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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.
Connections Hints For February 5
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:
- BISHOP
- BROTHER
- QUEEN
- DELI
- HEART
- NIECE
- SOUL
- PRINCE
- CARDINAL
- LORD
- MADONNA
- PRIOR
- PASTOR
- ROAM
- SHEESH
- PLEASE
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — “aw, come on”
- Green group — people of the cloth
- Blue group — members of one of music’s most storied institutions
- Purple group — they sound like travel destinations
Connections Groups For February 5
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — “give me a break”
- Green group — ecclesiastical titles
- Blue group — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- Purple group — city homophones
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 — “give me a break” (BROTHER, LORD, PLEASE, SHEESH)
- Green group — ecclesiastical titles (BISHOP, CARDINAL, PASTOR, PRIOR)
- Blue group — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees (HEART, MADONNA, PRINCE, QUEEN)
- Purple group — city homophones (DELI, NIECE, ROAM, SOUL)
My four-game winning streak has come crashing to a halt.
The green group tripped me up out of the gate. I guessed MADONNA and BROTHER instead of PRIOR, before eventually getting that group right. That meant there was really only one other meaning for MADONNA. I figured it was ‘80s music icons, but hey I still got the blue group.
Everything then came crashing down for me. I definitely should have figured out the yellows — SHEESH doesn’t exactly have a ton of meanings. I didn’t have an inkling about the purples either, so a couple of random guesses later and my streak was over.
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 Tuesday’s game if you need them.
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