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Happy Thursday, gang! I hope you’re having the most excellent week.
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:
- PIE
- DAY
- NEW
- WINNER
- SPIKE
- ROW
- HIT
- JELL
- SUCCESS
- BUMP
- JACKIE
- SET
- DADDY
- MOO
- SERVE
- SMASH
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — blockbuster triumph
- Green group — moves in an Olympic sport that’s played on the court and the beach
- Blue group — they sound like parts of a Hellenic language
- Purple group — they share a single-letter suffix
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 — box office victory
- Green group — volleyball moves
- Blue group — homophones of Greek letters
- Purple group — ____-O
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 — box office victory (HIT, SMASH, SUCCESS, WINNER)
- Green group — volleyball moves (BUMP, SERVE, SET, SPIKE)
- Blue group — homophones of Greek letters (MOO, NEW, PIE, ROW)
- Purple group — ____-O (DADDY, DAY, JACKIE, JELL)
A pretty breezy game today, but I still made one mistake. That wasn’t enough to stop me from extending my overall win streak to six games. (Sidenote: hats off for the Pi Day reference. Well played.)
I got the purples first. JELL immediately caught my eye, with Jell-O being the first thing that sprung to mind. JACKIE (as in Onassis) confirmed that connection for me, and I quickly found Day-O and Daddy-O to round out the group.
From there, it was onto the greens and my sole mistake of the day. There was a red herring here, and if I’d figured out the yellow group first, that would not have been an issue. Alas, I included SMASH instead of BUMP for my first guess and that was incorrect. I resolved my error to wrap up the greens and the yellows.
I’m very glad I got those three groups first because I would not have stood a chance with the blues. I barely have a grasp of the Greek alphabet as is, so to have a group of homophones for those letters feels like a cruel and unjust punishment I was glad to avoid.
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 Friday’s game if you need them.
P.S. It’s been a minute since I included a music video at the end of this column for not good reason other than “I want to,” so here’s one for you. I’m going to see Queens of the Stone Age, my all-time favorite band, soon, so I’ve been delving back into Josh Homme’s oeuvre recently.
I was reminded of Them Crooked Vultures, his band with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. I love that group, and was lucky enough to see them in 2009. Here’s a groovy, bluesy song off their only album to date, just because:
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