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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 - They could use a brush or a comb.
Blue category - Literary figures from a single author.
Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with a thing that has many links.
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.)
(The little ones name is spelled Dewey, anyway.)
TWIST is a last name.
This pagemay help you with todays blue category.
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
SCROOGE, DAISY, and DEWY are all Disney ducks.
Not sure about a fourth yet.
TWIST, MOP, TANGLE, and MAT could all be words for messy hair.
THATCH probably goes in there, like hair that resembles the tangled reeds of a THATCHed roof.
Oh, wait, the duck is actually spelled Dewey, not DEWY.
OK, lets try these four then.
BUCKET and MOP could go together, but I dont see any other cleaning words.
Im going to try MAT, MOP, TANGLE, and THATCH.
TWIST seems like it would refer to one lock of hair rather than an entire head of hair.
OK.
Hmm these last eight are tricky.
SCROOGE has to refer to theChristmas Carolstory, right?
Oh, maybe its other literary characters!
Oliver TWIST, PIP fromGreat Expectations, and Solomon DAISY fromBarnaby Rudge.
(Yes, I did have to rely on Google for that one.)
OK, I think its probably BUCKET (for Inspector BUCKET) instead of DAISY.
DAISY seemed like a deep cut in the Dickens-verse.
That leaves DAISY, SUPPLY, MOUNTAIN, and FOOD.
Lets see what that is.
___ CHAIN, eh?
What the heck isa MOUNTAIN CHAIN?
Hmm, Ive heard of a mountain range, but never a chain.
Today was a toughie!
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!
