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Okay this is the first one that had me kinda frustrated-
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Is it just me or is there a whole ass correct answer that doesn't count, in "pinto, kidney, lima, navy". None of those are misspellings or anything right?? Why is there an entirely correct answer that doesn't count as a connection? That feels kinda bs to me.Like it's fine if it's almost an answer, or it looks kinda like an answer but isn't, or there are three that clearly fit and the last is a stretch, but there really shouldn't be 100% correct answers that loose you a life, right?? Am I missing something?
There should only ever be one way you can solve the whole puzzle. But for there to be a full red herring category which, if you were to use it, would make it impossible to get the other three categories is well within the spirit of the puzzle IMO.
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.
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.
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... π
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 π€·ββοΈ
I don't know the connection there, but sometimes they put red herrings. Like, one time it was "up, down, left, right" which obviously are directions or whatever; but each was actually part of a different connection.
Theyre all types of beans. I guess if you solve everything in advance then red herrings that 100% make sense and could be correct answers make sense, but the game isn't designed as if it's only correct to play by finding everything everything first, so it doesn't feel like I'm doing anything wrong by selecting a correct answer and submitting it to take it off the board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_bean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_bean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinto_bean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_bean
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.
Yeah, exactly. I think the idea is that the red herring might be a legit connection, but you won't be able to solve any other connections if you keep it.
I guess if it overlaps with every other category then you only have to find a second one to prove it was a red herring, which makes it feel less unfair. But to me it still doesn't feel like I'm playing the game wrong by finding a clear connection and submitting it to take it off the board...
I guess the designers or people who make the puzzle for each day disagree