I love the NYT Connections game, but some days it makes me feel like an absolute idiot because I can't get a single group correct and am puzzled when the solutions are revealed :D

Together with globle, travle, worldle, framed and gamedle these couple of games are what I play during my morning coffe break, and I'm glad that they exist.

If I feel like more I also try to solve boxofficegame and tradle, but I can't solve them often.

Add Dadagrams to your list: https://dadagrams.com/

No affiliation, it was posted to HN a while back and that is how I found it. The premise is fun, you're playing against the developers dad.

Thanks for the tip! Just played it and was absolutely destroyed by a random dad. I'm really not good at these word-based games, my strength is Globle and Travle. But Dadagrams is fun, added it to my bookmarks ;)

A lot of them need knowledge of USA culture and American English phrases. That's usually what I fail on.

Watching a lot of American television, I'm normally OK, but what got me recently in connections is that apparently Jelly Beans are associated with Easter in the USA... that was a completely new revelation to me.

Yeah that's true, was an issue on todays Connections as well :/

Also a slickly executed theme on today’s Puzzmo crossword: https://www.puzzmo.com/today

(Zach Gage’s puzzmo is a great collection of daily puzzles if you’re a Wordle/Connections player who craves more)

Are moo and new supposed to be homophones of μ and ν?

Apparently... I don't understand why it wouldn't be "mew" and "new"

I have to say the connections this time was particularly poor. Even with the answers I don't get it

What do Day-O and Jackie-O reference? Why are they linked to Daddy-O and Jell-o? Random works that end in -O sometimes in obscure situations?

> Random works that end in -O

Not random, but otherwise yes, end in O. But someone above said you have to be an American to get these and I generally agree.

Daddy-o: a 50s hipster term

Day-o: a song by Harry Belafonte

Jackie O: Onassis, wife to President John F Kennedy

Jell-o: a longstanding dessert mix

Day-o is a pretty deep cut for anyone. I realized they probably wanted Jell-O and other 'things that end in -o', but I couldn't think of the others.

Beetlejuice fans will recognize it easily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4