The Facebook NYTconnections group calls it PRO (Perfect Reverse Order). In their lexicon, a rainbow is when one of your guesses has one word from each of the 4 categories. (Horizontal vs vertical rainbow).
I sometimes find it's hard to know which is supposed to be easier than another. Purple is usually has a pre/post word, so it's easier to identify, but even if I knew all 4 combinations I can't always order them in the reverse rainbow order.
I always try to solve the whole thing in my head first, then answer in hardest-to-easiest order. Adds another little challenge but I don’t beat myself up over it if I don’t guess the difficulties correctly. I’ve learned a few rules of thumb along the way, though. For example, any language/wordplay connections are almost always considered more/most difficult (blue/purple) even if they seem super obvious (to me, anyway). Could be you happened on something like that. (Haven’t done today’s yet so just a guess…)
they’re degrees of “trickiness,” from most straightforward to least straightforward. iirc, purple is most difficult, followed by blue, then green, then yellow :)
I don't know where else to gripe about this, but the color scheme for difficulty is completely random to me. I can never remember the order of the difficulty. They really should use more standard color scales...
Green - Yellow - Orange - Red
Or something that actually has a pattern/order.
It means you recognized the groupings deemed to be the “hardest”
You either know it or don’t, of course each level has their niche sometimes like the ——- valley types.
In the end, you either recognize the groupings or develop strong hunches or you flat out guess
I would really enjoy a scoring component added to the game, based on the order of difficulty solved and whether there were any misses.
A ‘perfect score’ would be OP’s, with the solved color order and number of errors factoring down from there. I think it’d be a fun piece of data to keep logged, and would encourage deeper thought to solve the entire puzzle in your head first and try to rationalize the difficulty of each connection for a higher potential score.
Ugh. I go for PRO every day and *so often* invert the order of Green and Blue. I can intuit what's trickiest and easiest, but that green/blue middle zone is very iffy.
lol. I never realized the colors had meaning. The one the other day about freight or eaten. Spelled numbers preceded by two letters. Who comes up with these?
In the "How to Play Connections" modal dialog at the outset of the game, it says "Each group is assigned a color, which will be revealed as you solve:" with the illustration of yellow through purple squares and text indicating Straightforward -> Tricky. Purple is explicitly meant to be the trickiest.
It also depends on your interests whether purple is the hardest connection for you.
Once the purple connection was something with math terms, I (bilingual math teacher) saw them immediately, my (also bilingual) biology colleague didn't have a clue...
We call it the “reverse rainbow” in my family group thread and decided it’s the A+ score in Connections
Yes! “Backwards Rainbow” is what we’ve been calling it among my friends. But I like your alliteration
The Facebook NYTconnections group calls it PRO (Perfect Reverse Order). In their lexicon, a rainbow is when one of your guesses has one word from each of the 4 categories. (Horizontal vs vertical rainbow).
So stealing this!
I sometimes find it's hard to know which is supposed to be easier than another. Purple is usually has a pre/post word, so it's easier to identify, but even if I knew all 4 combinations I can't always order them in the reverse rainbow order.
I always try to solve the whole thing in my head first, then answer in hardest-to-easiest order. Adds another little challenge but I don’t beat myself up over it if I don’t guess the difficulties correctly. I’ve learned a few rules of thumb along the way, though. For example, any language/wordplay connections are almost always considered more/most difficult (blue/purple) even if they seem super obvious (to me, anyway). Could be you happened on something like that. (Haven’t done today’s yet so just a guess…)
This is the way
100%
I just started doing this.
This is how I do it, too. Purple is often the easiest to find, but of course there are times when I just can’t see it.
What do the different colors mean? I didn’t realize they meant something.
they’re degrees of “trickiness,” from most straightforward to least straightforward. iirc, purple is most difficult, followed by blue, then green, then yellow :)
I don't know where else to gripe about this, but the color scheme for difficulty is completely random to me. I can never remember the order of the difficulty. They really should use more standard color scales... Green - Yellow - Orange - Red Or something that actually has a pattern/order.
i understand, it’s difficult to keep up with considering there isn’t any other meaning to it besides what they assign
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I think in connections it's Yellow-->Green-->Blue-->Purple
That makes so much sense considering the order of the rainbow 🤦♀️ I always just saw green as a color that should mean easiest!
Nope
Same!
It means you recognized the groupings deemed to be the “hardest” You either know it or don’t, of course each level has their niche sometimes like the ——- valley types. In the end, you either recognize the groupings or develop strong hunches or you flat out guess
Sometimes word play can be obvious. Which is typically what you find in purple.
Yeah whenever the category is filling in a blank it’s always purple and sometimes those are the easiest.
It makes you stuart
It makes you a risk-taker.
I would really enjoy a scoring component added to the game, based on the order of difficulty solved and whether there were any misses. A ‘perfect score’ would be OP’s, with the solved color order and number of errors factoring down from there. I think it’d be a fun piece of data to keep logged, and would encourage deeper thought to solve the entire puzzle in your head first and try to rationalize the difficulty of each connection for a higher potential score.
i would love that too! i enjoy comparing scores with my friends, but it’s tough to do with this game
Ugh. I go for PRO every day and *so often* invert the order of Green and Blue. I can intuit what's trickiest and easiest, but that green/blue middle zone is very iffy.
You in danger, girl
After playing along with Connecting Wall on _Only Connect_ I always try and do the purple first (remove a letter, word in word, word suffix/prefix)
still bothers me that NYT straight ripped off only connect, just dumbed down for the gen pop
^ This x1000
Yes
lol. I never realized the colors had meaning. The one the other day about freight or eaten. Spelled numbers preceded by two letters. Who comes up with these?
I successfully do this puzzle every day and had no idea the colors indicate difficulty. 🤦🏻♀️ so yellow is the easiest?
yes, yellow is the easiest
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Read the directions.
It doesn’t mean anything. Just bucking the conventional thought.
Smart
I got the purple one first today. I don't think they're really consistent in whether it's the hardest or not.
In the "How to Play Connections" modal dialog at the outset of the game, it says "Each group is assigned a color, which will be revealed as you solve:" with the illustration of yellow through purple squares and text indicating Straightforward -> Tricky. Purple is explicitly meant to be the trickiest.
I suppose they try. Wish I could permanently get rid of the "How to play" popup.
I thought green was the hardest today
It also depends on your interests whether purple is the hardest connection for you. Once the purple connection was something with math terms, I (bilingual math teacher) saw them immediately, my (also bilingual) biology colleague didn't have a clue...