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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 - When someone calls out the right answer, you might say these things.
Blue category - Its the stuff you use to pay for other stuff.
Purple category - They all pair with the same five-letter beginning to describe something very, very small.
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.)
BINGO is a verbal exclamation.
GREEN describes the color of American currency, and its also sometimes used as shorthand for money itself.
WAVE goes with a certain prefix, turning into the name of a kitchen appliance.
CHIP, SCRATCH, and DING do not go together.
None of them refer to superficial damage.
What are the categories in todays Connections?
Yellow: AFFECT
Green: YOU GOT IT!
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 theme for todays green category is YOU GOT IT!
and the words are: BINGO, CORRECT, DING, RIGHT.
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.
Ill keep that in my back pocket for now.
CHIP, SCRATCH, and DING could be words for superficial damage.
I dont see an obvious fourth.
SCOPE and REACH could be oral care brands.
BINGO and CHIP could be Las Vegas-punch in words.
Maybe theres another category about moving something in the right direction, with CORRECT, CHANGE, and RIGHT.
OK, so maybe Ill try MOVE, TOUCH, SWAY, and REACH for the emotional category.
Ah, maybe RIGHT, CORRECT, DING, and GREEN are all affirmative signals.
Oh, BINGO is definitely in there somewhere.
Ill get rid of GREEN since thats more of a visual thing and the others are all verbal proclamations.
All right, making progress.
GREEN is an odd one.
It could mean go, or it could refer to someone whos new or inexperienced.
It could also be part of a fill-in-the-blank, like GREEN light or GREEN thumb.
It could also be a symbol for envy.
SCOPE and PHONE could both go with the tele- prefix, but I dont see any others like that.
PHONE and GREEN could both go with the word book.
Hmm, this is a toughie.
SCRATCH could arguably work with back too, as in you SCRATCH my back, I SCRATCH yours.
Maybe CHANGE works, as in CHANGE back into your clothes.
WAVE would work there too.
That leaves SCRATCH, PAPER, CHANGE, and GREEN.
Lets see if my back theory was correct.
Well, sort of, but not really.
I guess theyre all just slang terms for money.
Oh well, I got there eventually.
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!
