Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Hey, everyone! Welcome to the start of a new week! I hope you had a restful weekend and that you’re raring to go. It’ll be a great week for you, I can tell.
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:
- FIX
- SHIP
- HOLE
- STAIN
- TEMPERATURE
- LINER
- ANGLE
- SPOT
- BALM
- EDUCATION
- SEND
- CRIME
- CORNER
- GLOSS
- POST
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — dispatch
- Green group — tools to enhance the lower part of your face
- Blue group — in trouble, perhaps
- Purple group — quantified in a certain type of scale
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
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Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — deliver, as a package
- Green group — kinds of lip makeup
- Blue group — predicament
- Purple group — measured in degrees
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
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Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — deliver, as a package (MAIL, POST, SEND, SHIP)
- Green group — kinds of lip makeup (BALM, GLOSS, LINER, STAIN)
- Blue group — predicament (CORNER, FIX, HOLE, SPOT)
- Purple group — measured in degrees (ANGLE, CRIME, EDUCATION, TEMPERATURE)
No perfect game today, but I’m up to 27 wins in a row.
BALM and GLOSS gave me an entry way into the greens. I wasn’t sure if STAIN belonged there, but I lucked out. I got the yellows next, then ran into a spot of bother.
It took a couple of random guesses that left me “one away” before I figured out the purple group thanks to ANGLE and TEMPERATURE. That left the blues, which I didn’t figure out because CORNER didn’t seem to quite belong there.
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.
P.S. I included this song in the column quite recently, but given that I’m back in Scotland for a bit and the weather is what it is, I can’t help but bring this classic to your ears once more.