Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
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Hello! Happy Sunday. I hope you have a fantastic weekend. Fingers crossed the weather holds today so I can go to a street food festival without worrying about getting soaked.
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…
- NERD
- GRUMP
- SLEEP
- WHAT IF
- SAY
- DO
- STIMULANTS
- RUN
- SLEEP
- KISS
- ASSUME
- ALARM
- HOUR
- PERHAPS
- SET TIME
- GIANT PAPER
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – the first thing many people see in the morning
- Green group – how about that?
- Blue group – sweet treats
- Purple Group – in short: the cohorts of a Disney princess
What are today’s Connections groups?
Need additional help?
Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler area.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow group – alarm buttons
- Green Group – “Here is a thought…”
- Blue Group – Candy Pieces
- Purple Group – Seven Dwarves minus last letter
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 – alarm buttons (ALARM, HOUR, SNOOZE, SET TIME)
- Green Group – “Here’s a thought…” (MAYBE, SAY, ASSUME, WHAT IF)
- Blue Group – Candy Pieces (KISS, NERD, RUNT, WHOPPER)
- Purple Group – Seven Dwarves minus last letter (DO, DOPE, GRUMP, SLEEP)
Noooo, my 26-game winning streak is over.
I got off to a bad start because I included SLEEP in my yellow guesses twice. Not a great start. I got the green ones without much trouble, but then everything really fell apart.
I didn’t grow up with the blue group of sweets, although I did have some nerds. I probably should have found out about the purple group through SLEEP and GRUMP, but I guess my head wasn’t in it enough.
Unfortunately, a new series starts tomorrow.
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 mentioned something about resting your weary head in one of yesterday’s clues, which reminded me of “California Stars.” Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics (which I didn’t quote exactly in my clue) and they were later set to music and performed by Billy Bragg and Wilco. Structurally it’s a simple song, but it’s amazingly beautiful and evocative:
