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Welcome to the weekend, folks, and a happy Star Wars Day to one and all! I’m not exactly a massive Star Wars fan, but I do enjoy it and was a little disappointed that there was no theme to today’s game of Connections. That’s okay, though — I still had fun with it anyway.
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:
- SPRING
- LOVE
- PIN
- WELL
- FANCY
- JEWEL
- LIKE
- CARROT
- CYLINDER
- HURTS
- LITERALLY
- RELISH
- UM
- OM
- SAVOR
- TUMBLER
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — take pleasure in
- Green group — ah, you know, sort of
- Blue group — parts of an object that protects your bike or front door
- Purple group — they sound like things used for quantification
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 — enjoy
- Green group — filler words
- Blue group — components of a lock
- Purple group — homophones of units of measure
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 — enjoy (FANCY, LOVE, RELISH, SAVOR)
- Green group — filler words (LIKE, LITERALLY, UM, WELL)
- Blue group — components of a lock (CYLINDER, PIN, SPRING, TUMBLER)
- Purple group — homophones of units of measure (CARROT, HURTS, JEWEL, OM)
No perfect game today, but I’m happy to extend my overall streak to three wins. This one was a little chaotic and ridiculous, but I got there in the end.
I had a decent idea about the yellows, but just missed the mark with my first guess of LOVE, LIKE, RELISH and SAVOR. Rather than try to brute force my way to getting the first group, I changed tactics. After some thinking time, I eventually got the blues first, but I actually thought they were just round things. Whoops. I’ll take that though.
I then entered chaos mode and had a couple more stabs at the yellows, until I figured out the group with one life left. Excavating LIKE from those guesses then made the greens clear to me.
I didn’t figure out the purple connection, so I’m glad I didn’t have to. In case you were wondering, the words they refer to are carat, hertz, joule and ohm.
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. Say what you will about The Phantom Menace, but this piece remains stunning, a quarter of a century later:
