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Hey folks, I hope you’re having an excellent week! Astonishingly, we’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of Connections. I suppose I’ll have more to say about it at that time, but I do wonder if there’s a special grid lined up for us in a couple of weeks.
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:
- SAFETY
- SWAY
- SACK
- BOB
- PUSH
- PULL
- WEIGHT
- ROB
- CROP
- LOOT
- FADE
- BOBBY
- CLOUT
- SHAG
- RAID
- HAIR
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — pillage
- Green group — control, leverage
- Blue group — up-top looks
- Purple group — linked by something you can see 25 of above
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 — plunder
- Green group — influence
- Blue group — hairstyles
- Purple group — ____ pin
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 — plunder (LOOT, RAID, ROB, SACK)
- Green group — influence (CLOUT, PULL, SWAY, WEIGHT)
- Blue group — hairstyles (BOB, CROP, FADE, SHAG)
- Purple group — ____ pin (BOBBY, HAIR, PUSH, SAFETY)
One more perfect game takes my overall streak up to nine wins in a row.
This was one of those days where the groups all started coming together in my mind as I was writing out the word list. I had no trouble at all with this grid.
The first thing that sprang to mind when I saw BOBBY was “pin.” Sure enough, there were three words that fit that connection and I found them quickly. I innately understood that the New York Times probably wouldn’t be referencing the most lurid meaning of SHAG, so I figured it was likely a hairstyle reference. Boom, blues done.
The yellows and greens were easy too. I imagine tomorrow’s game is going to give us a much sterner test.
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 dropped in Norah Jones and Sheryl Crow songs over the last couple of days after mentioning them, so it only feels fair to do the same with Audioslave. What a voice Chris Cornell had.
