Todays puzzle contains a punone of the worst, most groanworthy puns there is.
If you havent found it yet, well, Im here to help.
(Youre welcome./Sorry.)
If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page.
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!
Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?
Green category - Tally everything up.
Blue category - Make a drink.
Purple category - Dont get stuck!
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
Just one terrible, awful pun that applies to one word in the purple category.
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?
SCAT can mean animal droppings, or be a command to skedaddle.
But the word is perhaps best known as a form of improvised jazz singing.
GROSS isnt an adjective here; its in the sense of a TOTAL amount.
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.
(As in the old joke: Whats brown and sticky?
(Lucky guess, maybe.)
Next I consider TOTAL.
It can be a COUNT, a SUM, a GROSS (in the business sense).
What about GUM, GLUE, and TAPE?
Theyre all sticky, but I dont have a fourth for them to go with.
I refuse to believe it.
What else do we have?
RUM, LIME, MINT, and SODA.
Thats a drink recipe.
And then, finally, GUM, GLUE, TAPE, and a STICK.
Things that are sticky.
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 retry.
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!
