Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.
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Happy Friday, everyone! The weekend is right around the corner, but there’s one more round of Connections to enjoy in the meantime.
Today’s NYT 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 usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.
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.
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:
- GLOBE
- MERCURY
- TOP
- RECORD
- LEAD
- FERRY
- HARNESS
- BRASS
- CAROUSEL
- CHEEK
- PLANT
- HALTER
- NERVE
- NICKS
- COLLAR
- GALL
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — impudence
- Green group — essentials for when you take Fido or Rover outside
- Blue group —
- Purple group — HENLEY and BYRNE would fit in here
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are...
- Yellow group — chutzpah
- Green group — accessories for dog walking
- Blue group — things that spin
- Purple group — lead singers of '70s rock bands
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.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are...
- Yellow group — chutzpah (BRASS, CHEEK, GALL, NERVE)
- Green group — accessories for dog walking (COLLAR, HALTER, HARNESS, LEAD)
- Blue group — things that spin (CAROUSEL, GLOBE, RECORD, TOP)
- Purple group — lead singers of '70s rock bands (FERRY, MERCURY, NICKS, PLANT)
My second straight perfect game extends my overall winning streak to nine.
I thought for a second there might be a group of metals thanks to BRASS, MERCURY and LEAD but I didn't see a fourth one, so I ditched that idea. I spotted the yellows soon after that.
It took me a few minutes of staring at the grid before I realized the link between MERCURY and NICKS. It didn't take long to find two other names that made sense with those.
After that I realized that GLOBE and RECORD are both things that spin, leading me to the blues, that left the greens for victory.
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 Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I may as well include a song from a purple group artist today. Since we've already had a Queen song this week and I never much got into Roxy Music or Led Zeppelin, here's the deliciously messy Fleetwood Mac with Stevie Nicks on lead vocals:
