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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.

And further 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?

There are some not-too-obscure fashion brands and animal species in todays puzzle.

Here are a few definitions of lesser-known words in todays puzzle.

To JABBER is to BLATHER on.

An AFGHAN is either a knitted or crocheted blanket, or along-haired dog.

(Angora is an older spelling ofAnkara, the city in Turkiye.)

Green category - Full of hot air.

Blue category - Underfoot.

Purple category - Also, potentially, full of hot air.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

Nothing too tricky, just a fill-in-the-blank for the purple category.

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?

Today it goes with the animals.

A YAK is either a long-haired mountain bovine, or a synonym for BLATHER.

Again: think animals.

A PUMA, however, is not an animal today.

Think of lead shot, or leaded gasoline.

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.

They spelled lead phonetically to avoid confusion.

YAK must go with JABBER, GAB, and BLATHER.

(SPEECH just didnt seem to fit.)

The animals still didnt quite make sense.

I looked at the remaining words for potential fill-in-the-blanks.

So that went next.

At this point I was ready to submit the shoe brands.

VANS,plural, has to refer to the shoes.

Vans (TM) is plural, the others are not.

That was a hit.

An AFGHAN is a blanketunless they mean an AFGHANhound.

It doesnt feel fair to use the partial name, but here we are.

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 loop back and try.

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!