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Hey there, everyone! I hope your week’s off to a tremendous start. Let’s make sure those positive vibes continue by maintaining your Connections streak.
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:
- YO
- JIM
- SKETCH
- SUP
- SHADY
- PLAN
- FEAST
- SUS
- FIT
- ME
- DRAFT
- FEED
- ELLA
- OUTLINE
- DINE
- PICKINGS
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — blueprint
- Green group — take pleasure in eating
- Blue group — ways to refer to yourself or others sin nombres
- Purple group — an adjective that could be used for the new, sleeker iPad Pro
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 — early iteration
- Green group — enjoy a meal
- Blue group — Spanish pronouns
- Purple group — slim ____
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 — early iteration (DRAFT, PLAN, OUTLINE, SKETCH)
- Green group — enjoy a meal (DINE, FEAST, FEED, SUP)
- Blue group — Spanish pronouns (ELLA, ME, SUS, YO)
- Purple group — slim ____ (FIT, JIM, PICKINGS, SHADY)
It feels pretty good to get my first perfect game in a few days for back-to-back wins.
The purple group was immediately obvious as soon as I got to PICKINGS while I was writing out the word list. It took me no time at all to find the three words that went with that. The rearranged grid helpfully bunched together the yellows, so those were easy to spot.
I had a tiny spot of difficulty when it came to the last few groups. I don’t know much Spanish, so I figured at first that YO and SUP were part of a quartet of informal greetings. But I didn’t see anything that made sense with those.
That’s when I spotted the trifecta of DINE, FEAST and FEED. SUP was the only word that made sense with those, and that left the blues 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. I never got hugely into Eminem, but there was absolutely no escaping him around the turn of the century. The guy was everywhere. So, just because Slim Shady was referenced in today’s game, here are a couple of his finest tracks with all the cuss words left in:
