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Welcome to the weekend, folks! I hope it’s a banger for you, as the young folks might say.
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:
- SILVER
- MUSIC
- STAR
- CROSS
- MAD
- MED
- SUN
- LEAD
- GARLIC
- SANDWICH
- ONION
- SODA
- LAMPOON
- PRINCIPAL
- CRACKED
- HEADLINER
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — the main draw, the top act
- Green group — Dracula deterrents
- Blue group — publications that deal in humor and irony, often to make a point about culture and world events
- Purple group —
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 — one with top billing
- Green group — vampire vulnerabilities
- Blue group — satirical publications, familiarly
- Purple group — club ____
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 — one with top billing (HEADLINER, LEAD, PRINCIPAL, STAR)
- Green group — vampire vulnerabilities (CROSS, GARLIC, SILVER, SUN)
- Blue group — satirical publications, familiarly (CRACKED, LAMPOON, MAD, ONION)
- Purple group — club ____ (MED, MUSIC, SANDWICH, SODA)
That makes it three straight perfect games and a 10-day streak overall.
For the second time in a few days, I got all the groups in order without many issues. The greens jumped out at me immediately, but I left that as a safety group of sorts. HEADLINER gave me an entry point into the yellows, and I then got the greens.
LAMPOON let me quickly figure out the blues. I deduced the purple connection before submitting that 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. Since we’re in a vampire kinda mood today, allow me to suggest that you watch (or rewatch) Blade. I went back to it a few months ago and it holds up pretty well. It’s one of the coolest depictions of vampires in movie history, and that opening bloodbath scene is still pretty great.
