Connections 602 - NYT Word Game - 2 February 2025
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- The New York Times is back with another new daily word game, Connections! This is heavily inspired by "The Wall" from the BBC quiz show Only Connect. You must sort the sixteen given words into thematically appropriate groups of four--and you only have a few opportunities for error! I don't know if I'll be solving this every day but I'm giving it a shot for now at least. We'll see how it goes. Let me know how you like it!
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For me this was the hardest Connections so far. 0/4 and I wasn't even disappointed after seeing the solution. Quite a few of the terms meant nothing to me. Probably would have had an easier time if I was American.
Very impressive solve from Chris. I was completely clueless, and only saw the dejected category.
Once again the puzzle is tricky when people have too many options, not too few:
For TV families: SWISS, PARTRIDGE, MUNSTER, GRIFFIN, PICKLES
For birds: SWALLOW, HAWK, GROUSE, PARTRIDGE, DUCK
But if you can’t find a way to rule something out or you only know four of the options, you end up guessing. I was one of the people who thought Swiss was the surname of the family and don’t think I ever knew Pickles was a surname in Rugrats (despite having watched it). For the birds I simply didn’t see what they were going for (despite having noticed a few of the words doubled as verbs) and was also worried that they could be sports team mascots along with Griffin.
"Bird, Bird, Bird, the bird is the verb"...
K Street is indeed in Washington, D.C., and it is often referred to as a symbol of lobbying groups, since many have their headquarters on that street.
This puzzle kicked my ass!! I'd never heard "hangdog" and or the Pickles family. Ugly solve with 2 mistakes, and I got very lucky with some guesses to keep my streak alive.
🎵 "Hangdog & Co." 😂👏
Viciously hard, escaped with 3 mistakes. Had never heard of hangdog, pickles or k swiss and k street being Canadian. Then there was the overpopulated birds and the cheeses red herring. I don't know how I didn't fail.
Hard one today, failure for me. I was unfamiliar with the word "hangdog" and I completely forgot/ never heard of about K-Swiss and K-Street.
And yeah, I saw the cheeses. I guessed that "Partridge" was the fourth kind of cheese since I was just lost at that point.
I figured this out for the most part once I narrowed down the birds. I only knew Partridge and Munster for families and I didn’t get the K- until the end, but one wrong guess got me to the solve. I thought Griffin referred to the mythological creature at first and that is part bird. 😊
Reasons this was the hardest connections yet for me:
HANGDOG - excuse me, what?
GROUSE as a verb. Never heard of it
PARTRIDGE family. The only comedy Partridge I know is Alan, and he's chronically single
K street, what the hell is that?
@mertaksac9718. I'd no idea. Chris said he thought it might be a street in Washington. I looked it up and yes, he was right again. 😊
Another blue first no mistake solve for me. Purple was oblique as usual.
K Street is indeed a street in DC. It's synonymous with the lobbying industry, like Wall Street means finance or Madison Avenue means advertising.
I have never heard of the word hangdog. Never heard of the word grouse in either a noun or verb context. And I don't know anything about any of those TV shows (Rugrats as a kid). I was cooked from all angles.
I spent a lot of time with this puzzle and somehow managed not to make any mistakes. I’ve failed must easier puzzles than this. Didn’t know what hangdog meant. I couldn’t guess the purple category.
This one went quick bc the misspelled MUNSTER instantly pointed to TV families as the category.
Using PARTRIDGE as a family left the remaining 4 birds. Straightfowrard from there.
Misspelled? That's the correct spelling for the cheese, which is all I could think of
@@davidhildebrandt7812I thought the cheese was Muenster
Edit: Apparently it’s both
Barely got it, had no more guesses remaining. Lot of tricks and some things I’ve never heard of.
I got the blue last because I'm too old to have grown up on Rugrats and didn't get the pickles reference.
I managed to do it but this was extremely tricky. It add cheese category, art category, there was 5 different birds and swallow, down and pop a pill missing a forth on tho.
Got the reverse rainbow today w/o mistakes! Almost messed it up by entering green second but thankfully reconsidered my choice and submitted the comedy families instead.
I think a big part of the difficulty is about how American it is. Lots of non Americans play the game.
I did it using the hints, and even then I got lucky. 5 words that mean nothing to me is a record I think.
Hints? What hints?
On the companion page @@Peasly23
Brooke my 2 week steak
Most American Connections to date?
Did anyone else think that having both DOWN and HAWK in a puzzle was ill-timed given the recent midair collision in Washington D.C.? Maybe it's just me.
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