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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 all require a similar motion to get em going.
Blue category - Theyre combinations of stuff.
Purple category - They all have synonyms at their ends.
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
HAIRSPRAY and XANADU do not refer to musical films.
(XANADU is also a word referring to an idealized place.)
WIKIPEDIA and PAYPAL are both tech companies, but they do not go together.
Ash KETCHUM may be the name of the star of POKEMON, but they do not go together today.
(To categorize POKEMON, remember that the name comes from two words: pocket and monster.)
SEVENTH HEAVEN does not refer to the show from the 90s.
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
This is an interesting board!
SHANGRI-LA is a utopian sort of place.
That would fit with PARADISE, but Im not sure what else.
HAIRSPRAY, SNOWGLOBE, MAGIC 8 BALL, and SALAD DRESSING are all things that require a shaking motion.
That leavesSEVENTH HEAVEN,XANADU, PARADISE, andSHANGRI-LA, which I assume are all concepts of utopia.
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!
