Find the links between the words to win today’s Link game.
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Happy Thursday, guys! I hope you are having a fantastic week so far.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers come immediately.
How to play Connections
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 understand, 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…
- SKI
- PANT
- PRUNE
- JUICE
- PUNCH
- CONTAINER
- MILK
- HIT
- SOCK
- BLOUSE
- EARBUDS
- WATER
- STICK
- SODA
- LUBRICATE
- BOOKEND
And the tips for today’s teams are:
- Yellow team — drink
- Green team — sunlight is another important factor here
- Blue team — you might expect more than one
- Purple team — small creatures, with something extra
What are today’s connection groups?
Need some extra help?
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Today’s teams are…
- Yellow group — drinks
- Green group — care for a plant
- Blue group — item sold in pairs
- Purple group — errors plus initial letter
What are the answers to today’s connections?
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Today’s Connections the answers are…
- Yellow group — drinks (JUICE, MILK, PUNCH, SODA)
- Green group — caring for a plant (fertilize, POT, PRUN, WATER)
- Blue group — product sold in pairs (BOOKEND, EARBUD, SKI, SOCK)
- Purple team — bugs plus initial letter (SHIRT, PANTS, SMITE, STICK)
There’s no perfect game today, but I’ll take back-to-back wins. Here’s how I did:
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At first I was under the impression that there might be something to the combination of PUNCH and SOCK, but I decided to try a different direction first and guessed a group of JUICE, WATER, SODA, and SOCK. One away, but one life down.
The EARBUD caught my eye since it usually comes in a pair. As I looked around the grid, the blues came together. Fertilizing, pruning, watering and milking seemed like things you might do on a farm back then. Again, one away and another life lost. I swapped PRUNE for JUICE to no avail. Through the elimination process though, I finally managed to get the yellows (I’m not a very logical thinker, but I’ll take it!).
This meant that PRUNING, FERTILIZER and WATER formed three quarters of a group. The only other word that made sense was POT, so I was glad to get the green ones. That left the purple group, which I didn’t understand the connection to, for a small win.
That’s all there is for today Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for tips and the fix for Friday’s game if you need them.
PS It’s that time of year when I start recommending some scary movies. Let’s start with Monster House, a fantastic, underrated animated gem from 2006 that the whole family can enjoy. I’ve wanted to make scary movies for kids for a long time, and this is a great example of how to do it right:
