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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 - You need a similar tool to perform a bonking action.
Blue category - Logos.
Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with a word referring to cut or trim something.
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
ALLIGATOR and CROCODILE do not go together.
TRUMPET and XYLOPHONE do not go together.
(TRUMPET is a verb.)
No pop culture stuff today, but fashionistas will have an easier time with todays blue category.
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.
Oh wait, isnt a LAUREL leaf a logo of some brand?
According to Google, its Fred Perry.
Oops, one away.
I got too confident.
WHAC-A-MOLE and CROQUET are two activities that require a mallet.
Ah, so does playing a XYLOPHONEthe things you use to hit the keys are called mallets.
Maybe CARPENTRY works with that, too.
BROADCAST, HERALD, and DECLARE could all be words referring to announcing something.
Maybe TRUMPET, too?
Oh, I see now that Lacostes logo is a CROCODILE, not an ALLIGATOR.
Lets try CROCODILE with POLO PLAYER, LAUREL, and SWOOSH.
That leaves PAPER, VIDEO, ALLIGATOR, and HAIR.
PAPER plane, VIDEO game, ALLIGATOR skin, HAIR tie.
Oh, they all go with clip.
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 take another crack.
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!
