Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
Are you looking for tips and answers about Friday’s Connections instead? You can find them here:
Hey guys! Welcome to the weekend. I hope you have a great weekend ahead. I have a table reservation at a hot new restaurant and I’m excited to try it out. On that note, the Michelin inspectors are coming to Montreal (where I live) for the first time. While it will be great to see some places finally get some long overdue stars, some may become much more difficult to reserve a table at.
Be that as it may, today NYT Connections Clues and answers coming soon.
How to play connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. Every day at midnight you get a new puzzle. You can NYT Website or game app.
You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to sort these into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names of participants in research studies, or words preceded by a body part.
Each puzzle has only one solution. You must be careful with words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix the words up to see if there are any connections between them.
Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in between, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often includes wordplay.
Choose four words that you think go together and press submit. If you guess wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to getting a correct group, a message may appear letting you know that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you still need to figure out which one to swap out.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some tips. And if you’re really having trouble, today’s Connections Answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, you can easily share the results with your friends on social media and group chats.
What are today’s connection tips?
Scroll slowly! Immediately after the instructions for each of today’s Connections Groups, I will tell you which groups they are without immediately telling you which words belong in these groups.
Today’s 16 words are…
- LION
- SWITCH
- RETRO
- CITIZENS
- VINTAGE
- Subtitles
- Prom
- SLIDER
- SUPER
- GRAPE
- BUTTON
- CALIFORNIA
- REGION
- BUTTON
- PER
- WINERY
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – information on an alcohol label
- Green group – found in a cockpit or a control room for television broadcasts
- Blue group — you will find this before other words
- Purple group – connected by something found on a chessboard or a nickname from Elvis Presley
What are today’s Connections groups?
Need additional help?
Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow Group – Wine Bottle Info
- Green Group – Console Inputs
- Blue Group – Prefixes
- Purple Group – ____ King
What are today’s Connections answers?
Warning, spoilers! Don’t scroll down until you’re ready to see today’s Connections Answer.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections Answers are …
- Yellow group – wine bottle information (GRAPE, REGION, VINTAGE, WINERY)
- Green group – console inputs (KEY, BUTTON, SLIDE, SWITCH)
- Blue Group – Prefixes (PRO, RETRO, SUB, SUPER)
- Purple Group — ____ King (BURGER, CALIFORNIA, LION, PROM)
My streak of six wins is over, and in spectacular fashion.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I didn’t get a single group right. At first I thought it might be a group of sandwich-like dishes. I wasn’t sure what the fourth one might be, so I combined SWITCH with BURGER, SLIDER and SUB on a whim. To no avail.
I almost got the yellow ones when I guessed vintage, grape, California and winery (which would have left me missing one from a group) and then replaced winery with region. Same game.
Finally, I thought that “RETRO” and “VINTAGE” might fit together as store types, so I tried “REGION,” “GRAPE,” “CALIFORNIA,” and “WINERY” to no avail.
Oops, as they say. Well, a new series starts tomorrow. The next game can’t go much worse for me.
That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for hints and the solution for Sunday’s game if you need them.
PS: This seems as good a time as any to review the brilliant The Lion King for the first time in several years and try to completely forget how bad this game went for me:
