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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 - Like the Sahara.
Blue category - Poorly trained ones will bark and tug on their leashes.
Purple category - They can be communicated using a number pad instead of a QWERTY keyboard.
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.)
To place CANNABIS, think of the informal holiday associated with smoking it.
A BULLY is often called a pit bull, but it includes other types of dogs, too.
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.
LECTURE, ADDRESS, TALK, and SPEECH could also fit as forms of verbal presentation.
Yeah, Ill try that, then dogs next.
That makes INTRO CLASS a weird leftover, but itll fit somewhere else.
OK, now for GOLDEN, BULLY, LAB, and CHOW.
SANDY, HOT, DRY and VAST could all be desert descriptors.
That leaves CANNABIS, DEVIL, JAMES BOND, and INTRO CLASS.
Things you smoke, things that are red and green, things that are secret.
Oh, Ive got it: They can all be abbreviated with three numbers.
CANNABIS is 420, DEVIL is 666, JAMES BOND is 007, and INTRO CLASS is 101.
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!
