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Hey there, folks! Welcome to the weekend. I hope you’ve got some fun and/or relaxing plans lined up.
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:
- OKAY
- COUCH
- FOOT
- MOLE
- INTIMATE
- SLEEPER
- KELVIN
- VERSE
- SUGGEST
- THOUSAND
- LINE
- ASSET
- METER
- AGENT
- POTASSIUM
- IMPLY
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — spy
- Green group — elements of structured, rhythmic and often rhyming text
- Blue group — hint at, infer
- Purple group — possible meanings for a single letter
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 — intelligence operative
- Green group — units in poetry
- Blue group — express indirectly
- Purple group — what “K” might mean
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 — intelligence operative (AGENT, ASSET, MOLE, SLEEPER)
- Green group — units in poetry (FOOT, LINE, METER, VERSE)
- Blue group — express indirectly (COUCH, IMPLY, INTIMATE, SUGGEST)
- Purple group — what “K” might mean (KELVIN, OKAY, POTASSIUM, THOUSAND)
I just squeaked out my 14th straight win.
It took a few minutes of poring over the grid for things to start gelling. I spotted the yellow group easily enough, but then I ran into trouble.
I got caught out by a red herring after I saw a few units of measurement. I guessed a few random words to go with FOOT, METER and KELVIN and had just one life left when I saw the error of my ways.
I wasn’t too sure about including COUCH with the blues, but I had to take a risk and thankfully that paid off. Same thing for FOOT with the poetry-related words and that worked out too.
I didn’t quite figure out the purples. I don’t know enough about the periodic table to have understood how POTASSIUM fit in, but I probably should have deduced the connection from the other three words.
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 Sunday’s game if you need them.
