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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 a way to measure stuff.

Blue category - They play ball.

Purple category - Its not TV, its [programs on this online grid].

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.)

MOLE is not an animalits a word you might hear in chemistry class.

PROJECT is a noun.

There is no rental car category today, despite words like HERTZ, ENTERPRISE, and NATIONAL.

SECOND does not refer to something that comes after the first thingits a way to count time.

What are the categories in todays Connections?

Yellow: UNDERTAKING

Green: UNITS

Blue: M.L.B.

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.

HERTZ could also go in a category of car rental companies, with NATIONAL and ENTERPRISE.

Oh, a SECOND is also a unit of measurement.

Lets try that with MOLE, HERTZ, and VOLT.

Oh, maybe GAME, as inGame of Thrones, is the last one in the television show category.

Theyre all HBO shows, which makes me more willing to give it a shot.

That leaves TWIN, RAY, TIGER, and NATIONAL.

I think the Twins are a baseball team, arent they?

Yes, from Minnesota.

So are the other words!

The Rays are from Tampa Bay, the Tigers are from Detroit, and the Nationals are from Washington.

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.

Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!