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Hey there, folks! Hope you’re having an excellent week.
Anyway, 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:
- MERMAID
- PIXIE
- MAIN
- RULER
- KING
- PIPE
- BUZZ
- BOWL
- COMPASS
- CLOWN
- CHANNEL
- CREW
- SCALE
- LINE
- WATCH
- COLONEL
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellows — coiffures
- Greens — items used to quantify things
- Blues — they’re maybe not useful for transporting solids
- Purples — emblems of restaurant chains
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 — haircuts, with “cut”
- Green group — measuring instruments
- Blue group — water and gas conduits
- Purple group — fast food mascots
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 — haircuts, with “cut” (BOWL, BUZZ, CREW, PIXIE)
- Green group — measuring instruments (COMPASS, RULER, SCALE, WATCH)
- Blue group — water and gas conduits (CHANNEL, LINE, MAIN, PIPE)
- Purple group — fast food mascots (CLOWN, COLONEL, KING, MERMAID)
My first perfect game in a little while brought me up to three straight wins.
I didn’t have any trouble at all today. I think I finished the game in about 30 seconds. The greens were immediately obvious to me, and I got the yellows right after that.
I took a few seconds to think about the blues and the purples, and saw that there were four objects and four humanoid characters. So the connection for each didn’t completely click, but it didn’t matter. I’ll take a perfect game any day of the week.
(I did not know the Starbucks logo depicted a mermaid. The more you know.)
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 Friday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I’ve had Tarantino on the brain since yesterday’s puzzle, so I’ve been listening to some of the music from his soundtracks, including this gem: