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.)
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?
In fact,all fourgroupings relate to the same theme.
Or as spoiler-free as I can make them, at least:
Yellow category - Cult classic.
Green category - Animation innovation.
Blue category - Ill have what shes having.
Purple category - Post-apocalyptic.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
You could call it that.
There are no groupings here based on the words meaning.
But theyre not fill-in-the-blanks or anything clever based on the words spelling, either.
The four words of each category form a recognizable phrase.
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 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.
The theme and words are ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.
What are the green words in todays Connections?
The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.
The theme and words are WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.
What are the blue words in todays Connections?
The blue grouping is the second-hardest.
The theme and words are WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.
What are the purple words in todays Connections?
The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.
The theme and words are MAD MAX FURY ROAD.
How I solved todays Connections
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.
MAD MAX FURY ROAD.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.
I think I saw them in that order, but seriously?
?Theseare the answers??
The fact that the words could also form movie titles had to be a clever diversion, right?
