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 hit it one more time.
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.
Another way to win when youre stuck is, obviously, to read a few helpful hints.
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?
It may help to know one of the lesser-known definitions of MARK: a person targeted for a scam.
Green category - Sweet as sugar.
Purple category - Youll need a good eye for this one.
Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?
Not exactly, but the purple category is a tricky one.
There is some clever ambiguity in theunwrittenwords that the four tiles have in common.
The other three groupings are all pretty straightforward.
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?
The SUCKER is the kind thatsborn every minute.
You know, the front of your head.
A NEEDLE can be part of a coniferous tree, as in pine needles.
Here it isnt related to the tree words, though.
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 was a tough one that looked easy at first.
But those groups all had too many members.
And I had no idea what to do with HURRICANE and POTATO.
This helped me feel like I was getting a handle on the categories.
I submitted that, and it was a hit.
These are all things with eyes.
I submitted the last two categories for a nearly-perfect score.
