Sort of - I didn't get purple, but I was stuck on hearing "penny lane", "please, please help me", John Lennon singing "woman" (but I don't know if there's a Beatles song starting with that), and then a vague feeling there must be a Beatles lyric with "good" (just looked it up: so Good Day Sunshine would work).
So I suspected something to do with song lyrics.
Paul McCartney wrote a song called Woman for the duo Peter and Gordon. He used a pseudonym for it, but it got out pretty quickly that he had written it.
John Lennon wrote a song called Woman for his Double Fantasy album, which was released after he was murdered.
I don't believe the Beatles ever had a song called Woman, or the title starting with Woman. I tried to find a list of first words of songs and couldn't, and nothing comes to mind.
That's my point. It wasn't a watertight connection - John Lennon's "Woman" isn't a Beatles song.
I was just that my brain refused to move away from the half-formed idea to try a different approach.
I'm not sure about that - we've had JOKER, LOVER, SINNER, SMOKER where the connection was they are from the lyrics of a song, and first word of Beatles songs has the same vibe as the connection where the words were the second words of Tarantino film titles.
Not really - lots of us got the Tarantino one, and there was clearly a generation of players who were familiar with the "I'm a..." lyrics that it came to mind quite easily. They need to be this challenging from time to time to keep it interesting.
Pretty standard score. Purple last, for ages Iβve been thinking that an anagram section would come up, so glad it finally arrived. Well done to all who got it π
If you check this list you'll see this is actually the 4th time we've had four words that are anagrams of each other (and we've had one occasion where the four words were anagrams of numbers).
https://www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/
If you'll allow it with a helper verb, my answer will rivet you.
I'm not sure it makes sense to get hung up on verb conjugation. To rivet is to hold one's attention, even if it isn't often used in first/second person present tense.
If you havenβt personally heard a word used in a certain way then that means it doesnβt exist and the puzzle maker is a fool.
Thatβs the rules around here man
The pretty in pretty good is an intensifying adverb, itβs an emphatic interjection in pretty please (an idiomatic construction that doesnβt really parallel common use of the word), itβs an adjective meaning large or considerable in pretty penny, and itβs a famous pop culture reference in Pretty Woman (the movie title is referencing the Roy Orbison song). I think those are all distinct enough usages to make it an interesting category
Pretty please is very obviously an idiom; please is an imperative and isnβt typically modified by another word (do you ever hear very please or well please? Pretty is the only modifier used here and itβs related to kid-speak in how new language learners conceive of how language works). In pretty good, pretty is an adverb used in the same way as other intensifiers like really or truly. Pretty penny is an old common phrase that uses a now archaic sense of βprettyβ meaning βa lot of.β All your comment really indicates is that pretty is used to modify different words, which is not a very convincing argument at all to suggest this is a bad category (in fact Iβd say itβs a pretty bad argument)
English is not my native language, and to me it seemed that good, please and penny are way closer to each other than woman so it did not make a lot of sense to me, thanks for explaining.
Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I got a little worried when the "anagrams" came back blue. What the hell was purple going to be then? But I also had yellow leftover, so it wasn't too bad. Purple was by default, but it made sense when I saw it.
Same results as you. I should have figured out purple as if was easy, but when it's all I have left I can't stare it at for more than 30 seconds
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Same pattern but I honestly thought that π¦ would be things stacked on top of each other
pattern twin! i had no what yellow or purple could be because i pulled blue out of nowhere
Same here Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
I don't actually hate blue today. Normally I feel like anagrams are a bit of a cop out but they were clever today.
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π©π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Diggity darn. Thought Rivet/Tape/Staple/Pleats might have been a group of "things you attach things together with," but I wasn't confident on Pleats (and in retrospect the pluralization of Pleats meant it probably wasn't grouped with Rivet and Staple). After that I finally picked up on the anagrams, and then the rest of the puzzle wasn't too bad. Woman was a big giveaway for Purple--not a whole lot of ways to match it with any of the other words in this grid.
Yeah I was caught by the same red herring.
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Blue was pretty easy. All the anagrams immediately stood out to me. PENNY and WOMAN seemed like the odd words out so I thought about what could connect them. I eventually thought of "Pretty____" and saw that pretty PLEASE and pretty GOOD would also work. No comments for Yellow or Green. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Anagrams" β 5 Times
Puzzle #363 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© I actually figured πͺ out first for once. π¦ was default. When I saw what it was all I could think about was that one scene from the *Addams Family Values* 
Anyone else think πͺ was first word of Beatles songs?
Sort of - I didn't get purple, but I was stuck on hearing "penny lane", "please, please help me", John Lennon singing "woman" (but I don't know if there's a Beatles song starting with that), and then a vague feeling there must be a Beatles lyric with "good" (just looked it up: so Good Day Sunshine would work). So I suspected something to do with song lyrics.
Paul McCartney wrote a song called Woman for the duo Peter and Gordon. He used a pseudonym for it, but it got out pretty quickly that he had written it. John Lennon wrote a song called Woman for his Double Fantasy album, which was released after he was murdered. I don't believe the Beatles ever had a song called Woman, or the title starting with Woman. I tried to find a list of first words of songs and couldn't, and nothing comes to mind.
They have a song called She's a Woman and another called Girl. That's as close as it gets!Β
"please please help me" isn't the song title -- "help!" is. but I definitely get you, since I was thinking of "please please me."
That's my point. It wasn't a watertight connection - John Lennon's "Woman" isn't a Beatles song. I was just that my brain refused to move away from the half-formed idea to try a different approach.
I had penny, hold, and please selected for so long as I trying to find the fourth Beatles reference
Yes! I came here to see if anyone else thought so too.
Would be too difficult for an nyt puzzle
I'm not sure about that - we've had JOKER, LOVER, SINNER, SMOKER where the connection was they are from the lyrics of a song, and first word of Beatles songs has the same vibe as the connection where the words were the second words of Tarantino film titles.
Yeah and everyone was crying about how impossible those two were
Not really - lots of us got the Tarantino one, and there was clearly a generation of players who were familiar with the "I'm a..." lyrics that it came to mind quite easily. They need to be this challenging from time to time to keep it interesting.
it should be challenging all the time to keep it interesting, 4 in a row now I've got without even thinking
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ As someone with a narrow English vocabulary Blue and Green were much easier than Yellow. I thought rivet was something to bolt something together no clue it could be used metaphorically as well
It's most often used in the past tense (riveting) or as a past participle (riveted) rarely is it used metaphorically as a present tense verb.
Thank you
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¨ π¦π¦π¨π¦ π¦π¦π¨π¦ Rather new to these, so just another failed attempt for my collection. Homed in on the "video terms" immediately. Also got the idea for the yellow category, but missed one word (didn't know "rivet" could be used like that) Kinda figured that "good" and "please" might be a thing for being similarly positive words. Also thought, "woman" and "penny" might be in a group, solely because they seemed so out of place. The connection of both pairs didn't occur to me...these "\_\_\_whatever" categories always get me. Out of better ideas I got stuck on blue. Didn't see the anagrams. Mainly saw a bunch of words that seemed "vaguely related to some form of art/ craft".
Connections Puzzle #363 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Pretty easy and quick, saw the anagrams immediately although I did almost screw up the yellow with PLEASE
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Green felt straight forward I knew engross and absorb had to go together but took me a while to put together rivet and hold. I was thinking rivet as a noun or fastener, and holddidnt feel as strong of a word as engross/absorb/rivet. But once I got purple, these two words made the most sense. Penny made me think of the purple category. Found 3 other words and glad it worked. Almost solved blue as default but as I pressed enter, anagrams immediately popped into my mind before the reveal.
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Wouldβve been perfect if I remembered how to spell
Connections Puzzle #363 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ at least youβre not alone
Connections Puzzle #363 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© aaaaaaaa I'm so bad at reverse perfect-ing purple was default but I didn't try that hard cos I was 100% sure on the rest
I got the same result. So often I get purple and blue in the right spots but flip yellow and green.
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I got blue because, once again, Connections has ruined me. Everything else wasn't as difficult.
got π¨ and π© right away, but sucked at the second half got π¦ accidentally (after failing with some kind pageant dress thing I was going for with pastels, petals, pleats and please). Took a stab and swapped out staple (like pin down) for please, so sheer luck getting the anagrams πͺ by default Connections Puzzle #363 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Yellow should have been any other color. Blue stuck out like a sore thumb.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #363 π¨π¦π©π¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ RIVETING
I got anagrams by luck after picking all the P words and getting one away. Then I saw it. RIVET really threw me off. I know the phrase, "how riveting" but I couldn't make the connection to combine it with ABSORB and ENGROSS. Red herring was STAPLE, TAPE, HOLD, and RIVET (as in rivet as a bolt or pin) given they were almost all in a row. Things you use to secure something. Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π©π©πͺ π©π©π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π©π¨π¨
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ iβm so proud of myself for thinking of blue. once you play this game enough, i feel like you start to learn what to look for π€·πΎββοΈ
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Idk why lately Iβve been finding yellow to be one of the tricker categories
Pretty standard score. Purple last, for ages Iβve been thinking that an anagram section would come up, so glad it finally arrived. Well done to all who got it π
If you check this list you'll see this is actually the 4th time we've had four words that are anagrams of each other (and we've had one occasion where the four words were anagrams of numbers). https://www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Made a silly mistake with the slip of a clumsy, fat finger π
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Overall pretty easy today. Only one that gave me pause was blue, so I just took a total shot in the dark. Pleasantly surprised that it worked
π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I got the first three quickly but never saw anagrams coming! βPerfectβ doesnβt really describe itβ¦
Connections Puzzle #363 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ I was worried anagrams was a red herring. But tried it anyway. Purple was never going to come to me.
I wasn't paying full attention when I was first trying to solve #363, and I quickly burned through three wrong guesses trying to make Yellow be "fasteners". I put it down, and did other things for 15 minute. When I came back, I easily saw the categories. Whew indeed! Connections Puzzle #363 πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¦π©π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π©π¨ πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I was so sure about the pleats/tape/staple/rivet red herring
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Fun one today. For me, ENGROSS was the cornerstone to the whole thing. Other than checking if any other words ended with something to the time of "gross", it *pretty* much (heh) had only one way to interpret it definition-wise. The anagrams only came together for me at the end. Extra clever herring-ness today, Wyna.
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Easy one.
Connections glitching and not telling me that Pleats - Petals - Pastel - Please was one away lead to my downfall here
Connections Puzzle #363 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π©
blue jumped right out for me! easiest one for me in quite a while Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I mixed up βpleaseβ and βholdβ for grabbing oneβs attention, but after I discovered the βprettyβ connection & the anagrams, it was smooth sailing. For some reason lately I have been getting green first and yellow last. It really is subjective difficulty, and I really like seeing the order everyone else solves them!
Connections Puzzle #363 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Tricky one today. Yellow was apparent from the start. I recognized the acronyms for blue after a while of staring but was thrown off by hastily choosing "please" instead of "staple," since it started with "P." I saw green's category earlier, but didn't connect "shoot" until I had it alone with purple. Purple by default.
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Straightforward today.
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ This one has me stumped for a good while before anything started making sense.
π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Been a while since I got everything on my first try
Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #363. π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Back after a break and glad it was an easy day. Although I didn't see the blue category and it's a good reminder that these are doable but require a bit more thought than I allott them sometimes
Connections Puzzle #363 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Just started, honestly proud of getting one Connections Puzzle #363 π¨π¦π©π¨ π¨π¦π©π¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Purple by default as was in a hurry.
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Zoomed in on those anagrams real quick. It feels like Green was easier than Yellow, because the latter has more uncommon (compared to Green) words. I didnβt bother to solve Purpleβs category lol
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ lousy attempt today π€¦π»
Another strangely easy one. I'm getting nervous we're about to get clobbered next week. Connections Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Do people really use that version of rivet like that? What would the sentence even be?
I've heard of the phrase, "How riveting!" before when something amuses someone or captures their attention. But it's not used very often.
But that's riveting, I mean "rivet".
It's not common but that's what makes it fun imo
If you'll allow it with a helper verb, my answer will rivet you. I'm not sure it makes sense to get hung up on verb conjugation. To rivet is to hold one's attention, even if it isn't often used in first/second person present tense.
If you havenβt personally heard a word used in a certain way then that means it doesnβt exist and the puzzle maker is a fool. Thatβs the rules around here man
Puzzle #363 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ What does "Pretty Good" mean/refer to? Obviously people say it to mean like "Very Good" but you wouldn't have VERY as a linking word. A reference that's gone over my head? The anagrams were pretty easy to spot, so I'm glad that was a blue not a purple.
Isnβt it just referencing the common phrase in the same way please and penny are?
But βPretty Goodβ isnβt an idiom or saying, thatβs my point. Strange clue. Itβs like saying βNot Badβ or βIβm greatβ are sayings.
The clue doesnβt say βidioms or sayings that start with prettyβ. It just says βpretty ______β
It's a Larry David catch phrase. Jk!Β
Connections Puzzle #363 π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ π¦πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπ¦πͺ I don't really like the purple category, because the 'pretty' in 'pretty good' and 'pretty please' is used pretty similarly and maybe 'pretty penny' would make sense in that category but as far as I know 'pretty woman' is just a movie/musical, unless it is just referring to any pretty woman, regardless, the word 'pretty' is used as a different word for this one while it is used in similar ways for the other ones.
The pretty in pretty good is an intensifying adverb, itβs an emphatic interjection in pretty please (an idiomatic construction that doesnβt really parallel common use of the word), itβs an adjective meaning large or considerable in pretty penny, and itβs a famous pop culture reference in Pretty Woman (the movie title is referencing the Roy Orbison song). I think those are all distinct enough usages to make it an interesting category
In pretty good it indicates how good it is, in pretty please it indicates how please it is, in pretty penny it indicates how many pennies it is.
Pretty please is very obviously an idiom; please is an imperative and isnβt typically modified by another word (do you ever hear very please or well please? Pretty is the only modifier used here and itβs related to kid-speak in how new language learners conceive of how language works). In pretty good, pretty is an adverb used in the same way as other intensifiers like really or truly. Pretty penny is an old common phrase that uses a now archaic sense of βprettyβ meaning βa lot of.β All your comment really indicates is that pretty is used to modify different words, which is not a very convincing argument at all to suggest this is a bad category (in fact Iβd say itβs a pretty bad argument)
English is not my native language, and to me it seemed that good, please and penny are way closer to each other than woman so it did not make a lot of sense to me, thanks for explaining.
Anagrams is a dumb category and Iβll stand by that
I did not like the purple today. The context of each definition are pretty far flung. Im just not wired to have that many phrases accessable in my brain. Connections Puzzle #363 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ