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Hey, folks! Welcome to the weekend. I hope you’ve got a fun one lined up. I made a reservation at a buzzy new restaurant, so I’m looking forward to checking that out. On that note, Michelin evaluators are coming to Montreal (where I live) for the first time. While it will be great to see some local joints finally get well-overdue stars, it could become much harder to book a table at some of them.
Anyway, 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…
- LION
- SWITCH
- RETRO
- BURGER
- VINTAGE
- SUB
- PROM
- SLIDER
- SUPER
- GRAPE
- BUTTON
- CALIFORNIA
- REGION
- KNOB
- PRO
- WINERY
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — details on a booze label
- Green group — found in a cockpit or TV broadcast control room
- Blue group — you’ll find these before other words
- Purple group — linked by something found on a chessboard or an Elvis Presley nickname
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 — wine bottle info
- Green group — console inputs
- Blue group — prefixes
- Purple group — ____ king
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 — wine bottle info (GRAPE, REGION, VINTAGE, WINERY)
- Green group — console inputs (BUTTON, KNOB, SLIDER, SWITCH)
- Blue group — prefixes (PRO, RETRO, SUB, SUPER)
- Purple group — ____ king (BURGER, CALIFORNIA, LION, PROM)
My six-win streak is over and in spectacular fashion.
I genuinely don’t remember the last time I failed to get a single group. At first, I thought there might have been a group of sandwich-style dishes. I was unsure what the fourth might be, so I made a stab in the dark by combining SWITCH with BURGER, SLIDER and SUB. No dice.
I almost had the yellows with a guess of VINTAGE, GRAPE, CALIFORNIA and WINERY (which left me one away from a group) then swapping out WINERY for REGION. Same deal.
Finally, I thought RETRO and VINTAGE might have gone together, as in types of stores, so I tried going with REGION, GRAPE, CALIFORNIA and WINERY to no avail.
Yikes, as they say. Oh well, a new streak begins tomorrow. The next game can hardly go much worse for me.
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. It seems as good a time as any to watch the brilliant The Lion King for the first time in several years and try to forget all about how poorly this game went for me:
