Find the connections between the words to win today’s Connections game.
Are you looking for tips and answers to Tuesday’s “Connections” instead? You can find them here:
Hey everyone. I’m going to skip my usual Wednesday stuff this week as it’s a rough day for a lot of people. Don’t forget to check in with your loved ones.
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…
- DINOSAUR
- PEARL
- AUBERGINE
- MINT
- LAVENDER
- AMBER
- NUGGET
- STACK
- TREATS
- AMETHYST
- ASSETS
- MOSQUITO
- BUNDLE
- PALEONTOLOGIST
- GRIMACE
- KERNELS
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – lots of money
- Green Group – a little knowledge
- Blue Group – Elements of a 1993 film that was once the highest-grossing film of all time
- Purple group — they are like this group
What are today’s Connections groups?
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Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are …
- Yellow group – large sum of money
- Green Group – Wisdom
- Blue Group — featured in Jurassic Park
- Purple Group – Things that are purple
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 – large amount of money (BUNDLE, FORTUNE, MINT, PILE)
- Green Group – Wisdoms (KERNEL, NUGGET, PEARL, TIDBIT)
- Blue Group — featured in Jurassic Park (AMBER, DINOSAUR, MOSQUITO, PALEONTOLOGIST)
- Purple Group – Things that are purple (AMETHYST, AUBERGINE, GRIMACE, LAVENDER)
My first perfect game in a long time gives me four wins in a row.
When I saw DINOSAUR and EGGPLANT in the first line, I immediately thought of “things that are purple” because of Barney. PALENTOLOGIST was a clue that my instincts weren’t quite right, as there were only so many ways to use that word. So I got the blue ones first, and when I noticed GRIMACE, the purple ones soon followed.
From then on, it was quite easy as both the green and yellow tones seemed quite obvious to me.
That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. If you need hints and the solution for Thursday’s game, be sure to check out my blog.
PS I have two recommendations for you today. First: Jurassic Park. Either you’ve never seen it or it’s probably been too long since you last saw it. An all-time great film that made for one of my favorite cinema experiences ever.
Second, I appeared on Engadget’s YouTube channel and podcast for the first time this week to talk about Monday’s iPhone 16 event. I think it went pretty well, so I’m happy to share it here in case you were wondering what I looked and/or sounded like.
