Connections
NYT
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Connections
NYT
Today we have a Connections where I think, for once, it’s good *not* to have expertise in one area, lest it throw you off, which does not happen often.
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:
Yellow Group kicks off the part of the puzzle that destroyed me this week. If you don’t know comics, this would have not happened to you, but if you do, you know that MARVEL, DC and DARK HORSE are all comic publishers. I kept trying to find the fourth, as maybe as it was a more obscure one I hadn’t heard of. Burned through attempts that way real fast.
Green Group, if you took DC into its proper place, should be relatively easy, unless you were instead connecting AC and DC to the band, rather than their place in the world of electricity. But I’m guessing a lot of people got this.
Blue Group has Dark Horse, the not-comic-brand that is paired with a bunch of other terms that describe unlikely winners. If you focus, this may have been the easiest group of the puzzle today.
At a certain point, Purple Group uses such weird words that you have to start looking for those hidden words within them, and I mean, pepsinogen? Come on. I wondered what these actually meant so:
Man, this puzzle cheated. Cannot believe you, NYT.
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