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Happy Thursday, everyone! I hope you’re having a terrific week so far. I don’t know about you, but I’m kind of beat, so I’m going to try to sneak in a swim earlier than usual so I can get as much sleep as possible tonight. I deserve it.
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…
- CHAMPAGNE
- SUPER
- NOVA
- REUNION
- BIRTHDAY
- NATURE
- NICE
- COCKTAIL
- ANGERS
- EXTRA
- SURPRISE
- MASTERPIECE
- HYPER
- FRONTLINE
- OVER
- DINNER
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — elevated additions to other words
- Green group — shindig variants
- Blue group — frequently seen on a free-to-air network
- Purple group — des endroits
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 — prefix meaning “very”
- Green group — kinds of parties
- Blue group — PBS shows
- Purple group — places in France
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 — prefix meaning “very” (EXTRA, HYPER, OVER, SUPER)
- Green group — kinds of parties (BIRTHDAY, COCKTAIL, DINNER, SURPRISE)
- Blue group — PBS shows (FRONTLINE, MASTERPIECE, NATURE, NOVA)
- Purple group — places in France (ANGERS, CHAMPAGNE, NICE, REUNION)
Once again, I was very close to a perfect game, but I’ll take five wins in a row.
First of all, that top row of CHAMPAGNE, SUPER, NOVA and REUNION is a fun reference to the recent Oasis reunion.
I got the yellows first, even though I wasn’t totally certain that OVER fit. The greens were straightforward and up next.
Seeing CHAMPAGNE and NICE close to each other made me think there was a group of French places or words. However, I incorrectly included NATURE (which is French in origin) instead of REUNION. I realized my error and remembered that the latter is a French island in the Indian Ocean. That left the blues for my latest triumph.
Here’s a fun fact I just learned while looking up the overseas departments and regions of France: the border between French Guiana and Brazil is France’s longest land border with another country. The more you know.
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 Friday’s game if you need them.
P.S. The obvious thing to do here would be to go for an Oasis song. But nuh uh. I’m a contrarian at heart, so let’s enjoy that other wonderful “super nova” song. I’ve featured “Red Wine Supernova” before, so let’s go with this great live version:
