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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 - Theyre teeny tiny, and maybe made to scale.
Blue category - Stuff you do to your driveway during the winter.
Purple category - Characters with the same honorific indicating that they all have PhDs.
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
SALT and PEPPER do not go together.
(PEPPER refers to a soft drink.)
DIG and SHOVEL do not go together.
A BARB is something that might hurt you emotionally, rather than physically.
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
Hmm.
SALT and PEPPER could go together.
NO is a strange onethat, combined with OCTOPUS makes me think of Bond villains, maybe?
Dr. NO and Octopussy?
Oh, waitI was half right.
I think DOLL, MINIATURE, MODEL, and FIGURE are all words for small figurines.
SALT, SHOVEL, SAND, and PLOW are all actions for dealing with snowfall, I think.
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 give it another spin.
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!
