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Hey there, everyone! I hope your week’s off to a positive start.
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…
- SUPER
- COMPLEX
- EXPAND
- FACILITY
- ELABORATE
- SWELL
- GIFT
- BLOCK
- COMPOUND
- FLAIR
- NEAT
- EXPLAIN
- KNACK
- DEVELOPMENT
- SPECIFY
- NIFTY
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — positive exclamation
- Green group — “tell me more”
- Blue group — innate ability to be good at something
- Purple group — several structures
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 — peachy keen
- Green group — provide more details
- Blue group — ability to do something well
- Purple group — group of buildings
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 — peachy keen (NEAT, NIFTY, SUPER, SWELL)
- Green group — provide more details (ELABORATE, EXPAND, EXPLAIN, SPECIFY)
- Blue group — ability to do something well (FACILITY, FLAIR, GIFT, KNACK)
- Purple group — group of buildings (BLOCK, COMPLEX, COMPOUND, DEVELOPMENT)
I’m up to nine straight wins, but didn’t have a perfect game today.
I got the yellows, which were lined up neatly on the diagonal, first. I then took a stab at the purples, but incorrectly included FACILITY on my first couple of guesses before realizing my error. That word, of course, went with the blues, leaving the greens for the win.
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. If you feel yourself starting to get into a midweek slump, pull up your pants, crank this one up and dance around:
