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Hey, folks! Fingers crossed your week is off to a great start! After some sketchy weather over the weekend, I’m glad that things are calmer/warmer and I can make use of my pool again. I’m dreading the end of the season, as I find it far easier to consistently work out in the water instead of the gym.
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…
- KICK
- THUNDER
- BRUSH
- HEAT
- GEL
- SET
- MAGIC
- FIRE
- CLIPPERS
- ROAR
- CAPE
- TAROT
- BOOM
- SPICE
- BASEBALL
- CRASH
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — sudden, loud noises
- Green group — adjectives you might hear on Hot Ones
- Blue group — items you might see alongside shears and mirrors
- Purple group — POKÉMON and PLAYING would fit in 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 — explosive sound
- Green group — chili pepper quality
- Blue group — classic barbershop supplies
- Purple group — kinds of cards
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 — explosive sound (BOOM, CRASH, ROAR, THUNDER)
- Green group — chili pepper quality (FIRE, HEAT, KICK, SPICE)
- Blue group — classic barbershop supplies (BRUSH, CAPE, CLIPPERS, GEL)
- Purple group — kinds of cards (BASEBALL, MAGIC, SET, TAROT)
Back-to-back perfect games brings me up to four straight wins.
I figured out the blues first, but it took a minute to realize that CAPE was the fourth word I was looking for. The yellows were up next and straightforward enough. It didn’t take long to deduce the greens either, and I did spot the connection for the purples before submitting that group. That said, I wasn’t sure what SET had to do with the other words.
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 Wednesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. By the time you read this, hell may have frozen over and the long-awaited Oasis reunion may be official. I was a big fan as a kid and enjoyed seeing them live once, but more often than not Liam and Noel Gallagher come across as the surliest middle-aged blokes alive. That hasn’t exactly gotten me excited for a reunion, no matter how many great songs they’ve put out. Anyway, here’s “Wonderwall” (kidding):