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

And further 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?

Yes, and in some cases its local knowledge.

Several of the words on todays board look like ordinary nouns but are place names.

And we see MET again, an abbreviation of metropolitan that New York City readers should recognize.

Green category - I wonder if I can make a phone call.

Blue category - Time to travel.

Purple category - And maybe go to a show.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

Otherwise, its just the usual ambiguity.

Watch out for proper nouns here; not all of the words are what they seem.

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?

The MET is a New York institution.

Two, actually: there is a Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Metropolitan Opera.

(Also a baseball team, but that wasThursdays puzzle.)

COMIC refers to comedy, something traditionally funny or with a happy ending.

A DERBY is a hat, a horse race, or a town in England.

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.

The blue grouping is the second-hardest.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?

The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.

So when I opened todays Connections board, I instantly saw SOAP and ROCK and looked for more OPERAs.

(I had vaguely heard of it, and googled to confirm thatit indeed exists.)

Next I turned my eye to the WEDDING.

Thats five things, which is too many.

Now we can consider WEDDING and ANNIVERSARY.

Next to BIRTHDAY and SHOWER, they are occasions for gift-giving.

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!