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Hey, everyone! Welcome to the weekend. I hope you make the most of it, whatever that means to you.
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…
- SAT
- MAY
- TO
- SUN
- WALL
- WED
- PUT
- COUPLE
- TWO
- TIE
- TUE
- LAID
- TOO
- WILD
- PLACED
- UNITE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — soundalikes
- Green group — hook up
- Blue group — positioned
- Purple group — flora, 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 — homophones
- Green group — connect
- Blue group — placed down
- Purple group — ____flower
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 — homophones (TO, TOO, TUE, TWO)
- Green group — connect (COUPLE, TIE, UNITE, WED)
- Blue group — placed down (LAID, PLACED, PUT, SAT)
- Purple group — ____flower (MAY, SUN, WALL, WILD)
No perfect game yet again. Rats. But my overall winning streak is up to six games, so I’m pleased about that.
Ever get that feeling when you open up a Connections grid that immediately makes you sigh then quickly smile? That’s what I experienced with today’s 16 words. Seeing a bunch of short words (or very long ones, as we had recently) instantly makes me think it’ll be a challenging game, but this one wasn’t too bad.
That said, a red herring caught me out right off the bat. SAT, SUN, WED and TUE was not a group, unfortunately. However, I did find the greens just after that, thanks to UNITE and TIE.
The grid then handily put the purples all next to each other, which made it easier to deduce those. I then found the yellows and blues for an almost-flawless 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 Sunday’s game if you need them.
P.S. The Glastonbury festival is taking place this weekend, so let’s go with a video featuring Friday’s headliner. Dua Lipa’s appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk is the series’ most-viewed entry to date and with good reason: it’s absolutely fantastic. Let’s get the party started, indeed.
