Players of the NYT Connections game criticized the October 28 puzzle as “extremely annoying” after being fooled by a “sneaky” answer. So were you able to solve it?
In the game, which has gained popularity in recent months, people try to divide 16 words into four groups that share some kind of connection.
But many times, creators intentionally use terms that relate to each other in other ways in an attempt to throw off players.
And on Monday, numerous people online admitted that they had struggled to find the answers because they had fallen victim to the hacks.
Reddit was inundated with angry messages about it, with one outraged player calling one of the responses “more clever than clever” and another criticizing the creators for using so much “misdirection.”
Players of the NYT Connections game criticized the October 28 puzzle as “extremely annoying” after being fooled by a “sneaky” answer. So were you able to solve it?
The four categories for Monday’s words were: audio applications, indicate, Church of England wedding vow verbs and magic words.
The first group contained different music-related apps, including Audible, Pandora, Shazam, and Tidal.
The second was made up of various ways of saying indicate, such as saying, meaning, spelling, and suggesting.
The third category of Monday’s puzzle had four terms used in traditional wedding vows, including cherish, have, hold and love.
And the final group was made up of ‘magic’ words, such as abracadabra, ready, please and thank you.
But the latter category seemed to baffle many people by combining words actually used during magic shows and terms that adults describe as “magic words” for children, and they took to social media to complain.
“Extremely upsetting,” one player wrote on Reddit afterward, while sharing his painful results.
“The magic words were a little misleading,” someone else said, while another user agreed: “It’s tricky today.”
In the game, which has gained popularity in recent months, people try to divide 16 words into four groups that share some kind of connection.
Monday’s four word categories were: audio applications, indicate, Church of England wedding vow verbs and magic words.
Numerous people on the web admitted that they had a hard time finding the answers to Monday’s puzzle because they had been victims of the creators’ “disorientation.”
“Many confusions,” said a fourth comment.
A fifth said: “The magic tricked me.”
“(The last category) was a little embarrassing in my honest opinion,” another person fumed. ‘Wordplay territory that’s more witty than clever.
“And is (the penultimate category) a strange, serious but misguided attempt to attract England players?”
“I could have fixed it but I hated it,” someone else confessed. ‘”Thank you” in magic words? And (the second category) was exaggerated.”
Many players admitted that they had never heard of some of the music-related apps, which made it extremely difficult for them to figure them out.
“I had only heard of Audible as an app, so combined with not understanding how or why they combined magic act words with kind words, meant I was doomed,” one user wrote.
“I hadn’t heard of Pandora or Tidal so I had no chance of getting the yellow one,” another revealed.
Connections, which launched last year, is the New York Times’ second most popular game behind Wordle.
Everdeen Mason, editorial director of the Times’s Games section, said voice earlier this year He doesn’t mind “grumpy” players who get frustrated by how difficult it is.
“My job here is to deceive you,” he confessed at the time.