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Hey, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Let’s get your week off to a great start by maintaining your Connections streak.
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…
- CACTUS
- BOTTLE
- MUSHROOM
- CHEESE
- SUPREME
- GRADUATE
- HEDGEHOG
- PINEAPPLE
- CORN
- SALARY
- PAP
- PRINCIPAL
- CHIEF
- MACE
- PREMIER
- MUSH
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — leader or main thing
- Green group — these can be prickly
- Blue group — mawkish movies, perhaps
- Purple group — these have a limit, some might say
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 — foremost
- Green group — spiky things
- Blue group — overly sentimental work
- Purple group — things that are capped
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 — foremost (CHIEF, PREMIER, PRINCIPAL, SUPREME)
- Green group — spiky things (CACTUS, HEDGEHOG, MACE, PINEAPPLE)
- Blue group — overly sentimental work (CHEESE, CORN, MUSH, PAP)
- Purple group — things that are capped (BOTTLE, GRADUATE, MUSHROOM, SALARY)
No perfect game today, but I’m to back-to-back wins.
The yellows and greens didn’t pose me any problems, but I ran into some trouble with the blues. At first, I thought it was a group of food-related words, so I had three of the correct four words alongside MUSHROOM. I was in guessing mode after that, so I tried SALARY before PAP worked (I’d never heard of that in this context before). That left the purple words for victory.
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. I’ve had this song in my head for the last couple of days so now you can too:
