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Hey there, folks! I hope you’ve had an excellent week so far. Mine has been pretty good on the whole, but inclement weather has prevented me from dipping into my pool over the last few days. Woe is me.
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…
- HEART
- FLASH
- MATCH
- SQUARE
- ROUND
- PLAZA
- RITZ
- FIRE
- SPARKLES
- DAZZLE
- COURT
- CONTEST
- YARD
- SKULL
- BOUT
- POMP
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — common ground
- Green group — prize fighter factors
- Blue group — pageantry, grandeur
- Purple group — small, sharable images
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 — open space
- Green group — boxing unit
- Blue group — glitziness
- Purple group — emoji
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 — open space (COURT, PLAZA, SQUARE, YARD)
- Green group — boxing unit (BOUT, CONTEST, MATCH, ROUND)
- Blue group — glitziness (DAZZLE, FLASH, POMP, RITZ)
- Purple group — emoji (FIRE, HEART, SKULL, SPARKLES)
A perfect game today brings my overall streak up to 11.
I got the blues first, thanks to POMP and DAZZLE, while COURT and PLAZA were my way into the yellows. The greens seemed fairly obvious as well, which is a good thing because I never would have figured out the purple group. That’s just too broad a category considering there are hundreds of emoji out there, encompassing all kinds of things. Not a fan of that one.
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 Friday’s game if you need them.
P.S. There’s a cute new game out today called Schim. You play a frog-like manifestation of a shadow or soul that got separated from its human and is trying to reconnect with him. The catch is, you can only traverse by moving between shadows.
It’s gorgeous and has some playful ideas, but I felt that it overstayed its welcome a bit and got too repetitive. Anyway, it’s a mostly fun game to check out for a few hours.
