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Happy Thursday! I hope you’re having a fantastic week. Let’s make sure we keep your Connections streak going, shall we?
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:
- TOE
- JOINT
- PIPE
- FLUSH
- CIGARETTE
- DRAIN
- COMMON
- FEVER
- CLEAR
- PENCIL
- AMERICAN
- TICKET
- COLLECTIVE
- LUCID
- EMPTY
- MUTUAL
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — pooled resources
- Green group — dump
- Blue group — linked by a common word that’s the first half of a well-known marketplace where you can buy Taylor Swift concert passes
- Purple group — linked by nighttime visions
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 — shared
- Green group — rid of contents
- Blue group — associated with “stub”
- Purple group — ____ dream
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 — shared (COLLECTIVE, COMMON, JOINT, MUTUAL)
- Green group — rid of contents (CLEAR, DRAIN, EMPTY, FLUSH)
- Blue group — associated with “stub” (CIGARETTE, PENCIL, TICKET, TOE)
- Purple group — ____ dream (AMERICAN, FEVER, LUCID, PIPE)
Back-to-back perfect games extends my overall Connections winning streak to three days.
The yellow words were immediately evident to me. After playing around with the combo of DRAIN and PIPE for a second, I couldn’t find anything to go with those. Thankfully, I spotted the greens soon after that.
Getting the last two groups is often a case of trial and error. I sometimes highlight a couple of words and see if anything sticks. That definitely happened today when I clicked on LUCID and FEVER. The connection became clear and I got the purples.
I’m not sure I would have figured out the blue connection, but thankfully I didn’t have to.
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 Friday’s game if you need them.
