After a string of tricky puzzles, we have an easy one for once!

Or at least I thought so.

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page.

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?

Nothing too esoteric today!

Green category - Youll fit right in.

Blue category - Iconic.

Purple category - Its almost poetry.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

The purple category is based on the construction of the words themselves, not their meanings.

The other three categories are pretty straightforward.

As usual, be on the lookout for multiple meanings to each word.

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 farther down.)

What are the ambiguous words in todays Connections?

A RAGTAG team might win the championships in a heartwarming sports movie.

Anyway, none of that is important today.

Think about what RAGTAG has in common with BACKPACK.

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.

Of course Ive heard of cows], PRIDE [of lions], SCHOOL [of fish].

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.

Which means the puzzle makers arenotgoing to do anything as obvious as pairing CRANNY with NOOK, right?

So, what the heck, lets go for it.

Huh, that worked.

The rest of the categories came together pretty easily after that.

A SCHOOL, COLONY, HERD, and PRIDE are all groups of animals.

CLASSIC, MODEL, TEXTBOOK, and DEFINITIVE all describe a sort oftype specimenof a group.

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!