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Hey there, everyone! Hope your week’s off to an excellent start.
I often think about the term “mayday” around this time of year. It’s such a smart choice for a distress call, given how distinct it sounds. My favorite thing about mayday is that it’s derived from the French term m’aidez — which literally means “help me.” I do enjoy etymology.
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:
- WAXY
- SOLID
- EVIL
- GENIUS
- VILE
- FLEXIBLE
- LIT
- WICKED
- EASY
- BEGINNER
- OPEN
- LIVE
- AMAZING
- SCENTED
- VEIL
- RECEPTIVE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — agreeable
- Green group — same letters, different words
- Blue group — ranks in a different NYT word game
- Purple group — ways to describe a nice-smelling thing to have at home
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 — amenable
- Green group — anagrams
- Blue group — Spelling Bee ranks
- Purple group — adjectives for a candle
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 — amenable (EASY, FLEXIBLE, OPEN, RECEPTIVE)
- Green group — anagrams (EVIL, LIVE, VEIL, VILE)
- Blue group — Spelling Bee ranks (AMAZING, BEGINNER, GENIUS, SOLID)
- Purple group — adjectives for a candle (LIT, SCENTED, WAXY, WICKED)
A perfect game takes my overall streak up to seven wins in a row.
For the second straight day, I got the purple group first. WAXY immediately made me think of candles and SCENTED was my second indication of the connection. It didn’t take me long to find two other words that fit.
Once the grid narrowed, the greens were easy to spot. RECEPTIVE made the yellows straightforward too. I’m glad I solved the grid in this order, because I don’t play Spelling Bee. I might have still put those words together as a generic group of performance markers though.
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 Wednesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I listened to Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me a ton during the summer of 2002. It was on heavy rotation with Sheryl Crow’s C’mon, C’mon and Audioslave’s self-titled album. All three soundtracked many, many hours of me playing Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. An odd mix, certainly, but it worked for me.
Anyway, I just put on Come Away With Me for the first time in forever and it holds up really well. “Don’t Know Why” remains a wonderful song.
