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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 - Youll remember these if you have a photographic memory.
Blue category - Seen in an Italian restaurant, maybe.
Purple category - Hidden musicians.
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
Bad news, guys.
This one is so tough I actuallylost, for the second time ever.
Ill attempt to help you learn from my mistakes.
NEAPOLITAN and PARMESAN are foods.
They are also words indicating places in Italy (meaning, literally, from Naples and from Parma).
HASSELBLAD is a camera company; artistic photographers love their medium-format cameras.
OLYMPUS is a mountain in Greece…and also a camera company.
Speaking of cameras, KISSCAM and JUMBOTRON do not go together.
KISSCAM, on the other hand, is in the same grouping as RUSHMORE.
What do they have in common?
Ill let you figure that out.
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
So many long words!
Hey, Ill take this over the boards that are filled with two-letter words.
KISSCAM and JUMBOTRON are both video features you might see in a stadium (perhaps from your SKYBOX).
SCOREBOARD fits, but so does ASTROTURF.
Ill come back to this one.
HASSELBLAD is a camera, so it could fit with POLAROID, OLYMPUS, and FUJIFILM.
PARMESAN is probably a place too (yep: Parma, Italy) and VENETIAN is another Italian name.
Alright, time to guess.
SKYBOX, KISSCAM, JUMBOTRON, SCOREBOARD isone away!ASTROTURF in place of SKYBOX?
KISSCAM, JUMBOTRON, SCOREBOARD, and RUSHMORE as big displays you look up to?
Nope, not even aone awayon that one.
We know that, of ASTROTURF/SKYBOX, either both are right or both are wrong.
And out of the three that I combined with RUSHMORE, only two can be right.
So here goes nothing: ASTROTURF, SKYBOX, KISSCAM, and JUMBOTRON.
(Im leaving out SCOREBOARD.)
Right instinct on the category, but wrong grouping.
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 have another go.
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!
