Youll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase.
Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common.
Select four items and hit the Submit button.
If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed.
(Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.)
If your guess was incorrect, youll get a chance to loop back and try.
You win when youve correctly identified all four groups.
But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.
Expect to see overlapping groups.
So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four containsonlythose four things.
If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to havenoconnection to the others.
Another way to win when youre stuck is, obviously, to read a few helpful hints.
Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.
And further down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers.
Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!
Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?
There aremoremovies in todays puzzle, but only in one category this time.
Green category - And this one is for your stomach (or liver?)
Blue category - This one is a feast for your eyes.
Purple category - This one is a partially sticky situation.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
Theres a fill-in-the-blank category today, but otherwise nothing too tricky.
Ready to hear the answers?
Keep scrolling if you want a little more help.
BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!
Were about to give away some of the answers.
Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled.
(The full solution is a bit further down.)
What are the ambiguous words in todays Connections?
COCO is a heartrending Pixar movie, or another word for coconut.
Not to be confused with cocoa, a powder made from the cacao (chocolate) tree.
A TICKER can be a nickname for your heart, or a watch.
What are the categories in todays Connections?
I give them all away below.
What are the yellow words in todays Connections?
The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.
What are the green words in todays Connections?
The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.
What are the blue words in todays Connections?
The blue grouping is the second-hardest.
What are the purple words in todays Connections?
The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.
Today the movies are limited to just one category, and Braveheart is not among them.
When you have too many options, a good strategy is to look at things that havefewoptions.
TICKER could either be a synonym for HEART, or could refer to ticker tape.
With that in mind, I looked for other tapes.
RED tape was obvious, but it took a minute of going Brave tape?
before I realized I could include DEMO tape and SCOTCH tape.
(Fun fact, Scotch tape got its name from thestereotype of Scottish people being stingy.
