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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 - Theyve gone to the dark side.
Blue category - They dribble.
Purple category - Youll find these on a map of one of the seven continentsbut theyre missing some letters.
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
SIN and TAN do not refer to sine and tangent.
If youre struggling with todays geographic category, check out a map of Africa.
If youre a SUN, youre likely based in Phoenix, Arizona.
What are the categories in todays Connections?
Yellow: SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
Green: DO WRONG
Blue: N.B.A.
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.
The theme for todays blue category is N.B.A.
PLAYER and the words are: BUCK, NET, SPUR, SUN.
What are the purple words in todays Connections?
The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.
JIFF could refer to a short amount of time, as in, Ill be there in a JIFF.
Maybe that goes with FLASH, BIT, and SEC, which all have similar meanings.
Oh, and CAME could be CAMEroon!
Im proud of myself for spotting that one, not gonna lie.
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 give it another spin.
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!
