Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
Are you looking for tips and answers on Wednesday’s Communities instead? You can find them here:
Happy Thursday everyone! I hope you’ve had a great week so far. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty exhausted, so I’m going to try and go swimming earlier than usual so I can get as much sleep as possible tonight. I deserve it.
Today’s NYT Connections Clues and answers coming soon.
How to play connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. Every day at midnight you get a new puzzle. You can NYT Website or game app.
You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to sort these into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names of participants in research studies, or words preceded by a body part.
Each puzzle has only one solution. You must be careful with words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix the words up to see if there are any connections between them.
Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in between, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often includes wordplay.
Choose four words that you think go together and press submit. If you guess wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to getting a correct group, you may see a message letting you know that you’re one word away from the correct group, but you still need to figure out which one to swap out.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some tips. And if you’re really having trouble, today’s Connections Answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, you can easily share the results with your friends on social media and group chats.
What are today’s connection tips?
Scroll slowly! Immediately after the instructions for each of today’s Connections Groups, I will tell you which groups they are without immediately telling you which words belong in these groups.
Today’s 16 words are…
- SPARKLING WINE
- SUPER
- NOVA
- REUNION
- BIRTHDAY
- NATURE
- PRETTY
- COCKTAIL
- ANGERS
- EXTRA
- SURPRISE
- MASTERPIECE
- HYPER
- FRONTLINE
- ABOVE
- DINNER
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – increased additions to other words
- Green Group – Party Variations
- Blue Group – often seen on a free-to-air network
- Purple Group — of the endroits
What are today’s Connections groups?
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Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler area.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow group – prefix meaning “very”
- Green Group – Types of parties
- Blue Group – PBS Broadcasts
- Purple Group – Places in France
What are today’s Connections answers?
Warning, spoilers! Don’t scroll down until you’re ready to see today’s Connections Answer.
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Today’s Connections Answers are …
- Yellow group – prefix meaning “very” (EXTRA, HYPER, OVER, SUPER)
- Green Group – Types of parties (BIRTHDAY, COCKTAIL, DINNER, SURPRISE)
- Blue Group – PBS programs (FRONTLINE, MASTERPIECE, NATURE, NOVA)
- Purple Group – Places in France (ANGERS, CHAMPAGNE, NICE, REUNION)
Once again I was very close to a perfect game, but five wins in a row are enough for me.
First of all, the top row with CHAMPAGNE, SUPER, NOVA and REUNION is a funny reference to the recent Oasis reunion.
I got the yellow ones first, even though I wasn’t entirely sure if OVER would fit. The green ones were straightforward and came next.
When I saw CHAMPAGNE and NICE so close together, I thought they were a group of French places or words. However, I had mistakenly included NATURE (of French origin) instead of REUNION. I realized my mistake and remembered that the latter is a French island in the Indian Ocean. That left the blues for my latest triumph.
Here’s an interesting fact I just learned while looking up the overseas departments and regions of France: the border between French Guiana and Brazil is France’s longest land border with any other country. The more you know, the better.
That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. If you need hints and the solution for Friday’s game, be sure to check out my blog.
PS: The most obvious thing would be to use an Oasis song here. But no. I’m a maverick at heart, so let’s enjoy this other wonderful “Supernova” song. I’ve featured “Red Wine Supernova” before, so let’s go with this great live version:
