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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 - Actions to help someone get to the right place.
Blue category - They all play against each other.
Purple category - They have a similar motion to them.
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.)
STEER is a verb and does not refer to livestock.
RAM is a noun.
SWING is a jot down of playground equipment, and it also happens to describe exactly what it does.
What are the categories in todays Connections?
Yellow: BARREL-SHAPED CONTAINER
Green: GUIDE
Blue: N.F.L.
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.
The theme for todays blue category is N.F.L.
TEAM MEMBER and the words are: COWBOY, JET, RAM, RAVEN.
What are the purple words in todays Connections?
The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.
Lets try that football category first.
Lets try that one.
That leaves TANK, CYLINDER, DRUM, and CASK, which are all words for big barrels.
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!
