Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
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Hi guys! I’m keeping my fingers crossed that your week starts off great.
After recently taking a crash course in personal finance, I’ve come to the conclusion that investing (carefully, of course) is kind of fun. I kick myself that I never learned about basics like compound interest and tax-advantaged accounts in high school. If I had, my accounts would be looking a lot healthier now.
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 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…
- CAT
- CRANK
- BEAT
- POP
- LION
- GRINCH
- WIND
- TORTOISE
- CRAB
- SINK
- DRAFT
- R.A.M.
- PUFF
- BULL
- TURN
- GUSTS
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – maybe a short breeze
- Green group – we are going around in circles
- Blue group – they are connected to the calendar and the stars
- Purple Group — LORAX would fit in here
What are today’s Connections groups?
Need additional help?
Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow Group – Gust of Wind
- Green Group – Turning
- Blue Group – Zodiac Symbols
- Purple Group – Dr. Seuss Title Characters
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 – Gust (WIND, DRAUGHT, GUST, GUST)
- Green Group – Turning (CRANKING, WINDING, TURNING, WINDING)
- Blue group – zodiac symbols (TAURUS, CRAB, LION, ARIES)
- Purple Group – Dr. Seuss title characters (CAT, GRINCH, POP, TURTLE)
After two defeats in a row, I’m finally back on the road to success. And with a perfect game too.
I realized pretty quickly that CAT and GRINCH probably belong to a group associated with Dr. Seuss, but otherwise I wasn’t familiar enough with the author’s work to identify the other two words, so I just left them alone.
I got the green ones first, although it was a possible distraction that WIND matched the yellow ones, which were the second group I derived. Since I had decided that CAT and GRINCH were off limits, I only had six words to choose from for the blue ones. It didn’t take long to figure out this group, so the purple ones took the win.
That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for clues and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.
PS The Cat in the Hat always reminds me of one of my favorite REM songs. This character and Seuss are both mentioned by name in the great “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite.”
