Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Hello, hello! Welcome to the start of a new week. I hope you enjoyed the weekend (or very long weekend in some cases) and that you’re raring to go. Let’s get this Monday off to a positive start by maintaining your Connections streak.
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…
- CANINE
- TRICK
- SPIRIT
- OZONE
- OFTEN
- POINTER
- WILL
- VISIT
- FREQUENT
- RESOLVE
- HAUNT
- TIP
- GRIT
- SUGGESTION
- FREIGHT
- PATRONIZE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — words of wisdom
- Green group —resilience
- Blue group — go to a regular spot
- Purple group — look at the endings and you’ll figure it out
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 — bit of advice
- Green group — fortitude
- Blue group — spend time at
- Purple group — words ending in numbers
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 — bit of advice (POINTER, SUGGESTION, TIP, TRICK)
- Green group — fortitude (GRIT, RESOLVE, SPIRIT, WILL)
- Blue group — spend time at (FREQUENT, HAUNT, PATRONIZE, VISIT)
- Purple group — words ending in numbers (CANINE, FREIGHT, OFTEN, OZONE)
I’m back to winning ways with a perfect game. Hooray!
My eyes were immediately drawn to FREQUENT and OFTEN, but I quickly realized that pairing was a red herring. It only took me a few seconds longer to figure out that the other meaning of FREQUENT was the relevant one here. So, that helped me deduce the blues.
The greens were up next, quickly followed by the yellows. That left the purple group, which was one of those slightly eyeball-worthy ones that I did not figure out.
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. After K-pop was one of the purple terms the other day, I haven’t stopped listening to a few K-pop tracks I really like. Here’s one from Le Sserafim, to whom I was introduced via an Overwatch 2 collaboration.