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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!

Green category - Theyre above the rest of us.

Blue category - Theyre used to draw lines of varying shapes and angles.

Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with a shape chocolate or gold often comes in.

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.)

MITZVAH goes with another word to describe a coming-of-age ceremony.

A T-SQUARE is something an architect might use to draw perfectly horizontal or vertical lines.

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.

GREAT, LEGEND, ICON, and RULER could all be words referring to someone of elite status.

STENCIL probably goes with those two.

Oh, and COMPASS, which can refer to a thing used to draw circles.

SOAP and MITZVAH could both go with the word bar.

Oh, theres also a bar EXAM for lawyers and a bar CHART for displaying data.

SPHERE, CIRCLE, and WORLD could all be round things.

These last eight words are surprisingly tough, and theyre supposed to be the two easiest categories!

That leaves GREAT, LEGEND, LION, and ICON.

I guess LIONs are brave, leader-like figures?

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 give it another spin.

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.

Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!