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Hey, everyone! We’re so tantalizingly close to the weekend, I can almost taste it. But we’ve got one more round of Connections to enjoy first at least.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
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 items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
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 usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
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. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
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…
- GOLD
- CUBE
- TEMPLE
- FENCE
- MACHINE
- BOX
- SEQUIN
- CREAM
- DIAMOND
- LIGHTHOUSE
- ROW
- PYRAMID
- DIVE
- STORM
- GLITTER
- GARDENS
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — they shimmer and shine
- Green group — go for glory
- Blue group — iconic sights
- Purple group — chill out
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 — sparkling things
- Green group — participate in Summer Olympic Events
- Blue group — wonders of the world
- Purple group — ice ____
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 — sparkling things (DIAMOND, GLITTER, GOLD, SEQUIN)
- Green group — participate in Summer Olympic Events (BOX, DIVE, FENCE, ROW)
- Blue group — wonders of the world (GARDENS, LIGHTHOUSE, PYRAMID, TEMPLE)
- Purple group — ice ____ (CREAM, CUBE, MACHINE, STORM)
A perfect game brought me up to seven straight wins.
I found this a much easier game than yesterday’s. GLITTER and SEQUIN helped me figure out the yellows, as did seeing ROW and FENCE next to each other for the greens.
I didn’t fully suss out the blues, but I realized there were four types of structures or places that sort of made sense together. I did, however, deduce the purple connection before submitting the final group.
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 Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I was tempted to do the easy thing and drop in “Ice, Ice Baby,” but y’know what? I feel like recommending some nu metal to send you headbanging into the weekend. This is one of my favorite songs in that genre, from a band you may not have heard of. It has a killer melody and some solid (though brief) screaming: