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Hey there! Happy Sunday. I hope you’re having a fantastic weekend. I have my fingers crossed that the weather holds up today so I can go to a street food festival without worrying about getting drenched.
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…
- NERD
- GRUMP
- SNOOZE
- WHAT IF
- SAY
- DO
- DOPE
- RUNT
- SLEEP
- KISS
- SUPPOSE
- ALARM
- HOUR
- PERHAPS
- TIME SET
- WHOPPER
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — the first things many people see in the morning
- Green group — how about this?
- Blue group — sweet treats
- Purple group — a Disney princess’ cohorts, for short
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 — alarm clock buttons
- Green group — “here’s a thought…”
- Blue group — candy pieces
- Purple group — Seven Dwarfs minus last letter
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 — alarm clock buttons (ALARM, HOUR, SNOOZE, TIME SET)
- Green group — “here’s a thought…” (PERHAPS, SAY, SUPPOSE, WHAT IF)
- Blue group — candy pieces (KISS, NERD, RUNT, WHOPPER)
- Purple group — Seven Dwarfs minus last letter (DO, DOPE, GRUMP, SLEEP)
Nooooo, my 26-game winning streak is over.
I started out on a sour note by twice including SLEEP in my yellow guesses. Not a great beginning. I got the greens without much trouble but then everything truly fell apart.
I didn’t grow up with any of the candies in the blue group, though I have had some Nerds. I probably should have figured out the purple group via SLEEP and GRUMP, but I suppose my head wasn’t in the game enough.
Alas, a new streak starts tomorrow.
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 Monday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I mentioned something in one of yesterday’s clues about resting your weary head, which brought to mind “California Stars.” Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics (which I didn’t quite quote accurately in my clue) and it was later set to music and performed by Billy Bragg and Wilco. Structurally, it’s a simple song, but it’s astoundingly beautiful and evocative:
