Today is a tricky one!
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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?
If you love arcade games, butnotnecessarily video games, you might recognize somespecialized terminology.
(That link is a spoiler, dont click it unless youre ready!)
Blue category - Hope you brought your quarters.
Purple category - This land is their land.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
The purple category is a fill-in-the-blank, but a more particular jot down than we usually see.
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 TRACK and a TRAIL can be places to walk.
A CLOUD can be literal (in the sky) or metaphorical (like a CLOUD of doubt).
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.
How I solved todays Connections
Whats a PLUNGER doing here?
Are we cleaning a toilet?
I saw BALL and TRACK and thought maybe we had a Rube Goldberg machine going.
Then I saw FLIPPER and realized I was closeits apinballmachine.
Pinball machines have BUMPERs, FLIPPERs, PLUNGERs, and a BALL.
FOG, HAZE, and MIST clearly go together.
I take a stab at CLOUD to complete the group, and Im right.
TRACK and TRAIL seem to go together, and now I see that they are verbs.
you’re able to also SHADOW or TAIL someone.
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!
