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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:
- BOUNCE
- BIG
- RED
- BOOT
- BLACK
- SOIL
- TOSS
- SPLASH
- SULLY
- LAND
- BALTIC
- EARTH
- PHILIPPINE
- PHILADELPHIA
- GROUND
- EJECT
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — dispose of
- Green group — where The Pixies suggest your head is in “Where Is My Mind?”
- Blue group — there are far more than seven to sail
- Purple group — Sheriff Woody’s other projects
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 — throw out
- Green group — terra firma
- Blue group — seas
- Purple group — Tom Hanks movies
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 — throw out (BOOT, BOUNCE, EJECT, TOSS)
- Green group — terra firma (EARTH, GROUND, LAND, SOIL)
- Blue group — seas (BALTIC, BLACK, PHILIPPINE, RED)
- Purple group — Tom Hanks movies (BIG, PHILADELPHIA, SPLASH, SULLY)
That makes it four straight perfect games and overall wins for me. Yeehaw.
BALTIC made it pretty obvious to me from the jump that there was a group of seas (though us Scots also use it to describe very cold weather). The yellows were pretty straightforward too.
The greens were next up, leaving the purple words. I’m very happy to say I figured out that group before submitting it. Tom Hanks is just the best, isn’t he?
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. This popped up recently on Twitter as part of discussion about great pieces of music from fictional artists. I haven’t seen That Thing You Do, the first movie Hanks directed, but I’ve heard this song enough (and enjoy it enough) that I should probably do something about that.
