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Hey, folks! Welcome to the weekend. Let’s go, insert your country here at the Olympics!
Anyway, today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
In Connections, 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 horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
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 typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.
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.
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…
- BEAR
- DETOUR
- RADIUS
- YIELD
- FOX
- TANGENT
- REVERSE
- SNACK
- TEN
- GENERATE
- DIGRESSION
- RIGHT
- PRODUCE
- ASIDE
- ARE
- BABE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — a non-sequitur, perhaps
- Green group — bestow, provide
- Blue group — beaut
- Purple group — the same letter could stand for all of these
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 — off-topic remarks
- Green group — create, as results
- Blue group — hottie
- Purple group — words represented by the letter “R”
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 — off-topic remarks (ASIDE, DETOUR, DIGRESSION, TANGENT)
- Green group — create, as results (BEAR, GENERATE, PRODUCE, YIELD)
- Blue group — hottie (BABE, FOX, SNACK, TEN)
- Purple group — words represented by the letter “R” (ARE, RADIUS, REVERSE, RIGHT)
No perfect game today, but I got my fifth win in a row.
I got the greens first, then the yellows. I have to admit, I don’t like when it comes down to the blues and purples. It’s usually pretty difficult at that point! I was pretty stuck, so I made a few random guesses and lucked out when the blues were the third of those. That left the purples 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 Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I was dearly hoping for a surprise reunion of Daft Punk at the opening ceremony of the Olympics. That was not to be, so I’ll just listen to that brilliant band as much as I can this weekend instead: