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 round 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…
- PERSONAL
- PORT
- MAJOR
- OUTLET
- PRIVATE
- DEMAND
- POP-UP
- MARKET
- AUDIENCE
- WANT
- CAPTAIN
- JACK
- GENERAL
- APPETITE
- SOCKET
- ATTACK
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — military roles
- Green group — ways to connect
- Blue group — the people would like to have something
- Purple group — ways to catch your attention and let you know about a product, service or opportunity
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 — army ranks
- Green group — place to plug something in
- Blue group — consumer desire, collectively
- Purple group — ____ ad
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 — army ranks (CAPTAIN, GENERAL, MAJOR, PRIVATE)
- Green group — place to plug something in (JACK, OUTLET, PORT, SOCKET)
- Blue group — consumer desire, collectively (APPETITE, AUDIENCE, DEMAND, MARKET)
- Purple group — ____ ad (ATTACK, PERSONAL, POP-UP, WANT)
No perfect game today, but my win streak is back up to three.
I got the yellows pretty swiftly, but then ran into a little trouble. I guessed a group of OUTLET, POP-UP, MARKET and PORT as group of places where you can go shopping, but no luck. Thankfully, I realized my error an found the greens.
I took a little bit of a gamble with the blues as WANT could have fit in there, but I got the group on my first guess. That left the purples, for which I did not deduce the connection for the win.
I would tend to call it a “wanted ad” rather than a “want ad,” so that’s one reason why the connection didn’t click. Another it that I was thinking of POP-UP only in terms of a store or book, and not the relentlessly annoying ads that pester everyone who has ever used a web browser.
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. Crazy Town vocalist Seth Binzer (aka Shifty Shellshock) just died at the age of only 49, so I’m dropping in his biggest hit as a little tribute. This is one of those so-bad-it’s-good songs, but it’s an earworm.