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.

Another way to win when youre stuck is, obviously, to read a few helpful hints.

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?

Green category - Completely cased, cowled, and capped.

Blue category - Were missing a Skellington and a Sprat.

Unlike a fill-in-the-blank, the thing you oughta add is different for each of the four.

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?

MA can be a mother or grandmother, or a surname, as in cellistYo-Yo Maor business magnateJack Ma.

GRAM can be a measure of mass, or abean or lentil.

Gram flour usually refers to flour made from chickpeas, but note that this is spelled differently fromGrahamcrackers.

You also might call your grandmother your Gram.

In any case, none of that will help you here.

I cant say what this is without giving away the category.

Before that, his job was moving cars around the railyard.)

IN is a word that doesnt do much by itself.

Thats your last hint, okay?

There are no synonyms for IN on this board.

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.

(FaceBOOK, InstaGRAM, LinkedIN, YouTUBE.)

How I solved todays Connections

Forget the wedding words, whats up with SPARROW?

No birds around, so it must be the pirate.

Jack BLACK, Jack FROST, yes were getting somewhere!Jack MA?

Yes, for some reason.

So I went a different direction, and puzzled over GRAM a bit.

There were no other measuring units, oralternative flours, and its not spelled like the cracker.

That was it, and I finally had my wedding wordsBRIDAL ACCESSORIES, it turns out.