Find the links between the words to win today’s Link game.
If you are looking for hints and answers for Friday Connections? You can find them here:
Hi guys! Welcome to the weekend. Hope it’s great for you.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers come immediately.
How to play the links
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play at NYT website or the Games app.
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 clickable items, names for research participants, or words before a body part.
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. The purple team often includes wordplay.
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. As with me Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and in group chats.
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…
- JACUZZI
- BIKINI
- HANGER
- X-RAY
- Q-TIP
- TOOTHBRUSH
- G-STRING
- CHAPSTICK
- T-BONE
- PHOTOCOPY
- HIPSTER
- SKIRT
- DRILL
- FILLET
- SINK
- STRAP
And the tips for today’s teams are:
- Yellow group — veal options
- Green group — clothes below the waist
- Blue team – the stuff of nightmares for those with odontophobia
- Purple group — commonly used product names
What are today’s connection groups?
Need some extra help?
Attention: we are starting to enter spoiler area.
Today’s teams are…
- Yellow team — cut steaks
- Green group — underwear items
- Blue group — participates in a visit to the dentist
- Purple group — brands that have become generic terms
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 group — cut steaks (FILLET, HANGER, SKIRT, T-BONE)
- Green group — underwear items (BIKINI, G-STRING, HIPSTER, thong)
- Blue group — participates in a visit to the dentist (DRILL, SINK, TOOTHBRUSH, X-RAY)
- Purple group — brands that have become generic terms (CHAPSTICK, JACUZZI, Q-TIP, XEROX)
My three game streak is over. Here’s how I did:
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I’m very annoyed that I didn’t get this.
I got the yellows and greens without much issue. I wasn’t sure about the fourth word in the last case until I had a stab at HIPSTER, which I actually thought was a style of jeans.
Neither the blues nor the purples clicked, though. I guessed Q-TIP, TOOTHBRUSH, SINK and CHAPSTICK, as in things you would find in the bathroom. My next guess made no sense – JACUZZI, XEROX, X-RAY and Q-TIP. I thought of those of words with less common letters (J, Z, X and Q), but it left me one word short of a correct group. I swapped the XEROX for the toothbrush and then the DRILL to no avail.
I wouldn’t necessarily associate a sink with a dentist’s office, but it makes sense. And I definitely should have figured out the purple group. This is going to piss me off for a while, unfortunately.
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 I have Apple Music autoplay to thank for showing me this version. After asking my voice assistant to play “Chaise Longue” after Hot Leg, this cover by the band came up a few songs later. It’s their take on a song I liked it quite a bit as a kidand it’s just as enjoyable:
