Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Happy Thursday, folks! It’s a big day on both sides of the Atlantic, as the U.S. celebrates Independence Day and the U.K. goes to the polls for a general election. The latter won’t turn out in everyone’s favor, of course, but it’s looking very much like there’ll be a new resident of 10 Downing Street by this weekend.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
In Connections, you’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- FIREWORKS
- LIBERTY
- COOKIES
- DINNER
- HISTORY
- CHEMISTRY
- REVOLUTION
- TINKER
- DATA
- BAR
- SPARKS
- LAP
- CYCLE
- CACHE
- TURN
- ATTRACTION
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — positive feelings for flirts
- Green group — what Chrome and Safari hang onto
- Blue group — once around
- Purple group — linked by a word that also goes with “bottoms,” “diving” and “church”
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — romantic rapport
- Green group — things stored by a web browser
- Blue group — single rotation
- Purple group — words before “bell”
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — romantic rapport (ATTRACTION, CHEMISTRY, FIREWORKS, SPARKS)
- Green group — things stored by a web browser (CACHE, COOKIES, DATA, HISTORY)
- Blue group — single rotation (CYCLE, LAP, REVOLUTION, TURN)
- Purple group — words before “bell” (BAR, DINNER, LIBERTY, TINKER)
My first perfect game in quite a while helped me bring my overall streak up to three victories.
CACHE gave me an entry point into the greens, and ATTRACTION did the same for the yellows. I felt that the blues were a little straightforward too. That left the purples (for which I didn’t figure out the connection, but should have) for the win.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Friday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I’m really looking to my third Springsteen show later this year. Here’s an always-relevant song from The Boss: