Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Hey there, folks! Happy Friday. I hope you’ve got some delicious summer weekend plans lined up. I do wish I had access to a boat so I could hang out on the lake all day tomorrow and Sunday. Maybe when I’m retired, many years from now.
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…
- ODD
- LIBRARY
- CHOCOLATE
- SOAP
- PIGEON
- MOTHER
- RED
- LAB
- BLACK
- GREY
- GYM
- PEACE
- GOLDEN
- EVEN
- SILLY
- AUDITORIUM
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — educational locations
- Green group — gamblers’ choices
- Blue group — linked by a type of bird
- Purple group — they all come before another type of bird
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 — school facilities
- Green group — roulette bets
- Blue group — associated with “dove”
- Purple group — ____ goose
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 — school facilities (AUDITORIUM, GYM, LAB, LIBRARY)
- Green group — roulette bets (BLACK, EVEN, ODD, RED)
- Blue group — associated with “dove” (CHOCOLATE, PEACE, PIGEON, SOAP)
- Purple group — ____ goose (GOLDEN, GREY, MOTHER, SILLY)
A perfect game today brought my overall win streak up to five games.
This was the third relatively easy win in a row, which is making me worried about what’s in store for us over the weekend. I got the purple group first as GOLDEN and SILLY were close to each other and the connection formed in my brain.
The greens were next as the rearranged grid put EVEN and ODD next to each other and I recognized that they were referring to my favorite casino game. For a moment I thought GYM and LAB were part of a red herring (as in “gym rat” and “lab rat”) before realizing they were half of the yellows. That left the blues, which I did not figure out, for the 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 Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I don’t know why this popped into my head today, but it did so I’m sharing it for you to enjoy as well.