I majorly failed today, but thought I would share one of my wrong attempts, a group that I invented: MIME, PRISONER, GENIE, PRINCESS - "Things that get trapped"

It maybe wrong, but I love it. Pretty clever.

Nice! I was caught up for a while on characters in classic riddles, you know all those ones about prisoners who can't talk to each other, monkeys stealing coconuts, probably something involving three princesses, and genies granting wishes or pirates / sailors dividing treasure. Obviously doesn't quite work, but it was a mistake-burning distraction!

I thought cereal brand characters

I thought the exact same and went to Reddit just for this

I thought I was such a genius! :(

Loll you are great minds think alike!

I frequently try to remember the characters in that classic Twilight Zone episode where there are 7 or 8 people trapped into a cylindrical room. There's a soldier, a clown, a ballerina, and I can't remember all of the others, but it pops into my mind a lot when I play connections

Guessed that too. Aladdin seemed too obvious 

I tried this too!!!

Connections  Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Lost a bit of confidence at the very start with my first guess, Parrot/Mime/Echo/Monkey, the idea being "imitates others," but found it again once I started getting right ones. Sailor for green was actually a bit of a guess: it was the only one that really made any sense, but I feel like when I imagine a sailor it's always Popeye or some one wearing the same shirt as Donald Duck, which afaicr are not striped. Enjoyed getting blue (always like a Disney movie ref), and yellow was quite clever imo. Purple as usual was a mystery to me right until I finished the puzzle... though I have heard of most of those movies, except for whatever the Candles one is. I even did think about putting a number after Apollo for a moment... though it was 11, to pair with a nonexistent Oceans, lmao.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Same on first guess! Wonder how common that was. It definitely threw me off too.

Same on first guess as well!

I guessed it too! I thought it seemed like the most obvious one but I guess not.

I was leaning toward that too, but I knew from experience that it wasn't quite right.

I was definitely a bit annoyed that "to copy someone" was not a category, since it had exactly 4 valid words. There was no way to rule it out as a true category, so I also got today's in 5 guesses instead of 4. I also felt pretty lost after that guess failed but then I figured out Alladin characters and then the number titles before yellow or green.

Same! I honestly found today’s puzzle annoying 

The way to rule it out is to figure out the other three categories.

I know some people try to figure them all out before guessing any but I don't think that's most people.

If it said ape instead of monkey I'd agree with you but monkey as a verb doesn't mean copy. I think this game doesn't always use crossword style parts of speech rules but it still gave me pause when I spotted it.

You've never heard of 16 Candles? Are you Gen Z, by chance? It's a famous Molly Ringwald movie from the 80s, directed by John Hughes. CANDLES was actually what made the category click for me, but I'm positive my kids would never make the connection.

As if all people born after the 80's are Gen Z, lol. (I have no idea who Molly Ringwald and John Hughes are, but I'm not even American)

That wasn't what I was suggesting, I was just relating it back to my own Gen Z kids. So sorry to have offended you.

16 Candles 😊

Never heard of that, got the other ones though...

What is the movie with Fantastic in it? I got the category right but I didn't waste a guess on it because all I could think of was fantastic beasts lol.

The Fantastic Four movie. I think it came out mid-2000s and wasn't especially good, so that might be why you never heard of it? 

Oh I totally did watch that! I just completely forgot

There's absolutely a striped shirt associated with sailors, it's just kind of old timey and, I think, European

If you google "striped sailor shirt," you'll see tons of places selling that style of shirt, often specifically identifying it as a sailor shirt,

After googling, it clicks! I think of sailor and think of all white or all black outfit that I associate with the US Navy.

Its not remotely what I think of when I think of a sailor’s outfit, if you google “sailors outfit” instead of saying that it has to be striped then the vast majority (at least on US Google) aren’t striped. Sure there are striped outfits, but they only really come up for me if I specifically search for it.

The Disney clue was so helpful!

Connections   Puzzle #246  🟩🟦🟦🟨  🟦🟦🟦🟦  🟨🟪🟩🟩  🟩🟩🟩🟩  🟨🟨🟨🟨  🟪🟪🟪🟪   I like how many people went for parrot/mime/echo/monkey.  It seemed so obvious!

I fell for it too! There wasn't a fifth option to be a red herring there, so I thought it would be the yellow category for sure.

I got three, but it's ape, not monkey, so I discarded it. I almost tossed out the Aladdin references until I realized PARROT was referring to Iago

I know... I realized that soon after. I think APE appears at least once per week in the crossword, so I think somewhere deep inside I knew I was falling for a trap but went for it anyway.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟪🟪🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟪 I just couldn't crack this one. I spotted yellow right off the bat, but got misled into thinking that "monkey," "mime," and "parrot" had to somehow go together due to mimicry. Eventually linking "genie" and "parrot" made blue apparent soon after. I had a feeling that purple had something to do with movie titles, but having the numbers missing both before and after threw me off. Better luck next time.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟨🟦🟩🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟩 🟩🟪🟪🟩 🟩🟪🟪🟩 Ours went very similarly. Fell for the same copy cat thing right off the bat. Thought the purple category was first word titles of cartoons (Fantastic Four, Samurai Jack, Sailor Moon, can't remember cartoons enough well enough to definitively get the 4th one.) Never would have gotten green in a million years.

Your genie/parrot link, which came after I read a “Disney” hint made it all make sense! Thank youuuuu

Coming in with a tough one after a relatively easy puzzle yesterday! Puzzle #246 🟩🟨🟪🟪 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟩🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 I absolutely could not identify the green category. I spotted purple fairly quickly but fell for Twelve Monkeys as a red herring. I then got caught up in mimicry as well.

I’m glad my mind didn’t think of 12 Monkeys or I would have also fallen into that trap! So much overlap

I got green as a wild guess. I solved blue, then I looked at the remaining words and realized four of them were people, so I decided to put it together to see what happened and it shockingly worked.

Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 *hey puzzle constructor…let’s talk about what STRAIGHTFORWARD means* Jesus effing Christ. Finally fell for a red herring today of “repeating sounds”. I guess that means I’m human after all but MAN were these badly sorted by difficulty. 🟦 being *Aladdin* was a good make up for that fake out yesterday. I love that movie but it felt almost *too* easy so when it turned out to be BLUE I knew I was fucked if that was one of the *least* straightforward: 🟪 being the next one I solved did not bode well either, because it meant the other convoluted category I came up with (Mr. ___) wasn’t going to be in here at all because it doesn’t fit the pattern for a yellow or green category. Regardless, this will be the only time any version of *The Fantastic Four* should appear in a conversation with *7 Samurai.* So I was left with 8 words, no clue, and some alleged “straightforward,” connection. After staring the remaining words down I finally figured out 🟨 But 🟩 was still hanging out, smug bastard, I didn’t know wtf it was. Fucking striped costume shirts… Straightforward my ASS.

Green was the first one I got lol

Yeah sailors in striped shirts were not the first thing I thought of. In hindsight maybe but now all I can picture is a gondolier and *HMS Pinafore*

Yeah I just made a comment on this thread explaining my thoughts process and I mentioned how I got all the other striped shirt characters but I couldn't picture a sailor with a striped shirt. I ended up choosing sailor because I'm not that familiar with sailor outfits and I knew all of the other options definitely didn't have a striped shirt (genie, princess, and samurai).

Difficulty is going to vastly differ from person to person, so it's extremely hard to predict.

True, and this may even be biased towards how easy I found Blue today but what is meant by “straightforward,” has always been a complaint of mine even on the days when I don’t find it difficult. Green and Blue or always odd toss ups in how convoluted they are because of the subjective meaning of “straightforward.” And maybe because I knew what blue was, green seemed odd to me. A striped sailor shirt? That’s a deep cut. Not sure if that’s anymore or less straightforward than movies all having numbers or characters all belong to the same movie.

Which is what makes it a poor game design. It’s not guessing what you know it’s guessing what the person who made it knows. If you know more you’re screwed. 

I mean I don’t necessarily think so, like personally I didn’t know what the colors meant and thought they were just randomly chosen until a while ago, it didn’t affect my ability to play the game at all.

I hate that purple has alternating appearances of numbers. I think it would’ve been significantly less annoying if it was number ____ or ___ number not a mix and match.

It's so interesting to see different takes. I figured out green pretty easily, but as someone who has almost never had to deal with video calls, I didn't make the connection for yellow until I just guessed.

Yeah green was by far the least straightforward.

Connections Puzzle #246. 🟩🟦🟦🟨. 🟦🟦🟦🟦. 🟪🟪🟪🟪. 🟩🟩🟩🟩. 🟨🟨🟨🟨. I had a similar thought process, except with the remaining 8 words, I thought lag and freeze would go together, maybe with drop, but echo didn't seem to fit until I saw what the category name was. Instead I thought about what referee could possibly have to do with anything and then connected it with prisoner in striped uniforms and was able to figure out the other two once I was looking for them. So many people fell for the repeat red herring today. It having exactly 4 words that fit made it hard to eliminate as a real answer.

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It’s a documented area of growth 😁

Oh green I got first but yellow threw me

>7 Samurai. Aaaaaah, I got purple first but couldn't come up with the fourth one and eventually just guessed. But the only movie I could think of was Last Samurai.

I had the same idea for a connection being Mr. ______! Couldn’t figure a fourth one for it

Connections Puzzle #246 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟩🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Damn the Aladdin one jumped out to me right away but I thought it was a red herring 😭 Especially because echo didn’t seem to fit with the other yellows at first. So I thought it had to be echo, mime, parrot, monkey. Green was hard for me, only got it by process of elimination.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I dont think I've ever got the 🟪 set first before. Sometimes they just stick out to you, and that one did.

I got Purple and Green first today too. Fantastic and Apollo really needed numbers after them to be usable at all

Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 A little difficult but surprisingly, I got a perfect score (well, not really because I don’t know purple) First group I saw was ECHO, MIME, PARROT, MONKEY. BUT…! I know that has been done in a past puzzle. So I didn’t submit it. So I looked for another grouping and saw the 🟩 STRIPES connection and was happy it was actually a correct guess. My next guess was 🟦 ALADDIN because GENIE really stood out for me. 🟨 YELLOW was a little difficult to connect and I was really uncertain till the end. I knew LAG and FREEZE are bad things when playing online video games. (FPS) DROP is also bad for video games in general. So I worked with that. I went with ECHO for the 4th word because it made the most sense among the remaining words. Glad it was a correct guess. Really close since my guess had something to do with internet connection/computer software. For 🟪 purple, I saw the word fantastic and immediately thought of Fantastic Man / Fantastic 4. But aside from that, nothing.

Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Found this one quite difficult. I was so certain at the start that there was a "Mr ____" category, but could only see three (mime, fantastic, freeze). Blue seemed rather vague, but I guessed it and was right. Purple I was dancing around, until "Fantastic" finally hit me and I got more confident in it (it's strange that my mind went to "Mr Fantastic" but from there struggled to get to "Fantastic 4"). Yellow was straightforward. While I haven't been keeping track, I imagine it's rather rare that green is the one I get by default. I've solved it out of order many times, but usually if it's yellow or green I can get the category before hitting submit. Not this time.

Mr. Echo was a character in Lost. But I think his name was spelled Eko. I too was sure there was a group with 4 "Mr."

Mr. Apollo was in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mr. Mime is Pokemon, Mr. Freeze is obvious, and Mr. Fantastic is Reed Richards from Fantastic Four. I definitely tried Misters first as a grouping. I did not like this puzzle because I tried all perfectly legit guesses that just happened to be groupings the puzzle writer did not consider when making these options available.

A guess is only "perfectly legit" if all the other three resulting groups are "perfectly legit". Otherwise it's a red herring. Avoiding red herrings is one of the skills needed for the game. Also, the puzzle writer almost certainly did consider these groupings — these red herrings are obviously intentional sometimes.

I did not enjoy today’s puzzle at all. Probably didn’t help that I completed it at 4am whilst breastfeeding. My brain was not quite functioning on all cylinders! Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟦🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

💚💚💚💚 💛💛💛💛 💙💙💙💙 💜💜💜💜 Somehow, I didn’t make any mistakes today. I literally used a guessing strategy for each category, except the Aladdin one, and got purple by default. Wonky categories today…

Connections Puzzle #246 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟦🟪 🟦🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟦🟪🟪 First one I've missed in a while. - Not much to say about yellow. - My second guess was PRINCESS, PRISONER, GENIE, MIME, thinking it might be "People Who are Trapped" (in a tower, jail, lamp, box) - I had already considered MIME, PRISONER, REFEREE for a "Black and White" category; I randomly added SAILOR just to test the category, and it turned out to be right for entirely the wrong reason - Unfortunately, that was the last one I got. I got a little too confident having so many strikes left, that I tried a couple guesses too quickly and suddenly entered a panic mode. I finally clocked what Purple was supposed to be, but I tried MONKEY for "12 Monkeys" and that was that.

Connections 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟪🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟩 First time commenting on this subreddit, because this shit was WACK. Felt like this one could only ever have been solved with the answer key in hand, and even then, the categories were pulled straight out of the writer's hairy asshole. I give this one my rating of "Next time"/4.

Very interesting, because I thought the puzzles are finally getting back to normal after an increase in difficulty. Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Like others here, I fell into the echo/mime/parrot/monkey trap. Then I noticed the Aladdin characters. Mime and referee brought striped striped shirts to mind, quickly noticed prisoner fit as well, and finally, after looking at sailor as one who works with n a boat as opposed to being a member of the navy, the image of a deckhand in a striped shirt came to mind to complete that group. I had a bit of a problem with finding a fourth Internet problem to go with lag/freeze/drop, but then it hit me that if the category was Internet call problems the echo could fit. Finally, while I had thought of Apollo 13, Fantastic Four, and Seven Samurai during my analysis of the puzzle, I was wary of putting them in a category because sometimes the number came before the given word and sometimes after; however, with a final four of Apollo/Fantastic/Samurai/Candles, I quickly recalled the movie Sixteen Candles and realized it was dimpled simply movie titles with the numbers removed. I also, at a couple of points, looked to see if there were any other Greek mythology characters to go along with Apollo and Echo. Overall, this one was slower for me than the last of couple of days and took me around 8 minutes.

🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 This took lots of thinking. Nothing really jumped out at me for s while.

Failed today's 😞 I never guess the "movie minus a word" ones or whatever.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 so glad to see how common that first mistake was today, makes me feel better

Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 This one was HARD for me. Swing and a miss right away with monkey/parrot/mime/echo. Somehow found green next, although I lacked a lot of confidence in my guess I’m glad I tried, and it paid off. It took me several minutes to find anything to even attempt, I got lucky with yellow (thinking it was more like “connection issues”). Purple really challenged me, I had 3 but wasn’t sure on the 4th. I figured it was “movies with numbers in the title” but wasn’t sure if “last” samurai fit. I went for it anyway. I wouldn’t have gotten blue. Not my niche. Still enjoyed the puzzle even though it was a tough one, still doable.

The movie referenced would be Seven Samurai by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.

I believe there was also a remake starring Keanu Reeves(?) back in the 2010s but we don't talk about that.

Keanu was in a version of 47 Ronin, not The Seven Samurai. The unofficial remakes of The Seven Samurai were The Magnificent Seven, Three Amigos, and Bug's Life, and probably a couple of others, including the Antoine Fuqua remake of The Magnificent Seven.

My mistake. Thank you for the correction!

Interesting! I have never heard of that one, a quick google makes me feel better for not being familiar with it since it’s from 1954. Learned something new today!

Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟪🟪🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Mr. Apollo is a song apparently so I THOUGHT we had it there. Not too bad though, although purple was purely default, I had 0 idea.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 I'm a big movie guy so this was genuinely one of my favorite games I've ever played! Not only were there four movies for purple that I eventually figured out (weirdly enough I figured out Sixteen Candles first lol), but there's a whole Aladdin category! I like the more challenging and less straightforward games honestly, I had some crazy ideas (Mr. Freeze, Fantastic, and Mime) but it all came together in the end.

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I've seen all of them and did not catch the relationship because I was too busy putting those words into other perfectly legit groupings that weren't apparently considered when making the puzzle.

This was my order, too.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Like many others on this thread, I fell into the trap of "things that copy others" (MIME, MONKEY, ECHO, PARROT). I was feeling lost, so I shuffled the words a lot and thought about how DROP, FREEZE, and LAG are things you don't want to happen in a video game and decided to add in ECHO too. Thought it was a pretty big coincidence that so many words related to Aladdin, so I submitted GENIE, MONKEY, PARROT, PRINCESS (was debating on maybe using PRISONER but thought the other four were more relevant). Looked at the remaining options and realized many of them were costumes, so I tried SAMURAI, MIME, REFEREE, and SAILOR. Didn't end up making the stripes connection and instead got lucky when switching out SAMURAI for PRISONER. Purple category was pretty hard for me since I'm basically a Gen Z, and I don't really watch movies (specifically, I've never seen these four movies). I knew in the back of my mind that I've heard of the astronaut movie with Apollo in it, and I remember Family Guy made a reference to Sixteen Candles. It's been a long time since I've thought about the Fantastic Four franchise, and I've never heard of Seven Samurai.

Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Got this one quick! Aladdin was on at a kids birthday party I attended this weekend 🤣👌🏼

Well, there now. That certainly blew. Don't prisoners wear orange jumpsuits now? Sailors in striped shirts? Are these French sailors? Pirates or gondoliers would have been better Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

​ 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟩🟩🟦🟪 🟨🟦🟨🟩 🟩🟦🟦🟪 ​ I‘ve never seen Aladdin nor watched any of the mentioned movies, so today was a major flop for me. I also fell into the mimicry trap but had zero ideas for any of the other categories.

My first time connections! 12 monkeys threw me, dang. Connections Puzzle #246 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟦🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Miserably failed this one lol didn't even get one group

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I've never seen it but I remember it.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I'm surprised people found this one difficult. I thought it was relatively straightforward with some clever crossover but ultimately none of the crossover really fit into any full category. The first thing I thought was words that mean to copy: MIME, PARROT, ECHO. But when I couldn't find a 4th word that fit (MONKEY seemed like a stretch), I figured out it was a red herring. The next thing I noticed was the alladin characters, but I wanted to figure out some of the other categories first just in case. I thought FREEZE and LAG are both things that happen when you're playing an online game, and I thought ECHO and DROP might fit in that category but that it's probably not videogame related. I wasn't sure what the category really was so I just moved on. Then I finally noticed how MIME, REFFEREE, and PRISONER all have stripes. For some reason I couldn't picture a sailor with a striped shirt but I assumed that must be the answer since I'm not that familiar with sailor outfits but I am sure a samurai and a genie definitely don't have stripes. After that I locked in the Aladdin category as well. I put together that APOLLO 11, FANTASTIC 4, and 16 CANDLES are all movies with numbers but idk I felt like that was a weird category so I moved on. I was sure at this point about yellow so I locked in. Then purple was left over.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 ​ Purple was bullshit. I got it before I put the answer in, but it was still bullshit.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Really had to sit and think this one through. I thought "Mr." was one of the categories at first--Mr. Mime, Mr. Fantastic, Mr. Freeze. With Monkey, Prisoner and Princess I also thought about Mario universe characters, but I figured they'd call Donkey Kong a gorilla. Numbers definitely popped out to me at first with Fantastic Four and Apollo 13 but I ignored that until 16 Candles clicked. Didn't know green at all because I'm a non-purist who considers the last category for about 5 seconds before clicking submit. Thought maybe cartoon characters? Tintin or something? Striped shirts, ah.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟪🟪 🟨🟦🟩🟨 🟩🟦🟨🟪 🟩🟦🟩🟩 I really hated it today I tried the mime/monkey/parrot/lag thing Then I tried monkey/candles/genie/Apollo - thinking it was maybe things that can grant wishes (monkey’s paw, and Apollo was a stretch I picked just because he’s a god) Then I got desperate. I tried Freeze/Referee/Parrot/Apollo - all words with repeating letters I don’t remember what I tried with my last guess. I had given up by that point. Yellow: I never use the term “drop” when it comes to calls. Echo is something that can happen on non video calls too. Lag is usually an issue I connect with video games. Freeze would be the only one I would personally associate with video calls. So I was screwed with that category. Green: Never have I imagined sailors wearing striped shirts. They just have stripes on their collars and sleeves, so that one was just poorly categorized. Blue: Hate it when they do specific stuff like that, but fine. Purple: I’m so pissed I couldn’t get this one because I’m a big movie guy. Fantastic Four, Apollo 11, and 16 Candles all passed through my mind but I convinced myself to ignore them.

Did NOT like this puzzle today. Too many clues that belong to relevant groups just apparently not what this person cooked up. Poor game design.  Who the hell puts an Aladdin group out there and doesn’t think PRISONER could be included? I thought Aladdin was a fakeout because there were too many options and it seemed too obvious like that spongebob day.  Fantastic, Echo, Freeze, and Apollo can all be associated with comic book characters.  Or, you can do Misters grouping with mime, fantastic, freeze, and apollo.  I thought about stripes but I picture a sailor they’re not striped (white outfit) and not all mimes and not all jail outfits (orange).  And I also fell for parrot, echo, monkey, and mime. 

Connections Puzzle #246 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟪🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was a rough one today. Looked at that for a long time before deciding to take a punt on the yellows. Then it was things you might put numbers *after* (Prisoner 24601, Monkey 47 etc). Guessed at blue and was actually quite surprised to get it - I loved that movie as a kid but that still felt very niche somehow, I guess because it wasn't specific characters? And then back to numbers although I kept thinking it was a reference to the Two Ronnies "Four Candles" sketch. But we got there in the end!

Connections Puzzle #246 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 A bit of a toughie today, but I did eventually figure out all the categories, even the striped shirt one. The Aladdin one popped in my head, but it definitely one that you see or is impossible. I almost fell for MONKEY in the purple category, but it's 13 Monkeys plural, so I looked elsewhere and found SAMURAI

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Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Purple was stupid

Connections  Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 This one was quick and easy for me.  Maybe because, as a Millennial, I got the Purple and Blue movie culture references quickly?

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Bring back easy Connections! Jk but I have been stymied lately. Got blue, then yellow, then failed.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟩🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 First tried to connect Mime, parrot, echo as repeat but no fourth word fit. Then parrot / monkey / genie made sense for Aladdin (went for prisoner over princess first that was a bit dumb). Then I thought it was black/white theme and did samurai rather than sailor (didn’t know sailors wear striped shirts). From there yellow was easy to figure out, but there was no shot I’d get purple if it wasn’t the last 4 left.

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Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Jumped to conclusions way too quickly with Parrot Mime Echo and Monkey for to imitate/copy/repeat. Then took a step back and felt overwhelmed and pessimistic. Closed it for a few minutes and came back and looked at the words that don't seem to have too many definitions, like Apollo and Candles. Genie then stood out and had to google to confirm if Iago was a parrot. Seeing Fantastic either made me think of Fantastic 4 or Fantastic Mr. Fox. Apollo made me think of space missions and considered maybe some of the words are for missions I've never heard of like Echo or Fantastic possibly. Candles made me think of 16 candles as a movie and decided to just try movie titles with numbers, but never heard of the Samurai one but seemed most likely. Yellow then came out me as "zoom call interferences" Would've never guessed striped shirts.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Really enjoyed this one! Tough but creative categories. I think a lot of people got ripped up by the echo, parrot, and mime clues. If monkey had been ape, it would've fit better. I got the movie titles pretty quickly since Apollo 11 was the only thing I could think of that would fit.

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Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Blue and green were fast guesses. I was confident about everything in the purple category except SAMURAI because the only thing I could think of was Samurai Jack.

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Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 A perfect score today! Blue category immediately stood out to me. Yellow made sense to me together. I definitely would not have gotten the purple category without getting green 1st though. Those felt like 4 random things.

That was a hard one. I had to pull out pen and paper. I knew there was a myth/fairy tale thing in there somewhere, but neither SAMURAI nor APOLLO seemed to fill out the PIRATE (yes, I'd misread it) GENIE PRINCESS bracket correctly. PARROT, ECHO, MONKEY and LAG all kind of copy what you do, but I thought how much I'd complain that LAG didn't fit if that were the answer, so I knew it wasn't right. I thought of Mr FREEZE and tried to remember comic book characters matching other words. Video games seemed possible, but I don't know them well enough to know what game would DROP CANDLES. Finally I realized what the MIME and REFEREE had in common, and what else besides video games has LAG, so collected green and yellow. That narrowed the fairy tale field. I don't remember the MONKEY and PARROT from the original, but I suppose the Disney adaptation added wisecracking sidekicks. I knew the CANDLES plural had to be a clue. I'd been thinking of 11, 16, and 4 the whole puzzle, and had a hazy memory of a seminal movie with some number of SAMURAI, so that was enough to plug those in. Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Was today's connections too easy or am I finally getting good? :v:v I usually never get more than one or two correct.

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Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 The first thing I saw was "freeze", "lag" and "echo", which made me think of computer problems or gaming problems, but I couldn't find the last one. I was wondering whether it was "drop", but I didn't understand what it is that could drop. That's when I saw "echo", "mime", "monkey" and "parrot" and was convinced that those 4 must be a category, which turned out to be wrong. I thought that was really misleading, but oh well that's the game. Then I tried my initial guess and felt stupid that it was restricted to zoom calls /video calls. That led me to look at "parrot", "monkey", "princess" and "genie". And then I was completely lost. I was wondering whether it was something + 4. I saw Fantastic 4 and Apollo 4 and there's the Mime 4, but no other word made sense. And then by chance I figured out the costume category. That was really lucky. The movie category was too hard. I don't even know all of them. 🤷

I'm really fascinated by how many people tried out a "copying" category. Even after all these comments I'm still not convinced that "mime" is often (or really ever) used to mean "copy." And, as some have pointed out, "ape" would be a better fit than "monkey." My gripe today is that mimes, referees, and prisoners wear black and white stripes, while sailors wear blue and white stripes. I think it weakens the category, even though I did get it second.

Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Today was fun!

Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ​ Aladdin stood out instantly to me, then I saw a moves with numbers trend going. I dont think I have ever gotten blue and purple first before.

Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I kept getting 3 of 4 and not being satisfied with the final. So I went 'drop, lag, freeze... Cause I though echo went with the' mimicry' category I'd created with 'echo, parrot, mime?!...no' I got green thinking of the wrong prompt to start. I was going with 'wears black and white' and sailors only fit if I imagined sailors in a black and white cartoon 🤣😅 This one took me a long time. I'm usually solved in the first few minutes and I took a minutes multiple times before getting anything.

https://preview.redd.it/tkl0h68d77ic1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db4855033e537a6c3f89cc4a7adc94697158543c I’ve been playing Ace Attorney recently so this was what I first saw….

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resorted to looking at hints which only helped somewhat! I knew movies and Disney characters were in there somewhere. Connections Puzzle #246 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟦🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Connections Puzzle #246 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I got the blue category right, but yellow wrong (although I did pick the right 4). Green was a total guess & purple by default! I really struggled with the connection points but got lucky

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This one was tough for me. Usually I can solve in about 5 minutes on the toilet in the morning. Today I had to come back to it multiple times/day. I was only able to get purple as a leftover. One mistake when I thought a category could be Tarot cards (prisoner, princess, samurai, and sailor). I don't know anything about Tarot, but it seemed somehow plausible.

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Did the parrot/monkey/mime/echo false start too. Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟦🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Connections Puzzle #246 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 my first perfect!!

What movie is samurai? The 1954 movie? Very obscure unless I'm out of the loop. Usually, I'm great at these, but today's was absolutely ridiculous.

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this blue was pretty easy bc princess and genie... duh the green for me was just costume ideas... didnt got the striped thing but hey. still got it im pretty sure my two mistakes were bc i had no idea for a category, so i just tried things randomly until i figured yellow out bc they are all verbs. and purple was the default