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?

Some zoological knowledge would also help you today.

Green category - And these are very short.

Blue category - These go underneath.

Purple category - And these are all-encompassing.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

Theres one fill-in-the-blank category.

The rest are based on the meanings of the 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 further down.)

What are the ambiguous words in todays Connections?

It is also aprogramming language.

It can also be underpants.

TEDDY can be a persons name, or a stuffed bear, or a bodysuit worn as lingerie.

MONTY is also a name.

It may also bring to mind the comedic troupe Monty Python, or the 1997 filmThe Full Monty.

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.

The next thing that stood out to me were all the lingerie words, but there were too many.

BRIEF, though, could go with DIGEST, RUNDOWN, and ABSTRACT for a group of summaries.

Now were down to only four lingerie wordsTEDDY, THONG, SLIP, GARTER.

(I realize now that GARTER snake might be a confounder.

Im glad the puzzles creator agreed with me on that, and/or that I lucked out.)

(Its funny because theyre men, you see.)