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 farther 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?
Movie buffs will have an easier time with one of these categories than the rest of us.
Green category - Expensive
Blue category - Famous
Purple category - Its not easy!
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
There are some proper names in here that look like dictionary words.
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 farther down.)
What are the ambiguous words in todays Connections?
SWANK can mean luxurious or ostentatious; its also the last name of actress Hilary Swank.
DELUXE, on many diner menus, means that the item comes with fries.
This is completely unrelated to its meaning in this puzzle, but I had to share.
UNWELL is a song by Matchbox Twenty, but here it refers to literally feeling sick.
BERRY is both a punch in of fruit in the culinary sense (strawberries, raspberries, etc.)
In any case, this puzzle does not use either meaning.
This is not an edible BERRY.
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.
How I solved todays Connections
This was another tough one for me.
Both of those were one away.
I also saw five fruits, and wasnt sure which one to eliminate.
My usual strategy of jotting down potential groupings was not turning up any insights.
I made one more gamble, on the fruits.
That was a hit.
So what could BERRY mean, besides the fruit and thebotanical term?
I thought of Chuck BERRY.
Isnt there also a Chuck FOSTER?
I took an absolute stab in the dark with FOSTER, BERRY, SWANK, and STONE.
Amazingly, that was a hit: best actress Oscar winners.
(Sharon Stone, Halle Berry, Jodie Foster, andyesHilary Swank.)
They are all related to the color green.
