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Happy Saturday, folks! It’s going to be a great weekend for you, I can feel it in my bones. I think today’s Connections puzzle is a slightly tricky one. So in case you need them to keep your streak going, today’s 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 the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is typically the hardest one to deduce.
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.
Connections Hints For August 26
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what they are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are:
- PARIS
- STYLE
- FOXY
- TROUBLE
- KILLER
- RISK
- NATIONAL
- GUCCI
- BUSINESS
- ATLAS
- SORRY
- NIKE
- HERMES
- TABOO
- OPINION
- NOTORIOUS
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — get the family to a table to play these
- Green group — just like Connections, you’ll find these in The New York Times
- Blue group — legendary Mediterranean figures
- Purple — the first word you might hear from a musically inclined modern poet’s mouth when they perform
Connections Groups For August 25
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — board games
- Green group — newspaper sections
- Blue group — figures in Greek myth
- Purple group — first words in rappers’ names
Connections Answers For August 25
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 are…
- Yellow group — board games (RISK, SORRY, TABOO, TROUBLE)
- Green group — newspaper sections (BUSINESS, NATIONAL, OPINION, STYLE)
- Blue group — figures in Greek myth (ATLAS, HERMES, NIKE, PARIS)
- Purple group — first words in rappers’ names (FOXY, GUCCI, KILLER, NOTORIOUS)
Sorry for the purple group clue! I try to align my clues with the difficulty of each group, but that seems like an especially convoluted one.
The green group was the first one I spotted but then I got caught in the trap of thinking NIKE, HERMES and GUCCI all referred to fashion labels. After a couple of mistakes, it clicked that the first two were references to mythological Greek figures. As much as I like board games, I’ve never played any of those in the yellow group, so I didn’t make the connection. I had a niggling feeling that there was a rap connection as well, but I ran out of luck. Darn.
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 Sunday’s game if you need them.
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