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Ahoy, mateys! Welcome to the weekend. I hope it’s an excellent one for you. I’m hoping to make progress on a bunch of games I’ve been bouncing between (I’ll have a round up of my impressions of them very soon) since it’ll be raining and quite chilly outside.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
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 items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
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 usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
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. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
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…
- TANK
- GLOVE
- SCALE
- TEE
- COACH
- ROCKS
- POLO
- CROP
- FILTER
- BALL
- ROTATE
- MUSTANG
- GODIVA
- FLIP
- PUMP
- DRIVER
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — basic digital photo tweaks
- Green group — these come to the fore in a certain sport
- Blue group — essentials for a type of pet
- Purple group — they have similar insignias
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
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Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — ways to transform an image
- Green group — things used in golf
- Blue group — aquarium purchases
- Purple group — logos with horses
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.
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Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — ways to transform an image (CROP, FLIP, ROTATE, SCALE)
- Green group — things used in golf (BALL, DRIVER, GLOVE, TEE)
- Blue group — aquarium purchases (FILTER, PUMP, ROCKS, TANK)
- Purple group — logos with horses (COACH, GODIVA, MUSTANG, POLO)
Ack, my two-day winning streak is over after what should have been a winnable game.
I first got the greens with a little trepidation, as TEE could have gone with POLO, CROP and TANK for a group of tops or shirts.
I definitely should have figured out the yellows and blues (not least because my dad takes great pride in his fish tank). I got hung up on the idea that there was a group of horse-related words and failed to move on when I didn’t deduce the correct group. I made the following guesses:
- POLO, CROP, MUSTANG, COACH
- POLO, CROP, MUSTANG, GODIVA
- POLO, CROP, MUSTANG, SCALE
- CROP, MUSTANG, COACH, GODIVA
I’m not sure how SCALE fits into that other than weighing a horse before a race and — I’ll be honest — I thought COACH was a stagecoach reference. Still, I was close yet far on that group, which zeroes out my current streak. I will beat my best-ever run of 32 victories in a row someday, but now is not quite that time.
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.
P.S. I’ve recommended a song by B*Witched, a ’90s girl band from Ireland, before. This is one of their other best-known songs, and very apt for how I’m feeling about today’s weather keeping me away from the pool:
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