Find the links between the words to win today’s Link game.
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Hi to all! Welcome to the weekend. I hope you make the most of it, whatever that means to you.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers come immediately.
How to play the links
In Connections, you are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your goal is to arrange them into four groups of four, identifying the links between them. Groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb, or rappers.
There is only one solution to each puzzle and you should be careful when dealing with words that may fit into more than one category. You can mix up the words to help you perhaps see the links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, the blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the hardest to figure out. The purple team often includes puns, so keep that in mind.
Choose four words that you think go together and hit submit. If you make a guess and get it wrong, you’ll lose a life. If you’re getting close to making a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still have to figure out which ones to trade.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of a few pointers, and if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers.
What are today’s hookup tips?
Scroll slowly! Right after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I will reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you what words are included in them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- Sat
- MAY
- TO
- SUN
- WALL
- MARRY
- I PUT
- PAIR OF
- TWO
- TIE
- THREE
- SMOOTH
- VERY
- WILD
- PLACED
- JOIN
And the tips for today’s teams are:
- Yellow team — audible
- Green team — connect
- Blue team — placed
- Purple group — flora, perhaps
What are today’s connection groups?
Need some extra help?
Attention: we are starting to enter spoiler area.
Today’s teams are…
- Yellow team — unanimously
- Green team — log in
- Blue team — placed down
- Purple group — ____flower
What are the answers of today’s connections?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll down the page until you’re ready to learn today’s Connections answers.
This is your last warning!
Today’s Connections the answers are…
- Yellow team — unanimous (TO, TOO, TUE, TWO)
- Green group — connection (PAIR, TIE, UNION, WED)
- Blue team — placed down (LAYER, PLACE, PLACE, SAT)
- Purple group — ____flower (MAY, CYLINDER, WALL, WILD)
No perfect game again. Rats. But my total hitting streak is up to six games, so I’m happy about that.
Do you ever get that feeling when you open a Connections mesh that immediately makes you sigh and then quickly smile? This is what I experienced with today’s 16 words. Seeing a bunch of short words (or really long ones, like we’ve been doing recently) immediately makes me think it’s going to be a tough game, but this one wasn’t too bad.
That being said, a red herring caught me right off the bat. SAT, SUN, WED and TUE was not a team, unfortunately. However, I found the greens soon after, thanks to UNITE and TIE.
The grid then put the purples all next to each other which made it easier to infer them. I then found the blue and yellow for a near flawless win.
That’s all there is for today Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for tips and the fix for Sunday’s game if you need them.
PS Glastonbury festival is this weekend so let’s go with a video of Friday’s headliner. Dua Lipa’s appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk is the show’s most-watched entry to date, and with good reason: it’s absolutely fantastic. Let’s get the party started, indeed.
