Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections
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MORE FROM FORBESNYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Friday, April 26By Kris Holt
Hey there, gang! Welcome to the weekend. I hope you make the most of it.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
In Connections, you’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are:
- BUY
- SHORT
- SPIKE
- SWALLOW
- DIGEST
- CURT
- HAIRY
- OUTLINE
- BELIEVE
- BRIEF
- SURGE
- WANE
- ABSTRACT
- ACCEPT
- KNEEL
- OUTAGE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — be convinced by
- Green group — electrical problems
- Blue group — the abridged version
- Purple group — they sound like forms of address
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — trust as real
- Green group — power issues
- Blue group — summary
- Purple group — name homophones
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — trust as real (ACCEPT, BELIEVE, BUY, SWALLOW)
- Green group — power issues (OUTAGE, SHORT, SPIKE, SURGE)
- Blue group — summary (ABSTRACT, BRIEF, DIGEST, OUTLINE)
- Purple group — name homophones (CURT, HAIRY, KNEEL, WANE)
Lovely, that makes it three straight wins for me. I was close to a perfect game, but I made a silly mistake.
I got the greens right away, thanks to OUTAGE and SURGE. The yellows tripped me up a little, as I accidentally included DIGEST instead of BUY at first, but then I corrected my error.
I found the blues straightfoward, which was a good thing, because I don’t think I’d have figured out the purples. I feel like CURT was a poor word to include here, since I know of several people whose names are spelled that way, instead of Kurt. Still, I’ll take the win.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Sunday’s game if you need them.
P.S. After including an Idlewild song in yesterday’s column, I listened to them quite a bit throughout the day. So I can’t help but double up with the closer from their breakthrough album, The Remote Part. I love it very much, and even then it’s maybe my fifth favorite song on the record. I don’t have any tattoos, but I’d definitely consider getting one that reads “Scottish friction, Scottish fiction”: