Happy Easter everybody! This is the first guide published on my brand new website, NYT Puzzle Guides, where for the time being I’ll be posting Connections, Wordle and Strands guides every day. These will include spoilers so you don’t accidentally see the answers before you see the hints and so forth.
I hope you’re having a lovely Easter Sunday filled with chocolate, family and rabbit stew. I won’t take up too much of your time with a preamble. Instead, let’s get right to the puzzle!
How To Play Connections
The New York Times publishes a number of highly addictive, and often quite puzzling, word puzzle games. In Connections you have a grid made up of 16 words. The trick is organizing these words into four blocks of four words each. Each puzzle has four secret “themes” that connect each block of four.
Each group of words is color-coded: The Yellow block is the easiest. The Blue and Green blocks are moderately challenging. The Purple block is typically the most challenging.
You get just four chances to place the words into the correct groups. Select the four you think go together and hit ‘Submit’ and if you’re correct, bravo! If you’re not, you lose one of your four tries. Lose all four and it’s Game Over.
Today’s Connections
Here are today’s 16 Connections words:
- HONEY
- BROWN
- CORSET
- MINERAL
- SPRING
- SLIP
- TEDDY
- WASP
- FALL
- HOURGLASS
- TAP
- BOO-BOO
- STILL
- SPILL
- DIABOLO
- TRIP
Today’s Connections Hints
Here are a few hints to help you with today’s Connections.
- Yellow Group – Clumsy
- Green Group – Agua
- Blue Group – Tiny Waist
- Purple – Hibernates
Today’s Connections Groups
Here are the official groups for today’s Connections.
- Yellow Group – ‘take a tumble’
- Green Group – ‘kinds of water’
- Blue Group – ‘things that are cinched in the middle’
- Purple Group – ‘_____ bear’
Today’s Connections Answers
- Yellow Group – FALL, SLIP, SPILL, TRIP
- Green Group – MINERAL, SPRING, STILL, TAP
- Blue Group – CORSET, DIABOLO, HOURGLASS, WASP
- Purple Group – BOO-BOO, BROWN, HONEY, TEDDY
Not the hardest Connections ever today, but not the easiest either. I think the Blue Group was the hardest. Honestly, the Purple Group, which often uses clever wordplay, was pretty easy. Where I got tripped up was with diabolo and wasp and making sense of how they fit with anything. But once I googled what a diabolo actually was (I had no idea!) and saw it looked just like an hourglass, the pieces came together.
How did you do on today’s Connections?
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