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Labor Day might have come and gone but there’s still technically a couple weeks left of summer, so I hope you make the most of it. I will be in the pool every single day that it’s not too cold until my building closes it for the season.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
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 items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
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 usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
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. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
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…
- TOO
- REAL
- FORE
- SPARE
- WON
- ARROW
- EXTRA
- POUND
- KNUCKLE
- EXCUSE
- OVER
- BLOCK
- SAVE
- BEYOND
- PARDON
- YEN
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — acquit, exonerate
- Green group — overly
- Blue group — spend around the world
- Purple group — linked by a leader or a part of the body
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 — absolve
- Green group — excessively
- Blue group — global currencies
- Purple group — ____head
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 — absolve (EXCUSE, PARDON, SAVE, SPARE)
- Green group — excessively (BEYOND, EXTRA, OVER, TOO)
- Blue group — global currencies (POUND, REAL, WON, YEN)
- Purple group — ____head (ARROW, BLOCK, FORE, KNUCKLE)
My first perfect game in a few days means I have back-to-back wins.
The blues jumped out at me right away and the yellows quickly followed. It was nice of the rearranged grid to bundle the greens together in the center to make them stand out. That left the purples — for which I should have figured out the connection — 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 Wednesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Whether you’re just easing back into things after a long weekend or it’s just a regular Tuesday for you, I think we can all agree that this is the perfect time of the week for a pick-me-up. So crank this one up and dance around for three minutes and 42 seconds. I can almost guarantee you’ll feel better:
And just in case you need some inspiration for your moves…
