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July is here and we’re all still enjoying a lovely 4th Of July weekend. We hosted a really lovely barbecue with friends that was just delightful. It ended up being an ad hoc multi-course meal, with various appetizers and grilled items coming out at various points. Nobody left hungry, that’s for sure. I think my favorite was a green chili hashbrown casserole that one friend brought. The hand-stuffed bratwursts were pretty dang good also. In any case, the memory of food and fun lingers still, but now we have a Connections to solve. Let’s group some words, shall we?
How To Play Connections
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
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There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers.
- PRUSSIAN
- WARE
- DRE
- GRAIN
- DISNEY
- CHINA
- CRYPTO
- EVIL
- PEPPER
- SHRED
- CERAMICS
- DECAF
- POTTERY
- MORSEL
- SEUSS
- CRUMB
Hints for the Connections groups today are:
- 🟡Yellow group – Jars of clay.
- 🔵Blue group – Not surgeons, but close.
- 🟢Green group – Itty bitty.
- 🟣Purple group – Toe, calf, knee, shin.
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡Yellow group – Fired Objects
- 🔵Blue group– Drs
- 🟢Green group – Particle
- 🟣Purple group – Ending with homophones of parts of the leg
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:
- 🟡Yellow group – Ceramics, China, Pottery, Ware
- 🔵Blue group – Dre, Evil, Pepper, Seuss
- 🟢Green group – Crumb, Grain, Morsel, Shred
- 🟣Purple group – Crypto, Decaf, Disney, Prussian
I banged this one out pretty fast. I wasn’t 100% sure about the yellow group, but it all sounded like various types of pottery to me, though WARE I wasn’t sure of entirely. I was a lot more confident about the doctors: Dr. Dre the rapper, Dr. Evil of Austin Powers fame, Dr. Pepper the soda, and Dr. Seuss the children’s author. This made the green group pretty apparent. While I wouldn’t qualify these as “PARTICLES” by any means, especially MORSEL and SHRED, they are all smaller pieces of a larger whole. That left the purple group, and I wasn’t really sure about this one until I got the theme. CRYPTO = Toe, DECAF = Calf, DISNEY = Knee, and PRUSSIAN = Shin.
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