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Happy Thursday, everyone! I hope you’re having a fantastic week so far.
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:
- MARBLE
- BASEBALL
- DRIVE
- WILD
- REVERSE
- PUSH
- GYM
- PARK
- PROMPT
- PEA
- DRAW
- DUGOUT
- SKIP
- PROPEL
- GRAPEFRUIT
- COURTROOM
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — convince
- Green group — found in a certain non-standard deck of cards
- Blue group — frozen precipitation sizes
- Purple group — you can take a load off 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 — move to action
- Green group — Uno cards
- Blue group — hail size comparisons
- Purple group — places with benches
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 — move to action (DRIVE, PROMPT, PROPEL, PUSH)
- Green group — Uno cards (DRAW, REVERSE, SKIP, WILD)
- Blue group — hail size comparisons (BASEBALL, GRAPEFRUIT, MARBLE, PEA)
- Purple group — places with benches (COURTROOM, DUGOUT, GYM, PARK)
Alas, no perfect game today, but only because of a silly mistake. Nevertheless, my overall streak is up to 16.
I toyed around with the yellow group for a moment before turning my attention to the greens (fun group, I appreciated it). Then came my only mistake of the day. COURTROOM and GYM helped me figure out the purple connection, but I absentmindedly included BASEBALL instead of DUGOUT. Rats.
Once I fixed that error, it was onto the blues. I thought those were just spherical objects. That left the yellows to wrap things up.
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. I can’t believe I’ve made it this far into these daily recommendations I’ve been doing without suggesting that you check out my favorite game of all time, Sayonara Wild Hearts.
It’s a beautiful, deliciously cool ode to love and pop music. The action is rhythm-based and the gameplay changes from moment to moment. It’s very forgiving (you can skip sections you’re struggling to get past). The indie-pop soundtrack is incredible and I listen to it often, even outside of the game. I love Sayonara Wild Hearts so much I’ve been tempted to get a tattoo of the logo.
If you have Apple Arcade, you can try out this absolute gem right now at no extra cost. It’s often on sale on Steam and PlayStation for around $5 too.
