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Hey, folks! I hope you had a smashing weekend and that you’re all set for what I’m sure is going to be an excellent week.
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…
- FOLK
- WARRIOR
- COCONUT
- TREE
- SOULMATE
- ROCK
- CHAIR
- BUN
- MOUNTAIN
- MUSTARD
- COUNTRY
- UPDO
- SAUERKRAUT
- WALLET
- BLUES
- BRAT
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — types of tunes
- Green group — for many people, these are essential aspects of a certain dish
- Blue group — you hold these for seconds at a time (or longer if you’re fit enough)
- Purple group — CARSICK, LUCARNE and BRAVERY would fit in here
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 — music genres
- Green group — bratwurst go-withs
- Blue group — yoga poses
- Purple group — starting with Pixar 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 — music genres (BLUES, COUNTRY, FOLK, ROCK)
- Green group — bratwurst go-withs (BRAT, BUN, MUSTARD, SAUERKRAUT)
- Blue group — yoga poses (CHAIR, MOUNTAIN, TREE, WARRIOR)
- Purple group — starting with Pixar movies (COCONUT, SOULMATE, UPDO, WALLET)
I thought I would get back to winning ways after my 26-win streak came crashing to a halt yesterday, but sadly not.
I got the greens and the yellows quickly enough. But I didn’t have a clue about the blues or the purple group. I don’t know enough about yoga to have figured out the blue group. And I felt that the purple group was just a little too tricky to deduce, as much as I love many Pixar movies (Wall-E is an all-time fave of mines).
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.
P.S. If you somehow haven’t seen Wall-E, I recommend you remedy that as soon as possible:
