Green was fairly easy, purple too. Blue was a sort-of guess using process of elimination of the remaining clues that ended up being the yellow items. Nice post Joe!
Got it with one miss. Just about right difficulty for a seasoned baseball fan. Probably a little baseball heavy. Maybe have a supertheme for each one, like a particular sport, or all Olympic, or a city (or state), or time period, you get it…
I love this one specifically because it was exactly at the right level for me. I had to stop and think about it, but I was able to solve it with no errors. No, wait, I solved THREE of them, and then the final category wound up being The Leftovers. Which "should have been" purple.
What made this tough is it was a themed puzzle but with unknown deviations. Yellow and purple are baseball specific, sure. Then for the other two other sports are thrown in plus a jazz musician (who I admittedly never heard of, maybe that's on me) made this very difficult. Once you mix in all those genres it's a general puzzle and then I think the seasoned connections solver would raise issue with the specialized baseball links. All that said, I want more!!! (Mostly baseball specific.)
Agree with this. I like the idea and definitely look forward to more, but I thought this was overly broad (even though you specified "sports," I was thinking "baseball") and kinda random, especially the blue category.
I had one grouping that I think was better than some of the actual ones: HARRIS, SPEAKER, COBB, ROSE -- famous baseball player-managers (three HOFers and one "if only...").
🟦🟦🟦🟦Yikes, 14 tries? Well, at least in this version I got to keep going beyond the NYT maximum! I like it though! More please, Joe! I want the chance to get better!
I only got 2 but enjoyed the game
I was thinking Ernie Shore. I’ll have to look up Eddie shore
I solved, but way too tough. Didn't really enjoy. 700 doubles.... who knew. NY Times equivalent often makes little sense, so maybe its just me.
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Green was fairly easy, purple too. Blue was a sort-of guess using process of elimination of the remaining clues that ended up being the yellow items. Nice post Joe!
This was great. I may be biased because it was the perfect level of difficulty for me [no mistakes but a LOT of uncertainty].
And no-one knows about 700 doubles but we knew that they had a lot of hits, so that's enough.
Got it with one miss. Just about right difficulty for a seasoned baseball fan. Probably a little baseball heavy. Maybe have a supertheme for each one, like a particular sport, or all Olympic, or a city (or state), or time period, you get it…
Love Connections, and this was even better!
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Got it with one miss.
Not too hard.
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I found this ridiculous. I play Connections every day and almost always get it, but this was just too too too too down in the trivia weeds.
700 doubles? Who knows that?
I love the NYT Connections, but sports history is out of my wheelhouse. Suggestion: women GOATs, although there are more than 4.
I love this one specifically because it was exactly at the right level for me. I had to stop and think about it, but I was able to solve it with no errors. No, wait, I solved THREE of them, and then the final category wound up being The Leftovers. Which "should have been" purple.
I got the Wrigley Field and 700 doubles groupings but I thought all four would be baseball related.
Wonder if NYT Connections saw your post as they may have a related run for one of the categories this morning.
There's an assumption here that we're familiar with this NYT game. But I'm not.
I don't think I understand how the game works. I was expecting 4 categories, but there are 16. So you have to do the puzzle 4 times?
Please explain how to play better. Perhaps a 16-item sample?
What made this tough is it was a themed puzzle but with unknown deviations. Yellow and purple are baseball specific, sure. Then for the other two other sports are thrown in plus a jazz musician (who I admittedly never heard of, maybe that's on me) made this very difficult. Once you mix in all those genres it's a general puzzle and then I think the seasoned connections solver would raise issue with the specialized baseball links. All that said, I want more!!! (Mostly baseball specific.)
Agree with this. I like the idea and definitely look forward to more, but I thought this was overly broad (even though you specified "sports," I was thinking "baseball") and kinda random, especially the blue category.
I had one grouping that I think was better than some of the actual ones: HARRIS, SPEAKER, COBB, ROSE -- famous baseball player-managers (three HOFers and one "if only...").
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I think my first guess on the greens was also correct. But let's not quibble. That was fun!
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🟦🟦🟦🟦Yikes, 14 tries? Well, at least in this version I got to keep going beyond the NYT maximum! I like it though! More please, Joe! I want the chance to get better!