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Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s hoping 2024 is better for you than 2023.
Today’s 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.
Connections Hints For January 1
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:
- WAY
- WEED
- WHEEL
- WEDGE
- WATER
- WEE
- GREEN
- FEUD
- WHY
- PYRAMID
- SEED
- GREEK
- MILLIONAIRE
- WHOA
- CAESAR
- PLANT
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — horticulture terms
- Green group — types of cold dishes that are full of vegetables
- Blue group — TV competition staples, for short
- Purple group — letter sounds with a common prefix
Connections Groups For January 1
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Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — gardening nouns/verbs
- Green group — kinds of salads
- Blue group — classic game shows, familiarly
- Purple group — W + vowel sound
Connections Answers For January 1
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 — gardening nouns/verbs (PLANT, SEED, WATER, WEED)
- Green group — kinds of salads (CAESAR, GREEK, GREEN, WEDGE)
- Blue group — classic game shows, familiarly (FEUD, MILLIONAIRE, PYRAMID, WHEEL)
- Purple group — W + vowel sound (WAY, WEE, WHY, WHOA)
I secured a perfect game today, which takes my overall win streak up to seven.
The blues were the first group I figured out, with MILLIONAIRE and PYRAMID leading the way. The greens were next after I initially suspected that CAESAR might be related to Las Vegas casinos. The last two groups had me scratching my head for a minute before I spotted the yellows. Just to be sure I was right, I submitted the purples first.
I had no idea about the purple connection. It’s one of those offbeat ones that perhaps stray a little too far into wordplay and make the game mildly infuriating. Still, I’ll take a perfect game any day of the week.
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 Tuesday’s game if you need them.
