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Hey there, everyone! I hope your week’s off to an excellent start.
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:
- SURPRISE
- BOX
- STORY
- STAGE
- LEVEL
- ROCK
- ORCHESTRA
- FLOOR
- BALCONY
- FEATURE
- REPORT
- FLAT
- FLUSH
- SHOCK
- EVEN
- ARTICLE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — stun
- Green group — seen in a newspaper
- Blue group — plumb, aligned
- Purple group — parts of a West End or Broadway establishment
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 — flabbergast
- Green group — bit of journalism
- Blue group — on the same plane
- Purple group — theater sections
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 — flabbergast (FLOOR, ROCK, SHOCK, SURRPISE)
- Green group — bit of journalism (ARTICLE, FEATURE, REPORT, STORY)
- Blue group — on the same plane (EVEN, FLAT, FLUSH, LEVEL)
- Purple group — theater sections (BALCONY, BOX, ORCHESTRA, STAGE)
My streak of five perfect games is over after two mistakes today, but I’m up to seven straight wins overall.
The greens were first, since these are things I deal with for a living (even though the blogger in me calls each individual thing I write a “post”). I turned my attention to the purples, though I made two incorrect guesses that included FLOOR.
After I nailed down that group, the blues were next, leaving me with the yellows for the win.
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 Wednesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Since we’re talking about journalism a bit, allow me to recommend one of my favorite movies that deals with that subject matter, His Girl Friday. It’s a classic and because the copyright wasn’t renewed, it’s in the public domain. That means you can legally watch the whole film on YouTube for free:
