Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Hey, folks! I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!
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:
- MOBILE
- FOLLOWERS
- SHOVELS
- BUFFALO
- LIKES
- INSULTS
- SHARES
- SHEEP
- APARTMENT
- BILLINGS
- PUPPETS
- OPTIONS
- EQUITY
- PHOENIX
- STOCKS
- LEMMINGS
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — those who fall in line
- Green group — partial business ownership
- Blue group — places in the third most-populous country
- Purple group — (sorry, I can’t resist)
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 — conformists
- Green group — company ownership offers
- Blue group — U.S. cities
- Purple group — what “digs” might mean
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 — conformists (FOLLOWERS, LEMMINGS, PUPPETS, SHEEP)
- Green group — company ownership offers (EQUITY, OPTIONS, SHARES, STOCKS)
- Blue group — U.S. cities (BILLINGS, BUFFALO, MOBILE, PHOENIX)
- Purple group — what “digs” might mean (APARTMENT, INSULTS, LIKES, SHOVELS)
My first perfect game in a couple of days brings my overall streak up to 12 wins.
FOLLOWERS, LIKES and SHARES added up to a social media red herring. I quickly realized that FOLLOWERS went with the yellows and SHARES with the greens.
It didn’t take much longer to deduce the cities, leaving the purple group for the win. I didn’t figure out the connection first, unfortunately. I would never have imagined anyone would call a shovel a “dig.”
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 Monday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Let’s keep the Pride celebrations going. I always enjoyed Scissor Sisters, and this is my favorite of theirs.