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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?
Theres also a lesser-known word Id like to highlight: CANT.
Green category - Secrets.
Blue category - Not level.
Purple category - Pre-smartphone hijinks.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
Yes, theres a category that relates to an unusual way of typing words.
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?
DOPE can be an adjective, slang for drugs, or a FOOL.
It can also be a metaphor for speaking directly: Give me the straight DOPE.
To DUPE someone, meanwhile, means to FOOL them.
Its also short for duplicate.
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.
The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.
DOPE and DUPE kept me guessing a while, but finally I disentangled the green group from the yellow.
One small critique: you dont need to turn the calculator upside down to read the word BOOB.
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!
