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Hey, everyone! I hope you’re making the most of this first official weekend of summer (at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere). It always feels odd to have daylight at 10:30 P.M. but hey, I’m not complaining.
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…
- QUIET
- MAGIC
- COLD
- SIN
- BUG
- BREACH
- EASY
- ENOUGH
- SING
- WINDY
- DIVE
- MOTOR
- RELAX
- COUGH
- SPOUT
- CHILL
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — instruction to be calm
- Green group — aches and pains, perhaps
- Blue group — large mammal actions
- Purple group — alternate names for major urban centers
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 — “settle down!”
- Green group — minor ailments
- Blue group — what humpback whales do
- Purple group — ____ City nicknames
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 — “settle down!” (EASY, ENOUGH, QUIET, RELAX)
- Green group — minor ailments (BUG, CHILL, COLD, COUGH)
- Blue group — what humpback whales do (BREACH, DIVE, SING, SPOUT)
- Purple group — ____ City nicknames (MAGIC, MOTOR, SIN, WINDY)
Game over. My long, long winning streak has come to an end after 32 days.
I felt that there were a lot of red herrings today. My first guess of EASY, CHILL, QUIET and RELAX was a little off the mark. I swapped out a couple of words with ENOUGH until I found the right combination. Two lives lost.
The game was soon over for me, as I got hung up on the idea that SING, SPOUT and COUGH were all sounds that you make with your mouth. Including BREACH on the first guess (for some reason that escapes me now) left me one away from the correct answer, so swapping out that for BUG (as in to annoy) spelled the demise of my streak.
So it goes. For what it’s worth, I’d never heard of Magic City as a nickname for Miami.
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 Monday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Longtime readers may be aware that I’m a pro wrestling fan. One of the more popular performers around right now is a guy from my part of the world by the name of Joe Hendry. He’s an entertaining, charismatic wrestler to whom fans have been drawn partly because of his catchy, self-performed theme song. Good luck getting this fun earworm out of your head:
As a little bonus, Henry became known for spoofing popular songs to make fun of his opponents. Here’s an oldie but a goodie:
