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Hey, everyone! The weekend’s right around the corner but before we get there, we have one more weekday round of Connections to enjoy.
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…
- TIE
- TAN
- FAN
- FAWN
- CHECK
- FINISH
- MONITOR
- BUFF
- BOA
- SCREEN
- CREAM
- BASK
- TERMINAL
- CORSET
- DISPLAY
- GLOVES
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — like a TV
- Green group — Moulin Rouge essentials
- Blue group — variants of a color
- Purple group — lingua soundalikes
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 — visual interface (DISPLAY, MONITOR, SCREEN, TERMINAL)
- Green group — burlesque wear (BOA, CORSET, FAN, GLOVES)
- Blue group — beige shades (BUFF, CREAM, FAWN, TAN)
- Purple group — language homophones (BASK, CHECK, FINISH, TIE)
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 — visual interface (DISPLAY, MONITOR, SCREEN, TERMINAL)
- Green group — burlesque wear (BOA, CORSET, FAN, GLOVES)
- Blue group — beige shades (BUFF, CREAM, FAWN, TAN)
- Purple group — language homophones (BASK, CHECK, FINISH, TIE)
My latest win streak is over after three victories and a loss, unfortunately.
The greens were pretty straightforward, as were the yellows, but then I was stumped.
I thought there was a group of sun-related words with TAN and CREAM but no such luck. I tried to brute force my way to a win, but that didn’t work out. Also, is it just me, or is CREAM more a shade of white than beige?
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 Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. My work chat turned its attention to will.i.am after news emerged of him working on a project that would enable radio stations to operate artificial intelligence DJs. Of course, the jokes started flying around and this song was referenced quite a bit. Good luck getting it out of your head anytime soon.
