Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
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Welcome to the weekend, everyone! I hope you have prepared a fun one. I’m looking forward to spending a little more time with friends and family and I don’t mind what we do as long as we’re together.
Today’s NYT Connections tips and answers come right away.
How to play Connections
in Connections, you introduce yourself with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. Groups can be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb, or rappers.
There’s only one solution to each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that can fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to see the connections between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to guess, the blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the hardest to figure out. The purple group often involves puns, so keep that in mind.
Choose four words that you think go together and hit submit. If you make a guess and it’s wrong, you lose a life. If you’re close to the right 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 some tips and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answered.
What are today’s relationship tips?
Scroll slowly! Right after the tips for each of today’s Connections groups, I will reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- SAW
- DOG
- KANA
- BOTTLE
- TELEPHONE
- FREEZING
- CELL
- SPOONS
- MOVED
- PROTEIN
- A RATTLE
- ATOM
- WASHBOARD
- PRICE
- MOLECULE
- NURSERY
And the tips for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – the basics of life
- Green group – things for a very young person
- The Blue Band — non-traditional musicians
- Purple group – associated with tag or a playground game, perhaps
What are today’s relationship groups?
Need more help?
Be warned: we’re getting into it spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — biological building blocks
- Green group – shopping for a baby
- Blue group – objects that are played as instruments
- Purple Group – Label ____
What are today’s relationship answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll down the page until you’re ready to figure out today’s Connections answered.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections the answers are…
- Yellow group — biological building blocks (ATOM, CELL, MOLECULE, PROTEIN)
- Green group – purchases for a baby (BOTTLE, PURSE, MOBILE, RUMBLE)
- Blue group – objects that are played with as tools (JUG, WINGER, SPOONS, WASHBOARD)
- Purple Group – Tag ____ (DOG, FREEZE, PHONE, PRICE)
No perfect game today, unfortunately, but my current streak has reached five games.
My first guess was way off. It was simply based on the fact that there were double letters in the middle of each word: FREEZE, RATTLE, BOTTLE and SPOONS. I didn’t see anything that went with PHONE, MOBILE and CELL so I looked elsewhere.
WASHBOARD was my entry point into the blues, which I got on the first try, despite the presence of RATTLE as a red herring. Yellows were next, followed by greens. I didn’t realize what the purple band was about before I sent those words, but hey, I didn’t have to.
That’s all for today Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for Sunday game tips and solutions if you need them.
PS Continuing from yesterday’s powerful pop theme, here’s Fountains of Wayne’s greatest hits. “Stacey’s Mom” is catchy as hell. Adam Schlesinger sure knew how to write a perfect pop song.
