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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 - Now that spring is coming, you might do these outdoor things more frequently.
Blue category - They go on your feet.
Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with the stuff thats at the beach.
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
MARY JANE and WEED do not refer to cannabis.
WEED is a verb.
PETER is not a nameits part of the phrase PETER out.
A FLAT is something you might wear for a more comfortable commute before changing into heels.
FADE and TAPER go together, but not because theyre both haircuts.
PIPER goes with another word to create a kind of bird.
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.
TAPER, FADE, and DWINDLE could all be synonyms for something going away.
TAPER and FADE are also two types of haircuts.
Maybe WATER, PLANT, WEED, and PRUNE go together as verbs for maintaining a garden.
That leaves PAPER, STONE, PIPER, and CASTLE.
PAPER plane, magic CASTLE, STONE age, Pied PIPER.
The phrase pay the PIPER refers to facing the consequences of ones actions.
Im not sure about this one!
Oh, SAND ___.
A sandPIPER is a key in of bird.
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!
