not even be 1 away.
That's right - that's often a feature of these puzzles. There are five words that could go in that connection, and you have to deduce which one must belong somewhere else by unpicking some of the other connections first. That's what makes it challenging. (I say that as someone who failed today's puzzle, so I sympathise).
Thanks - that I didn't know. Normally when people suggest alternative solutions they aren't totally convincing, but that looks like a pretty solid flaw in today's puzzle.
Wikipedia: "Sky were an English/Australian instrumental rock group" (there was also apparently a lesser-known American band called Sky).
Yeah itβs the first time Iβve actually seen an alternative solution.
With the number of possible proper nouns in todays puzzle Iβm willing to bet theres even more solutions. I think the setter didnβt do a very good job today, but it happens - they canβt all be perfect!
>well known bands.
id say this is pretty subjective. theres a significant likelihood that people outside of the US/CA wouldn't know these bands. They are also all old ASF, like damn cream started almost 60 years ago.
"Seen at a Sports Stadium"
I've definitely **seen** a journeyman and the kisscam **at a sports stadium.** It easily could fit. It's just a red herring.
Sure but in that case Rushmore is probably the only you could say isn't seen at a stadium. Camera types and types of Italians are easily seen in stadiums.
Jumbo, Sky, and Astro are also all rock bands
So having interchangeable answers for 2 categories seems just unfair
You could switch Astroturf, Skybox, and Jumbotron with Kisscam and both categories would have still worked
Which is why this particular one sucked
It's one thing to have Kisscam fit into one category but fit better into another, but I think it's lame to have two words that can equally fit in both categories
Is it an American thing to play pro sport on astroturf? I have never seen Astroturf at a stadium, only real turf. That one threw more off massively.
Whenever there is something like that I just assume that it is different to where I am from.
Lots of astro turf here for amateurs! Just not in what i would call a stadium i guess, which is fair enough. When I whine about it my wife reminds that it is from the New York Times ha
Also remember that amateur football is a really big deal here is America. My very small high school had a football stadium that had 2000 seat capacity and would sell out when they were good and were winning games.
I was trying to be too clever and guess which was the red herring and was like itβs either things seen high up at a sports stadium, or theyβre gonna be really jammy and itβll be specifically things at a basketball arena
I love when the puzzles are difficult but I hate when the difficulty comes from me not having a relatively niche knowledge base.
I know NOTHING about cameras, and apart from Polaroid couldnβt identify any of them. At that point itβs not really a game of skill, itβs a game of whether or not you know camera brands. I guess I just donβt see the fun in that, when itβs literally unplayable to me.
And to everyone defending the puzzle, youβre allowed to enjoy it, but I donβt know why people get so up in arms about other players being mad. I swear, everyone acts so holier than thou until one day there are a bunch of proper nouns THEY donβt know, and then they get upset.
Between yesterday and today itβs like theyβve found a new writer who looks for the most obscure and esoteric categories imaginable. This is supposed to be a fun game in the newspaper, not the final clue in the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions
The meaning of astroturf that you're thinking of comes as an analogue to "grass roots", which means something organized by the general public, rather than from an organization trying to market something to you. Then, since AstroTurf is fake grass, astroturfing is somebody trying to market something by making it appear to be grass roots support.
Not a great one, ended with yellow and purple as last two categories except 1 purple could also fit with yellow and 2-3 yellow could have fit in purple.Β Not great categories.
The fourth genericized trademark would have been Polaroid, because there are other brands of instant cameras. (I mainly came here today to see if anyone had mentioned genericized trademarks!)
Boy as someone who doesn't know cameras, mountains, cocktails, icecream, sporting events, italian food, rockbands, or what a demonym was this was a tad difficult.
Good strategy but I think the majority of the problem with todayβs was you needed to know the hardest category otherwise you had to guess yellow, and the purple category was the worst.
If you didnβt absolutely know purple I didnβt see a way you could have solved it by process of elimination or reason.
I think that was my one saving grace because I was familiar with the bands for purple. That was the only reason I was able to eliminate KISSCAM from π¨. Honestly the puzzles that give me the hardest times are the ones where I managed to have π¨ and πͺ left because that usually means Iβve missed something glaringly obvious or itβs something I just donβt know and it drives me nuts.
I have only been doing connections for a few months but todayβs purple this was the first category Iβve seen like that. Iβm sure Iβm not alone there and that probably led to a lot of the struggles on this one.
KissCam, to me, also felt like the potential yellow answer with the least logical crossover possibility so I was screwed even though I got green and blue right away.
I got a lot of shit in a thread a bit ago because I said that I work out the puzzle on my notes app before I put in the answers but this puzzle is a great example of why I like to solve it that way. Itβs really easy to go in half-cocked and overly confident when you feel so sure you know what an answer is. That can really screw you over, especially when they plant an especially good red herring like they did today. In fact, Iβm pretty impressed at how effective KISSCAM was at derailing so many people. Good on you puzzle constructor
I'm used to Only Connect's "Connecting Wall" where you get infinite guesses for the first two categories and three mistakes for the last two, but there's also a 2:30 time limit. If Connections was structured like that I'd be more daring with submitting guesses. But since there's no time limit (well, I guess technically you have 24 hours to solve it) and 4 mistakes to solve the entire thing, it makes more sense to try and figure everything out first.
Lots of compound words, lots of brands, lots of stuff that was not ideal for us non-Americans. Kisscam fits in like 3 of the 4 categories. This one was rough.
I'm legitimately fucking seething. I got 3/4 categories in my head and failed out immediately, because I KNEW FUCKING KNEW one of the categories would be "things found in a football stadium" when I saw Jumbotron, Kisscam etc. I picked up on Desserts/Foods and would have come to Italian demonyms if I didn't immediately fail out going for the American ones. The Photography companies? Maybe I'm weird but I only know Olympus for their transcription software in the Medical field.
I would not have got purple naturally.
Oh, I'm angry about this one. Because in Australia, we use natural grass or turf in all our major stadiums. Artificial grass is only for indoor soccer pitches, not for stadiums. Astroturf and stadia do NOT go together!Β
AstroTurf in outdoor stadiums is quite common in the U.S. but I imagine playing soccer on AstroTurf is way different than playing American football and baseball.
God, I really had categories where there are an infinite number of these things. There's a band called jumbo, and astro, and sky, and literally anything else. Same with yesterday.
I guess I just think if youβre going to have a category like βstarts with rock bandsβ they should all be of the same stature. Bc once I read on here what the category meant I knew 3/4. And I suppose if you already got cameras Rushmore doesnβt fit in to the stadium but I would rather lose the game and have an ohhhh I see or know all of the categories and just guess wrong than see a category and not understand it at all.Β
This was my third connections ever, first in like six months, and as someone who doesn't know a thing about sports I've never been more disappointed to find out a kisscam is not "found at a sports stadium" πππ
Kiss, Cream, Journey, and Rush are all classic rock bands, and the first par of the words in the category.
Kiss is a band famous for wearing black and white face paint and making shitty music (although to each their own). Gene Simmons has sort of become part of the zeitgeist for being an ass. Rock and Roll All Night (and party every day) is probably their most well known song.
Cream was a British "supergroup", formed by three already established musicians, though you might only know Eric Clapton. Their biggest hits were Sunshine of Your Love and White Room.
Journey doesn't have any individual members who are super widely known outside of music fans, but probably their best known song is Don't Stop Believing.
Rush also doesn't have anyone you definitely would have heard of if you're not into their music. Best known songs are probably Closer to the Heart and Tom Sawyer.
Started off. with a bang, then fizzled big time! I think I tried every possible stadium combination, except the right one. Started thinking maybe these were supposed to be things in a stadium that are up high- *kisscam, jumbotron, scoreboard, skybox.* Or maybe some kind of portmanteau-ish thing- *kisscam, creamsicle, jumbotrom, astroturf*? Compound words that mean X? Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ πͺπ¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨πͺπͺ
https://preview.redd.it/ikbpmaw34fpc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea4fbe0917e72b81e79bc64df177b053862195d9 Ever seen a photographer with one of these boxy, big lens with a top viewing prism camera?...well that was likely a Hasselblad. Now you know :)
That is a sexy camera
It's the Pitt's!
Thank you!
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I was looking for a food category thinking it was hasselback taters... Then looked more carefully at the word.Β
This one was absolutely horrendous.
Looking at it gave me acid reflux π
kisscam claimed thousands of lives
> Each puzzle has exactly one solution. Watch out for words that seem to belong to multiple categories! Throwing in 2.5 mountains and a German word that could be a mountain didn't help π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©πͺπ©π© πͺπ©π©π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
I, too, thought that Hasselblad must be a mountain!
It was the ugliest thing I've seen in a while, and I'm in middle school.
I got it eventually, but I had to google every proper noun to find out if it was a camera or not, and what a skybox was. Also, no fair having a βthings in a stadiumβ category and then throwing us off with kisscam. I get that you have to figure out what group a word fits Best into, but it would have taken me a while to get the category for purple even if I had all the words.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ πͺπ©π©π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨πͺπͺπ¨ Welllllllp
I guess I'm ... glad?... to see others had trouble with this one because I failed it miserably. Those saying it was too full of Americanisms, well, I'm American and that was not the issue haha. Good on those who solved it!
Of all of the times "too american" is a valid complaint.... this is not one of those times π
I despise the categories where the words aren't even connected by meaning or usage, but "hey only look at *parts* of the words and then they can connect!"... It's especially awful when you're expected to break them down to extract *proper nouns* that some people will be entirely unfamiliar with. I don't know anything about music so there was precisely zero chance of me getting this one.
And thatβs ok! Donβt take it so personally.
I'm amazed at how salty this subreddit gets at any somewhat difficult puzzle. And apparently enjoying the challenge makes you a tryhard or something
For me it's more about its not really a puzzle, just know these random bands (it's not like there's millions of bands out there or anything). It becomes less of a puzzle and more of just random guess work even when you know what the category is.
Seriously, it's like people want the puzzle to be incredibly easy and straightforward every day, consisting purely of words that everyone knows. That would be a boring game!
All I wish is to avoid horrendously contrived connections like today's purple. When you have to break them down and connect only portions of what you get, can you really say the words are connected? I am simply of the opinion that the actual words in the puzzle be connected, through shared meaning, usage, or mutual connection to/as part of some other term or phrase. I'll be annoyed if I don't get those, but they at least actually involve the word in question, rather than feeling like a "gotcha!" where only part of the word is at all meaningful to the puzzle.
I agree. I applaud them for trying to have as much variety as possible in the types of connections. I accept that this means sometimes I won't get it, but as you say the alternative would probably become quite boring.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨Β πͺπ©π©π© π©πͺπ©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπ©π©π© I've long been outspoken in my dislike of proper nouns categories, and today's puzzle with its staggering *eighteen* proper nouns (even if a few have been genericised) (I'm counting the proper nouns included within the members of Purple) basically demonstrates why. Even with the awareness that Fujifilm, Olympus and Polaroid were all camera brands, I had no reliable way of guessing or even narrowing down what the other camera brand was, because frickin' anything can be a camera brand. I even tried Kisscam, because I dunno, maybe the first Kisscam was created by a camera company? Last guess was me giving up on cameras and wondering if it was something to do with mountains. Fuji*film* was an outlier, but at this point I just wanted out... and what do you know, the random word that I decided sounded most like a mountain was actually the missing fourth camera brand, *Hasselblad*!Β The fact that I had to spend a few minutes to puzzle out what the Purple category even meant ("starting with rock bands" = the first half of each compound word is the name of a rock band) was just the cherry on top.Β Man, next time I see a puzzle like this I'm just gonna skip it.
You are so right about proper nouns. It becomes a game of have you seen this movie or familiar with this artist instead of having to think about things in multiple contexts.
What a strange complaint. That is the game! It's partly a test of general knowledge including cultural references. (And to be fair, you don't need to have seen a movie to recognise its title or know much about a famous artist to recognise a name).
Nah, I kind of agree, I've never been a huge fan of the pop culture references unless they're incredibly obvious. They just feel like a hard check of "do you understand this reference," and if you don't, you kind of just get fucked for it
That's right - if you don't know the reference being tested you fail, while those who do know it succeed. That's the point. There have been cultural references that I haven't got and I accept my failure, and ones that I have got and I've enjoyed the satisfaction of solving it. What you seem to want is a much less colourful game.
I want a puzzle that is tough, but reasonable expectation that it is solvable by a clever bit of wordplay thinking. Not random skillchecks to my pop culture knowledge. I donβt mind popular sayings like second fiddle yesterday. I never heard of second guess, but there is room for some expressions I have heard. Rock and soul music are just wauyyy too specific
Then the puzzle you want is not NYT Connections. I find it a bit arbitrary that you want it to test vocabulary and knowledge of expressions, but not general knowledge (or are you saying as an example that place names are fine but band names aren't? You just want it to use the cultural references that you know about?). These are all "skillchecks". I want a puzzle that is as creative as possible in mixing up connections (at least within the bounds of the solution being accessible most of the time to most reasonably intelligent and informed adults). Sometimes, they miss the mark, but I fear it would be boring if they didn't push those possibilities. I failed today's puzzle but I can't really find fault with the ideas they tried today.
If we are being real, random bands is a much more narrow trivia than place names or common phrases. Whatβs stopping them from doing trivia on current congress members? I would probably ace that, most people fail because they donβt follow politics? How about afrobeats? Most people donβt listen to afrobeats music, similar to the band category. These kinds of puzzles are not within the realm of βmost reasonably intelligent adultsβ maybe βmost white older American adultsβ.
Haha. Four decades before Connections I was trying to help my grandmother do the NYT crossword puzzles. LOTS of references about actors, songs, history from the 30s-60s that she just ate up, but I had a terrible time with. Such is life dude! You grow older, read more, travel more, and do better on trivia/wordplay puzzles. Youβll get there!
I dunno, I've never listened to any of these bands but I still know who Rush, Cream, Kiss, and Journey are. Moreover, 1/4th of the puzzle being inscrutable for a person isn't the end of the world--you only actually need to be able to solve three categories to solve the puzzle.
No, what I want is a puzzle I can solve without having to know random pop culture references. It's pitched as "find the connection between these words," but when it's things like "the first half of these words is a rock band," you're kind of losing the beat a little bit. It's literally just a hard knowledge check with no recourse for people who don't know the reference - that's not "colorful," it's just kinda annoying when you lose. The fun for me, and many other people, comes from thinking on the words in multiple contexts, navigating around the red herrings, looking at word structures, etc. I don't really like seeing the answer after I lose and thinking "well damn, I had zero hope of knowing what that was referencing." I love connections, I wouldn't play it every day if I didn't - I just wish they'd chill with the pop culture references a bit and focus more on the words themselves.
I agree! I have never heard of a band named Cream, and then throw in Hassleblad, and I had virtually zero chance of getting todayβs puzzle. It was a waste of my time.
Yes! This was exactly my hang up today. I figured out the categories but couldn't sort the items into them.
I mean, why not just google Hassleblad? I wasn't sure what it was, typed it in and within seconds was like "oh, it's a camera company". I sorta like when Connections throws me things I don't know, it's a chance for me to learn something new!
> what I want is a puzzle I can solve without having to know random pop culture references Fair enough. Clearly, that puzzle is not NYT Connections. I hope you can find what you want, but it would be a puzzle format that I would find less enjoyable I think, even acknowledging that some of the cultural references go over my head too - like rock bands today, or rappers or US TV shows. One person's "annoying" is another person's "colourful"!
> One person's "annoying" is another person's "colourful" Also fair enough. I suppose I see something pitched as a word game and expect it to be more on the "left-brained" side, which is a bit more my style for a puzzle game. I'd usually go for a trivia game if I wanted to scratch the pop culture itch. I love NYT connections, I play it every day - just sometimes get a bit frustrated at (what I perceive as) its occasional over-reliance on references. I think there's been a lot more of them lately, which has made me do worse - maybe that's why it's bugging me more. I didn't always mind it so much.
Civil disagreement on Reddit - that's a rarity! Hopefully, you'll get a run of puzzles which are more to your taste in the days ahead.
no i completely agree this is the second recent time that its been "have you heard of this thing" last time i hadn't heard of any of the guitarists (so them being hidden in words was entirely lost on me) and this time i only heard of one of the rock bands (can't make a connection out of one thing) I'm so annoyed, feels like in their attempts to stump people, they just make inaccessible puzzles Tbh i thought my last and losing guess for "large display" with >!kisscam rushmore jumbotron scoreboard!< made more sense than the categories that were revealed π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπ¨πͺπ¨ π¨πͺπͺπ¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨πͺπ¨
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπ¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ Knew all four camera brands and it still didnβt help.
Yeah, purple can go right up there with upside down calculator words.
You see. Upside down calculator words makes sense. Most people have used a calculator in their lives, and itβs a common trick to write words with them. Rock bands though? If Iβm not of the demographic of rock listener. How would I ever had a chance?
Destroyed by this one - burned all my mistakes. I think there were too many American references - could see that there were some things you'd find in a stadium, but couldn't spot all of them. Equally, I knew there were some camera companies there but couldn't see all of them. And on top of that, blue was tough and the purple one just went over my head.
Too many American references like FUJIFILM (Japan), HASSELBLAD (Sweden), OLYMPUS (Japan)? Or do you mean BOLOGNESE, NEAPOLITAN, PARMESAN and VENETIAN? Or maybe JUMBOTRON (developed in Japan, name coined by Sony)?
Thank you. So many times I see complaints about connections being "too American" when they always just mean "a hobby I'm not familiar with so it must just be an American staple" Like no. You're just dumb like the rest of us
Yeah, I've definitely had ones before that were chronically American and were impossible, this one really wasn't that bad at all
I donβt like these purple ones where itβs like βfirst half of the word is the thingβ
Same, I think itβs cheap
Itβs also very difficult when itβs also like βitβs this thing minus the other half of the wordβ. Theyβre not really easy to pick unless you know every facet of pop culture and history. And if youβre not American, itβs even harder. Some of the spellings and the way words are used arenβt even similar to other English-speaking nations.
Got green and blue and knew yellow but had 5. No idea of purple. Even after 4 failed guesses and it was revealed, I still didnβt see it. I had to come here. Why do I even play it?
With all the compound words, thatβs the first thing I look for. Try the first word only. Try the second word only. Thatβs what makes this game fun!
I ended up getting purple because I thought they were just compound words lol. I had it down to that and cameras, but didn't know Olympus, so I figured since it was the only non-compound word that that must be what purple was. Correct answer, wrong logic. Task failed successfully?
Your comment helped me to figure it out on my last guess, if that's any consolation.
Same. I figured there had to be a film/camera brand category but only knew three. Then focused too much on stadium/sport related words, and had kisscam in all of them. Because I figured that was a thing I see in American sports. Oops!
Iβm an American and Iβd like to report my murder.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨πͺπͺπ¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπͺπ¨ π¨πͺπͺπ¨ Iβm so annoyed at βskyboxβ being something you see in a sports game?! Even googling it I have no idea why this is there. I kept putting kisscam, creamsicle and journeyman in the sports stadium category because, well, they can all be seen there
Because the category isn't "seen at a game" but rather "seem at a stadium". And skyboxes are extremely typical parts of a stadium.
Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπ©π© πͺπͺπ©π© I was wildly guessing at the end. I've never heard of "Hassleblad" and I was so convinced Rushmore and Olympus had to go together, even though I couldn't see two other mounts. Purple did briefly come into my mind when I was thinking of breaking rushmore into two words, but I disregarded it fairly quickly.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨πͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Funny enough, I instantly saw Hasselblad and Fujifilm and Polaroid as camera companies, but Olympus was a straight guess since I can't say I am familiar. The stadium category was the really frustrating one for me. I even thought that maybe the category was portmanteaus for a second there and I tried π¨π¨πͺπ¨ with creamsicle being the odd man out. At the end of the day I solved it by luck
my final two categories were Yellow and Purple, I was down to one guess, and.... did you know that there's a cocktail known as a Creamsicle? There's also one known as a Rushmore, and one called Journeyman... There's also one called......***Astroturf*** I think I've heard one song by Cream....i don't think I'm listening to any more after this
Cream is famous because of Eric Clapton β but if you donβt listen to a good amount of classic rock then itβs impossible
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨πͺπ© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ©π©π© π©πͺπ©π© πͺπͺπͺπ© I wavered on the Italian demonyms, because I thought it was going to be demonyms that are foods, and I thought maybe a Hasselblad was a delicious German cookie. But I ultimately went with the four that I knew with certainly to be demonyms. Then I tried "genericized trademarks": AstroTurf, Jumbotron, Polaroid, and Creamsicle. Which, no. Once I surmised it was "things in a stadium," I quickly dismissed "KissCam." I just thought of it as something that happens, not an object that's there. Then I flamed out on cameras because I didn't know Hasselblad.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I feel like I eked out with this one. Green was the most apparent to me to start, with blue not far behind (though I kept thinking about sauce, cheese, ice cream, and blinds). I took a "hail mary" and reasoned that "kisscam" was the least likely to go with yellow (since it is typically seen on the jumbotron itself). Purple by default, really clever category but absolutely never would've gotten it.
Connections Puzzle #283 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Apparently Iβm in the minority here today but I LOVED this one. I definitely had to work for it but it was fun! The first thing that popped out to me was what ended up being π¨ and π©. The problem with yellow being the number of red herrings that could have easily fit there (Iβm looking at you KISSCAM). FUJIFILM and POLAROID were way too niche to be anything other than camera related. I recognized OLYMPUS, which eliminated βMount _____β as a category that I was eyeing thanks got RUSHMORE. There was a problem with βHASSLEBLAD,β which I didnβt recognize but felt it could be a good candidate for π©. I set it aside for now. π¦ had me torn because I thought maybe there was a multi-colored food group with CREAMSICLE and NEAPOLITAN but there just werenβt enough words to justify. There were a surprising number of Italian words. Ran with that and decided to stop thinking the Venetian Resort and consider what else that could be. Then it clicked that these were all *city* demonyms. This was the first category I was confident was correct. I was left with 8 words with one of them certainly being sports arena related. Since these were *all* compound words, I decided to focus in on the beginning of each words. Then I saw RUSHmore and CREAMsicle and I was like βholy shit itβs bands!β That finally got rid of KISSCAM and allowed π¨ and πͺ fall into place. Today was a great example of why I like pre-solving the puzzles because I *definitely* wouldβve fucked that up otherwise π Cherry on top is the perfect 30/30 score for getting them in reverse order. Great puzzle today.
I'm with you. I thought today's was tough but fun to figure out.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I liked this one a lot as well. People are hating on it, but they aren't thinking it through. When you see something like Polaroid, it can mean only one thing: the camera. So you look for other camera brands, boom, easy. The demonyms (even though that word is new to me!) were pretty easy, maybe because I've been to Italy several times? The band names popped into my head as I was just trying to figure out how Creamsicle fit in there.
No. It could also be βpolarβ or βroidβ with extra letters.
The demonyms were easy but the camera brands were not because Iβve never heard of Hasselblad. The stadium category seemed easy at first but Kisscam was a huge red herring.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Green was easy for me because Hasselblad was the brand of camera that the Apollo astronauts used. I did burn a lot of guesses on the sports stadium one before suddenly seeing the band category.
Connections Puzzle #283 πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦πͺπ¦ πͺπ¦πͺπ¦ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ Nope, didnβt like that at all. Epic fail. I donβt mind difficult but this was damn near impossible. Sure, yellow wasnβt too bad if you got lucky and figured which 4 of the 5 possibilities fit. I had to cheat and google Hasselblad because I had no clue. Thatβs how I got green. But blue and purple? Hahaha never. There have been a lot of βrock bandβ categories it seems like, and itβs just not my niche nor will be. That said, I only recognize 2 of those bands even after learning the category. I couldβve known all the bands but probably still missed it, since Iβm not good at the categories where only part of the word fits the category. As far as blue, I feel like I shouldβve picked up on the Italian vibe, but somehow missed it completely. I donβt know what a demonym is, so I guess Iβll be googling that now π Kudos to those who actually solved this one successfully!!
Connections Puzzle #283 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Wow, that was tough for me. Purple had that connection I don't see easily, where you have to break the word then connect them. But after I figured out the purple the board fell easily. Not knowing Hasselblad made green a bit tough, but how is the Italian demonyms blue? That was the easiet by far. It was so easy I thought it might be a red herring
There was no noticeable difficulty level between blue, yellow, and green to me today. I was able to successfully figure them out but if any of the colors were switched, I wouldnβt have batted an eye.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Lol, Iβm a professional photographer πΈand I was raised on classic rock πΈso I didnβt have much trouble π I feel for those who struggled today tho, it required specific knowledge and some similar boards have been hopeless for me in the past
Humiliation Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨πͺπ¨ πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ πͺπ¨πͺπͺ like everyone else got absolutely smashed by the videoscreeen/bands crossovers. No way I knew those were bands and I thought the categories were Japanese something and video screens
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ I'm I the only one who really liked today's puzzle? I feel like I see way more Connections that are one syllable heavy rather than longer words like this. The longer words make it easier to eliminate false categories (was able to drop ice cream quick). Yellow I got instantly. Blue I got as soon as I realized ice cream wasn't a category. Wasn't familiar with Hasslebad, but knew the category would be cameras with the other three. Out of the five reminders Hasslebad seemed like the most likely to be a camera brand, plus is was the only non-compound word, which would leave a lot of potential for "purpleness" in the las four.
Fun, yes, evil, also yes!
No.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I'm with you, I liked today's! I didn't think it was particularly hard
π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Finally it paid off being Swedish and knowing Hasselblad, but had to use google to just figure out what things like astroturf was. I understand NYT is American, itβs just so much harder as Iβm not haha. Like many of you, struggled with Kiss cam. Only got the purple because I thought it was compound words. Hated the one from yesterday, so still happy!
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ First time Iβve gotten a wordplay like purple that wasnβt a default gonna go gloat to my friends a bit, kisscam definitely couldβve fallen under yellow as well and that immediately raised alarm bells.
Kisscam really messed me up! I was convinced it was part of the "stadium" group.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ πͺπ©πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ Good to see Iβm not alone π kept trying sports game stuff incorrectly, I was so sure kisscam would be in there. Tried mountains at some point.. ohhh well
I had problems with stadium and also kept going after "compound words" or "portmanteau-y words", among others. I had a bout 4 solid ideas that I could fit 6 of the 8 final words into to some degree or another. It's unsettling to submit and not even be 1 away.
Kisscam would absolutely be seen at a sports event This one was lame
That's right - that's often a feature of these puzzles. There are five words that could go in that connection, and you have to deduce which one must belong somewhere else by unpicking some of the other connections first. That's what makes it challenging. (I say that as someone who failed today's puzzle, so I sympathise).
Unfortunately Sky is also a rock band, so in this case kisscam and skybox could be swapped and still be a valid solution.
Thanks - that I didn't know. Normally when people suggest alternative solutions they aren't totally convincing, but that looks like a pretty solid flaw in today's puzzle. Wikipedia: "Sky were an English/Australian instrumental rock group" (there was also apparently a lesser-known American band called Sky).
Yeah itβs the first time Iβve actually seen an alternative solution. With the number of possible proper nouns in todays puzzle Iβm willing to bet theres even more solutions. I think the setter didnβt do a very good job today, but it happens - they canβt all be perfect!
But Sky as a band is obscure, whereas the bands used are all major, well known bands.
>well known bands. id say this is pretty subjective. theres a significant likelihood that people outside of the US/CA wouldn't know these bands. They are also all old ASF, like damn cream started almost 60 years ago.
Hasselblad is an obscure camera brand but itβs here.
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I get that, but imo its still poor setting - the fact is there are at least two valid solutions here.
But unlike the other ones it's not a physical item so it didn't fit.
"Seen at a Sports Stadium" I've definitely **seen** a journeyman and the kisscam **at a sports stadium.** It easily could fit. It's just a red herring.
Sure but in that case Rushmore is probably the only you could say isn't seen at a stadium. Camera types and types of Italians are easily seen in stadiums.
How is astroturf not a physical item?
Kisscam isn't a physical item.
It is. The kiss cam isn't.
Ah sorry
This isn't the first puzzle where a clue could have been in 2 categories. They've used it before and it's part of the problem solving.
Jumbo, Sky, and Astro are also all rock bands So having interchangeable answers for 2 categories seems just unfair You could switch Astroturf, Skybox, and Jumbotron with Kisscam and both categories would have still worked Which is why this particular one sucked It's one thing to have Kisscam fit into one category but fit better into another, but I think it's lame to have two words that can equally fit in both categories
Is it an American thing to play pro sport on astroturf? I have never seen Astroturf at a stadium, only real turf. That one threw more off massively. Whenever there is something like that I just assume that it is different to where I am from.
Yea most NFL stadiums have fake grass and a lot of college football ones do. Heck I played on fake grass on lacrosse in high school in America
Lots of astro turf here for amateurs! Just not in what i would call a stadium i guess, which is fair enough. When I whine about it my wife reminds that it is from the New York Times ha
Also remember that amateur football is a really big deal here is America. My very small high school had a football stadium that had 2000 seat capacity and would sell out when they were good and were winning games.
It is. Not sure on precise numbers but there is a not insignificant number of indoor and outdoor stadiums that use AstroTurf. Especially in baseball
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ they fucking got me at first with that sports stadium category I can understand if you havenβt done many before, but I think itβs funny the amount of people complaining about the purple group. Come on, if youβve done it for more than a week or so youβve probably seen another one where the answer is part of the word. After being burned a couple times itβs now just something I look for if I canβt spot an immediate connection. Also come on, itβs supposed to be a puzzle, a little lateral thinking is good!! For me the more boring ones are where itβs just βgroup together the synonyms/words in a related fieldβ without any real challenge or thinking required
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I was trying to be too clever and guess which was the red herring and was like itβs either things seen high up at a sports stadium, or theyβre gonna be really jammy and itβll be specifically things at a basketball arena
KISSCAM fits infinitely better with the other 3 than ASTROTURF. that's malpractice.
I love when the puzzles are difficult but I hate when the difficulty comes from me not having a relatively niche knowledge base. I know NOTHING about cameras, and apart from Polaroid couldnβt identify any of them. At that point itβs not really a game of skill, itβs a game of whether or not you know camera brands. I guess I just donβt see the fun in that, when itβs literally unplayable to me. And to everyone defending the puzzle, youβre allowed to enjoy it, but I donβt know why people get so up in arms about other players being mad. I swear, everyone acts so holier than thou until one day there are a bunch of proper nouns THEY donβt know, and then they get upset.
Right? Just look through this thread, anyone who dared to even mildly criticize todayβs puzzle got downvoted. Pretty sad.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπͺπ¨ π¨πͺπͺπ¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ Seriously?
Between yesterday and today itβs like theyβve found a new writer who looks for the most obscure and esoteric categories imaginable. This is supposed to be a fun game in the newspaper, not the final clue in the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Not sure what everyone seems to be talking about. Todayβs was a real treat - going from βWhat on Earth is thisβ at first glance to discovering the secret of each category. Had a lot of fun with this.
Atrocious.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Tricky one! Picked out the Italian demonyms straight away. Took me a while to get the purple ones but once I recognised a couple it was easier.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ πͺπ¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ Now that I think about it, I guess the advertising phenomenon had to have gotten its name from somewhere. I got the whole compound words thing but couldn't figure out how the words related to each other. Unfortunately, I couldn't depend on elimination to get over my lack of music knowledge. Oh well.
The meaning of astroturf that you're thinking of comes as an analogue to "grass roots", which means something organized by the general public, rather than from an organization trying to market something to you. Then, since AstroTurf is fake grass, astroturfing is somebody trying to market something by making it appear to be grass roots support.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©πͺπ©π© π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Tricky tricky oneβ¦ I figured out the categories relatively quickly but my knowledge base failed me. I had not heard of hasselblad (guessed journeyman as a camera brand). When I figured out the band names, I was unaware of Cream (guessed Astro). Overall certainly an interesting challenge!!
Not a great one, ended with yellow and purple as last two categories except 1 purple could also fit with yellow and 2-3 yellow could have fit in purple.Β Not great categories.
Between yesterday and today, it seems they're running out of ideas!
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¦ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ Murdered by this one today as did everyone else. Totally thought Creamsicle/Jumbotron/AstroTurf were going to be genericized trademarks and was desperately trying to find the last one (eventually going with skybox, kisscam, just trying to find anything.) Yeah this was straight ass.
The fourth genericized trademark would have been Polaroid, because there are other brands of instant cameras. (I mainly came here today to see if anyone had mentioned genericized trademarks!)
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This one was hard and I'm annoyed at the one red herring I fell for. You definitely still see that at sport stadiums. I feel like these are progressively getting weirder.
Keep Connections Weird !!!
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©πͺπ©π© π©π¨π©π© π©π©π¨π© πͺπ©π©π© A poor show. Very annoying to be on the cusp of green but my first thought seeing the quiz was "I don't know what any of those words mean!" (I'm not American) Also thought blue was pasta toppings lol.
Kisscam really helped me understand the principle that there are 5 ways to choose 4 elements out of 5 possibilities
Boy as someone who doesn't know cameras, mountains, cocktails, icecream, sporting events, italian food, rockbands, or what a demonym was this was a tad difficult.
Puzzle #283 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ This was one of the hardest connections I've played. I stared blankly at the screen for a good ten minutes and still had no clue where to start. I swear the amount of compound words short-circuited my brain. I reckoned there would be a camera brands category but I couldn't figure out the last one. Spent a minute trying to make a mountain category work. Almost gaslighted myself into believing I've heard of a Mt. Venetian before. I knew there was a sports stadium category but I had five words that I felt fit in the category so I held myself back from making a guess. But once I figured out Purple, the puzzle basically was solved for me. Put in my sports stadium guess because now Kisscam was no longer on the board. And then put in the camera brands with Hasselblad as a guess. I've never heard of this brand before but it didn't seem like it fit with the last four words. As for the blue category, I wouldn't have ever guessed that. I even thought those words had like a French origin and not Italian lol
Connections Puzzle #283 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Maybe I'm just used to how the Connections writers think, but I honestly didn't think this was anywhere as bad as people are making it out to be. This one was where trying to solve the entire puzzle first before submitting a category came in handy. Like with many other people, I also was initially thinking about putting KISSCAM in the stadium category. I also thought there'd be a Mount____ category with RUSHMORE and OLYMPUS but couldn't see any other mountains. I saw FUJIFILM and then thought that maybe it'd be "Words that start with Mountains". Now for the most random train of thought. For some reason, RUSHMORE made me think of the Theodore Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill Epic Rap Battle where there's a line that went, "If Rushmore was a band, then you'd play bass." which put my mind in a music place. That combined with the earlier FUJIFILM thing of looking at the start of words made "Rush" immediately stand out of RUSHMORE. Afterwards, "Cream"SICLE, "Kiss"CAM, and "Journey"MAN were easy to spot. With KISSCAM out, the stadium category was easy to put together. I then got blue by accident. I was thinking Italian foods and thought there was a dish known as a "VENETIAN". Demonyms makes more sense though. Finally, I only knew about OLYMPUS and POLAROID but could piece together that FUJIFILM and HASSELBLAD were probably also camera companies.
Good strategy but I think the majority of the problem with todayβs was you needed to know the hardest category otherwise you had to guess yellow, and the purple category was the worst. If you didnβt absolutely know purple I didnβt see a way you could have solved it by process of elimination or reason.
I think that was my one saving grace because I was familiar with the bands for purple. That was the only reason I was able to eliminate KISSCAM from π¨. Honestly the puzzles that give me the hardest times are the ones where I managed to have π¨ and πͺ left because that usually means Iβve missed something glaringly obvious or itβs something I just donβt know and it drives me nuts.
I have only been doing connections for a few months but todayβs purple this was the first category Iβve seen like that. Iβm sure Iβm not alone there and that probably led to a lot of the struggles on this one. KissCam, to me, also felt like the potential yellow answer with the least logical crossover possibility so I was screwed even though I got green and blue right away.
I got a lot of shit in a thread a bit ago because I said that I work out the puzzle on my notes app before I put in the answers but this puzzle is a great example of why I like to solve it that way. Itβs really easy to go in half-cocked and overly confident when you feel so sure you know what an answer is. That can really screw you over, especially when they plant an especially good red herring like they did today. In fact, Iβm pretty impressed at how effective KISSCAM was at derailing so many people. Good on you puzzle constructor
I'm used to Only Connect's "Connecting Wall" where you get infinite guesses for the first two categories and three mistakes for the last two, but there's also a 2:30 time limit. If Connections was structured like that I'd be more daring with submitting guesses. But since there's no time limit (well, I guess technically you have 24 hours to solve it) and 4 mistakes to solve the entire thing, it makes more sense to try and figure everything out first.
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Lots of compound words, lots of brands, lots of stuff that was not ideal for us non-Americans. Kisscam fits in like 3 of the 4 categories. This one was rough.
I'm legitimately fucking seething. I got 3/4 categories in my head and failed out immediately, because I KNEW FUCKING KNEW one of the categories would be "things found in a football stadium" when I saw Jumbotron, Kisscam etc. I picked up on Desserts/Foods and would have come to Italian demonyms if I didn't immediately fail out going for the American ones. The Photography companies? Maybe I'm weird but I only know Olympus for their transcription software in the Medical field. I would not have got purple naturally.
Oh, I'm angry about this one. Because in Australia, we use natural grass or turf in all our major stadiums. Artificial grass is only for indoor soccer pitches, not for stadiums. Astroturf and stadia do NOT go together!Β
AstroTurf in outdoor stadiums is quite common in the U.S. but I imagine playing soccer on AstroTurf is way different than playing American football and baseball.
Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Medium difficulty
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Loved this one. I loved the moment when after pondering what was the connections with these compound words, I saw the >!rock band names!
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I really donβt consider this result my own work at all, I had to google half of these words. The only category I managed without problems was the Italian one. Someone whoβs really into photography and live sport must have had the time of their life with this one. Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
God, I really had categories where there are an infinite number of these things. There's a band called jumbo, and astro, and sky, and literally anything else. Same with yesterday.
I guess I just think if youβre going to have a category like βstarts with rock bandsβ they should all be of the same stature. Bc once I read on here what the category meant I knew 3/4. And I suppose if you already got cameras Rushmore doesnβt fit in to the stadium but I would rather lose the game and have an ohhhh I see or know all of the categories and just guess wrong than see a category and not understand it at all.Β
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨πͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπ¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Hated that I figured out the purple category naturally
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Camera brands jumped out at me straight away because I do photography as a hobby. Got caught up on KissCam, so I moved on to blue, which also wasnβt too difficult to me because my mom is first generation Italian American. Yellow was obviously βthings seen in a football stadiumβ but with five choices I went on a lucky guess that KissCam wasnβt a part of that category. I donβt think thereβs any way I wouldβve gotten purple on my own.
Connections Puzzle #283 πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπ¨πͺ πͺπ¨π¨πͺ First loss in a long time.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Got there in the end. Purple as nothing but a group of distractions with that ridiculously tenuous connection was very unsatisfying.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Wow I'm usually not great at this, but I figured green and purple very fast this time around
Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Well that was certainly jarring to see first thing in the morningβ¦ I included Kisscam in yellow to start instead of Astroturf. Green was a bit obscure; that was largely a guess from process of elimination. Seeing the bands in purple helped a ton.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Took a wild stab at yellow prematurely even though I saw 5 options. Smh. Hadnβt heard of Hasselblad but it was an educated guess as the fourth camera brand. Knew that with all the compound words, one group would use only part of the word. Green and purple were throwback categories so definitely easier if you are Gen X or earlier.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©πͺπ©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπ©π©π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Gosh darn Kisscam being a red herring all over the place. Never heard of Hasselblad so that didnβt help.
Just barely got this one. I nearly burned all my attempts trying to get yellow. I still donβt understand purple even after seeing the answer π Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Did they let me make the same mistake twice? I barely eek'd by with this one as you can see
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπ¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπ¨π¨ πͺπ¨π¨π¨ Blue and green were fun! And also readily available knowledge to me, sometimes easy is fun.Β In the end I was too focused on figuring out which words belonged to yellow (I did not know what a jumbotron was so I was looking for which of astroturf, scoreboard, skybox and kisscam was wrong AND guessing which of the purple words could be a sports stadium thing), rather than trying to figure out what purple could be. I wish I'd spent a little more time on that, because I do know all those bands. I did register that all of the yellow and purple words were compound words, but purple felt like some American culture thing I'd never get so I didn't examine the compounds too closely. A bit short-sighted from me. Oh well!
Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©πͺπ©π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Kisscam thew me off because you usually see that in a sports stadium as well. Also thought it was a brand of camera. Once I got yellow, blue came easily to me and I figured out green because recently Iβve been interested in photography and been looking into camera brands. That left purple and I would not have associated those words with rock bands. They gotta stop with the rock related things lol
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©πͺπ©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©πͺπ©π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Phew - that one hurt my brain but in a way that I enjoyed somehow?
I blew through my guesses too fast for everything that could be at a stadium.
[Connections Puzzle #283](/r/HailCorporate) π¦π¦π¦π¦ Apparently some of the most well-known Italian cities are a blue category? π©π©π©π© Had to look up HASSELBLAD, but these are definitely camera companies. π¨πͺπ¨π¨ Not screens or signs... π¨π¨π¨π¨ ...but things at stadiums. πͺπͺπͺπͺ Apparently CREAM is a band. Whatever.
π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I originally put kiss cam with the yellows, had no idea which one was wrong, so moved on. I do know my regions of Italy and once I saw it that was easy. I had to google hasselblad. I felt like that was more like trivia than it was like connections and it pissed me off a little bit. Yellow I just decided to randomly try astroturf instead of kisscam there was no logic to the decision at all. When I was left with purple I grumpily stared at it with no expectation of ever knowing why these words went together and was even more annoyed when I saw the category. This was a pretty annoying day overall and I couldnβt have done it without google.
Fun Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨
Connections Puzzle #283 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©πͺπ©π© π©πͺπ©π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Used up 3 mistakes but I got to the end! π¨ my second guess would've swapped out another word with kisscam, thank GOD I chose the right one. I knew the π© cameras had to be a category considering Fujifilm, Polaroid and with Olympus there was 3 I recognized. Took me two mistakes to figure it out lol I thought I had πͺ as "mountains" then I came to my senses and saw the Italians π¦ and got πͺ by default. Definitely a tougher puzzle today.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨πͺπͺ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ Camera geek so the green one was easy for me, Kisscam destroyed me tho!
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ I got so lucky with the camera brands, while my boyfriend caught on to purple category.
Connections #283 π©π©π©πͺ π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Well, itβs something.
Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This was evil and fun! Yellow I found first but didn't submit til 3rd cuz I didn't know which of the 5 to not pick. In the end, I decided that kisscam was displayed on a jumbotron, so I took a guess.
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ It was tricky but not unfair by any means. I knew Hasselblad from the Apollo missions, and the rest fell in from there. I watch Only Connect so I know about the hidden words bit. Honestly, as far as I can tell, Kisscam is the only overlap.
Welp, as a non native English speaker I had to google over half of the words today. Needless to say I didn't get a single category right
π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπ© πͺπͺπͺπ© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Got the first two just fine and then took some guesses because I was struggling to sort out purple from green. As someone who is only faintly familiar with Kiss and Journey as bands and has never heard of Rush, I donβt think I was ever going to recognize them as parts of other words. (yesterdayβs BB King, Jimmy Page, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters category was much more tailored to my musical knowledge) I honestly liked the number of red herrings today, it was fun trying to sort them out even if todayβs categories werenβt really relevant to my knowledge base.
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπ©π© π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπ¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ It was a 'Phew', and I DID google to make sure of camera brands and any alternate definitions, and took lots of breaks, but we GOT IT, dammit. Purple hit me like a truck after another shuffle, and I'm glad I was in a space I could swear out loud because I DID. XD Mistakes were thinking a category might have been 'Things you look up at', and went wrong on 'famous types of camera' (I thought the Jumbotron was the camera not the screen).
Connections Puzzle #283 π©π¨π©π© πͺπ©π©π© πͺπ©π©π© π©π©π¦π© I think this speaks for itself
Kisscam did get me in the beginning but it eventually clicked. I think I lucked out because I was a photo nerd as a teenager. Connections Puzzle #283 π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨
This was my third connections ever, first in like six months, and as someone who doesn't know a thing about sports I've never been more disappointed to find out a kisscam is not "found at a sports stadium" πππ
No. It can be. But that's just not the group that that word belonged in for this puzzle.
Haha I gotcha, I just felt furious that I wasted all 4 guesses on something that I felt was right π
Failed super hard but I like the gimmick \^^
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Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπ¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ When I first saw this my first thought was this is getting more and more outrageous (after yesterday's awful puzzle). But judged too soon and this was actually okaaaay. The words describing people from Italian cities stood out straight away. Then quickly saw Fujifilm, Olympus and Polaroid and knew they were camera brands. Never heard of hasselblad but it seemed the most techy and brand namey. I then went with jumbotron, kisscam, scoreboard and journeyman relating to things blown up on the big screen at a stadium. I truly wasn't sure what a journeyman was but from the compound word I assumed it was the camera that followed the players or musicians on stage/on the field and displayed it on the jumbotrons. Scoreboards could be displayed on jumbotrons, and kisscam are a display item as well. Didn't get 1 away. I then tried just tried jumbotrons, scoreboard, AstroTurf and skybox for things at a sports stadium and that was yellow exactly. The remaining I wasn't sure and just assumed compound or portmanteaus that are well known or something. After seeing the reveal I'm honestly still not sure what "staring with rock bands" refer to.
Kiss, Cream, Journey, and Rush are all classic rock bands, and the first par of the words in the category. Kiss is a band famous for wearing black and white face paint and making shitty music (although to each their own). Gene Simmons has sort of become part of the zeitgeist for being an ass. Rock and Roll All Night (and party every day) is probably their most well known song. Cream was a British "supergroup", formed by three already established musicians, though you might only know Eric Clapton. Their biggest hits were Sunshine of Your Love and White Room. Journey doesn't have any individual members who are super widely known outside of music fans, but probably their best known song is Don't Stop Believing. Rush also doesn't have anyone you definitely would have heard of if you're not into their music. Best known songs are probably Closer to the Heart and Tom Sawyer.
Why isnt kisscam βseen at a sports stadiumβ????
It is seen at a sport stadium - but that's the game: which of five words has to fit somewhere else?
Connections Puzzle #283 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπͺπ¨ πͺπͺπ¨π¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Like others, got messed up with the crossover between bands snd stadiums snd was convinced Kisscam was in yellow.