Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
Are you looking for tips and answers about Saturday’s Connections instead? You can find them here:
Hey guys! I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend. After over six inches of rain in my area on Friday thanks to Tropical Storm Debby, I’m enjoying the sunshine and moderate (for this time of year) temperatures.
Be that as it may, today 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 will receive a new puzzle.
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 having a correct group, a message may appear 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…
- CHAMP
- I
- TO
- SHIP
- PREFERABLY
- CRAFTSMANSHIP
- SHELL
- GOAT
- HARE
- LEGEND
- UM
- MARINE
- BARGE
- TO
- CONCERNING
- SHIP
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – big seaworthy things
- Green Group – an icon in its field
- Blue Group — apropos
- Purple group – they sound like parts of you
What are today’s Connections groups?
Need additional help?
Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow group – big boat
- Green Group – great
- Blue Group — regarding
- Purple group – homophones of physical features
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 – big boat (ship, BOAT, SHIP, BOAT)
- Green Group – the best of all time (BEST, CHAMP, GOAT, LEGEND)
- Blue group – relating to (ABOUT, REGARDING, ON, TOWARDS)
- Purple group – homophones of body features (HARE, I, MUSSEL, NAVAL)
After my last perfect game, my winning streak is now 21 wins.
I realized pretty quickly that “I” is probably a play on words, with “eye” being the obvious connection. I left that aside for now to remove the yellows (pretty easy) and the greens, which I figured out thanks to CHAMP and LEGEND.
The purple group was a little harder. I thought I, HARE and MUSSEL went together, but I had to say each of the remaining words to see which one made the most sense. So the win went to the blue words where I couldn’t figure out the connection. I’m not sure how ON fits into this group without further context.
That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. If you need hints and the solution for Monday’s game, be sure to check out my blog.
PS: I promise this is my last recommendation for Chappell Roan for now, even though I can’t stop listening to her. I expect to hear this (slightly harsh and not work-appropriate) song at least once today when I attend a Pride parade:
