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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another game of Connections!
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:
- MASS
- MARY
- NORMAL
- WASH
- STANDARD
- DRY
- YARDSTICK
- FOLD
- OILY
- CHECK
- GAUGE
- COMBINATION
- CALL
- KENT
- BENCHMARK
- BET
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellows — measuring stick
- Greens — things you’d do in a popular card game, perhaps like Balatro
- Blues — descriptors for the largest organ
- Purples — look at the (semi-)state of these
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 — benchmark
- Green group — poker actions
- Blue group — skin types
- Purple group — starts of U.S. states
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 — benchmark (BENCHMARK, GAUGE, STANDARD, YARDSTICK)
- Green group — poker actions (BET, CALL, CHECK, FOLD)
- Blue group — skin types (COMBINATION, DRY, NORMAL, OILY)
- Purple group — starts of U.S. states (KENT, MARY, MASS, WASH)
A perfect game brings me up to five wins in a row.
The greens were the most obvious group to me today, though I had a suspicion about the yellows (I couldn’t figure out what would go with BENCHMARK, STANDARD and YARDSTICK at first). The blues came to me next after it clicked that COMBINATION would work with those.
Given the remaining words, GAUGE (a word I almost always misspell at the first attempt) was the only other one that made sense with the yellows. I didn’t figure out the purple connection, unfortunately.
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 Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. For no other reason than it’s been stuck in my head for two days, please enjoy this ’80s classic (don’t get mad at me if you can’t stop singing it either):