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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 - Put them on before you play.
Blue category - They make sweet stuff.
Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with a word referring to being unencumbered.
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
YORK and JERSEY do not go together.
(A JERSEY is something you might wear.)
WILLY and WONKA do not go together, but WONKA does refer to candy.
Having some music and movie knowledge will help with todays purple category.
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.
I dont know what the fourth is quite yet.
HAVEN and SHELTER are synonyms.
What else might go with that?
Not sure about a fourth.
PADS, CLEATS, and HELMET are all pieces of sportswear.
Oh, and JERSEY.
YORK, HAVEN, and PORT could all go with the word new to make city names.
Hmm, this is a tough one today.
FALLIN is a weird onewhy the apostrophe?
Could it be a reference to the Alicia Keys song?
I think I might try PORT with HAVEN, RETREAT, and SHELTER.
Oh, well OK!
That leaves SOLO, FALLIN, WILLY, and BIRD.
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!
