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Hey, folks! I hope you had an excellent weekend. Here’s to a fantastic week!
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…
- SLICE
- SNEAK
- TIRE
- SUPPORT
- BAGEL
- SLIP
- LOAF
- WHIFF
- BLESSING
- WADE
- LIFESAVER
- CONSENT
- WREATH
- HOOK
- APPROVAL
- SHANK
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — rubber stamp, green light
- Green group — circular things with a hollow middle
- Blue group — the stuff of Tiger’s and Rory’s nightmares
- Purple group — outdoor essentials that are missing a piece
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 — official sanctioning
- Green group — torus-shaped things
- Blue group — bad golf shots
- Purple group — footwear minus “er” sound
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 — official sanctioning (APPROVAL, BLESSING, CONSENT, SUPPORT)
- Green group — torus-shaped things (BAGEL, LIFESAVER, TIRE, WREATH)
- Blue group — bad golf shots (HOOK, SHANK, SLICE, WHIFF)
- Purple group — footwear minus “er” sound (LOAF, SLIP, SNEAK, WADE)
I’m glad to get my first perfect game in a while to extend my winning streak to three games.
The blues were almost immediately clear to me, though I initially suspected that SLIP was one of the four words instead of SLICE. APPROVAL and CONSENT then made the yellows clear.
When I saw BAGEL and WREATH next to each other, I considered the shape of both things, and that made the connection evident. That left the purple group (for which I did not figure out the connection) for the win.
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. Here’s something a little different for today’s recommendation. I recently had a chat with Christoph Hartmann, the head of Amazon Games, about the division’s strategy and aims. I felt that it was an illuminating conversation. If you’re interested, you can read about what he had to say here:
