Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
Looking for Saturday’s Connections hints and answers? You can find them here:
Happy Sunday, folks! I hope you’re able to put your feet up and take things easy, or that you otherwise have a fulfilling day.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
In Connections, 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 horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
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 typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.
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.
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:
- SQUARE
- PAIR
- LOADED
- DICE
- FLUSH
- BURY
- CUBE
- CURRENT
- STRAIGHT
- LEACHY
- STUFFY
- CHOP
- RICH
- MINCE
- TRADITIONAL
- WEALTHY
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — well-off
- Green group — turn into smaller pieces
- Blue group — conventional, perhaps like a delicious cocktail made with whisky, bitters and sugar or syrup
- Purple group — they sound like edible items
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 — affluent
- Green group — cut into pieces
- Blue group — old-fashioned
- Purple group — fruit homophones
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 — affluent (FLUSH, LOADED, RICH, WEALTHY)
- Green group — cut into pieces (CHOP, CUBE, DICE, MINCE)
- Blue group — old-fashioned (SQUARE, STRAIGHT, STUFFY, TRADITIONAL)
- Purple group — fruit homophones (BURY, CURRENT, LEACHY, PAIR)
My first perfect game in a few days gave me back-to-back wins.
I avoided the red herring of poker hands after failing to find something that would go with FLUSH, STRAIGHT and PAIR.
WEATHY was my entry point into the yellows as was STUFFY for the blues. That made the greens easier to pinpoint. The purple group might be difficult for some folks (including yours truly) due to accent differences.
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’m going to have a couple more entries in my “British bands Kris listened to a lot while growing up” before retiring that mini-series. I was in my teens when The Darkness broke through, and what a brilliant album their debut was.
I love every song on that album as well as the standalone Christmas single that followed soon afterward. So instead with the obvious choice of “I Believe In A Thing Called Love,” let’s go with the second single from the album and its ridiculous video:
