Find the connections between the words and win today’s Connections game.
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How to play connections
In ConnectionsYou are given a grid of 16 words. Your task is to sort them into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb, or rappers.
There is only one solution to each puzzle, and you have to be careful with words that fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to see if there are any connections between the words.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the hardest to figure out. The purple group often contains puns, so keep that in mind.
Select four words that you think go together and press Submit. If you guess incorrectly, you lose a life. If you’re close to a correct group, you may see a message that you’re one word away from the correct word, but you still have to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some hints, and if you’re really struggling, the Connections answers.
What are today’s connection tips?
Scroll slowly! Directly after the hints for each of today’s activities Connections groups, I will reveal what the groups are, without immediately telling you which words are in them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- YEN
- BOND
- ANGRY
- CURRENT
- EURO
- O
- Q
- FORTUNE
- LONG
- M
- I
- PINE
- CHEWING GUM
- NATURE
- WISH
- MONEYPENNY
And the tips for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — want
- Green Group — Periodicals
- Blue Group — Fictional employees of MI6
- Purple Group — Subgenres
What are today’s Connections groups?
Do you need extra help?
Be warned: we start in spoiler area.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — desire
- Green Group — Magazines
- Blue Group — Characters in Bond films
- Purple Group — words that precede “pop” in music genres
What are the answers to today’s questions about connections?
Spoiler alert! Do not scroll down the page until you are ready to view today’s information. Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — desire (DESIRE, LONG, PAINBLOOD, YEN)
- Green Group — magazines (FORTUNE, MAD, NATURE, O)
- Blue Group — Characters in Bond films (BOND, M, MONEYPENNY, Q)
- Purple Group — words that precede “pop” in music genres (BUBBLEGUM, EURO, K, POWER)
Thanks to two perfect games in a row, I have now won four times in a row.
I found this game to be very enjoyable. Of course, the single letters in the middle immediately caught my eye, while there were also some obvious distractions (such as the combination of YEN and EURO).
MONEYPENNY was an obvious entry point into the blues, as was BUBBLEGUM for the purple group. The other two groups required a bit more thought until I realized the connection between FORTUNE and NATURE. That left me with the yellow as the winner, but I had never heard of YEN in that context.
That’s all there is to do today Connections clues and answers. Make sure to check out my blog for hints and the solution for Saturday’s game if you need them.
PS Powerpop is such a great, expansive genre, although I mainly think of it as upbeat rock music. Weezer is one of the best proponents and although my favorite song of theirs will always be “Say It Ain’t So”, I can’t help but pick this one: