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Hope your weekend’s off to a great start! I just received a projector and Chromecast I ordered for my bedroom, so as soon as I get everything set up, I’ll be retreating back to bed for a movie catch-up day. (I’ll make the most of warmer weather over the next few days, promise.)
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…
- PROVOKE
- SOAP
- NETTLE
- CANDLE
- INSULT
- INCENSE
- INSPIRE
- MADDEN
- JELLYFISH
- CIVILIZATION
- PROMPT
- LOTION
- HALO
- GENERATE
- WASP
- METROID
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — make something happen
- Green group — these are usually pleasant for one of the senses
- Blue group — ouch, that hurts!
- Purple group — you can access some of these on a Sony or Microsoft device
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 — bring about
- Green group — things that are often scented
- Blue group — things that might sting
- Purple group — video game franchises
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 — bring about (GENERATE, INSPIRE, PROMPT, PROVOKE)
- Green group — things that are often scented (CANDLE, INCENSE, LOTION, SOAP)
- Blue group — things that might sting (INSULT, JELLYFISH, NETTLE, WASP)
- Purple group — video game franchises (CIVILIZATION, HALO, MADDEN, METROID)
That’s three straight perfect games and overall wins. Here’s how I fared:
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Boooo, I was so close to getting what I call a true perfect game of getting the groups in order from most to least difficult with no mistakes.
The purple group was immediately obvious to me. I appreciate that not everyone is a gamer, but I felt that putting Nintendo in the clue would have made it a hair too easy.
I took a minute to absorb the grid and see if I could get a true perfect game. It took a second to see what went with WASP, NETTLE and JELLYFISH and chuckled when I realized it had to be INSULT.
I figured that a group focused on concepts instead of physical items would be the greens, but alas, no true perfect game today. Yellows, then the greens gave me a threepeat.
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. I had genuinely lined this up for my latest recommendation before playing today’s grid, so that feels like kismet. I played the wonderful, devastating Neva this week. It’s an utterly gorgeous game about the passage of time and the need to act to save the environment. You can read more about my thoughts (and get a couple more indie game recommendations) and watch the trailer below. Neva is certainly worth a few hours of anyone’s time this weekend:
