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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
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day.
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 items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
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 usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
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. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
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…
- X-RAY
- BYTE
- RADIO
- DRILL
- DISHWASHER
- RAM
- MICROWAVE
- SERVER
- COMEDIAN
- COOK
- STUFF
- HOST
- PACK
- VISIBLE
- BRIDLE
- JAM
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — overfill
- Green group — eatery vocations
- Blue group — making waves
- Purple group — linked by crumbs, specks, particles etc.
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 — cram
- Green group — restaurant jobs
- Blue group — electromagnetic spectrum
- Purple group — things with bits
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 — cram (JAM, PACK, RAM, STUFF)
- Green group — restaurant jobs (COOK, DISHWASHER, HOST, SERVER)
- Blue group — electromagnetic spectrum (MICROWAVE, RADIO, VISIBLE, X-RAY)
- Purple group — things with bits (BRIDLE, BYTE, COMEDIAN, DRILL)
No perfect game for me today, but I’m happy to make it to 17 straight wins. I’m over halfway to my current personal best of 32.
I was a little hesitant with the yellows as RAM could have gone with BYTE as part of a group of computer-related words, but nothing else really fit with that hypothetical group. The greens were easy enough too, despite the potential MICROWAVE + DISHWASHER red herring.
I recognized that MICROWAVE, RADIO and X-RAY were all types of waves, but the fourth word initially eluded me. I momentarily forgot what a BRIDLE is thanks to a mental blip, so I accidentally included that at first. But I soon saw sense and swapped in VISIBLE, leaving the purples for another triumph.
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.
P.S. After the all-too-brief season two teaser popped up over the weekend, I started re-watching HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us. The first season is very, very good. I have too many other things to play, so I hope I don’t get sucked back into the games as well. As excellent as they are, they’re effectively misery simulators. If you haven’t played the games, though? Hoo boy, you’re in for a ride in season two.
