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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 - Geographic features.
Blue category - You just got a new painting from Etsyyoull need these things.
Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with something at the end of two of your limbs.
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.)
A heads up about the tricky parts
HAMMER refers to the tool used to hit a NAIL.
A CAPE is not something a superhero wearsits something along a body of water.
LOCKER goes with a word to form the name of a nationwide shoe retailer.
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
Its Connections #666!
Heres hoping the puzzle is filled with all sorts of Satanic themes.
Ill come back to that.
LEVEL, NAIL, and HANGER might go together as words for wall-mounting a pictureooh, maybe a PRINT?
Ill come back to that.
PULSE, POUND, BEAT, and THUMP could go together, too.
NAIL might go with that instead of PULSE, actually.
Yeah, lets try NAIL, POUND, BEAT, THUMP.
Oh, HAMMER could go with those, too.
OK, I think I see where this division is.
POUND, PULSE, BEAT, and THUMP probably go together as words referring to rhythm.
Which means NAIL and HAMMER probably go together as tools.
Maybe LEVEL, too?
I think Ill try HAMMER, LEVEL, NAIL, and HANGER, and see where that gets me.
Hey, look at that!
That leaves BALL, HILLS, PRINT, and LOCKER.
FootBALL, footHILLS, footPRINT, foot LOCKER.
Well, it wasn’t a devilish puzzle, but it was tricky!
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 have another go.
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!
