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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…
- HAT TRICK
- HOME RUN
- BROIL
- PAINT
- SOAP BOX
- TRIPLE CROWN
- DROP CLOTH
- WINGS
- ROLLER
- KENTUCKY
- SPROUTS
- TRIFECTA
- DEMOLITION
- TAPE
- THREEPEAT
- CHEESESTEAK
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — one sporting feat after another after another
- Green group — I’d call in a contractor to deal with this stuff, personally
- Blue group — local delicacies, perhaps
- Purple group — linked by a type of horse race or (especially in the U.K.) a game between local rivals
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 — trio of sports achievements
- Green group — needs for painting a room
- Blue group — food named after cities
- Purple group — ____ derby
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 — trio of sports achievements (HAT TRICK, THREEPEAT, TRIFECTA, TRIPLE CROWN)
- Green group — needs for painting a room (DROP CLOTH, PAINT, ROLLER, TAPE)
- Blue group — food named after cities (BROIL, CHEESESTEAK, SPROUTS, WINGS)
- Purple group — ____ derby (DEMOLITION, HOME RUN, KENTUCKY, SOAP BOX)
That marks my third win in a row, but it came at the cost of three mistakes. Here’s how I fared:
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I started with a guess of SOAP BOX, ROLLER, KENTUCKY and DEMOLITION, then swapped out SOAP BOX for HOME RUN. I realized then that ROLLER was the most likely outlier of the five. Still, I turned my attention to the yellows, then back to the purple words.
I must have had soap box racers on the mind as my next guess was ROLLER, PAINT, TAPE and WINGS. More through luck than anything, I got the greens next, then the blues for a narrow victory.
That felt like a pretty tough game, especially for folks who don’t know a ton about sports or local cuisines. I’d never heard of a London broil until now. Also, I’ve never had a Philly cheesesteak, so I should do something about that.
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. Since I definitely had soap box/Box Car Racer on the mind, I have this song stuck in my head:
