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Hey, folks! Welcome to the start of a new week! I hope you’re well-rested and raring to go. Today’s game is quite a tricky one, so I hope I’m able to help you maintain your streak if you need a little help.
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…
- KING KONG
- WHOOP
- BEEP BEEP
- YAHOO
- DING-DONG
- HAR-HAR
- KOKO
- HOOT
- SKRRT
- BUBBLES
- DODO
- PURR
- YUK
- YO-YO
- VROOM
- GEORGE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — someone ill-informed, ridiculous or foolish
- Green group — vehicle sounds
- Blue group — one is amused
- Purple group — ABU and CLYDE would fit in here
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 — knucklehead
- Green group — car onomatopoeia
- Blue group — sounds of laughter
- Purple group — famous primates
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 — knucklehead (DING-DONG, DODO, YAHOO, YO-YO)
- Green group — car onomatopoeia (BEEP BEEP, PURR, SKRRT, VROOM)
- Blue group — sounds of laughter (HAR-HAR, HOOT, WHOOP, YUK)
- Purple group — famous primates (BUBBLES, GEORGE, KING KONG, KOKO)
I’m back to winning ways with a perfect game. Here’s how I fared:
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I laughed the second I saw the grid pop up. Quite the collection of ridiculous words. KING KONG made the purples fairly obvious to me, though. BUBBLES was Michael Jackson’s chimp, while GEORGE refers to Curious George and KOKO, a gorilla, was said to be able to understand thousands of words of English.
I wasn’t sure about SKRRT fitting in with the greens, but I took a guess and that worked out. From there, I wasn’t sure about the blues and yellows, but a few lucky guesses got me to the former. That left the yellow group for victory.
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 Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Congo might have been worth recommending here given the inclusion of KOKO, but let’s go with a much better primate-related horror movie. I think Jordan Peele is perhaps the most exciting mainstream film director working today. I love all of his three films so far, but Nope is probably my favorite. It’s just fantastic:
