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Hey everyone, welcome to the weekend! I hope you’ve got an excellent one lined up. Between today’s FA Cup and Scottish Cup finals, I’ve got at least a couple of hours accounted for.
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:
- INITIAL
- HERE
- WEE
- THEME
- ENDORSE
- MAIDEN
- PREMIER
- CHAMPION
- SIGN
- SUPPORT
- BANNER
- USE
- FIRST
- POSTER
- BACK
- BILLBOARD
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — marketing materials
- Green group — debut
- Blue group — be a proponent of
- Purple group — how we refer to ourselves and others without names, plus a little extra
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 — advertising format
- Green group — inaugural
- Blue group — advocate for
- Purple group — pronoun plus “e”
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 — advertising format (BANNER, BILLBOARD, POSTER, SIGN)
- Green group — inaugural (FIRST, INITIAL, MAIDEN, PREMIER)
- Blue group — advocate for (BACK, CHAMPION, ENDORSE, SUPPORT)
- Purple group — pronoun plus “e” (HERE, THEME, USE, WEE)
Back-to-back perfect games brings my overall streak up to four wins.
I had very little trouble with this one. I got the blues first, then the yellows and greens. I didn’t figure out the purple connection, though. It was slightly annoying, but I’ve seen far more nebulous purple groups, so I’m not mad about it.
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. Let’s kick the long weekend off with an all-time classic. Turn this one up and sing it loud (be sure to read this too, because it’s very funny).
