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?
(Its a shortening of scramble.)
Here are some definitions of lesser-known words in todays puzzle:
PONE is a jot down of cornbread.
Its also the brand name of several stuffed animals: Beanie Babies, Beanie Boos, etc.
A PEON was traditionally a laborer working off debt in a system calledpeonage.
Green category - A basic part of grammar.
Blue category - These words are allverysimilar to each other.
Purple category - If you cant get this one, ask a child.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
Theres a category defined by the spellings of the words, and another that is a fill-in-the-blank.
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?
NEPO does indeed refer to the concept of nepo babies.
The fact that its an anagram of PEON is unrelated.
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 for todays yellow group is SKEDADDLE!
and the words are: GET OUT, GO, LEAVE, SCRAM.
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.
(I often tell my children when theyre bothering me: I love you, but scram.
Lately Ive been trying to soften that by asking them to skedaddle.
I recall once asking my youngest: Wait.
Do you know what skedaddle means?
She said, with a sigh, Yeah.
It means scram.)
That just left a collection of pronouns, and I solved with a Perfect!
