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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another game of Connections!
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
In Connections, you’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are:
- CLUB
- WINDSOCK
- RUNWAY
- BEANBAG
- TURNCOAT
- LAWSUIT
- TORCH
- FOXGLOVE
- CLAIM
- TERMINAL
- GUMSHOE
- COMPLAINT
- HANGAR
- RING
- ACTION
- TARMAC
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — spotted at Heathrow or JFK
- Green group — lawyer jargon
- Blue group — items kept aloft by a circus performer
- Purple group — connected by apparel
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — parts of an airport
- Green group — legal terms
- Blue group — things a juggler juggles
- Purple group — words ending in clothing
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — parts of an airport (HANGAR, RUNWAY, TARMAC, TERMINAL)
- Green group — legal terms (ACTION, CLAIM, COMPLAINT, LAWSUIT)
- Blue group — things a juggler juggles (BEANBAG, CLUB, RING, TORCH)
- Purple group — words ending in clothing (FOXGLOVE, GUMSHOE, TURNCOAT, WINDSOCK)
My first perfect game in a while gave me back-to-back wins.
The greens were immediately apparent to me, because there aren’t exactly a ton of meanings for LAWSUIT. I actually got the purple words next once I started considering how out of place some of those terms were. That also eliminated WINDSOCK as a red herring for the yellows.
I didn’t figure out the connection for the blues, and might not have. I don’t exactly think of a BEANBAG as something a juggler uses.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.
