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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!
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…
- JOKER
- DICE
- CHANCE
- CASINO
- OCTOPUS
- SLOT MACHINE
- CUBE
- GAMBLE
- SLICE
- BET
- SHIVA
- JULIENNE
- HEAT
- VENUS DE MILO
- RISK
- TAXI DRIVER
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — put something at stake
- Green group — dinner prep methods
- Blue group — linked by an actor
- Purple group — notable for how many of a certain thing they have
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 — put on the line
- Green group — use a kitchen knife
- Blue group — Robert de Niro movies
- Purple group — distinctive number of arms (or lack thereof)
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 — put on the line (BET, CHANCE, GAMBLE, RISK)
- Green group — use a kitchen knife (CUBE, DICE, JULIENNE, SLICE)
- Blue group — Robert de Niro movies (CASINO, HEAT, JOKER, TAXI DRIVER)
- Purple group — distinctive number of arms (or lack thereof) (OCTOPUS, SHIVA, SLOT MACHINE, VENUS DE MILO)
I’m back to winning ways with a perfect game. Here’s how I fared:
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I really enjoyed this one, not least because I had more or less figured it out by the time I’d written out the word list.
There were, to my mind, seven gambling-related words, so at least three of them had to go into other groups. I got the blues first by recognizing that all four corners were de Niro flicks.
Seeing OCTOPUS and SLOT MACHINE helped me figure out the purples (I found that group delightful). That left the straightforward greens, with JULIENNE being the entry point, and yellows for victory.
On a personal note, I went to the casino on Friday and stopped playing roulette when I was $200 up. That paid for dinner and the cabs at least!
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 Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Joker is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen and I shamefully have not watched Heat. But I can at least recommend Taxi Driver. It’s not exactly for the faint hearted, but it’s a brilliant film:
