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Hey, gang! I hope you’re having a fantastic weekend, whether or not it’s a long one in your part of the world.
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…
- CHARCOAL
- HAMMER
- GOLF BAG
- GRILL
- TOOLBOX
- RAVEN
- LIMOUSINE
- JET
- BROWN
- DRUM
- SABLE
- CHAR
- ANVIL
- MOVIE SET
- SEAR
- CANAL
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — prepare dinner on the stovetop
- Green group — components of a body part
- Blue group — varieties of a color
- Purple group — linked by someone who can take you elsewhere, 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 — cook in a pan
- Green group — parts of the ear
- Blue group — shades of black
- Purple group — where you might find “a driver”
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 — cook in a pan (BROWN, CHAR, GRILL, SEAR)
- Green group — parts of the ear (ANVIL, CANAL, DRUM, HAMMER)
- Blue group — shades of black (CHARCOAL, JET, RAVEN, SABLE)
- Purple group — where you might find “a driver” (GOLF BAG, LIMOUSINE, MOVIE SET, TOOLBOX)
My eight-win streak is over and I wasn’t even close to extending it.
The only group I got was the yellows, and only because that was pretty obvious. I had all kinds of problems from there. I fell into the trap of focusing on things associated with the rich and famous, so I made a guess of LIMOUSINE, JET, MOVIE SET and GOLF BAG, which left me one away from a group, but I was barking up the wrong tree. For my next guess I swapped out MOVIE SET for CANAL and was further away from getting a group.
I changed tactics by guessing a group of metal things: ANVIL, SABLE, HAMMER, TOOLBOX (I mistook SABLE for “saber.” Whoops!). Swapping out TOOLBOX for GOLF BAG — as in to have a group of things that have handles (again, bear in mind my “saber” misunderstanding) — spelled doom for me.
I’ve never heard of an ANVIL and HAMMER as parts of the ear. I knew about JET and RAVEN as shades of black but not CHARCOAL or SABLE. I probably should have figured out the purple group, though!
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.
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