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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:
- WEDDING
- SPIRIT
- DRILL
- FRIAR
- AMERICAN
- SUNDRY
- MONKEY
- WRENCH
- ROUTINE
- YANK
- UNITED
- EXERCISE
- TEAR
- FRONTIER
- PRACTICE
- RIP
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — jerk, wrest
- Green group — doing it over and over might help you perfect it
- Blue group — they’ll take you all over North America and beyond
- Purple group — they start with shortened periods of time
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 — pull using force
- Green group — bit of repetitive training
- Blue group — U.S.-based airlines
- Purple group — beginning with day abbreviations
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 — pull using force (RIP, TEAR, WRENCH, YANK)
- Green group — bit of repetitive training (DRILL, EXERCISE, PRACTICE, ROUTINE)
- Blue group — U.S.-based airlines (AMERICAN, FRONTIER, SPIRIT, UNITED)
- Purple group — beginning with day abbreviations (FRIAR, MONKEY, SUNDRY, WEDDING)
Four straight perfect games means I’m now up to five wins in a row.
I found the blues pretty quickly, with FRONTIER and SPIRIT giving me a gateway into those. The greens were up next after I clocked ROUTINE.
That left the yellows and purples. I found the yellow group easy enough and I was glad that the purple group was the final batch, as it was one of those annoyingly esoteric groups I don’t think I would have figured out.
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 Monday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I know, I know, golf courses take up way too much land that might be better served for other purposes, but outside of soccer/football and the grand slams in tennis, there’s little I look forward to more in the sporting world than the four majors. So, I’ll be spending much of today relaxing and watching the final round of The Masters. I’m hoping for high drama, with chip-ins and near misses galore.
