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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like that that treats submitting individual connections like the wrong way to play. Obviously there's nothing wrong with finding everything first and putting them after but the game isn't designed as though doing otherwise is playing it wrong

Its just feels bad on such an explicit and clear connection, on a different day that could be a right answer and I don't feel like I was playing incorrectly by submitting it before finding every other category

I dunno, maybe I'm being unreasonable

Edit: if the red herring overlaps with every group like here so you don't have to find everything to know it's the red herring, that at least makes it feel a bit less unfair. I still don't really feel like I'm playing the game wrong by submitting a clear connection though. I guess the designers disagree.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Obviously there’s nothing wrong with finding everything first and putting them after but the game isn’t designed as though doing otherwise is playing it wrong

IMO it is, because the objective isn't just to solve all four categories, but also to solve them in order, purple first, yellow last. Which is very hard to do if you don't solve it all first.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The game doesn't communicate that as a goal in any way does it? I know people try to, but like it doesn't tell you to in the "how to play"... It doesn't tell you to solve it in any particular order at all...

Does it give you any indication you've done something special if you get them in reverse difficulty order? I understood that to be a thing people decided was their goal, not the way you're supposed to be playing and doing otherwise is playing it wrong... 😅

Anyway. It does tell you to watch for things in other categories. I just thought that didn't include entire complete sets of four that very clearly all belong together. Clearly I'm wrong and the designers consider that to be a part of the puzzle 🤷‍♂️

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Apologies for the late reply. It's been that long since I've done Connections.

but like it doesn’t tell you to in the “how to play”… It doesn’t tell you to solve it in any particular order at all…

Does it give you any indication you’ve done something special if you get them in reverse difficulty order?

It does, but only if you use the "Connections Bot" option it displays after you've solved it. I think you're supposed to have an account to use it, but I think the "Bypass Paywalls Clean" extension works to let you view it without. Something I've done in my browser is letting me access the Connections Bot without an account, anyway.

Connections Bot gives you a score out of 99, with 99 being for a no-errors reverse rainbow. I got 97 today for 🟪🟨🟩🟦 with no errors.