Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another game of Connections!
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…
- BIRTHDAY
- MARBLE
- WRENCH
- CONCRETE
- CURVEBALL
- WORKSHOP
- PARTY
- POUND
- SPITBALL
- MATERIAL
- REAL
- TANTRUM
- SOLID
- BRAINSTORM
- CRUMB
- IDEATE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — form plans
- Green group — palpable, tactile
- Blue group — baked desserts
- Purple group — linked by a word related to “chuck” and “pitch”
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 — develop, as ideas
- Green group — tangible
- Blue group — kinds of cake
- Purple group — things you can throw, in metaphors
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
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Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — develop, as ideas (BRAINSTORM, IDEATE, SPITBALL, WORKSHOP)
- Green group — tangible (CONCRETE, MATERIAL, REAL, SOLID)
- Blue group — kinds of cake (BIRTHDAY, CRUMB, MARBLE, POUND)
- Purple group — things you can throw, in metaphors (CURVEBALL, PARTY, TANTRUM, WRENCH)
No perfect game today, but I’m very happy to have back-to-back wins.
The yellows were pretty straightforward, but then I got caught out by a red herring. I thought I had a handle on the blues, but my initial guess of MARBLE, PARTY, POUND and BIRTHDAY was incorrect, with CRUMB being the other option. It took a little trial and error to find the correct combination, with POUND (nope) and PARTY (yup) being the words I tried swapping out.
After that, the greens were pretty apparent. That left the purples, for which I figured out the connection at the last second, 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 Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. It finally happened, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” the consensus song of the summer, has wormed its way into my brain. Just in case you haven’t heard it yet…