Connections is the game where we LINK things together, and youll want to remember that today.

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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.

NYT Connections board for December 3, 2023: LINK, SONIC, FIRE, WATER, ACOUSTIC, GAS, PUMP, COUPLE, HITCH, HEARD, ELECTRIC, AMP, CABLE, TIE, HYPE, AUDITORY.

And farther 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?

Nope, nothing too obscure today.

Green category - Things for your ears.

Blue category - The whole point of this game!

Purple category - Get excited.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

Nope, all the groupings are based on the words meanings.

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?

An ACOUSTIC guitar is the opposite of an ELECTRIC guitar, but those words are in different categories today.

Nor will you be pairing either of those with an AMP.

The puzzle is alsonotasking you to contrast a GAS car with an ELECTRIC car.

FIRE and WATER are separate as well.

SONIC can be a video game hedgehog, or a word that means relating to sound.

You might want to put this word next to AUDITORY, a word that means relating to hearing.

A HITCH can be the part of your car or truck that lets you COUPLE it to a trailer.

LINK them together, you know?

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.

(The description is about utilitybills, which still fits.)

HEARD fills out that category if you use it as an adjective.

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 have another go.

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!