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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 - A bunch of people or things.
Blue category - Words heard on the water.
Purple category - Parts of a specific belief system or outlook.
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
SEA and LAND do not go together.
BOW is the opposite of stern.
HOST is not a verb.
Today it refers to the phrase a whole HOST of things, for example.
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
Is that a nod toSNLcast member Bowen Yang on the second line?
I think SCORE, LAND, WIN, and EARN are all synonyms for achieving something.
FLOCK, CROWD, and SEA could be synonyms for large groups.
BRIDGE, DECK, BOW, and ANCHOR could all be words referring to parts of a ship.
Oh, I think YANG and MASCULINE may go together as halves of a binary.
Yin and YANG; feminine and MASCULINE.
LIGHT and dark might be one, too.
Maybe land and SEA as well.
I see now: HOST, FLOCK, SEA, and CROWD go together.
That leaves EXPANSIVE, YANG, MASCULINE, and LIGHT.
ASSOCIATED PRINCIPLES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY.
I wouldnt have gotten there on my own, but I was close.
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!
