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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 - Do you know your plant anatomy?
Blue category - Seen on a menu, likely in the appetizers section.
Purple category - Currency collectors are likely familiar with these images.
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
MONTICELLOis the name of Thomas Jeffersons plantation.
CROWN does not refer to the object that sits on a royals headit does go with RINGS, though.
SHIELD is a noun.
What are the categories in todays Connections?
COINS
DOUBLE BEWARE: THE SOLUTION IS BELOW
Ready to learn the answers to todays Connections puzzle?
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.
The theme for todays purple category is SEEN ON BACKS OF U.S.
COINS and the words are: EAGLE, MONTICELLO, SHIELD, TORCH.
It could also refer toa variety of townsthroughout the United States.
GREEK and WEDGE could be types of salads.
Oh, GARDEN works with that.
Isnt CHEF salad a thing, too?
Oh, but maybe EAGLE would take it in a more American direction.
Ah, I see a newspaper section category: BUSINESS, ARTS, SPORTS, COMICS.
I think Ill try BARK, ROOTS, CROWN, and RINGS for my plant category first.
Which leaves me with MONTICELLO, TORCH, SHIELD, and EAGLE.
Maybe theyre all on some piece of American money?
Ah yes, on the backs of coins!
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!
