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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?

(Hedoeshave it, though; he just never noticed.)

Green category - Just do it!

Blue category - A crush.

Purple category - Not easy!

(Yes, thats the hint, not a meta-comment.)

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

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

The rest are all grouped by meaning, although theres plenty of ambiguity to keep you guessing.

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?

VIBE can be short for VIBRATE, but those two words are in different categories today.

Think of VIBEs as in FEELINGS.

FOCUS can be another word for your narrow attention to a project, something like your DRIVE.

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.

RING, VIBRATE, and SILENT are all phone parameters, but I couldnt figure out the fourth.

(Are you in a do not disturb FOCUS?

Or perhaps DRIVE mode?

Or does the call make a CONNECTION?)

So what goes with SPUR, MOTIVATE, and INSPIRE?

Now were getting somewhere.

There are only four hard things left: CANDY, SELTZER, KNOCKS, and COPY.

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!