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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!
Also, there’s some big news! The Connections archive is now available, so if you have an NYT Games or All Access subscription, you can go back and play any previous game you missed (and look up my earlier guides if you need help, of course!).
The NYT says you’ll get:
- Access to all past puzzles: Play any Connections puzzle from the archive, since its launch on June 12, 2023.
- Progress tracking: Pick up where you left off with any in-progress puzzles and track your gameplay in the archive.
- Personal performance insights: Review your play history and analyze your stats for past puzzles.
- Puzzle sharing and deeper insights: After solving an archive puzzle, subscribers can share their results.
Exciting stuff for us Connections nerds.
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…
- SPIN
- JACKKNIFE
- BUBBLES
- PROGRESS
- BUTTERCUP
- FIZZ
- BLOSSOM
- PITCHFORK
- MOJO
- MATURE
- FOAM
- BOILERPLATE
- WITHERSPOON
- BILLBOARD
- DEVELOP
- FROTH
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — a result of fermentation
- Green group — grow
- Blue group — STEREOGUM or QUIETUS would fit in here
- Purple group — look to the end for home essentials
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 — effervescence (BUBBLES, FIZZ, FOAM, FROTH)
- Green group — burgeon (BLOSSOM, DEVELOP, MATURE, PROGRESS)
- Blue group — music publications (BILLBOARD, MOJO, PITCHFORK, SPIN)
- Purple group — ending with tableware (BOILERPLATE, BUTTERCUP, JACKKNIFE, WITHERSPOON)
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 — effervescence (BUBBLES, FIZZ, FOAM, FROTH)
- Green group — burgeon (BLOSSOM, DEVELOP, MATURE, PROGRESS)
- Blue group — music publications (BILLBOARD, MOJO, PITCHFORK, SPIN)
- Purple group — ending with tableware (BOILERPLATE, BUTTERCUP, JACKKNIFE, WITHERSPOON)
A perfect game brings me up to four wins in a row. Here’s how I fared:
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This one was pretty straightforward for me. I spotted the blues right away, but decided to go with the yellows first as an insurance policy. Once the grid was down to eight words, I found the greens quickly. That was a good thing, as I did not figure out the purple connection.
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. Here’s something to give you a little midweek jolt. I love Jimmy Eat World, and this is maybe my favorite song of theirs:
