Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
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Today’s NYT Connections Clues and answers coming soon.
How to play connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. Every day at midnight you get a new puzzle. You can NYT Website or game app.
You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to sort these into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names of participants in research studies, or words preceded by a body part.
Each puzzle has only one solution. You must be careful with words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix the words up to see if there are any connections between them.
Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in between, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often includes wordplay.
Choose four words that you think go together and press submit. If you guess wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to getting a correct group, you may see a message letting you know that you’re one word away from the correct group, but you still need to figure out which one to swap out.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some tips. And if you’re really having trouble, today’s Connections Answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, you can easily share the results with your friends on social media and group chats.
What are today’s connection tips?
Scroll slowly! Immediately after the instructions for each of today’s Connections Groups, I will tell you which groups they are without immediately telling you which words belong in these groups.
Today’s 16 words are…
- CLOWN
- STAY
- TURKEY
- SEA
- WONDER
- JUICE
- DISAPPEARANCE
- REMAIN
- WASTE
- DWEEB
- EBB
- LIVE
- SIN
- OCCUPANCY
- DWARF
- TRAPS
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – occupy
- Green group – lower
- Blue Group – Ignorant
- Purple group – one of a certain number
What are today’s Connections groups?
Need additional help?
Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler area.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow group – living
- Green Group – Decline
- Blue Group – Doofus
- Purple Group — Member of a septet
What are today’s Connections answers?
Warning, spoilers! Don’t scroll down until you’re ready to see today’s Connections Answer.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections Answers are …
- Yellow group – living (LIVING, INHABITING, LIVING, STAYING)
- Green group – Decrease (DECLINE, DROP, DWINDLE, EBB)
- Blue Group – Doofus (CLOWN, DWEEB, SAP, TURKEY)
- Purple Group – Member of a septet (DWARF, SEA, SIN, WONDER)
With a perfect game, I’m back on the road to success after six defeats in a row.
DECLINE and EBB opened the door to the greens, while DWELL and INHABIT did the same for the yellows. The blues were then pretty easy to piece together once I made the connection between DWEEB and SAP. Then when only the purple words were left, I felt the connection was obvious.
That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. If you need hints and the solution for Monday’s game, be sure to check out my blog.
PS A new book version of Connections was introduced to me recently, so if you’re keen to try more, this might be an option for you. Every day there’s a new round of BookLinks, and if you win three games in a row, you’ll get a discount on a book order.
