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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:
- PLASTIC
- FOIL
- CELLOPHANE
- LUMBER
- ORGANISM
- HARPOON
- TRUDGE
- LIMBER
- STOMP
- ELASTIC
- GLOVE
- BASSINET
- MASK
- PLOD
- JACKET
- SUPPLE
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — march forcefully
- Green group — tensile
- Blue group — gear needed for an Olympic sport
- Purple group — they include musical equipment
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
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Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- ellow group — walk heavily
- Green group — flexible
- Blue group — fencing equipment
- Purple group — words beginning with instruments
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
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Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — walk heavily (LUMBER, PLOD, STOMP, TRUDGE)
- Green group — flexible (ELASTIC, LIMBER, PLASTIC, SUPPLE)
- Blue group — fencing equipment (FOIL, GLOVE, JACKET, MASK)
- Purple group — words beginning with instruments (BASSINET, CELLOPHANE, HARPOON, ORGANISM)
No perfect game today, but my overall winning streak is up to eight games.
I got the groups in order of difficulty today. The yellows gave me no trouble, but I wasn’t totally convinced about including PLASTIC with the greens. I took a chance there, and it paid off.
I then guessed a group of things which can perhaps hold something tightly — FOIL, CELLOPHANE, JACKET and BASSINET — but that was incorrect. It was then I realized FOIL has another meaning and pinpointed the rest of the blues. That left me with the purple group for the win. I didn’t figure out that connection, but it’s the kind of wordplay that I’m okay with.
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.
