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Hey, everyone! I hope you had an excellent weekend and that you’re ready for the week ahead.
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:
- BRIDGE
- QUEEN
- COWBOY
- CARTER
- HONEY
- BOUNTY
- KING
- CRUNCH
- BUSY
- DUEL
- SQUAT
- TUTU
- SALOON
- SPELLING
- GORE
- DIP
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — workout moves
- Green group — you might see these in a John Wayne movie
- Blue group — recipients of what’s been called the world’s most prestigious award
- Purple group — linked by the most important pollenator
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 — exercises
- Green group — featured in Westerns
- Blue group — leaders who received the Nobel Peace Prize
- Purple group — ____ bee
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 — exercises (BRIDGE, CRUNCH, DIP, SQUAT)
- Green group — featured in Westerns (BOUNTY, COWBOY, DUEL, SALOON)
- Blue group — leaders who received the Nobel Peace Prize (CARTER, GORE, KING, TUTU)
- Purple group — ____ bee (BUSY, HONEY, QUEEN, SPELLING)
At last, my first perfect game in quite a few days. That takes me up to my fifth straight win.
I appreciated the Beyonce reference by having COWBOY and CARTER next to each other on the grid. Sure enough, COWBOY helped me figure out the greens pretty quickly.
The yellows were up next, though I took a slight gamble by including BRIDGE, since I wasn’t totally sure that would fit. SPELLING and QUEEN were my entry points into the purples. I didn’t quite figure out the blue connection, but I suspected that they were all names of notable people (Desmond Tutu etc.).
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 Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. In today’s edition of “Scottish bands Kris listened to a lot while growing up,” I’m going to highlight an artist I touched on yesterday: The Proclaimers. They’re among the most enduring groups of the last few decades and have a cracking back catalog. So much so that I’m going to skip over their biggest hits and instead present you with this gem:
