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 take another crack.

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?

Nope, nothing too unusual.

Green category - And this one will make you feel hungry.

Blue category - This one could have you looking forward to a game this weekend.

Purple category - And this one to some self-care time.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

(Is POLISH a nationality or a verb?)

Ready to hear the answers?

Keep scrolling if you want a little more help.

BEWARE: Spoilers and answers follow for todays Connections puzzle!

Ready to learn the answers to todays Connections puzzle?

I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?

The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.

The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.

The blue grouping is the second-hardest.

The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.

I almost submitted SNAP, FUMBLE, TURNOVER, and PUNT before realizing SACK was in there too.

So I deselected those words and looked at the rest.

It could go with MUFFIN, TURNOVER, and BUNand that was a hit.

That narrowed my football terms down to four, and I submitted those as well.

Now I could turn my attention to the nudity theme.

NUDE, NAKED, UNCLAD, and BARE all fit; BUFF seemed grammatically out of place.

You might say that a person is in thebuff, but not in the naked.

Saying someone is buff means another thing entirely.)

CLIP, POLISH, and FILE.

Those are all verbs for things you’re free to do to fingernailsand so is BUFF.

I entered those, and then NUDE, NAKED, UNCLAD, and BARE.

Another perfect win, although you see I had to puzzle my way through it.