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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 - Words relating to pondering or sizing up.
Blue category - You have to apply (and pay a hefty fee) to get in.
Purple category - Halves of iconic brands.
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.)
A heads up about the tricky parts
JUDGE is a verb.
YOUNG is a name, not an adjective.
Youll have an easier time with todays blue category if youre familiar with higher education in the United States.
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.
Lets see what I can suss out.
JUDGE and REGARD could go together too, as in JUDGing or REGARDing a certain situation.
Oh, CONSIDER goes with that, too.
Maybe COUNT, too, as in I COUNT you as one of my friends?
SMITH is the one Im more familiar with but its technically a college; does that exclude it?
Im not sure yet.
I want to see what the other categories are first and see if I can eliminate something.
Yay, for once a guess worked out in my favor.
I hate that one away.
OK, so that leaves us with GAMBLE, YOUNG, NOBLE and JOHNSON.
Maybe it is a companies category, because Ernst & YOUNG is also a company, right?
Is there one with NOBLE?
Oh, Barnes & NOBLE!
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 hit it one more time.
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!
