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Hey, folks! Hope you’re having an excellent weekend. It’s actually going to be warm enough over the next few days for a dip or two in my building’s pool if it’s still open. I haven’t checked in a couple of weeks, so fingers crossed!
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…
- PADDLE
- SEW
- ROW
- STORY
- OAR
- FORE
- COLUMN
- RACKET
- NET
- BUTT
- FEATURE
- BALL
- CLATTER
- TABLE
- RUCKUS
- ARTICLE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — things you’ll see plenty of on Forbes (and in The New York Times, I guess)
- Green group — a brouhaha or commotion
- Blue group — small-scale sporting equipment
- Purple group — like connective tissue for grammarians
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 — bit of newspaper writing
- Green group — noisy disturbance
- Blue group — table tennis needs
- Purple group — homophones of coordinating conjunctions
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 — bit of newspaper writing (ARTICLE, COLUMN, FEATURE, STORY)
- Green group — noisy disturbance (CLATTER, RACKET, ROW, RUCKUS)
- Blue group — table tennis needs (BALL, NET, PADDLE, TABLE)
- Purple group — homophones of coordinating conjunctions (BUTT, FORE, OAR, SEW)
That’s four straight perfect games and overall wins. A nice little run! Here’s how I fared:
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I found this one pretty straightforward, though I had to wonder for a second if I was playing Connections: Sports Edition by mistake. I managed to steer clear of any rowing-related red herring here.
I figured out the blues and greens quickly and more or less simultaneously. That was helpful since I was able to pull RACKET away from the blues and the notion that it was a group of tennis words, rather than table tennis terms.
Given what I do for a living, the yellows were clear enough. That left the purple group, which pairs up quite neatly with the yellows, for another win. (The purple words relate to but, for, or and so, respectively.)
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. Over the last few days, I’ve been watching Kill Count videos on the Dead Meat YouTube channel. Host James A. Janisse entertainingly recaps great and not-so-great horror movies. The smartly constructed videos feature insights, behind-the-scenes info, solid jokes and, most importantly, a tally of the dead bodies that pile up.
I’ve enjoyed watching Kill Counts in between my current entertainment diet of games, European football and horror movies. As you might expect, the videos may not be entirely safe for work, though anything explicitly gory is blurred out due to YouTube’s restrictions:
