Connection Generator
Sometimes when we’re playing the New York Times Connections game, I’ll turn to Josh and say, “These categories are bullshit.” Like the one a few Saturdays ago where all of the choices were people’s names.
But then I found a Connections generator, and I realized how difficult it is to come up with categories and find four things that fit. Plus, come up with additional categories where things from the first category could potentially fit, and so on. I ended up giving up trying to make one.
It gave me a deep respect for Wyna Liu, who makes the NYT’s puzzles. Try it yourself.
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I love Connections, but I often do wonder how they make them. I must look at this. And sometimes the categories are very “American” or perhaps “USA-centric” and that stumps me. There was one about phones a while ago, and there was one word in the category that was completely new to me!