The sub as a whole is for "daily games", a genre that's existed in some form for decades (such as the daily crosswords in newspapers) but really became popular online starting with Wordle a few years ago. A new puzzle in the same basic format every day.
This specific post is about a game called Connections, where you're presented with 16 words/short phrases and have to group them into 4 groups of 4 based around a single connection. Often there will be distractor connections with 2, 3, or even 4 words that could fit into a category, but if you used that category it would be impossible to group the remaining 12 into three groups of 4. Or there may be 5 or 6 possible words in a correct category, in which case you must find which one(s) need to go in a different category in order to complete the puzzle as a whole.
There's also Categories and Conlextions which do exactly the same thing, if you want to play more of the same game, or you don't want to use a product by the New York Times (who publish Connections).
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Connections
Puzzle #511
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Too busy to participate lately, but this one was nice and easy!
Connections
Puzzle #511
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Connections
Puzzle #511
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Skill 99/99
Uniqueness 1 in 521
never seen this sub before, and I do not understand what's going on.
The sub as a whole is for "daily games", a genre that's existed in some form for decades (such as the daily crosswords in newspapers) but really became popular online starting with Wordle a few years ago. A new puzzle in the same basic format every day.
This specific post is about a game called Connections, where you're presented with 16 words/short phrases and have to group them into 4 groups of 4 based around a single connection. Often there will be distractor connections with 2, 3, or even 4 words that could fit into a category, but if you used that category it would be impossible to group the remaining 12 into three groups of 4. Or there may be 5 or 6 possible words in a correct category, in which case you must find which one(s) need to go in a different category in order to complete the puzzle as a whole.
There's also Categories and Conlextions which do exactly the same thing, if you want to play more of the same game, or you don't want to use a product by the New York Times (who publish Connections).
Never heard of the purple category today.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler What is it from? AAVE? :::
Thanks! The only one of those I'd heard before was
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Easy listening, and yes, I'd heard it in the context of jazz. :::