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Hey, gang! I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend. I’ve been feeling a little out of sorts so I’ve been trying to get as much rest as I can — much easier to justify now that the weather’s getting pretty chilly.
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…
- CARGO
- BOULDER
- CLAW
- HAMMER
- ANVIL
- HORN
- CALIFORNIA
- COYOTE
- EGG
- STIRRUP
- DRUM
- TNT
- CAPRI
- HOOF
- HONOR
- NAIL
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — human and animal parts made of the same protein
- Green group — meep meep!
- Blue group — fabric variants
- Purple group — CINNAMON and BREAD would fit here
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 — made of keratin
- Green group — Road Runner cartoon staples
- Blue group — kinds of pants
- Purple group — ____ roll
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 — made of keratin (CLAW, HOOF, HORN, NAIL)
- Green group — Road Runner cartoon staples (ANVIL, BOULDER, COYOTE, TNT)
- Blue group — kinds of pants (CAPRI, CARGO, HAMMER, STIRRUP)
- Purple group — ____ roll (CALIFORNIA, DRUM, EGG, HONOR)
I barely survived today’s game but I’m up to eight wins in a row. Here’s how I fared:
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It took a few minutes of gazing at the grid before my brain made the link between EGG and HONOR. Seconds later, I had the purples. It probably helped that I went out for sushi the other night and saw California rolls on the menu.
I was actually quite stuck after that for a while, but after I clocked the link between COYOTE and TNT, I got the greens.
A guess of HORN, CLAW, HAMMER and NAIL left me one away, but switching HORN to STIRRUP wasn’t the right move. I was back to one away when I swapped out CLAW for HOOF. It finally then clicked that HAMMER was the odd one out, since the others were effectively all animal parts.
It’s little surprise that I didn’t figure out the blues given my lack of fashion knowledge, but I got there in the end.
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 Monday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Keeping the horror train going, here’s a nasty little slasher with a deep well of black humor. You’re Next is immensely entertaining for those who have the stomach for some gore. It’s anchored by a terrific lead performance, and it’s a real shame that particular actor didn’t become a much bigger star afterward:
