Todays puzzle looks tricky, but its not as hard as it may seem at first.
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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?
There are musical references here, plus a few terms you might recognize from spy movies or political thrillers.
Green category - Secret devices.
Blue category - Fill in the bubble.
Purple category - Partial names.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
Yep, theres a purple one that is…sort of a fill-in-the-blank?
Its a bit more specific than usual.
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?
FLY and BUG and TICK dont go together today; none of them are insects.
They are, respectively, a verb, a machine, and a MARK.
COLE isnt a reference to COLEslaw; think of rapper J. COLE.
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.
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.
The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.
COLE, [T-] PAIN, [Q-] TIP.
And there are two other flight-related words.
Next I saw the TICK box, which British people say in place of a CHECK box.
MARK and X went with that nicely.
If its a microphone, maybe were looking at wiretappinga WIRE, a TAPor a BUG.
Turns out I was closer than I knew.
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!
