Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
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Happy Thursday, guys! I hope you’ve had a great week so far.
I’ve realized I could organize my life a lot better, especially as my once-excellent memory is failing me more and more often. I’ve just started using Notion, hoping it’ll be a one-stop solution for everything I need to keep track of and remind myself of, from health and finances to work and personal projects.
I imagine it will take me quite a while to get everything set up the way I want it (especially to integrate all the games I own and have access to across different platforms and services), but in the end it should be worth it.
Today’s NYT Connections Clues and answers coming soon.
How to play connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. Every day at midnight you get a new puzzle. You can NYT Website or game app.
You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to sort these into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names of participants in research studies, or words preceded by a body part.
Each puzzle has only one solution. You must be careful with words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix the words up to see if there are any connections between them.
Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in between, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often includes wordplay.
Choose four words that you think go together and press submit. If you guess wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to getting a correct group, you may see a message letting you know that you’re one word away from the correct group, but you still need to figure out which one to swap out.
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 having trouble, today’s Connections Answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, you can easily share the results with your friends on social media and group chats.
What are today’s connection tips?
Scroll slowly! Immediately after the instructions for each of today’s Connections Groups, I will tell you which groups they are without immediately telling you which words belong in these groups.
Today’s 16 words are…
- MATCH
- PHONE
- BUD
- REACH
- SIERRA
- DIRT
- BUDDY
- BUDDY
- TO REACH
- CHECK
- NATTY
- SCOPE
- ADD TO
- STELLA
- EXTENT
- PARTNER
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – within the borders
- Green group – like Yin and Yang
- Blue Group – delicious, refreshing nectar
- Purple group – maybe pay cash
What are today’s Connections groups?
Need additional help?
Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow Group – Width
- Green group – other half
- Blue Group — Beers, familiar
- Purple Group – Words after “pay”
What are today’s Connections answers?
Warning, spoilers! Don’t scroll down until you’re ready to see today’s Connections Answer.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections Answers are …
- Yellow Group – Width (extent, range, scope, extent)
- Green group – other half (COMPLEMENT, MATCH, MATE, PARTNER)
- Blue group – well-known beers (BUD, NATTY, SIERRA, STELLA)
- Purple group – words after “pay” (CHECK, DIRT, PAL, PHONE)
Today wasn’t a perfect game, but I continued my winning streak and now have 24 wins in a row.
I got the yellow words right away, but then made a mistake guessing BUD, PAL, PARTNER and MATE. The green words put me back on track after I realized that MATE and PARTNER matched the other two words.
After thinking about it for a moment, I realized that STELLA (of which I have a few in my fridge right now) and BUD may refer to beers, so I had to rack my brain to come up with two other words that would fit. I didn’t figure out the purple connection before sealing the win, but I probably should have.
That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. If you need hints and the solution for Friday’s game, be sure to check out my blog.
PS: I’m feeling a bit pensive at the moment, so I’m taking a little detour from my flood of summery, happy song recommendations to bring you this song from one of my favorite artists. Leif Vollebeck’s “East of Eden” is a top 10 song of all time for me. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. I’m really looking forward to Vollebeck’s new album coming out next month:
