Connections is infuriating.

Not only are they using regional specific knowledge, but they use regional relative concepts.

Many people do not agree that ant rhymes with aunt.

The recent Homophones of words meaning brutal.

Gorey, Grimm, Grizzly, Scarry.

I am guessin that Grimm is a eponym which makes it nebulous at best, eponyms take a lot of use to be regarded in objective terms rather than as invoking an arbartrary property of the name holder. Kafkaesque rises to that use. I don't think Grimm does.

I have no idea if Scarry is supposed to be a homonym for scary. Which it neither sounds like nor means brutal.

Perhaps there is another word that means brutal that sounds like however the person who makes connections thinks Scarry is pronounced.

In which case it would be a homonym of a synonym of brutal.

I also do not live in the same country as only connect, yet do not have such issues with their walls.

The real problem is that while you might be wrong about an answer, once you lose faith that the puzzle setter is right, you can never be sure if your guess is wrong or they are wrong. It is no longer a puzzle and you are playing 'what have I got in my pocket?'.

▲ wedog6 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

'Grimm' is a homophone of 'grim', 'Grizzly' is a homophobe of 'grisly', 'Scarry' is a homophone in US English of 'scary', 'Gorey' is a homophone of 'gory'.

'Gory', 'grisly', 'grim' and 'scary' do all roughly mean brutal.

'Grimm' as the name of the brothers is a red herring connection, with Gorey and Scarry also names of children's authors.

	▲	Lerc 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Gory, grisly and grim can be seen as synonymous on a axis maybe close to brutal. They refer to the appearance. brutal evokes the action that happened. The other words are about how things ended up. An autopsy can be gory, grisly and depending on circumstances, grim. It is not brutal. Scary is about a state of mind. so you have appearance, appearance, appearance, and state-of-mind being considered similar to an action descriptor.

▲ jeffgreco 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't the point of homophones that they sound like the equivalent word, thus gory, grim, grisly, scary?

▲ extra88 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the confusion is about what "Gorey, Grimm, Scarry" mean. They, along with "Silverstein" in that game, are last names of children's authors.

▲ Lerc 7 hours ago | parent [-]

And that would be OK as a clue if Silverstein was a red herring, Grizzly was also a children's author and Scarry sounded like scary (and also meant something in the same ballpark as Gory, Grim, and Grisly)

▲ quuxplusone 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Richard Scarry's surname is indeed pronounced "scary," rather than (as I assumed for many years) "scarr-ry."

That is, it rhymes with Harry, Larry, carry, parry, tarry, and marry, rather than... uh, starry, I guess?

	▲	quesera 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Where I come from, Scarry rhymes with Harry, but Harry does not rhyme with scary. `Harry does not rhyme with hairy Scarry does not rhyme with scary Marry does not rhyme with Mary. Nor with merry!` You can probably triangulate my childhood home with that information. :)