Find the links between the words to win today’s Link game.
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It’s Wednesday and you know what that means: it’s time for another round Connections!
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…
- JOKER
- DICE
- OPPORTUNITY
- CASINO
- OCTOPUS
- INFORMATION
- CUBE
- GAMBLING
- SLICE
- BET
- SHIVA
- JULIENNE
- HEAT
- VENUS OF THE APPLE
- RISK
- TAXI DRIVER
And the tips for today’s teams are:
- Yellow team — put something at risk
- Green team — dinner preparation methods
- Blue team — connected by an actor
- Purple group — notable for how many of a certain thing they have
What are today’s connection groups?
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Today’s teams are…
- Yellow team — get on the line
- Green team — use a kitchen knife
- Blue group — movies by Robert de Niro
- Purple team — distinctive number of arms (or lack thereof)
What are the answers to today’s connections?
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Today’s Connections the answers are…
- Yellow team — line up (BET, CHANCE, BET, RISK)
- Green team — use a kitchen knife (CUBE, DICE, JULIENNE, SLICE)
- Blue Group — Robert De Niro films (CASINO, HEAT, JOKER, TAXI DRIVER)
- Purple group — distinctive number of arms (or lack thereof) (OCTOPUS, SHIVA, SLOTS, VENUS DE MILO)
I got back to winning ways with a perfect game. Here’s how I did:
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I really liked this one, mostly because I pretty much figured it out when I wrote the word list.
There were, I think, seven words related to gambling, so at least three of them had to go to other groups. I got the blues first recognizing that all four corners were De Niro.
Seeing OCTOPUS and SOT MACHINE helped me understand purples (I found that team enjoyable). That left the simple greens, with JULIENNE being the entry point and the yellows for the win.
On a personal note, I went to the casino on Friday and stopped playing roulette when I hit $200. That paid for dinner and taxis at least!
That’s all there is for today Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for tips and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.
PS Joker it’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen and unfortunately I haven’t watched it Heat. But I can at least recommend Taxi driver. It’s not exactly for the faint of heart, but it’s a great movie:
