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 hit it one more time.

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?

Green category - Lets get this nailed down.

Blue category - Spooky and twisty.

Purple category - Some other words that might fit here could include SURF or SKATE.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

Theres a fill-in-the-blank category for purple again.

Also, fair warning, some of the words refer to movie titles rather than objects.

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?

To FLOAT and to HOVER sound similar, but they are in different categories today.

A STAR can be a famous person, or amiasma of incandescent plasma in the sky.

(Steer board, get it?)

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.

How I solved todays Connections

TANGIBLE stood out first, and lookheres CONCRETE and SOLID.

I needed a tiebreaker, and at first I thought it was the banana SPLIT.

So I submitted my tangibles, which were correct, then my desserts, which were wrong.

Down to the last two groupings, things were getting tough.

What could HOVER go with, besides board?

Theres also STARboard, DASHboard, and…GLASSboard?

I burned a mistake there, and Im sure some of you are yelling at your screen right now.

You know, like the thing Ive literally been typing on this whole time?

I did not understand the last grouping at all.

One is an adjective, and one is plural?

Ugh, movie titles.

Of movies I havent seen.