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Hey, folks! Welcome to the final weekend of the year. I hope you’ve got some fun and/or relaxing New Year’s plans lined up.
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 December 30
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:
- PANDA
- BEAR
- SAND
- STRING
- SPEED
- TRAIN
- DESERT
- WIND
- ORCA
- DOVE
- SKUNK
- BASS
- TOURIST
- CHAIN
- ZEBRA
- SERIES
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — monochrome fauna
- Green group — a number of connected events
- Blue group — they can be read in different ways
- Purple group — linked by something Elvis once sang about being caught in
Connections Groups For December 30
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — black-and-white animals
- Green group — sequence
- Blue group — heteronyms
- Purple group — ____ trap
Connections Answers For December 30
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 — black-and-white animals (ORCA, PANDA, SKUNK, ZEBRA)
- Green group — sequence (CHAIN, SERIES, STRING, TRAIN)
- Blue group — heteronyms (BASS, DOVE, DESERT, WIND)
- Purple group — ____ trap (BEAR, SAND, SPEED, TOURIST)
A third perfect game in a row means my overall win streak is up to five.
It took me a long time to solve today’s puzzle. The yellows came to me fairly quickly but after that, I spent ages staring at the grid trying to make sense of it. Eventually, my mind pulled together CHAIN and STRING, and I was able to figure out the remaining greens.
I then spent several minutes trying to figure out what phrases each of the remaining words could be part of. After 10 minutes or so, the phrase “tourist trap” popped into my head. After trying “trap” with a few other words, I had the purples. I probably could have figured out the blue connection, but I didn’t quite suss it out.
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 Sunday’s game if you need them.
