Today’s Connections hints
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Stop, thief!
Green group hint: Get the spaghetti sauce.
Blue group hint: Thomas.
Purple group hint: Items you can fracture.
Today’s Connections answers
Yellow group: Steal.
Green group: Pasta shapes.
Blue group: Fictional Toms.
Purple group: Things that can be snapped.
CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.
What are today’s Connections answers?
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is steal.
The four answers are boost, palm, pocket and swipe.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is pasta shapes.
The four answers are bow tie, elbow, shell and wagon wheel.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is fictional Toms.
The four answers are Ripley, Sawyer, Swift and Thumb.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is things that can be snapped.
The four answers are fingers, football, glow stick and rubber band.
How to play Connections
In Connections, you look at a grid of 16 words and pick four words that have a connection to one another. You do this four times until all 16 words in the puzzle are grouped. The tough part is that Times puzzle editor Wyna Liu chooses words that could fit in multiple groups. The obvious guess — hey, those are four animals! — is almost always going to be wrong. I’ve compiled my favorite tips for Connections if you need a boost.
The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
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