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This is one of those Connections puzzles that seemed really hard when I was doing it, but it was a bit of a forehead-slapper once I finished and realized it was easier than I thought.
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:
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.
Here is a hint that gives you one word per group:
The hints for the Connections groups today are:
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
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:
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Look, in hindsight, Yellow Group was easy as three of those are obviously car things (do people really keep ice scrapers in their trunks though? mine is the floor of the backseat). But I was so distracted by what I thought were alcohol clues (this one involving Jack), that I had a hard time.
Green Group has another alcohol word, I thought. The full list is Jack (Daniels), (Jim) Beam, Patron (Tequila), Bombay (Gin), Screwdriver (vodka and orange juice) and I suppose a sponsor for something like AA. But literally none of those were supposed to be about that.
Blue Group is another one that should have been pretty easy, especially the last three that did not hold me up like beam did. Though I suppose three of them could be verbs.
Purple Group was tricky as ever, not doing word (blank) or (blank) word as it often does, but word(answer). It does these regularly too but it can be hard to pull them out as a word-based group rather than a category based group, if that makes sense.
Which ones gave you a hard time this week? Were you pursuing the alcohol angle as well?
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