Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Hey there, everyone! I hope you had an excellent weekend. I sure did, topped off by watching the best team of the tournament winning Euro 2024. Fully deserved (though I will remind everyone here that Scotland beat Spain 2-0 last year).
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…
- BELIEVE
- HANDLE
- MOUNT
- SHOW
- BASE
- BLUFF
- ACCEPT
- STAND
- FRONT
- FIFTH
- BRACKET
- TRUST
- PINT
- BUY
- SHAM
- LITER
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — take as fact
- Green group — pretense
- Blue group — necessities to position the largest screen in the home
- Purple group — receptacles
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 — regard as true
- Green group — facade
- Blue group — ways to secure a TV
- Purple group — liquor bottle sizes
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 — regard as true (ACCEPT, BELIEVE, BUY, TRUST)
- Green group — facade (BLUFF, FRONT, SHAM, SHOW)
- Blue group — ways to secure a TV (BASE, BRACKET, MOUNT, STAND)
- Purple group — liquor bottle sizes (FIFTH, HANDLE, LITER, PINT)
My fourth perfect game in a row brings my overall win streak up to eight.
Spotting PINT and LITER on the bottom row made the purples clear enough. BLUFF and SHAM were my entry points into the greens, as were ACCEPT and BELIEVE for the yellows. That left the blues, for which I did figure out the connection (at least terms of them being home hardware materials), 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 Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Has to be this song today given the presence of BELIEVE in today’s words.