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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 January 16
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:
- HELLO
- LIST
- TRICK
- WORD
- CANT
- FOOL
- SKINNY
- EGGSHELL
- LEAN
- CON
- GIGGLE
- SCOOP
- BOOB
- SLOPE
- DOPE
- DUPE
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — swindle, delude
- Green group — the lowdown, the 411
- Blue group — askew
- Purple group — punch digits into a number cruncher and flip it to read these
Connections Groups For January 16
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Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — deceive
- Green group — inside info
- Blue group — tilt to one side
- Purple group — words spelled with an upside-down calculator
Connections Answers For January 16
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Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — deceive (CON, DUPE, FOOL, TRICK)
- Green group — inside info (DOPE, SCOOP, SKINNY, WORD)
- Blue group — tilt to one side (CANT, LEAN, LIST, SLOPE)
- Purple group — words spelled with an upside-down calculator (BOOB, EGGSHELL, GIGGLE, HELLO)
I’m still struggling on the perfect game front, but I managed to secure victory for my third win in a row.
BOOB caught my eye first (…so to speak). That seemed like an odd word for the NYT to include in this game, but the group started to click once I spotted GIGGLE. After racing through the possibilities of calculator words, I finished that group first. Today’s kids, whose only experience with a calculator may be through a smartphone app, may never know the pure joy of figuring out which words they can spell on a proper calculator. What a delightful group this is.
The yellow group was up next and that gave me no problems. I did run into some difficulty with the greens. I hadn’t heard of DOPE being used in this context before, so it took a little trial and error before I landed on that word to complete the group. That left me with the blues for the win, and yes, I did figure out that connection before submitting my final group of the day.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connection’s clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.
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