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 retry.

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?

Not rude body parts!

Just…well, youll see.

Green category - Things that help you when you want to go somewhere.

Blue category - Nobody truly knows what these are, but theyre funny and sometimes cute.

Purple category - You know, tootsies.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

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?

A BEAKER is aglass cup used in science labs, or the muppet who assists Dr. Bunsen Honeydew.

A PIGGY might bring more muppets to mind, but the muppet youre thinking of isMissPiggy.

(Unless you are thinking ofLink Hogthrob, Dr. Strangepork, etc.)

A DIGIT can be a finger (or toe), ora number that you count on your fingers.

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

GONZO tipped me off.

I only knew it to mean one of two things: thestyle of journalism, and the muppet.

You know who else here is a muppet?

I wasnt fooled by thepartialnames of muppets, like Miss PIGGY or the Swedish CHEF.

So what is a PIGGY, then?

That isnota cohesive, clever grouping, but weve been seeing some of these mishmashes from Connections lately.

So I submitted it, wondering if there was a connecting thread Im not seeing.

Nope, its HAND- AND FOOT-RELATED SLANG.