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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 - If you felt under the weather, you might use these words to describe your condition.
Blue category - Activities of a large oceanic mammal.
Purple category - The beginnings of slang terms for a few metropolitan areas in the United States.
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.)
Its a word that could refer to having a stuffy nose, for example.
SPOUT is a verb today, but it doesnt refer to rattling off an opinionit refers to spraying.
People often refer to New York City as The Big Apple.
Are there any other American places that have alternate names, too?
COUGH and ENOUGH dont go together, despite having similar spellings.
What are the categories in todays Connections?
Yellow: SETTLE DOWN!
I give them all away below.
What are the yellow words in todays Connections?
The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.
The theme for todays yellow group is SETTLE DOWN!
and the words are: EASY, ENOUGH, QUIET, RELAX.
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.
Oh, but Im one away.
Ah, I see that EASY also fits with these words.
Gotta figure out which one doesnt fit.
SING, BREACH, DIVE, and SPOUT all seem related to dolphins or whales.
Phew, I wasnt sure about that one.
After a quick Google, it looks like MAGIC and MOTOR round out the category.
(Miami is often called Magic City and Detroit is known as Motor City.)
Oh, those are all colloquial terms for having a mild illness; that goes with CHILL.
That leaves RELAX, ENOUGH, QUIET, and EASY.
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 loop back and try.
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!
