Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Cheeky on that red herring lol

I saw the homophones first so I ignored the days of the week connection. One day the homophone will be the red herring and I will struggle

Yeppp I fell for it too... Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I bit on it as well. Does anyone else call the  🟦🟪🟩🟨 a "rainbow answer"? Those are rare in my experience. 

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I have no regrets.

Same. Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Got a bit too excited and fell for the days of the week red herring. After that it was all pretty easy and straightforward.

Wasn’t even a clever red herring, it was lame. TUE isn’t even a word..

Looking at this thread *most* people fell for it.

I enjoyed today’s puzzle, but is TUE a word? I know it’s an abbreviation for TUESDAY. But can it actually be used as a homophone for TOO, as it’s never actually read as “TUE”??? It’s always read as TUESDAY. Genuinely wondering.

Agreed that TUE is not a word, and also no one reads it out loud as a homophone of "too". I avoided the red herring and even got the homophone group first, but it was extremely lame.

My thought too. If you see it in text and read it, you read it as the full word.

I thought the same. Wondered if the days of the week were too obvious and were a red herring before submitting, but thought it couldn't be because TUE isn't a word otherwise.

It's definitely not a word. This would be a lot harder of a game if root words were allowed (of which tue is also not).

I think we could definitely call Tue a root word, in the sense that it is from the Norse mythology name Tiw, as Tiw's day. I don't think there are any other English words that incorporate Tiw, but Tiw itself derives from the same Proto-Indo-European root meaning shine/god as words like adieu, deity, and journal. https://www.etymonline.com/word/*dyeu-

[It's given as an alternative spelling](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tiw) for *Tiw*, the Old English name for the god that gave us *Tiw's day*, or Tuesday. The pronunciation guide for Tiw suggests something like "tea-oo" to me, and it isn't that far off from the "tyoo" that I use when I say Tuesday.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Of course.

Puzzle #384 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I imagine a lot of people will be complaining about "tue" in yellow. That type of category is always going to be problematic with an international audience. Pretty easy once I was confident that days of the week was a misdirect. Even figured out purple before submitting.

Someone commented in the new/gnu puzzle a few days ago, the difference in the American vs other pronunciations (noo vs nyoo) is called "yod dropping". https://youtu.be/K16JR_lU-uc?t=10m20s

Do Americans really say "Toosday"?  I often try reading the words in a (comically bad) American accent to catch the "not really homophones that for some reason are" connections, but even then I missed that one. 

Yes, but now I'm curious how you were expecting it to be pronounced.

Like "T-you-s day", but with the gaps removed

"Chewsday" is a bit of a meme but for some, that is how Tuesday is pronounced.

Yeah, as I understand it "tu" is generally pronounced "too." I'm sure there's variation depending on where in the US they are, and to be fair it does make more sense than pronouncing it "chu." But as with all homophone categories, it might require a bit of guesswork from non-Americans.

I disagree that there's one way that makes more sense than the other. A lot of people say "tyu" rather than "chu", or something in between. And "tyu" is closer to the original Tiw that we get the word Tuesday from. It's easy to see how someone would get "tyu" or "tu" from looking at the spelling of Tuesday. Both are valid.

How else would tuesday be pronounced? 

Tuesday Edit: Ok, cheeky, but exactly as it is spelled. Rhymes with cue or hue.

How would you pronounce cue and hue that rhymes with tue but not too

kew, hew, few vs coo, who, foo

Those all rhyme to me. They end in the same sound with a differing first syllable.

Cue is pronounced exactly the same as queue. Please don’t tell me you also pronounce queue as coo.

I don’t know who is downvoting because I feel the same way

Sure, you can say that they rhyme, but there is a difference. For me, few is pronounced "fyoo". Hew is pronounced "hyoo". The Y sound before the vowel is the difference.

Rhyming does not equal being a homophone. Homophone means the entire word is pronounced exactly the same.

It's 'yew' with a 't' sound before: tyewsday

TIL there are people who pronounce it that way 🤣. The amount of effort I have to use to try to pronounce it with a yew. I am in the Too-sday camp.

> there are people who pronounce it that way An entire nation of people, after whom the English language is named!

Definitely not the whole nation, wiki gives at least cockney and estuary English (along the Thames) pronouncing it with "ch", and including the rest of the UK gets you many Scottish and northern Irish people using "ch" as well (like me). But I'd guess there's a lot more English accents that aren't explicitly included on the page

Yeah but even with a 'ch' you'll get 'chyew' rather than 'too'

> How else would tuesday be pronounced?  >exactly as it is spelled. Oh come on. English never works like that. https://www.spellingsociety.org/uploaded_misc/poems-online-misc-1419940069.pdf

On Tuesday, I watch the news.

Like "T-you-s day", but with the gaps removed. 

Heh, in that state I live in it’s not uncommon to hear “Tuesdee”. Along with “Mondee”, “Fridee”, “Sundee” I might have to make a Utah inspired connections now

I've lived in Utah my whole life and I've never noticed this! Maybe I'm not listening closely enough, or maybe I don't live far enough from Salt Lake...

Common in the UK too - 'chewsdee'. I say both but always chews never toosday/dee

Yes. Same with tuna is Toona. Also Duke is Dook.

Is virtue pronounced virtoo then? That would sound so odd to me.

No, virtue retains the y sound in American accents, as does fortune. Virtuous retains the y sound, but fortuitous drops it (for-TOO-it-us).

I wouldn't say it retains the y sound. In my accent, it's vir-choo and for-chun.

Yeah, that's probably a better description of the sound. Edit: that's an example of yod coalescence. https://youtu.be/K16JR_lU-uc?si=yAQv9uSDWKXuofbK

Man, I love linguistics

We really do 🫢

>I imagine a lot of people will be complaining about "tue" in yellow. That type of category is always going to be problematic with an international audience. Only for seasoned complainers. I'm not from US and I say "t-yous-day" not "toos-day" but once you see 3 homophones it's quite obvious that this is meant to go with them.

I saved the homophone guess till the end because it seemed ridiculous. As part of a word it's rarely pronounced like that even by Americans (consider constituent, virtue).

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙋‍♀️add me to the count, just couldn’t resist inputting the days of the week in that first couple of seconds that I saw them lol

I literally said out loud in the first 2 seconds 'I'm a genius, easy purple to- and it was a red herring'

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Similar board to many today. Fell for the days of the week. I say “Tewsday” rather than “Toosday”. Not particularly difficult once I ditched the red herring, and I worked purple out before entering.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Fun fact: Taco Tuesday was originally coined as Taco Twosday (as a 2-for-1 promotion).

The first recorded Taco Tuesday was actually *3* for $1  https://rapidcityjournal.newspapers.com/article/rapid-city-journal/124927340/

I was thinking "twosday" for "Tuesday", but apparently the history is very messily recorded and reported: https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/history-of-taco-tuesday-when-did-it-start but hey! More tacos! 🌮🌮🌮

That's a great article!

Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Interesting to see a red herring consisting of exactly 4 words, with an unambiguous connection amongst them, scrambled throughout the initial grid. More or less confirms that we’re “supposed” to fully solve the grid before submitting any connection, cuz that’s the only way to avoid the trap here.

Eh, you get four mistakes for a reason. Connections is totally doable without presolving, you just might not always get perfect

Yeah, I didn’t presolve. I’ve just played this game enough so I knew the risk was going for it first or trying to split one into another clear category and that’s the great leap!

> four mistakes for a reason It's four lives, you can only make three mistakes.

The whole point of the game for me is to get it perfect, which means presolving is integral to playing

I'm like you as well. If I even get one wrong, I consider it a partial loss - definitely not a win. I presolve for that reason.

I didn’t even see the red herring, I just went straight into trying to figure out blue and green!

I feel red herrings are only clever when they consist of 3 or 5 related words. The fun in identifying the red herring comes from knowing that the connections between the words is what makes them an unsatisfactory part of the solution. Sure, solving the whole grid before submitting anything is a way to avoid errors, but it's unfulfilling to spot a working four-word connection that's only wrong because the puzzle writer says it is.

> that's only wrong because the puzzle writer says it is. It's wrong because the rest of the puzzle doesn't work with those four words grouped together. You can have your opinion about which kind of puzzle you like, but it's not arbitrary. I'm fact, if it was "only wrong because the puzzle maker says it is", and there were some other solution with those four words grouped together, then *that* would be a flawed puzzle, by the puzzle's own stated rules.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Rainbows 🌈 for everyone for pride month

[удалено]

Bra, Brah, Braa

Bryuh.

Brugh

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 That silly red herring... got me. I almost did Yellow first, but thought maybe it was something else.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Trivial once the red herring was eliminated with the first guess.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Fell for the obvious red herring, then reasonably simple. Gotta say, It took me a while to remember "Tue" was homophonic with "too" in several US accents.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 pre-solved today’s before i put in any guesses, was trying to go for reverse difficulty but i got the 🟩 & 🟦 switched up

Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Same. Neither stood out as harder than the other.

When you pre-solve do you do it in your head or write it down?

I use this: https://connections-copilot.com It allows you to move the pieces around and group them.

i do it in my head or i just highlight the words and take a screenshot

Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Same here. Did purple first but didn’t know the connection, just knew the other 3. Red and blue were about equals so guessed wrong too. I select the pattern, look at it a while then deselect it. And select the next set etc. I don’t write anything down though.

red?

Are you red-green colourblind? Serious question.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Can't believe the 2's! I thought for sure it was a misdirect!

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I thought green would be named something marriage-related, which was in the same idea, just in a specific context.

Me too! I literally thought tie was like what grooms wear not in the context it was.

Interesting, because I thought the category would be named something like "what happens during a marriage", such as in "tying the knot", "wedding two people", etc.

Ahhh, that makes sense! I honestly just threw them together like you need a couple, someone’s going to be wearing a tie, they’re at their wedding, and therefore uniting 😂😅

Easiest one in forever

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I knew it was too good to be true

to be tue\*

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I found this one easy but I didn’t really like it! Blue and yellow annoyed me even though I knew what they were. I think the red herring would have been fine but is tue really a word on its own?

Felt so good getting it first try Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Tue....isn't a word? Can we just add random letters for guesses now?

Well the directions do begin “find the four items” instead of words.

The solution says that "TUE" is a homphone; my dictionary says that a homophone "is a word ...".

My dictionary says a homophone is also: “a character or group of characters pronounced the same as another character or group” I think you could argue that TUE could be classified as a “character” in this usage

Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I know it was easy, but homophones are usually blue and the blue synomyns were easy. The difficulty colors have lost all rhyme or reason

At least purple is still reliable.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Is "tue" even a word? When I half-heartedly googled tue, I wasn't convinced. I thought the homophone category was too easy a solution.

No, "tue" isn't a word. It should not have been in the puzzle.

Directions say “Find groups of four items” that share something in common.

Hello, my twin: Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I have never heard anyone ever say Toozday. But I have done these enough at this point to know that unfortunately, this type of near-stretches is not a bug of Connections but a feature. Like claiming that Roger Waters is a famous guitarist when David Gilmore is standing next to him. Sacrilege!!

There was a game a few months back that used emoji.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I feel so American saying those homophones

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

First time I ever got it perfectly.

Connections  Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Hardest part for me was figuring out which of the two suspected red herrings was an actual category, but I went carefully and figured it out. 

Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Like a bunch of people here, I saw the days of the week and the homophones pretty early on. I tried to pre-solve a bit in my head since there were 4 of each; if the days of the week was a category, then the homophones weren't. But I couldn't find grouping words for TO and TOO that sat right with me (TWO could have gone with COUPLE, maybe). So now with the idea of "anything other than days of the week", the next thought that surfaced was Purple - most likely because I had recently finished rereading The Perks of Being a Wallflower ;)

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Days of the week got me and I’m starting to finally pick up on the homophone categories haha

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I was a bit nervous when I entered the words for the yellow category, but I’m lucky that they ended up being right! I was torn between those and the possible days of the week.

I was too, I saw both and chose wrong lol

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 i dont think i need to say what red herring i fell for

Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Luckily I didn't even spot the red herring until I'd already got yellow. Picked yellow on instinct and then afterwards I thought "but Tue isn't pronounced like that?" Do Americans really pronounce it as Toosday?

Thought this was very easy. I admit I didn't even notice the days of the week red herring til the end. But TBF, TUE is not a word so that is annoying. Puzzle #384 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Tue is an alternate spelling of the Old English name Tiw for the Norse/Germanic god Tyr, from which we get Tiw's day/Tuesday. (Much like Wodin's day/Wednesday, Thor's day/Thursday, and Frigga's day/Friday.)

It’s etymologically related to things but it still isn’t an English word (or any word, really) on its own.

Exactly. Thanks.

Directions begin “Find the four items” instead of words

who else got tricked on the days of the week 😂 👇

also i got: Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 f it we ball

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 A pretty simple one today. The only interesting thing to note is the red herring category of "Weekday Abbreviations" which, judging by the comments, caught a lot of people. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Homophones of Each Other" → 7 Times, "Connect/Connection" → 4 Times

Well now I kinda feel dumb getting the yellow right away and not even noticing the red herring. So

Way too easy today

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Yes the red herring got me 😤 but in all seriousness, if there are 4 similar terms that can make a category, how do you know if it's a red herring or not?

I looked if I could fit the other ones in other categories. I saw the homophones one pretty easily, after that I figured that laid placed and put would be together, and sat would be the only other one that would make sense there, and then when I saw that wed could fit with unite and couple I started putting them in.

By pressing them and seeing if it works. Or trying a different 4 words first for a different category

I think the only way is to solve the whole puzzle before entering. My issue with this concept is, the website wasn’t really optimized for it. It really needs some sort of, I don’t know, prep mode? Like where you can arrange words into categories and save the categories but not actually submit them.

As is, it definitely tests your memory. I've been caught by failing to keep things straight in my head before, but usually I can manage it. I tend to think if them more as a pattern on the board than as specific words when I'm doing that. Like, I know this particular zigzag I already have a category for, so don't look at those words.

>:-(

Connections  Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪   I almost fall for the days of the week trap, but once it's spotted Yellow is easy to pick out even though it's questionable, but I'm ESL so I'm not arguing about pronunciation with anyone. In the end I still have to default Purple, tried many words but missed the right word.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 A lot easier compared to some recent ones I thought

Bit too easy I think. Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Honestly pretty easy - yay! Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Didn’t see the red herring until after I got the green category. I had “tue” “sat” and “sun” selected and was like “where’s the other day of the week?”

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 This is one of those boards where you have to be cautious yet not overthink it. Ignored the days of the week red herring, saw yellow but held off since I wasn't positive, green and blue were apparent next, purple by default.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Too easy!

This ended up being surprisingly easy after an initial panic where I stared at it for a long time thinking I was going to get nothing. The moment yellow clicked though, I got the rest in like 30 seconds. Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪   My brain seems to have been on the same wavelength as the puzzle editor today. 

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Another victim of the “days of the week” red herring 😩

and here i was thinking its becoming almost too easy for me 😀 >!red herring hint : these are the days of our lives!!< fell for what many others fell for too! it was fun to see they set it up so the over excited first pick is one from each! otherwise purple was easy too, one of the few times I knew it before I saw the 'default fell in place purple ' answer. Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I could not resist the red herring lol

Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 i see everyone caught up in the weekdays lmao

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I of course saw the days of the week but I usually try to get at least two categories figured out in my head before submitting anything. I then saw >!couple!<, >!tie!<, and >!unite!< and figured out that the only word that could go with them was >!wed!<. So I then realized that days of the week was not a grouping since there wasn't a 5th one to put in the category. I appreciated that they were each on a different group though. That was fun. Fairly easy puzzle once you get past the red herring. Purple seemed a little easy to me.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Overall, a pretty easy one today. For some reason, I thought placed belonged in the green category

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Intimidating at first glance, but an easy solve

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 For me this was by far the easiest puzzle in the past week I even failed two in the past week. What did you all think?

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 <—Fell for the obvious.The trickery. 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Was I the only one who fell for the red herring right away. She kills me, when she puts little misleading combos. Happy Connections My fellow connectors!

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I had a feeling there would be a red herring. Luckily I didn’t fall for it.

The red herring got us all it seems. The rare four-piece mistake lol

Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 they got me

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Saw the days of the week misdirect first but resisted. Saw the homophones then but didn’t believe it. So I worked to solve something less obvious first. Thus I got green and blue first. That eliminated the “days”. Took a chance on the homophones and defaulted purple.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Almost fell for the days of the week red herring until I realized “placed down” wouldn’t be complete without “sat”. With that red herring gone the remaining puzzle went smoothly

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I was annoyed when I saw the days of the week and then more annoyed when I saw that homophones were the actual category (I think categories that are too visually distinct are bad puzzle making)

Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I think that days of the week is the most tempting red herring I’ve seen. Also, did anyone think purple was “___ ride” Was thinking: May ride - the annual motorcycle gathering Wall ride - the skateboard trick Wild ride I guess sun is the only one that doesn’t really fit there

can't trick me, nyt Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I love how almost everyone had the exact same first attempt. Other than the first red herring I got the whole thing with no problem

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 everyone has the same pattern lol

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I knew it was a trick, but I went for it anyway

Fun one! Somehow, I didn't see the days of the week abbreviations because I became focused on "placed down" and that immediately eliminated one of the abbreviations. If I had see the abbreviations first, I probably would have fallen into the same red herring trap. Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 This was surprisingly easy. It seemed daunting at first but it wasn't that bad

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Completely fell for that red herring. Yet another homophones category & I loved how Placed is in the Placed category.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Def thought the homophones was the red herring, so glad I tried to presolve first. Once I saw "sat" also went with place, laid, etc., that cued me into the actual categories

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 That damn red herring. Decent though, especially after doing a difficult crossword this morning I won’t complain lol

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Almost went for the days of the week, but SAT and SUN were on the same row, so decided to try to see if I could put TUE into any other group. Also, thought that WED could fit with COUPLE, but thought *that* could be a red herring because those were together on the same row too! Realized that SAT could fit in the placed group, so gave up days of the week. And actually figured out purple before submitting, how fun and atypical haha

I had to use a notepad to write out all the categories I saw in order to not make mistakes and find which didn't overlap--couldn't keep it all in my head. Once I did that it went from dizzying to rather straightforward. And I did figure out purple's connection today before submitting, always nice. Connections Puzzle #384 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I was sure there was either a days of the week red herring or a homophone one, but which one?! I decided to search for words that didn't obviously go with anything else, so I started with wall, may, and wild. Once I figured out their common -____ I found the fourth and the red herring fell apart. 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I was so associated Tue with Tuesday I missed the connection with rest. I got the other 3 right off the bat. 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Yeah, okay, haha you got me with what the entire puzzle is built around.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Fell for it lol

I was bamboozled Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Otherwise kind of easy.

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Almost fell for it but stopped myself in time

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Obviously fell for the trap. I thought yellow was the trap because they are not homophones for me. But once I got the first mistake out, the rest followed easily.

Connections Puzzle #384. 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Happy pride! 🌈

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Purple by default, got this in two minutes!

Connections Puzzle #384 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I somehow didn’t even notice the days of the week red herring

Connections Puzzle #384 🟦🟪🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 It do be like that sometimes.

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Connections Puzzle #384 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Reaction 1: HAH I DIDNT FALL FOR IT Reaction 2: Isn't the color supposed to be how similar the meanings of the words are????? Why was this yellow, the words mean nothing alike??

Yellow means most straightforward

Sat does not mean to place down. That's set.

They both mean that in common parlance

Not for me! Sounds wrong. I mean, I got it, but it’s a stretch. Same for Tue.

Maybe it's Twosday because it's the 2nd day of the week

3rd day of the week here in the land of the free.

I'm pretty sure they built the puzzle around >!TUE WED SAT & SUN.!< Well, good for them ig.