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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: there’s a new round of Connections upon us. 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 September 20
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:
- EXTRA
- BALL
- WON
- MUG
- PIN
- COPY
- TOO
- TEE
- ATE
- SPARE
- PEN
- LANE
- ALLEY
- TOTE
- FOR
- BACKUP
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — a facsimile
- Green group — strike, turkey etc
- Blue group — perhaps found at a tourist attraction’s gift shop
- Purple group — they sound like something else
Connections Groups For September 20
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Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — replacement
- Green group — bowling
- Blue group — common merch items
- Purple group — number homophones
Connections Answers For September 20
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Today’s connections are…
- Yellow group — replacement (BACKUP, COPY, EXTRA, SPARE)
- Green group — bowling (ALLEY, BALL, LANE, PIN)
- Blue group — common merch items (MUG, PEN, TEE, TOTE)
- Purple group — number homophones (ATE, FOR, TOO, WON)
My two-day streak is over. Actually, this is the first game of Connections I haven’t really enjoyed, and it’s not (only) because I didn’t get a single group today. I foolishly stuck with the trial-and-error approach with the bowling words. I kept SPARE in for each guess, which spelled doom for me.
I don’t think calling the yellow group “replacement” words is quite right. It seems to me more about having one additional version on hand in case the original isn’t suitable anymore. These words are more like facsimiles than replacements, so that’s why I went with that for my clue.
I also feel that the blue group is too loose of an association. That didn’t quite make sense to me. And, this is more of a personal thing I suppose, the last group wouldn’t have gelled together in my mind either, largely because I pronounce FOR as “foh-rr” not “four” (I’m Scottish).
Anyway, enough griping.
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.
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