Ready for some INTEL on todays computer-brand-studded board?
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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.
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Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?
Otherwise, theres nothing obscure or that would rely on a pop culture reference.
Green category - Learning something.
Blue category - Over hill and dale, perhaps.
Purple category - Youll have to get to the heart of this matter.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
The purple category is not a fill-in-the-blank today; its based on what the four things have in common.
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?
A DELL can be a computer brand, but its also a word meaning a valley.
(Dale and DELL both derive from the same Old English word.)
An APPLE is, of course, both a fruit and another computer brand.
(The fuel you useat this stagetypically consists of thin sticks, which are known as kindling.)
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.
(I have a complaint here; these words do not necessarily refer to wooded areas.
They are all valleys, or depressions in the landscape typically with a stream at the bottom.
you might have a VALLEY or a HOLLOW with no trees at all.)
What are the purple words in todays Connections?
The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.
(Remember the farmer in the dell from preschool?
They werent talking about a laptop.)
Now that thats out of the way, we definitely dont have enough computer brands to make a group.
What else is INTEL, then?
Its short for intelligenceas in, what a spy would gather.
Its INFO, DATA, NEWS.
TORCH, LIGHT, KINDLE, and BURN are ways of starting fires.
Now Im left with APPLE, COMPUTER, REACTOR, and PLANET.
One fruit and three sci-fi movie components.
Its purple, so probably a fill-in-the-blank or something similarly tricky.
I try out some possibilities: Captain PLANET…Captain APPLE?
Nuclear REACTOR, nuclear APPLE?
That doesnt work either.
It takes me a minute to think of things with chips (COMPUTER chip, APPLE chip?
and then I realize they are all things withcores.
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!
