Todays puzzle isnt that TOUGH, if you keep your wits about you!
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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!
Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?
If you might read all the words out loud, youll do fine.
Knowing some sports terms will help a bit, too.
Green category - What you might say if youre getting a noogie.
Blue category - Something a little naughty or spicy.
Purple category - Words that make kids and English language learners go are you serious?!
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
The purple category involves something special about the spellingandpronunciation of these words.
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?
BLUE and GREEN arent just colors today.
BLUE language refers to swear words; BLUE movies would be pornographic ones.
ROUGH and TOUGH seem like they might go together, but I promise they do not today.
Neither do ROUGH and COARSE.
A BOUGH is a tree branch (deck the halls with BOUGHs of holly).
It may look like it should rhyme with TOUGH, but it doesnt.
What are the categories in todays Connections?
Yellow: GOLF COURSE PARTS
Green: I GIVE!
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.
The theme for todays green category is I GIVE!
and the words are: ENOUGH, MERCY, STOP, UNCLE.
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.
That was a hit.
That leaves four of our original six -GH words: DOUGH, TOUGH, BOUGH, COUGH.
They are all spelled identically after the initial letter, but are all pronounced differently.
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!
