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Time for your first weekend Connections and I will admit, I found this one rather difficult. Though that may be some amount of brain fog given that I am on no sleep with a two-week old…
How to Play Connections
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. So, onto the hints and answers:
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What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers.
- BRANDY
- MALT
- FIRM
- BUTTER
- STOUT
- CIDER
- PORT
- HOUSE
- LUXE
- OUTFIT
- THICK
- SAUCE
- SQUAT
- GERM
- CONCERN
- SOLID
The hints for the Connections groups today are:
- Blue Group – Far from the tree
- Yellow Group – Brick house
- Green Group – Incorporated
- Purple Group – Across the pond
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- Blue Group – Apple Products
- Yellow Group – Stocky
- Green Group – Company
- Purple Group – Starts of European Countries
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:
- Blue Group – Apple Products (Brandy, Butter, Cider, Sauce)
- Yellow Group – Stocky (Solid, Squat, Stout, Thick)
- Green Group – Company (Concern, Firm, House, Outfit)
- Purple Group – Starts of European Countries (Germ, Luxe, Malt, Port)
Connections
Well, this felt like a puzzle that was going to be all about alcohol with different types of liquor and wines. But that is not at all what happened here, with the only drink being Brandy in the blue category with a bunch of other non-alcoholic apple productions. Well I guess cider can be alcoholic too. In college I may have put alcohol in apple sauce.
Yellow group I thought was pretty straightforward albeit I thought that “Firm” could be in there too, though I guess you would not call someone stocky that term, exactly, despite being in a similar category of words.
I was confused by the green group as I just am not familiar with the term “concern” used when it comes to the formation of a company. Turns out it’s a type of business popular in Europe, which leads to the final group.
Purple group had us going to some big and small European countries, albeit only half of them. We have Germany, Luxembourg, Malta and Portugal in a category that again, I thought had at least two words that had to do with wine. Tricky tricky.
How did you fare with the puzzle today?
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