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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 - Stuff for sidewalks, benches, and buildings.
Blue category - Something you might pay forward.
Purple category - Heard on the radio in the decade of big hair and shoulder pads.
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.)
(The word SOLID is seen in the phrase, do me a SOLID.)
A MOUSE is something you use to click stuff on a screen.
ABRACADABRA is a song which teases, I wanna reach out and grab ya.
(Its not the one by Lady Gaga.)
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.
STONE, BRICK, METAL, and CONCRETE could all be construction materials.
FAVOR, KINDNESS, and SERVICE could all go together as verbs for doing something for someone else.
Oh, SOLID (as in, do me a SOLID) could go with that too.
ABRACADABRA is a weird one.
I dont see any other magic words on the board.
Its also the name of a song by the Steve Miller Bandand more recently, Lady Gaga.
Oh, maybe PHYSICAL is the song by Olivia Newton-John; MICKEY could be the song by Toni Basil.
Oh, theyre all songs from 1982.
(CENTERFOLD is apparently by The J. Geils Band.)
Ill try CONCRETE, BRICK, METAL, and STONE now.
That leaves MICROPHONE, MOUSE, TABLET, and SCANNER, which I suppose are all computer accessories.
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!
