Players of the NYT Connections game were left stumped by Thursday’s very tricky hints.
The daily game sees people attempt to divide 16 words into four groups that share some sort of connection.
It has soared in popularity in recent months and, every day, thousands across the globe log on to put their skills to the test to solve the difficult word puzzle.
But many players who attempted to complete the game on Thursday were left outraged after they struggled to figure out one of the answers – so were you able to complete it?
The four categories for Thursday’s words were: body parts, cool in ’80s slang, movies, and words in the song Do-Re-Mi.
Players of the NYT Connections game were left stumped by Thursday’s very tricky hints
The first group, arguably the easiest, contained the words arm, eye, hip, and leg.
The second was made up of various different ways to say the word cool using popular slang from the 1980s, including bad, fly, ill, and rad.
The third category in Thursday’s puzzle had three-letter film names, like Big, Elf, Her, and Saw, while the fourth was made up of four words that were featured in the Sound of Music track Do-Re-Mi – Doe, Far, Sew, Tea.
But players seemed to have a hard time figuring out the final category, and they took to social media to share their frustrations afterwards.
‘NYT Connections??? What was that??’ asked one outraged user.
‘Do you know the song Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music? Of course *you* do but the New York Times and NYT Connections doesn’t,’ someone else wrote.
‘Do re mi fa so la ti do…. Fa is not FAR. Messed up the puzzle.’
The song links each of the solfège syllables – do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti – with English homophones like doe, ray, me, far, sew, la, and tea, so the New York Times did not mess up the puzzle.
Many people who attempted to complete the game on Thursday were left outraged after they struggled to figure out one of the answers – so were you able to complete it?
The four categories for Thursday’s words were: body parts, cool in ’80s slang, movies, and words in the song Do-Re-Mi
Players seemed to have a hard time figuring out the final category, and they took to social media to share their frustrations afterwards
‘How the rest of the day feels when you don’t get NYT Connections right,’ added another person, alongside a meme of someone looking sad while sitting on a couch drinking a beer.
‘Whoever made todays NYT Connections needs to be beat with a metal pole,’ a fourth tweet read.
‘The puzzle was stupid and made no sense,’ a different frustrated user scathed.
Connections, which launched last year, is the New York Times’ second most popular game behind Wordle.
What set its apart from other word games is that players love to share their results and discuss the answers on social media.
‘Connections in particular has felt really special, in part because of TikTok,’ Everdeen Mason, the editorial director of the Times’s Games section, told Vox earlier this year.
‘I don’t know that any of our other games have really taken off in the same way.
‘The game itself is pretty witty, and people can feel that and want to riff on it. It just makes it really meme-able.’
She said she was unbothered by ‘cranky’ players who get frustrated with how difficult it is.
‘My job here is to trick you,’ she confessed at the time.
