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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means — it’s time for another round of Connections!
While I was playing a few different games recently, I realized that we’re in a golden age of puzzle games. There’s something for everyone right now, even folks who don’t typically play puzzle games (or even video games). I wrote a piece about that, and I hope you’ll check it out. I realized just after publishing that I neglected to mention a few puzzle games I’m actually pretty good at — such as Connections.
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:
- BULLY
- BULL
- EATS
- MEAT
- STOCK
- STEER
- RATTLE
- GUIDE
- FARE
- FLEA
- COW
- CHOW
- LEAD
- GRUB
- DIRECT
- DAUNT
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — nourishment
- Green group — shepherd
- Blue group — browbeat
- Purple group — linked by a word that means “to promote”
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 — food
- Green group — pilot
- Blue group — intimidate
- Purple group — ____ market
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 — food (CHOW, EATS, FARE, GRUB)
- Green group — pilot (DIRECT, GUIDE, LEAD, STEER)
- Blue group — intimidate (BULLY, COW, DAUNT, RATTLE)
- Purple group — ____ market (BULL, FLEA, MEAT, STOCK)
Another perfect game takes my overall streak up to eight wins in a row.
If I’d been just a little bolder, I would have gotten the purple group first for the third day on the trot. As soon as I saw BULLY and BULL together, I figured there’d be a “market” connection. Sure enough, spotting STOCK and FLEA quickly confirmed that. I wasn’t 100% sure about the fourth word though, since COW could have fit. So in my yearning for a perfect game I decided to look elsewhere first.
I quickly knocked off the greens then the yellows. COW made more sense with the rest of the blues than MEAT, so I correctly guessed the purple group then wrapped things up with the blues.
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 Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I mentioned the album that this track appears on yesterday, so why not drop this song in today? I love the optimism of this one.
