In which Ilosemy first Connections game ever.
Join me for this historic moment and learn from my mistakes.
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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!
Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?
Do you know what a radiotelephonic spelling alphabet is?
Good, youre all set.
If you watch TV, that will help, too.
(I wont say of what, though.)
Green category - Watching TV.
Blue category - Spelling words.
Purple category - Doubled up.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
There are abbreviations, code words, and words that can be repeated.
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?
Browse that list and see if any others look familiar, hint hint.
HI is how you say hello.
Its also what youd need to write on a postcard to mail it to Hawaii.
E is a letter.
Its also atelevision channel about entertainment.
(And its a party drug, but thats not important today.)
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.
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.
(The band, by the way, is Yo LaTengo.
Nice try, Connections.)
ALFA would have to be ALFA/ROMEO, the car, right?
BRAVO, ROMEO, and TANGO are also in that alphabet.
Hmm…BET and E are television channels; could they go with HALLMARK and USA?
After several more minutes of staring at the board, I think of MA-MA and BOO-BOO, childrens words.
How about YO-YO and POM-POM?
I swap POM for LA, and Im getting colder.
I make three more random guesses, and finally admit defeat.
This is the first Connections game I have ever lost.
TOM-TOM should have been in that group; MA-MA was not.
And the rest were state abbreviations.
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 retry.
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!
