Players shared solutions and screenshots for New York Times Connections Puzzle number 1172, posting completed boards that frequently grouped words into full-color rows such as all yellow, all green, all purple, and all blue. Several posts reproduced identical or near-identical boards, with one user posting the full four-row solution in order yellow, green, purple, blue and others matching that layout. Multiple solvers reported trouble distinguishing the blue and purple groups, posting comments like "Had a hard time trying to separate the Blue and Purple" and "I knew what the purples were and couldn’t find the 4th." A few posts compared #1172 to the previous puzzle #1171, showing different color orders and noting changed difficulty. Several solvers said luck or a late guess resolved the remaining ambiguous item, then posted their final completed grids.
