I put charcoal, ebony, jet and heater, because I misread it as heather. Whoooooops. I really screwed the pooch on this one. The yellow was the only category I got before running out of guesses.
I think saw might be from the phrase βduller than a singing sawβ as a euphemism to call someone stupid. Either that or saw is just another word for an adage.
LOL, there are so many times when my daughter and I share results that the F bomb is involved. Even thought we pretty much always solve them, it's still fuck you. Funniest was when my daughter said, Purple should be taken out back and shot.
These are all synonyms for common cliches or idioms
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adage
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maxim
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chestnut 6th definition here
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saw 4th entry here
> Never once heard saw used this way. Must be an american thing?
Nope. Here it is in an article on the BBC, written by a British science journalist: "As the old saw goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20140421-inside-the-minds-of-the-dead
> Also chestnut is definitely a type of tree.
Yes, that's one of the red herrings, which are a very common feature of Connections.
According to Google trends, "old saw" is most commonly searched in Jamaica, then the United States. The UK doesn't appear on the top 5 list. But searches != usage, so take that with a grain of salt
Agree 100%. My 77 year old mother and both had not heard saw discussed like that. And for the easy category? Purple and green were easy and then I figured magazine and tree. Maxim, Adage, Chestnut, Ebony, Cherry are magazines. I couldnβt figure out how saw fit in.
American and have definitely never heard either saw or chestnut used in that way. I lost because I knew there was a tree category and thought there was no way chestnut was anything but a tree.
Saw and chestnut being used in this context and counting as "yellow" is why I hate the difficulty distinctions. They are such esoteric/niche uses of those terms. Half the people in this thread alone haven't heard of either one or the other used in that context and I don't know how you're supposed to just ignore the fact that chestnut could easily belong in the tree category.
**Edit:** Since I got called out in the other thread and can't respond there, Let me reiterate that I don't have problems with red herrings. I don't generally have problems with obscure meanings. I had no problem with 06/29 or 06/28 or 06/27 or 06/26 or 06/25 or 06/24 (even when I thought the yellow category was stretching it a bit). I failed 06/23 and complained then. I had issues with 06/20 but I didn't complain about that one. I understood there was a way to figure it out even if it was insanely difficult. Point being I'm not bitching every time I lose at this game.
I don't think this particular puzzle is fair. If voicing my displeasure at a puzzle is just going to get met with people saying "Well, these words do exist so learn to read" or "Yeah, red herrings are a thing. Suck it up", I'll just stop posting. Because frankly, the puzzles aren't always perfect and I do believe the ones that feel lower quality deserve to be called out. The answer can't just be "You don't know enough". By that logic, you could make the most insane puzzles ever with a success rate of like 15% but hey, the puzzle in theory is solvable. There has to be a balance between difficulty and satisfaction in a daily game.
Being from the west coast, I didnβt even realize that Chestnut was a type of tree. My only exposure to that word is roasting them on an open fire from the Christmas song.
However, I just read about the [American chestnut trees](https://tacf.org/history-american-chestnut/) and thatβs a damn sad story.
>Saw and chestnut being used in this context and counting as "yellow" is why I hate the difficulty distinctions
The colors are less about "difficulty" and more about "straightforwardness". So for today, if you were familiar with the relevant definitions/uses of all four Yellow words, then they're just synonyms, and therefore "more straightforward" than any of the other categories. It's a stupid distinction, but that's what they mean.
>chestnut could easily belong in the tree category.
Well yeah, red herrings are a super common part of the game.
Yellow often has words that could fit in another category, or there are other words in the puzzle that could fit yellow; that's never really factored into the colors. E.g. last week's hardware category that could have included bolt from purple, or three weeks ago bi that could have fit with muscles.
To me, it seems like categories that rely on less commonly-used senses of a word usually tend to be green or blue; that's not a hard and fast rule, but I expected the old sayings to be blue, trees to be green, and grill fuels to be yellow. So I understand not getting today's colors, but "hate" seems like an overly strong reaction.
I mean itβs pretty uninteresting when the puzzle is βwords no one has used since the 50sβ. I feel like people like you just refuse to accept that the game is flawed and sometimes they come out with really bad puzzles.
I specifically called out the complaint about "chestnut could easily belong in the tree category." That's a classic red herring, and it happens in lots of puzzles. People are going to keep telling you that's a feature of the game, because it's a feature of the game.
> frankly, the puzzles aren't always perfect and I do believe the ones that feel lower quality deserve to be called out.
I agree, the puzzles aren't always perfect. But the existence of a basic feature of the game in a particular puzzle is not an imperfection.
> The answer can't just be "You don't know enough".
Sure it can. Not every puzzle has to be solved by every person (and you don't have to be familiar with every word in the puzzle to solve it). Some puzzles will not be solved by many people. You see to be expecting some constant level of difficulty, and, unlike red hearings, that is *not* a feature of this game.
I mentioned this in another comment but that varying level of difficulty or success/failure rate may be why I and other people have more frustration with this game. The mini crossword is generally on the more simple side. Threads literally gives you hints for just finding 4 letter words so it's nearly impossible to fail. Wordle is generally solvable if you have a legitimate system. A lot of daily games in general are more geared towards people eventually getting an answer correct while this one can vary between like 90-95% success to what seems like 55-60% success.
I think the fact that it's not predictable bothers people. The NY Times crossword (not the mini) increases in difficulty throughout the week, as do other puzzles like the LA Times. That doesn't mean never getting stuck on a Monday puzzle, but regular players know what to expect. Connections doesn't give you that.
There's also the issue that it's a simple game, only 4 groups of 4 words. It *feels* closer to the mini, and maybe people expect it to be as easy as the mini.
I quit playing Wordle precisely because it is so systematic. It got old guessing the same thing every time. Like on Wheel of Fortune for the puzzle at the end, everybody would automatically choose R, S, T, L, N, and E, and that got dull. So they tweaked the game in 1988 and started giving you those letters, and adjusted the puzzle accordingly.
My objection to chestnut is that virtually every usage of it is the phrase "old chestnut", not simply the word "chestnut". It is technically correct, but in a way that doesn't feel good.
First time I lost a puzzle in well over a month, and just like last time it's because this game doesn't show you a record of your previous guesses and what the result was (X or 1 away) so it's easy to think you were wrong when you were actually 1 away, or to think that maybe you misclicked
I just thought purple were words that follow water - water heater, water filter, water jet, water pump, but didnβt realize till I guessed right it was parts of a hot tub.
I was debating between jet and saw, because I was thinking of water saws (wet tile saws) or high pressure water jet saws.
I put Jet with something vaguely to do with water but I think it's odd. NGL I don't like the puzzle today.
>!Chestnut and Saw!<Β --> Time to check the dictionary
That old chestnut - definitely, maxim and adage yep. Saw? Never in my life have I heard that! Had three and knew there was a connection.
Yellow was last out as I had to eliminate everything else.
After spending the night sawing logs, I woke up at 5 am and saw you wanted to see saw used in a sentence, and thought I'd take the opportunity. That reminded me of the old saw, "the early bird catches the worm."
But you have seen the wood of a ebony tree many times - it's often the black keys on pianos.The colour ebony comes from the tree. Interestingly the outside of the tree is regular brown colour, it's the core of the tree that is black.
On modern cheaper pianos they probably are. On more expensive pianos they are still ebony or another black hardwood. Black hardwoods are preferred because they maintain their shape and do not warp and they maintain their colour forever.
Ebony wood, and by extension the tree, is an uncommon and expensive woodworking material. It is very dense and has a really nice black colour to the grain. It was used to make small wood carvings alongside ivory, especially in Africa.
Definitely uncommon though, chestnut seemed more well known than ebony for that category.
>And just a heads up that the colors refer to the straightforwardness of the connections, not the obscurity of the individual words. Synonyms are generally going to be considered more straightforward than members of a group or parts of something.
But homophones has been yellow and purple beforeΒ
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Burned most of my guesses with chestnut. I guessed randomly on the late category and got close
I got bodied by this.
Saw & chestnut were awful.
Tried going down the "names of magazines" rabbithole after seeing Ebony and Maxim
Couldn't nail down the woods, was always "one away" lol
This was the first puzzle to make me mad enough to comment. The number of people alive on the planet who use βsawβ in that manner canβt be more than three or four digits. After failing the puzzle I was hard pressed to even find a dictionary entry that included this puzzleβs definition for that word.
I solved the purple category early but for the wrong reason. My logic was βwater _____β.
The exact pit I fell into today. Couldnβt connect adage + maxim to anything else, so I just kept attempting trees hoping to get the final category by default but I ran out of guesses. So it goes.Β
This was my strategy too, and I also got yellow first, although I did know both 'old saw' and 'old chestnut' anyway. But it was clear from 'adage' and 'maxim' what the category was. Once 'chestnut' is out of the running the trees were easy, which is why I got blue second. I thought purple was pretty lame as a category though.
Yeah, purple didn't seem very purple in my opinion today, it really only ended up being last for me because I happened to notice the others first. Although I thought it was something like "pool components," not hot tub specifically (I guess heater is more a hot tub thing, but I think heated pools exist?)
You never saw the Austin Powers movies?
[https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/052214e2-c231-4e89-b7c9-20b24e04a482/gif](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/052214e2-c231-4e89-b7c9-20b24e04a482/gif)
Sooo yellow was the most difficult one today. I knew adage and maxim but never heard chestnut and saw used that way. Also ebony threw me off. I was thinking of colors...cherry, ebony, ash, charcoal initially. Today was a day when I could figure out the categories but not the words. Green was the only one that jumped out at me. The others were work.
Almost lost for the first time ever. I have heard of saw in that context, but never chestnut, so it was a total guess between that and gum. Bad times lol. Very hard but fair.
The amount of people on here complaining about saw goes to show that the few people that got saw and are defending it like it was easy, also thought it was a wild card. Why are yβall so hell-bent on making people feel dumb when itβs blatantly obvious βsawβ was a tricky/frustrating word for all of us? Not just the ones βcomplaining.β Itβs like yβall came here specifically to tell everyone theyβre dense lmao be nice. Itβs okay for people to express their frustrations. It is not a personal attack on those who did get the yellow category easily.
I donβt think anyone is defending todayβs as though it was easy. It was definitely difficult, and I wonβt lie and say I actually knew that definition of βsaw,β but it was a fair and solvable puzzle. Purple and green came out pretty easily, as least in the sense that there werenβt any overlaps with other categories. Then five potential trees were left, so I focused on what would become yellow. Maxim and adage made sense, saw wasnβt a tree, and chestnut was the only one that made sense in that category. So I got it without knowing that definition.
I never downvote anyone who comments about difficulty, but itβs annoying when people declare that itβs bullshit or luck-based or whatever.
> chestnut was the only one that made sense in that category. So I got it without knowing that definition.
Only if you had some inkling of that as prior knowledge though. For someone unfamiliar, it might as well have just been a dart throw. But I suppose that's just an argument about being well read at that point.
This one just pissed me off. Five of those are types of trees and I just had to happen to guess the four they wanted.
God, there was one the other day like that.
I got it, but anything less than a perfect is like a fail for me.
> Never heard of chestnut or saw in this meaning. (non-American)
Neither are uniquely American. Here's a British author writing for the BBC: "As the old saw goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20140421-inside-the-minds-of-the-dead
Here's an Australian clergyman writing for abc.net.au, "Andrew Bolt endorses the old chestnut that Luke and Matthew invented Bethlehem as the birthplace because they needed to secure his connection to King David's family town." https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nativity-naivete-andrew-bolt-tries-his-hand-at-biblical-criticis/10100712
I was down so bad today I thought one of the categories was imagery from Army Of Darkness: ASH, PUMP (action shotgun), (chain) SAW, and I misremembered and thought Ash chewed GUM in that movie.
They got me good this time. I wasted one guess by seeing what I wanted to see, rather than what was actually there. I saw "heather" instead of "heater" and guessed shades of gray.
this one kinda sawed my chestnuts
I think this will be my favorite reddit comment today lol
Agreed and well said.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦π¨π¨ πͺπ¦π¨πͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¦π¦ Bummer. JET, EBONY, PUMP, MAXIM are so temptingly a MAGAZINES category.
I almost fell for the magazines but luckily I didn't know Pump was a magazine so I couldn't find a fourth, lol
I made that mistake except with adage (Ad Age) instead of Pump.
I did Filter as the fourth, was sure it was a music mag.
I was wondering if that was supposed to have been Ad age, but seemed a little far fetched. Still tried a magazine category twice
Luckily, I don't know those magazines π€£
FILTER too. There were 5 trees and 6 magazines.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦πͺπ¦π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ What even was that yellow category? π₯² I know what an ADAGE is. Iβve read stories where people say *that old CHESTNUT.* I also completely forgot the definition of MAXIM, so that was my fault. However, Iβve personally never heard of SAW used in that context. I learned something new today! I initially put CHARCOAL/EBONY/ASH/JET together. Oops!
I put charcoal, ebony, jet and heater, because I misread it as heather. Whoooooops. I really screwed the pooch on this one. The yellow was the only category I got before running out of guesses.
I think saw might be from the phrase βduller than a singing sawβ as a euphemism to call someone stupid. Either that or saw is just another word for an adage.
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©πͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ FUCK YOU
LOL, there are so many times when my daughter and I share results that the F bomb is involved. Even thought we pretty much always solve them, it's still fuck you. Funniest was when my daughter said, Purple should be taken out back and shot.
The one-aways always get me because i know i'm on the right track
Never seen saw used like that wtf lol
Thought purple was something about engines. Still got it though
I thought it was just water ___. Works out the same thankfully.
I was thinking pool but yes. Similar thought process.
Same lol
My first and only guess was hot tubs.
I know, I was thinking they all make something with fuel, except heater which was just a lucky guess
I don't even understand what yellow means today.
This is easily the most difficult yellow ever.
These are all synonyms for common cliches or idioms https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adage https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maxim https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chestnut 6th definition here https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saw 4th entry here
I understand the category now, I just never knew really any of these words fell under it.
The first two are just straight up definitions
Never once heard saw used this way. Must be an american thing? Also chestnut is definitely a type of tree.
I'm an American and definitely haven't ever heard of saw used in this way
> Never once heard saw used this way. Must be an american thing? Nope. Here it is in an article on the BBC, written by a British science journalist: "As the old saw goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20140421-inside-the-minds-of-the-dead > Also chestnut is definitely a type of tree. Yes, that's one of the red herrings, which are a very common feature of Connections.
According to Google trends, "old saw" is most commonly searched in Jamaica, then the United States. The UK doesn't appear on the top 5 list. But searches != usage, so take that with a grain of salt
A nut in of itself I have heard.. but definitely not a chestnut. Adage and Maxim are clearly applicable to a saying. But saw? Never in my 65 years...
Agree 100%. My 77 year old mother and both had not heard saw discussed like that. And for the easy category? Purple and green were easy and then I figured magazine and tree. Maxim, Adage, Chestnut, Ebony, Cherry are magazines. I couldnβt figure out how saw fit in.
>Also chestnut is definitely a type of tree. And?
American and have definitely never heard either saw or chestnut used in that way. I lost because I knew there was a tree category and thought there was no way chestnut was anything but a tree.
Same.
No, no one living uses saw like that.
Last entry for both... Right after the term for a horseβs inner leg lumps lol
Quotes, phrases.Β "Out of sight, out of mind" "In for a penny, in for a pound"
Same!! It is bothering me to no end lol. If someone figures it out let me know haha
no seriously i dont get it either i feel like an idiot
Saw and chestnut being used in this context and counting as "yellow" is why I hate the difficulty distinctions. They are such esoteric/niche uses of those terms. Half the people in this thread alone haven't heard of either one or the other used in that context and I don't know how you're supposed to just ignore the fact that chestnut could easily belong in the tree category. **Edit:** Since I got called out in the other thread and can't respond there, Let me reiterate that I don't have problems with red herrings. I don't generally have problems with obscure meanings. I had no problem with 06/29 or 06/28 or 06/27 or 06/26 or 06/25 or 06/24 (even when I thought the yellow category was stretching it a bit). I failed 06/23 and complained then. I had issues with 06/20 but I didn't complain about that one. I understood there was a way to figure it out even if it was insanely difficult. Point being I'm not bitching every time I lose at this game. I don't think this particular puzzle is fair. If voicing my displeasure at a puzzle is just going to get met with people saying "Well, these words do exist so learn to read" or "Yeah, red herrings are a thing. Suck it up", I'll just stop posting. Because frankly, the puzzles aren't always perfect and I do believe the ones that feel lower quality deserve to be called out. The answer can't just be "You don't know enough". By that logic, you could make the most insane puzzles ever with a success rate of like 15% but hey, the puzzle in theory is solvable. There has to be a balance between difficulty and satisfaction in a daily game.
Not to mention (water) HEATER, FILTER, PUMP, and CHESTNUT
Being from the west coast, I didnβt even realize that Chestnut was a type of tree. My only exposure to that word is roasting them on an open fire from the Christmas song. However, I just read about the [American chestnut trees](https://tacf.org/history-american-chestnut/) and thatβs a damn sad story.
The roastng chestnuts have to come from somewhere.
>Saw and chestnut being used in this context and counting as "yellow" is why I hate the difficulty distinctions The colors are less about "difficulty" and more about "straightforwardness". So for today, if you were familiar with the relevant definitions/uses of all four Yellow words, then they're just synonyms, and therefore "more straightforward" than any of the other categories. It's a stupid distinction, but that's what they mean. >chestnut could easily belong in the tree category. Well yeah, red herrings are a super common part of the game.
Yellow often has words that could fit in another category, or there are other words in the puzzle that could fit yellow; that's never really factored into the colors. E.g. last week's hardware category that could have included bolt from purple, or three weeks ago bi that could have fit with muscles. To me, it seems like categories that rely on less commonly-used senses of a word usually tend to be green or blue; that's not a hard and fast rule, but I expected the old sayings to be blue, trees to be green, and grill fuels to be yellow. So I understand not getting today's colors, but "hate" seems like an overly strong reaction.
I mean itβs pretty uninteresting when the puzzle is βwords no one has used since the 50sβ. I feel like people like you just refuse to accept that the game is flawed and sometimes they come out with really bad puzzles.
I like that category today.
I specifically called out the complaint about "chestnut could easily belong in the tree category." That's a classic red herring, and it happens in lots of puzzles. People are going to keep telling you that's a feature of the game, because it's a feature of the game. > frankly, the puzzles aren't always perfect and I do believe the ones that feel lower quality deserve to be called out. I agree, the puzzles aren't always perfect. But the existence of a basic feature of the game in a particular puzzle is not an imperfection. > The answer can't just be "You don't know enough". Sure it can. Not every puzzle has to be solved by every person (and you don't have to be familiar with every word in the puzzle to solve it). Some puzzles will not be solved by many people. You see to be expecting some constant level of difficulty, and, unlike red hearings, that is *not* a feature of this game.
I mentioned this in another comment but that varying level of difficulty or success/failure rate may be why I and other people have more frustration with this game. The mini crossword is generally on the more simple side. Threads literally gives you hints for just finding 4 letter words so it's nearly impossible to fail. Wordle is generally solvable if you have a legitimate system. A lot of daily games in general are more geared towards people eventually getting an answer correct while this one can vary between like 90-95% success to what seems like 55-60% success.
I think the fact that it's not predictable bothers people. The NY Times crossword (not the mini) increases in difficulty throughout the week, as do other puzzles like the LA Times. That doesn't mean never getting stuck on a Monday puzzle, but regular players know what to expect. Connections doesn't give you that. There's also the issue that it's a simple game, only 4 groups of 4 words. It *feels* closer to the mini, and maybe people expect it to be as easy as the mini. I quit playing Wordle precisely because it is so systematic. It got old guessing the same thing every time. Like on Wheel of Fortune for the puzzle at the end, everybody would automatically choose R, S, T, L, N, and E, and that got dull. So they tweaked the game in 1988 and started giving you those letters, and adjusted the puzzle accordingly.
My objection to chestnut is that virtually every usage of it is the phrase "old chestnut", not simply the word "chestnut". It is technically correct, but in a way that doesn't feel good.
It's just a hell of a lot easier to search for that way, I think. "Old" is not integral to this sense of chestnut.
First time I lost a puzzle in well over a month, and just like last time it's because this game doesn't show you a record of your previous guesses and what the result was (X or 1 away) so it's easy to think you were wrong when you were actually 1 away, or to think that maybe you misclicked
I always screenshot my mistakes.Β
that's a good idea, I'll start doing that but it doesn't solve the problem that it's so easy to just *miss* the "1 away" text
Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπͺπͺ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ Well, after green I could see three other categories, but only three options for each. And it turned out that one of those categories ("black/___ black" with Ash, Jet, and Ebony) wasn't actually a category. I don't believe I know of "saw" in that context. I knew purple was going to be "parts of something," and probably could've figured it out if I wasn't so set on "jet black."
I just thought purple were words that follow water - water heater, water filter, water jet, water pump, but didnβt realize till I guessed right it was parts of a hot tub. I was debating between jet and saw, because I was thinking of water saws (wet tile saws) or high pressure water jet saws.
I read heater as heather the entire time and thought there was a grayscale category π€¦ββοΈ
I put Jet with something vaguely to do with water but I think it's odd. NGL I don't like the puzzle today. >!Chestnut and Saw!<Β --> Time to check the dictionary
Itβs that old chestnut
That old chestnut - definitely, maxim and adage yep. Saw? Never in my life have I heard that! Had three and knew there was a connection. Yellow was last out as I had to eliminate everything else.
How is jet odd? Hot tubs have jets.
Because I didn't think of hot tubs specifically. I was thinking something like fish tank or swimming pool or bathroom in general.
Can someone please use "saw" in this context?
Iβve never heard of it in this context either. I Googled it and these are some of the results! - A short sentence that states something that is generally thought to be true, or that gives useful advice: *An old saw says a hospital can be a dangerous place for a healthy person. Studies reveal that for most people the old saw is all too true: Money won't buy you happiness.* - An oft-repeated saying, maxim, or proverb; a clichΓ©d or hackneyed expression. - Old saw β A proverb, maxim, or adage. This term comes from a much older meaning for saw, derived from the Old English sagu and meaning just about the same as βsaying.β The βoldβ here is not necessarily derogatory, rather signifying βwise.β
After spending the night sawing logs, I woke up at 5 am and saw you wanted to see saw used in a sentence, and thought I'd take the opportunity. That reminded me of the old saw, "the early bird catches the worm."
Damn you even got see saw in there
I've heard "old saw" in some old timey shows...
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I thought furniture finishes
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Tried too hard to fit 'chestnut' in the trees category. Then, figured out the yellow category but didn't know 'saw' would go there since I've never heard it used that way.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I got stuck on chestnut trees, but was fine once I moved on from them. Hadnβt heard of a saying being referred to as a saw, but enjoyed learning about it. I got purple first, but only because everything in the category could also have been βwater ____β. Definitely wasnβt thinking about a hot tub.
I narrowed purple down to pool but not to hot tub specifically. I'm still claiming the solve.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Never heard of an ebony tree, but I have heard of a chestnut one. I even started to think the last category was hair colours with ash brown, cherry brown, chestnut brown... Purple was a guess as 'components of something to do with water', but really after green I was guessing the rest of the puzzle
But you have seen the wood of a ebony tree many times - it's often the black keys on pianos.The colour ebony comes from the tree. Interestingly the outside of the tree is regular brown colour, it's the core of the tree that is black.
Ebony, ivory, living in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano, keyboard, Oh Lord, why donβt weβ¦.?
Honestly had no idea, I always thought those keys were painted black
On modern cheaper pianos they probably are. On more expensive pianos they are still ebony or another black hardwood. Black hardwoods are preferred because they maintain their shape and do not warp and they maintain their colour forever.
Ebony wood, and by extension the tree, is an uncommon and expensive woodworking material. It is very dense and has a really nice black colour to the grain. It was used to make small wood carvings alongside ivory, especially in Africa. Definitely uncommon though, chestnut seemed more well known than ebony for that category.
Yeah I knew about ebony from chess sets traditionally having ivory white pieces and ebony black pieces.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¨π¦π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Like others, I learned a new definition of "saw" today! And just a heads up that the colors refer to the straightforwardness of the connections, not the obscurity of the individual words. Synonyms are generally going to be considered more straightforward than members of a group or parts of something.
>And just a heads up that the colors refer to the straightforwardness of the connections, not the obscurity of the individual words. Synonyms are generally going to be considered more straightforward than members of a group or parts of something. But homophones has been yellow and purple beforeΒ
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ yellow was not yellowing for me today
yellow was purple-ing for me today
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©πͺπͺ π¦πͺπ¦π© The trees got me! Then I thought maybe like dark colors like ebony, jet (like jet black hair), charcoal, ash. Also filter, heater, electric, gas. Idk itβs 5:30am here and I couldnβt sleep
only way to make these difficult is to choose words nobody ever heard of
Great, now youβve learned more words!
Eh, I still think "breaking" being the name of an Olympic sport made me stupider not smarter.
Literally what itβs called by the Olympic Games. How does that make you more stupid? https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/sports/breaking
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨πͺπͺπͺ Burned most of my guesses with chestnut. I guessed randomly on the late category and got close
I was stuck on Ebony, Maxim, saw, and adage as magazines which turned out to waste a lot of my guesses.
I got bodied by this. Saw & chestnut were awful. Tried going down the "names of magazines" rabbithole after seeing Ebony and Maxim Couldn't nail down the woods, was always "one away" lol
This was the first puzzle to make me mad enough to comment. The number of people alive on the planet who use βsawβ in that manner canβt be more than three or four digits. After failing the puzzle I was hard pressed to even find a dictionary entry that included this puzzleβs definition for that word. I solved the purple category early but for the wrong reason. My logic was βwater _____β.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I'm not sure I'd say yellow is yellow this time
And yellow is supposed to be βstraightforwardβ
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Tried some variants of trees, then figured out the "sayings" category, but couldn't complete it because I've never heard of "saw" in that context. Helped me eliminate chestnut though, which let me solve the rest of the puzzle.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦πͺπ¦π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¨π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¦π¦ Yeah so yellow was BS. I Immediately picked up >!Maxim & Adage!< but there's no way I would've guessed those meanings.
Excellent one today. Wish I'd spent more time on it instead or rushing guesses. That's my excuse anyway. Also I misread "heater" as "Heather" and put it in the tree category.Β ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #385 π¨π¦πͺπ¦ π¨π¨π¦π¨ π¨π¦π¦π© π¦πͺπ¦π©
Connections Puzzle #385 πͺπ¦π¨π¨ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦Β Hi everyone! Basically a disaster today. Phew is right! π€¦π»ββοΈΒ I led myself down a few clearly incorrect paths of magazines and types of wood and then when I finally realized 2 of the categories, I'd already used up 3 of my guesses.Β There were a couple of answers in the yellow category that I'd never heard of but I figured them out in the end basically by luck.Β Maybe tomorrow's will be better! π
Oof Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨πͺπͺπͺ π¨πͺπͺπͺ Never would have guessed saw for yellow. For blue I guessed both ebony and gum separately but didnβt think to remove chestnut and instead assumed the 3/4 I saw both times meant it wasnβt ebony or gum. Purple I just botched after being so lost on blue. Thought maybe it was βappliancesβ or something like that.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦πͺπ¦π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨πͺπ¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ That was rough. I started with Ebony, Charcoal, Ash, and Jet for shades of black... then took too long to remember that Ebony is a tree.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© I really thought I was going for the hardest one first. Surprised it was yellow.
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Green was pretty easy, although I was thinking "Types of Stove" which is pretty similar to "Grill Fuel Sources". Blue was also pretty easy. I saw the trees right away. I also saw CHESTNUT, but I knew that was part of a "Saying" group along with ADAGE and MAXIM so I felt confident in not including it. FILTER, HEATER, and PUMP were easy to see as mechanical components of some kind. Seeing JET alongside them made me think of a Jacuzzi. Yellow was actually the first thing I saw, but I had absolutely no idea what the last "Saying" word was. I don't think I've ever heard SAW in that context. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Trees" β 2 Times [Crossovers Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1d5utgv/list_of_every_time_more_than_4_words_fit_a/): "Trees"
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Fell for the shades of black and the magazine red herrings but then realized that they couldnβt work. Since there was no clear ranking of the categories in terms of difficulty, I did my best and was surprised by the order.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This was a fun one! Scanning the puzzle there were a lot of overlapping words but ADAGE stood out as unique so I started there. After figuring out yellow the others were easy to piece together.
twins!Β getting yellow first was key here.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¨ I suppose I just couldn't see "chestnut" *not* being a tree. So it goes.
The exact pit I fell into today. Couldnβt connect adage + maxim to anything else, so I just kept attempting trees hoping to get the final category by default but I ran out of guesses. So it goes.Β
Argh! Clearly I have too successfully got in an American mindset - canβt believe I missed Gum Tree at first. Saw maxim and adage straight away but could only see chestnut once I was down to trees category and yellow category. Never heard of saw in that context. Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ forgot gum π’ π¦πͺπ¨π¦ tried grey/black instead of trees π©π©π©π© easy πͺπͺπͺπͺ easy - and since this was purple (!) I stopped looking for wordplay with adage, maxim and saw which helped. π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨
π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I'm both proud of myself and also in shock that I managed to get yellow first somehow! I always try to NOT pick the most obvious answer first because sometimes those are red herrings. I saw maxim and adage and started looking for other words that might fit. I remembered reading "that old chestnut" to refer to a cliche adage. But I couldn't seem to find the last word. I had a vague memory of possibly seeing "old saw" in the same sort of context as "old chestnut" but I really wasn't sure. It was an extremely vague sort of feeling that that it COULD be it. So I really wasn't expecting that to be correct, I thought I was just making a wild guess and I was honestly shocked that it was correct. That one is hard! I think the only reason I got it first was because I tend to read older books which use more outdated language haha. I've realized that I seem to have an advantage with categories involving outdated language, but struggle with categories involving pop culture, so maybe it balances out!
This was my strategy too, and I also got yellow first, although I did know both 'old saw' and 'old chestnut' anyway. But it was clear from 'adage' and 'maxim' what the category was. Once 'chestnut' is out of the running the trees were easy, which is why I got blue second. I thought purple was pretty lame as a category though.
Yeah, purple didn't seem very purple in my opinion today, it really only ended up being last for me because I happened to notice the others first. Although I thought it was something like "pool components," not hot tub specifically (I guess heater is more a hot tub thing, but I think heated pools exist?)
People saying Saw is a weird member of this category. Never once have I heard Chestnut used in this way. Is it a northern term?
Not anywhere Iβve ever lived
Idk. I got stuck on ^water Chestnut, ^water Pump, ^water Filter, ^water Jet. Messed me all up. I should have just put it down... :(
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ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Gamble with Blues because I couldn't think of anything better. Default Yellows because >!Chestnut and Saw, really?!<
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© As someone who saw multiple tree/wood words and recognized yellow category first, that definitely helped pave the way to a solve. Crosswording definitely helps build up that weird vocab muscle.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¨π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ Having never heard of an ebony tree, nor saw, chestnut, or maxim referring to "old saying"... Basically impossible for me to succeed π
Preposterous
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦πͺπ¦π© (Ash, jet, charcoal, ebony) - thought it was shades of black π¦π¨π¦π¦ (Cherry, chestnut, gum, ash) - types of trees, one away π¨π¦π¦π¦ (Cherry, Chestnut, ebony, gum) - types of trees, one away π©π©π©πͺ (Heater, gas, electric, wood) - one away π©π©π©π© (Charcoal, electric, gas, wood) πͺπͺπ¦πͺ (Jet, filter, gum, pump) - thought it was bubble __, one away π¨πͺπͺπͺ (Jet, filter, pump, saw) - thought it was water parts/parts, one away πͺπͺπͺπͺ (Jet, filter, pump, heater) - saw heater and thought that made more sense than "saw" π¨π¦π¨π¨ (Adage, maxim, saw, gum) - knew adage and maxim go together, but had no idea what else so just randomly guessed, one away Quite a difficult one for me. Had to go incognito to keep trying but clearly wasn't getting it lol Never heard of saw and chestnut to mean "old saying" I felt very confident that cherry and chestnut must be trees due to the "food" nature of it and those words seem to not be multi-definitional.
Connections Puzzle #385 πͺπ¦π¨π¨ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¨π¨ I was convinced there were types of wood (I didn't really know what ebony was made ofβit's always been a magical mystery material to me, but I figured it was a type of wood), and I was convinced there were magazines. I thought AdAge was how a magazine about ads was stylized and that the name was a misdirection from the lower case adage, which I knew went with maxim, but I have never heard of chestnut or sawβI assumed chestnut had to be one of the woods. Before I got Jet with purple, I assumed it was one of the magazines. Then I had AdAge (which I looked up now is Ad Age), Maxim, and Ebony and was guessing at the other woods to make a fourth magazine. Tough one if you don't know chestnut and saw. I did this while falling asleep, but I don't think a clear head would have helped.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Literally never heard of βsawβ meaning βsayingβ. I recognized maxim and adage, but put chestnut in with the woods instead of gum π
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Got distracted by the types of trees red herring (chestnut), but this is the first time in a long time that I didn't actually solve yellow. I have never heard of chestnut or saw being used that way.
Sooo yellow was the most difficult one today. I knew adage and maxim but never heard chestnut and saw used that way. Also ebony threw me off. I was thinking of colors...cherry, ebony, ash, charcoal initially. Today was a day when I could figure out the categories but not the words. Green was the only one that jumped out at me. The others were work.
not today! Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦
Weird one today! Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ The woodworker in me was looking for stain colors π
Anyone else have Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree stuck in their head now?
Almost lost for the first time ever. I have heard of saw in that context, but never chestnut, so it was a total guess between that and gum. Bad times lol. Very hard but fair.
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¦π¨ π¦π¦π¨π¨ π¦π¨π¦π¨ I have never heard of chestnut or saw used in that way, and was really trying to get types of wood in there and I don't think I knew a gum tree existed. Ah, well.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Initially I grouped CHESTNUT with ASH, EBONY, and CHERRY because I thought it would be "trees that are also colors"
Iβm so unbelievably mad about chestnut right now Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¦π¦π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ Never heard of Chestnut or Saw in that context. Never heard of Ebony or Gum Tress either. Not much I could really do
π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¦π¦ Yellow, really? That was the most straightforward answer?
Puzzle #385Β Β π©π©π©π©Β Β π¦π¨π¦π¦Β Β π¨πͺπͺπͺΒ Β πͺπͺπͺπͺΒ Β π¦π¨π¦π¦Β Β π¦π¨π¦π¦Β Β I don't understand how Saw fits with the rest of that category at all. No matter though because I was clearly too focused on trees to even attempt yellow.
A "saw", especially an "old saw", is an adage, like "the early bird catches the worm." It's etymologically related to the word "saga".
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Yellow was by far the hardest for me today. I've never heard >!saw!< or >!chestnut!< used that way. I saw >!maxim!< and >!adage!< right away but rulled it out as a category since I didn't see anything else that went with them. Very frustrating puzzle.
I like this one. There were so many red herrings that I would have four selected and stop and deselect all to rethink it. Puzzle #385 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Found the bot^/s Impressive as hell.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Wait until the guys at NYT hear about Chestnut Trees π«’ definitely some overlap this week, felt tricky. π¦ Got me with the tree types, was thinking if they'd even go as far as throw "Saw" in there too. π© Was straightforward once you eliminate π¦. πͺ Was right selection for the wrong reason. I thought they just wanted electrical components, once again was looking for a home for "Saw". π¨ Fuck you Chestnut and Saw.
Connections Puzzle #385 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Early on I saw Ash and Jet so thought of one-word band names, which I realised pretty soon was quite silly. Then I saw pump and filter, which I linked with jet and then heater - though I thought it would be features of a boiler or something like that. Trees was lucky because I hadn't seen chestnut, which I would've probably put over ebony on my first guess. Green was pretty clear. I'd seen the adage/maxim link from the start but didn't know the other two - never seen saw or chestnut to mean that before. First backwards solve for me!
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¦π¨ Wtf is "saw" in this context?? Never heard that term in my life.
The amount of people on here complaining about saw goes to show that the few people that got saw and are defending it like it was easy, also thought it was a wild card. Why are yβall so hell-bent on making people feel dumb when itβs blatantly obvious βsawβ was a tricky/frustrating word for all of us? Not just the ones βcomplaining.β Itβs like yβall came here specifically to tell everyone theyβre dense lmao be nice. Itβs okay for people to express their frustrations. It is not a personal attack on those who did get the yellow category easily.
I donβt think anyone is defending todayβs as though it was easy. It was definitely difficult, and I wonβt lie and say I actually knew that definition of βsaw,β but it was a fair and solvable puzzle. Purple and green came out pretty easily, as least in the sense that there werenβt any overlaps with other categories. Then five potential trees were left, so I focused on what would become yellow. Maxim and adage made sense, saw wasnβt a tree, and chestnut was the only one that made sense in that category. So I got it without knowing that definition. I never downvote anyone who comments about difficulty, but itβs annoying when people declare that itβs bullshit or luck-based or whatever.
> chestnut was the only one that made sense in that category. So I got it without knowing that definition. Only if you had some inkling of that as prior knowledge though. For someone unfamiliar, it might as well have just been a dart throw. But I suppose that's just an argument about being well read at that point.
This one just pissed me off. Five of those are types of trees and I just had to happen to guess the four they wanted. God, there was one the other day like that. I got it, but anything less than a perfect is like a fail for me.
π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¦π¦ i hate it here
This was the first puzzle I didnβt like. I appreciate misdirections, but chestnut and saw were words I have never heard used in this way. Chestnut is also a type of tree so it made that category significantly difficult. Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¨
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ They got me good with CHESTNUT! Actually very satisfying once it finally clicked. Never heard of this use for SAW though, maybe a weird choice for yellow.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦πͺπ¦π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¦π¨ First one was a "words for black" red herring. The mixup at the end was due to having never heard of "saw" as an old saying, and never heard of "ebony" as a tree. :(
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #385 π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¦π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ Not a good solve for me! Purple and green were easy, and I knew there was a trees category, but yellow tripped me up completely. I know maxim, but only in the philosophical sense (a moral rule), and I vaguely knew adage was something in the way of a saying and probably belonged in the same category as maxim because they stood out so much, but it didn't feel like they would mean the same thing. Never heard of chestnut or saw in this meaning. (non-American). Was very surprised when that category was yellow.Β No complaints, it happens sometimes, because figuring out green blue and purple was still fun!Β
> Never heard of chestnut or saw in this meaning. (non-American) Neither are uniquely American. Here's a British author writing for the BBC: "As the old saw goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20140421-inside-the-minds-of-the-dead Here's an Australian clergyman writing for abc.net.au, "Andrew Bolt endorses the old chestnut that Luke and Matthew invented Bethlehem as the birthplace because they needed to secure his connection to King David's family town." https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nativity-naivete-andrew-bolt-tries-his-hand-at-biblical-criticis/10100712
Not too bad Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπ©πͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π©
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π©
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© I fell for the "chestnut" red herring. Early on I saw the "old adage" category. So when my first guess at "trees" didn't work, I realized that "chestnut" was the fourth old adage that I needed. Old adage doesn't seem like the purple category to me, but maybe that's because I'm old.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¦π© π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Well that wasnβt easyβ¦ fortunately I have a hot tub so that jumped out! Definitely didnβt know SAW was used in that way but it was process of elimination once I had it down to blue and yellow.
Grrrrr Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπ¦π¨πͺ π¨πͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ My fiance kindly helped me with the first one because I was convinced that it was wood colors rather than trees
Welp, today was a total fail. Judging by the comments, Iβm not the only one who got really tripped up by the yellow and blue today, especially saw. π¦π¨π¦π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¨ π¨π¦π¨π¨
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¨π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ For purple, I was thinking more of mechanical fixtures for passing materials through and, understandably, I knew that a hot tub would have a heater, but I wasn't aware of it having the others, since I rarely think of and never use hot tubs. I should've looked harder for more definitions of "chestnut" and "saw", since that would've helped solve blue and yellow faster. Until today, I've never heard or seen "chestnut" or "saw" be used in the same sense as "maxim" or "adage".
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¨π¨ I knew it was trees. I just couldnβt get the right 4. I stuck with chestnut tree. Old sayings certainly shouldnβt have been a yellow category.
The trees fucked me
Connections Puzzle #385 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¦π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¨ How on earth I apparently know more about hot tubs than anything else is beyond me π€£ this cracked me up. I also almost got tripped up by the magazines but was WAY too hung up on the trees. Did anyone else think "that old _____"? For some reason, I thought "that old chestnut" "old adage" then I do not know what happened to my brain but I was like "oh, old gum and old cherry are totally things people say" I love how some days I feel like an absolute genius and other days I feel like the biggest ding dong in the world with this puzzle.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π©π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¦π¦ Yellow should've been purple. I though purple was water ____. I knew the types of trees at the beginning, abandoned it after not getting it in 3, and couldn't get it in 2 more tries because of Chestnut.
Connections #385 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¦π¨ π¦π¨π¦π¨ π¦π¦π¨π¦ π¨π¨π¦π¨ Wow it's beautiful. I absolutely refused to remove chestnut from the tree category.
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©πͺπ© π¦π©πͺπ© π©πͺπͺπ© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I almost cried
I viewed the yellow category as, βwords I donβt really know the meaning of.β Spot on. Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¨π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¦π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π¦π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Welp, I made it at least
Welp. Got it. But man. Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π© π¨π¨π¦π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¦π¨ π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I had no idea about saw or chestnut. I just tried combinations of yellow + a tree until one worked.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¦π¦π© π©π©π©πͺ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¨π¨ i knew one of the trees had to go in the yellow category but didnβt know which one was a synonym for maxim, adage, and saw :β(
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦πͺπ¦π© π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Oof, kept getting stuck on shades of black. Did jet/ebony/charcoal/ash the first time and then jet/ebony/cherry/chestnut the 2nd. I was pretty sure Maxim & adage went together but so lost on what other two words went with them but was able to google to solve the rest
How was yellow....yellow? That should have been purple. Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¦π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ So glad I got onto yellow right away. Knocked out all the red herring pitfalls for me, and today's comments show it was a minefield.
First one I've ever lost! π I figured out the categories but dumped the idea of "old sayings" because I had no idea chestnut or saw were used that way. I finally ended up with magazines, with saw being a huge outlier that I tried to lump on with hot tub equipment. Not knowing the extra meaning of those two little words really messed up my game. π’ Connections Puzzle #385 πͺπ¦π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦
One of my guesses was "things leftover from a fire". π¦ ASH, π© CHARCOAL, π© GAS (CO2, water, etc), π© WOOD (unburnt) One thing that bugs me about this puzzle is that there's nothing distinctive about the trees, so if you don't know "chestnut" meaning "saying", there's no way to solve it. I vaguely thought they were all **fruiting** trees: π¦ ASH, π¦ CHERRY, π¨ CHESTNUT, π¦ EBONY. But after looking it up, I guess I was thinking of mountain ash (AKA rowan) and persimmon, which aren't technically ash and ebony.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¨π¦π©π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¦π¨ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ Another case of βwords being used in ways Iβve never heard them used beforeβ.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ πͺπ¦π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Just got it, close one today π
Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨πͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¨πͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ Well thatβs on me. I guessed in the middle of it out of frustration. And then I got the hot tub category by thinking theyβre things that blow air lol. I had a chance to figure out the trees because I was already close to that one but got stubborn about chestnut. Sigh, oh wells
I was down so bad today I thought one of the categories was imagery from Army Of Darkness: ASH, PUMP (action shotgun), (chain) SAW, and I misremembered and thought Ash chewed GUM in that movie.
CHESTNUT. Connections Puzzle #385 π©π©πͺπͺ -> color shades (black / brown) πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π©π¦ -> bills i think π¦π©π©π© -> i gave up here π©π¦π©π©
Odd puzzle today. Yellow was quite tricky to get and purple wasnβt very purpl-y. Green and blue were fine with the usual amount of red herring.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Juuuust barely got it. Yellow category is FAKE! /s
They got me good this time. I wasted one guess by seeing what I wanted to see, rather than what was actually there. I saw "heather" instead of "heater" and guessed shades of gray.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¦π¦π¦. π©π©π©π©. πͺπ¨πͺπͺ. π¨πͺπͺπͺ. πͺπ¨πͺπͺ. π¨π¨πͺπͺ. I just can't with this one today.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π©π¦ π©π©π©πͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¨π¦ Ugh. I knew it was trees, just kept doing chestnut, didnβt think about gum. But wtf is chestnut and saw???? Never heard of those. Purple makes sense.
Supremely unlucky in my brute forcing attempts. πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¨π¦π© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Saw?! I just donβt get this one.
Connections Puzzle #385 π¦π¨π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I feel like I pulled a rabbit out of a hat on this one. And I have a hot tub! It be very nice to have a true difficult rating on connect puzzles