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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:
- DIRT
- MIND
- SHARE
- REGARD
- POST
- INTELLIGENCE
- FOLLOW
- STAKE
- OBSERVE
- INTEREST
- COLUMN
- SECRETS
- POLE
- INFORMATION
- PERCENTAGE
- PILLAR
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — pylon, baluster etc
- Green group — abide
- Blue group — owned part of a whole thing
- Purple group — acquired through recon
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 — upright support
- Green group — heed, as rules
- Blue group — allotment
- Purple group — gathered by spies
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 — upright support (COLUMN, PILLAR, POLE, POST)
- Green group — heed, as rules (FOLLOW, MIND, OBSERVE, REGARD)
- Blue group — allotment (INTEREST, PERCENTAGE, SHARE, STAKE)
- Purple group — gathered by spies (DIRT, INFORMATION, INTELLIGENCE, SECRETS)
My first perfect game in a couple of days takes me up to eight straight wins overall.
I was surpised by the purple group as I thought that was pretty easy. Those words jumped out at me immediately. The yellows were next, followed by the blues. All pretty self-explanatory. I would not have been sure about including MIND with the rest of the greens, so I’m glad that was my final group of the day.
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. I’ve decided to highlight some of the British bands I grew up with for the next little while. First up is a Scottish band I still love now, Biffy Clyro. They’re festival headliners in the UK, but I saw them in a 600-capacity club in Montreal about seven years ago. That was an excellent night. This is one of my favorite songs from them:
