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Hey, folks! Welcome to the start of a new week! It’s going to be a great one for you, I can tell.
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…
- CHIP
- BED
- ROUGH
- PATCH
- ROCKY
- STITCH
- PARRALEL
- UNEVEN
- RUGGED
- SOUTH
- AMUSEMENT
- PLOT
- NATIONAL
- PARCEL
- SCRATCHY
- BUMPY
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — a rocky road, perhaps
- Green group — like an allotment
- Blue group — like PINKY or JERRY
- Purple group — a public space, perhaps
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 — not smooth, as terrain
- Green group — bit of land for growing
- Blue group — member of a cartoon duo
- Purple group — ____ park
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 — not smooth, as terrain (BUMPY, ROUGH, RUGGED, UNEVEN)
- Green group — bit of land for growing (BED, PARCEL, PATCH, PLOT)
- Blue group — member of a cartoon duo (CHIP, ROCKY, SCRATCHY, STITCH)
- Purple group — ____ park (AMUSEMENT, NATIONAL, PARALLEL, SOUTH)
I’m back to winning ways and I was glad to do so with a perfect game. Here’s how I fared:
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SCRATCHY and CHIP were my entry point into the blues, and the yellows were easy enough. Once I saw the last eight words, the greens came together in my mind pretty quickly. I did figure out the purple connection before submitting that group 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. I’ve never seen Lilo and Stitch, so I should probably rectify that after today’s blue group:
