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Hey, folks! The weekend is upon us and I hope you’re going to make the most of it.
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…
- NATURAL
- JUICE
- MAINSTREAM
- DAD
- SWEAT
- FLUID
- BURST
- CHARGE
- SODA
- BATTERY
- SMOOTH
- LABOR
- WORK
- POWER
- GRACEFUL
- EFFORT
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — seamless
- Green group — put your back into it
- Blue group — they’re electrifying
- Purple group — linked by the way in which the weasel goes
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 — effortless
- Green group — exertion
- Blue group — energy for an electronic device
- Purple group — what “pop” might mean
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 — effortless (FLUID, GRACEFUL, NATURAL, SMOOTH)
- Green group — exertion (EFFORT, LABOR, SWEAT, WORK)
- Blue group — energy for an electronic device (BATTERY, CHARGE, JUICE, POWER)
- Purple group — what “pop” might mean (BURST, DAD, MAINSTREAM, SODA)
A perfect game brings me up to 13 wins in a row.
I got the groups in order today. GRACEFUL and SMOOTH made the yellows clear, while LABOR and EFFORT did the same for the greens. Despite my initial thought that BATTERY and JUICE might have referred to acidic things, they in fact belonged with the blues. That left the purple group 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 Sunday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Given the purple category, it’s gotta be a pop song today, doesn’t it? Sure the lyrics to this one are a little problematic, but it’s still one of my low-key favorite bops from the 2010s. Unh!
