Connections hints, every day
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How Connections works
Sixteen words hide four groups of four. Find a group and its shared thread, from plain topics to sneaky wordplay. You can afford four mistakes before the game ends.
The colours grade the difficulty: yellow is the friendliest group, then green and blue, and purple is usually the trickiest, often built on a word that can follow or precede all four answers.
Connections strategy that actually helps
Read all sixteen words before touching any of them, and hunt for the most specific link first: a shared suffix, a set of proper names, a phrase each word can complete. The surest groups usually announce themselves through grammar, four words that all follow the same word, or all precede it. Solve the odd one out last; the leftovers often form the trickiest set, the one built on wordplay.
Common mistakes
Decoys are the game. A word that fits two groups belongs to the stricter one, and the obvious theme is often bait for three words plus a fourth that merely sounds right. Use the shuffle button: a fresh layout breaks the false pattern your eyes invented, and never spend a third mistake on a group you have not said out loud in full.
Play it yourself first: Play the official Connections at The New York Times. Come back here the moment you want a nudge instead of a giveaway.
Recent answers
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