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One of the easiest Purple Groups I’ve seen in Connections, though it does require a certain amount of media knowledge.
How to Play Connections
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
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You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. So, onto the hints and answers:
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers.
- PUPPET
- TEACUP
- CLASSIC
- TOY
- MINIATURE
- CHRISTMAS
- STANDARD
- SPOON
- HIT
- NEVERENDING
- PROSTHETIC
- SAUCER
- WEST SIDE
- OLDIE
- TONG
- MAKEUP
Here is a hint that gives you one word per group:
- 🟡 Yellow Group – SPOON
- 🟢 Green Group – HIT
- 🔵 Blue Group – PUPPET
- 🟣 Purple Group – CHRISTMAS
The hints for the Connections groups today are:
- 🟡 Yellow Group – Sip it slowly
- 🟢 Green Group – Some things live forever
- 🔵 Blue Group – Film tactics
- 🟣 Purple Group – [word]______
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡 Yellow Group – Seen at Tea Service
- 🟢 Green Group – Enduring Song
- 🔵 Blue Group – Used in Movie Practical Effects
- 🟣 Purple Group – Words Before “Story” in Movie Titles
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:
- 🟡 Yellow Group – Seen at Tea Service (SAUCER, SPOON, TEACUP, TONGS)
- 🟢 Green Group – Enduring Song (CLASSIC, HIT, OLDIE, STANDARD)
- 🔵 Blue Group – Used in Movie Practical Effects (MAKEUP, MINIATURE, PUPPET, PROSTHETIC)
- 🟣 Purple Group – Words Before “Story” in Movie Titles (CHRISTMAS, NEVERNDING, TOY, WEST SIDE)
Alright, come on Purple Group, you’re supposed to be hard! There are practically no other things you’d associate with NEVERENDING and WEST SIDE besides the movies with STORY at the end, so all you had to do was look for two more, which were Toy Story and A Christmas Story. Too easy, too easy.
Yellow Group is not really in my wheelhouse as I don’t drink tea, but I obviously know that saucers, spoons and a teacup is part of it. I mean, teacup? What else was this category going to be. Tongs may be tricky, but it’s how you put sugar in the tea if you want to be fancy about it. I just chuck it in my coffee.
Blue Group was a little trickier as I thought Puppet and Miniature would be together, and Makeup and Prosthetic would be together, but I didn’t tie them all together as being practical movie effects until the end, and that was my last and default category filled.
Green Group was pretty easy except I have not really heard of a “Standard’” song before, and didn’t know what that was. I guess it is a “musical composition of established popularity,” So there you go.
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