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Happy Thursday, folks! I hope you’re having a wonderful 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:
- POP
- EYE
- COW
- GAG
- EAR
- YAK
- EWE
- JAW
- DOE
- MAR
- YAP
- BIB
- SAT
- HEN
- MER
- GAB
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — chinwag
- Green group — feminine fauna, perhaps
- Blue group — the same both ways
- Purple group — Jimmy Eats (part of) World
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 — chat, informal
- Green group — female animals
- Blue group — palindromes
- Purple group — starts of planet names
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 — chat, informal (GAB, JAW, YAK, YAP)
- Green group — female animals (COW, DOE, EWE, HEN)
- Blue group — palindromes (BIB, EYE, GAG, POP)
- Purple group — starts of planet names (EAR, MAR, MER, SAT)
I’m back to winning ways after losing an 11-game streak yesterday.
From a board full of longer words yesterday to only having three-letter terms today is a little jarring, but all part of the fun of this game.
I spotted right away that there were several palindromes, but I overlooked POP to make my only mistake today. After that, I got the groups in order. I was thankful for that, since I would not have figured out the purple group. I feel like you need to be in a certain mind space to figure out wordplay and I’m not quite there today. Still, a win is a 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 Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I’ve been listening to Teenage Joans quite a bit since their killer appearance on Like A Version recently. I really enjoyed their cover of “Call Me Maybe” even if they called it the “song of their childhood” and made me feel a million years old. Despite that personal slight against me, I’m happy to give them a lil’ plug here:
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