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We’re just about halfway through the lovely summer month of July, one of two months named for old, dead Roman dictators. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and we have another Connections to solve. As always, I will be your handy Sunday edition Connections guide. This one wasn’t too bad, but if you need some helpful clues to set you on your path, read onward, dearest Connectioneers!
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. Here are today’s words:
ZIP
CAB
RAG
ZING
BUBBLY
GLOSSY
NUMBER
ZINE
EXPIRATION
SLIGHT
NAME
ZIN
KNOCK
MAG
CHARD
BURN
Hints for the Connections groups today are:
- 🟡Yellow group – Talking crap.
- 🔵Blue group – Reading material.
- 🟢Green group – Found on an item in your purse or wallet.
- 🟣Purple group – Alcohol made from grapes.
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡Yellow group – Insult
- 🔵Blue group– Slang for printed matter
- 🟢Green group – Credit card info
- 🟣Purple group – Wine nicknames
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 – Burn, Knock, Slight, Zing
- 🔵Blue group – Glossy, Mag, Rag, Zine
- 🟢Green group – Expiration, Name, Number, Zip
- 🟣Purple group – Bubbly, Cab, Chard, Zin
I think the puzzle setter was trying to confuse people with BURN and CHARD here, but of course you spell the latter CHARRED. Overall, I found this one pretty easy, and even the purple group was pretty obvious – BUBBLY is champagne, CAB is cabernet, CHARD, is chardonay, ZIN is zinfandel. Green was the trickiest one for me, obviously, but once you put them all side-by-side it’s pretty obvious that these are things you find on a credit card.
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