I just open it and start typing a random word that comes to me as my first word. Obviously you try to hit the high spots like Es, Ts, Ss, etc.
chide gleam realm took me a good 30 minutes between guess 2 and 3. wasn't until i got it that i realized it wasn't made up bullshit.
Sometimes after a few letters are revealed I'll stare at the screen for 10 minutes just trying to find any guess I can come up with to grease the wheels. Today was one of those days and it was ugly my friends...
Also I guess the NYT Games Team really enjoys April Fools Day because Connections was even more bullshit than it normally is
Definitely not a leaf expert apparently ;) But yeah, a pretty weird one tonight, we (my 8 year old daughter and I play together during the weeks I have the kids and then individually when they’re with their mom) had to guess a new word on #5 to try to get more letters and ended up getting the last 2 for the final answer and I’m not even sure if I’ve ever seen this word used in real life before. Also don’t know if I’ve ever had one where we had no letters that were correct but in the wrong spaces before.
I thought I was genius in the third. No I have not been thinking about this all day and cursing at the game.