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Hey, folks! Welcome to the weekend. I hope it’s a wonderful one for you.
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…
- JACUZZI
- BIKINI
- HANGER
- X-RAY
- Q-TIP
- TOOTHBRUSH
- G-STRING
- CHAPSTICK
- T-BONE
- XEROX
- HIPSTER
- SKIRT
- DRILL
- FILET
- SINK
- THONG
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — beefy choices
- Green group — below-the-waist garments
- Blue group — the stuff of nightmares for those with odontophobia
- Purple group — commonly used product names
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 — steak cuts
- Green group — kinds of underwear
- Blue group — involved in a dentist visit
- Purple group — brands that have become generic terms
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 — steak cuts (FILET, HANGER, SKIRT, T-BONE)
- Green group — kinds of underwear (BIKINI, G-STRING, HIPSTER, THONG)
- Blue group — involved in a dentist visit (DRILL, SINK, TOOTHBRUSH, X-RAY)
- Purple group — brands that have become generic terms (CHAPSTICK, JACUZZI, Q-TIP, XEROX)
My three-game streak is over. Here’s how I fared:
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I’m very annoyed I didn’t get this one.
I got the yellows and the greens without much issue. I wasn’t sure about the fourth word in the latter case until I took a stab with HIPSTER, which I actually thought was a style of jeans.
Neither the blues nor the purples clicked, though. I made a guess of Q-TIP, TOOTHBRUSH, SINK and CHAPSTICK, as in things you’d find in the bathroom. My next guess made no sense — JACUZZI, XEROX, X-RAY and Q-TIP. I thought of those of words with less-common letters (J, Z, X and Q), but it left me one word away from a proper group. I swapped out XEROX for TOOTHBRUSH, then DRILL to no avail.
I wouldn’t necessarily associate a SINK with a dentist’s office, but it makes sense. And I definitely should have figured out the purple group. This one will annoy me for a while, sadly.
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. I have to thank Apple Music’s autoplay for surfacing this one for me. After asking my voice assistant to play “Chaise Longue” after Hot Leg, this cover by the band popped up a few songs later. It’s their take on a song I liked quite a bit as a kid, and it’s just as enjoyable:
