Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
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Hey guys! I hope your week is off to a good start. I’m still trying to catch my breath after Monday’s iPhone event, which is always a very busy affair for me with my other job. It’s always a fun event to cover, however hectic it can be.
Today’s 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, you may see a message letting you know that you’re one word away from the correct group, 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…
- STARS
- STRIPES
- HAND
- DELIVERY
- VARIETIES
- CARD GAME
- THUMB
- MONARCHY
- HAPPEN
- TYPES
- NHL
- AF
- PERCENTAGE
- LADY
- GIVE
- TYPES
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow Group – Assortment
- Green Group – move, ship
- Blue Group – often seen in film reviews
- Purple group – they have a royal element in common
What are today’s Connections groups?
Need additional help?
Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow Group – Varieties
- Green Group – Transfer
- Blue Group – Rating Systems
- Purple Group – Things with Kings
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 – Varieties (SPECIES, VARIETIES, STRIPES, TYPES)
- Green Group – Handover (DELIVERY, GIVE, HANDOVER, PASS)
- Blue Group – Rating Systems (AF, PERCENTAGE, STARS, THUMBS)
- Purple Group – Things with Kings (CHECKERS, CARD GAME, MONARCHY, NHL)
Unfortunately, I achieved my third win in a row without a perfect game.
AF made the Blues pretty clear from the start, although I made a mistake by including PASS first instead of STARS. I was pretty sure MONARCHY, CHECKERS, and DECK OF CARDS are all things that have queens or kings. It would make sense to include NHL there, but I decided to derive the other groups first to be sure.
To do this, I identified the greens and then the yellows, leaving the purple group to win.
That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for clues and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.
PS Speaking of kings, I’m almost halfway through a replay of game of Thronesmy first since the series ended. It’s much more sensational than I remember, and the pacing actually works quite well in binge format rather than watching every episode week after week.
