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Hey, everyone. I’m going to skip my usual Wednesday schtick this week since this is a tough day for many folks. Be sure to check in on your loved ones.
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…
- DINOSAUR
- PEARL
- EGGPLANT
- MINT
- LAVENDER
- AMBER
- NUGGET
- PILE
- TIDBIT
- AMETHYST
- FORTUNE
- MOSQUITO
- BUNDLE
- PALEONTOLOGIST
- GRIMACE
- KERNEL
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — loads of moolah
- Green group — a little knowledge
- Blue group — elements of a 1993 movie that was at one point the highest-grossing film of all time
- Purple group — they’re like this group
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 — large amount of money
- Green group — bits of wisdom
- Blue group — featured in Jurassic Park
- Purple group — things that are purple
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 — large amount of money (BUNDLE, FORTUNE, MINT, PILE)
- Green group — bits of wisdom (KERNEL, NUGGET, PEARL, TIDBIT)
- Blue group — featured in Jurassic Park (AMBER, DINOSAUR, MOSQUITO, PALEONTOLOGIST)
- Purple group — things that are purple (AMETHYST, EGGPLANT, GRIMACE, LAVENDER)
My first perfect game in quite a while brings me up to four straight wins.
When I saw DINOSAUR and EGGPLANT on the first line, my mind immediately went to “things that are purple” because of Barney. PALENTOLOGIST was an indication that my instinct wasn’t quite right as there were only so many ways to go with that word. So I got the blues first and once I clocked GRIMACE, the purples followed soon after.
Things were straightforward from there as I found both the greens and the yellows fairly self-evident.
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’ve got two recommendations for you today. First, watch Jurassic Park. Either you have somehow have never seen it or it’s probably been too long since the last time you watched it. An all-time great film that made for one of my favorite-ever moviegoing experiences.
Second, I made my first appearance on the Engadget YouTube channel and podcast this week to discuss Monday’s iPhone 16 event. I feel like it went okay, so I’m comfortable sharing that here in case you’ve been wondering what I look and/or sound like.