Connections is the sneakiest and most evil word game – and I still love it

Phone frustrated.

I didn't want to play Connections, the New York Times word game that asks you to find non-obvious connections between four sets of four words; but now I'm hooked, and find it to be diabolical, inscrutable, annoying, and vexing (four words that might denote Frustration). 

Of course, I can't stop playing.