Connections NYTimes game thread, very official

I said American because I don't know which specific one it works with. All I know is that there is no UK accent that makes OUTIE and AUDI homophones. Do they sound the same for you?

Straight forward today. No funny business. Relatively easy purple category.

I got it with one miss. I finished with green/yellow/blue/purple.

More interestingly (to me, anyway) is that I google the "wordle" and play that first, before finding connections on the side menu. My initial guess today was

no misses

Pretty easy one.

no mistakes today

I got today's after 2 misses. Still seemed a little easier that yesterday's, even though they rate the difficulty 4/5.

missed 1

was never getting purple apart from by elimination. Blue took a couple of tries. Wouldn't use rat in that sense ever. I suppose I've heard of gym rat.

First 3 groups are easy and purple iI just got by elimination.

no misses, and I found purple first.

I knew 2 Rhianna songs, guessed at the other 2 and got them first time. Was hoping for a 'one away'.

My miss was on wet ___. Wet work seems to work as well as willy imo.

It's annoying when theres an obvious group of 5. Or worse a ghost group of 4 (perfectly good group of 4 that isn't an answer). I get that the conplwtr puzzle only works 1 way, but I don't want to have to map out the whole thing. I want to spot a group and click it.

Purple solved by default.

Got blue by default today.

same here

I also got blue by default, even saw impressionism but never heard of brutalism or mannerism art

Was surprised the v connection was actually correct