Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.
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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another game of Connections!
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:
- BINGO
- ROW
- CORRECT
- COMPUTER
- FIGHT
- AMEND
- BLUE
- POTATO
- FIX
- TIFF
- POKER
- ROULETTE
- REVISE
- LOTTERY
- SCRAP
- WAR
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — something no journalist wants to have to do to their work
- Green group — dispute
- Blue group — not down to skill
- Purple group — something made by Lay’s or Intel
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 — update for accuracy
- Green group — quarrel
- Blue group — games of chance
- Purple group — ____ chip
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
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Today’s Connections answers are...
- Yellow group — update for accuracy (AMEND, CORRECT, FIX, REVISE)
- Green group — quarrel (FIGHT, ROW, SCRAP, TIFF)
- Blue group — games of chance (BINGO, LOTTERY, ROULETTE, WAR)
- Purple group — ____ chip (BLUE, COMPUTER, POKER, POTATO)
I'm up to seven straight wins but it was far from a perfect game.
I got the yellows right away then made my first mistake with a guess of BINGO, LOTTERY, POKER and ROULETTE. I followed that up by taking a stab at the greens but I included WAR instead of TIFF. I corrected my error after that.
I was fairly sure that BINGO and LOTTERY would go together and ROULETTE made sense with those. I'm not too familiar with WAR as a game, but I took a gamble (as you would in these games) and it paid off.
That left the purple words for victory. I'm sad to say I didn't figure out the connection before submitting the group.
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.
P.S. Given today’s purple group, I had to include a Hot Chip song here. Rather than their signature track “Over and Over” or their great cover of “Dancing in the Dark” (which includes a brief segue into LCD Soundsystem’s superlative “All My Friends”), let’s go with the catchy as heck “Ready for the Floor.”
