Here’s some help with today’s Quordle, including hints and the answers.
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Looking for Sunday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:
Hey, everyone! I hope you had a restful weekend and that you’re raring to go.
It’s Monday, and we could all probably do with a little jolt to get the week started. So play this funky tune, turn up the volume and dance around to shake out the cobwebs:
Before we begin, I’ve set up a discussion group for Connections and this column on Discord. You can chat about each game (and other topics) with me and other folks. I’m always interested to find out how other people approach the game, so join us! It’s fun.
It’s also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, February 24, are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
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 items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
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 usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
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. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
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…
- MERMAID
- CAVE
- HEARTH
- BUCKLE
- BOW
- SCARF
- BUTTE
- GULP
- WOLF
- COMPASS
- CHINA
- SHINE
- SWALLOW
- GIVE
- ANCHOR
- GOBBLE
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — what you might do if you’re ravenous
- Green group — capitulate
- Blue group — permanently represent life at sea
- Purple group — elongate yourself, but not quite like Mr. Fantastic does
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections groups are…
- Yellow group — eat voraciously
- Green group — bend under pressure
- Blue group — classic nautical tattoos
- Purple group — body parts plus letter
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 — eat voraciously (GOBBLE, GULP, SCARF, WOLF)
- Green group — bend under pressure (BOW, BUCKLE, CAVE, GIVE)
- Blue group — classic nautical tattoos (ANCHOR, COMPOASS, MERMAID, SWALLOW)
- Purple group — body parts plus letter (BUTTE, CHINA, HEARTH, SHINE)
I had a whammy today. My latest streak is over after 17 straight wins. Here’s how I fared:
My first idea that there would be a group of things commonly seen in tattoos, thanks to ANCHOR and MERMAID. So I tried a guess with those, COMPASS and WOLF that put me one away from a group. Close, but maybe I wasn’t quite on the right track there.
I then realized that WOLF might go with the group of words that means to eat things quickly. But with a guess of that, SCARF, GULP and SWALLOW, I was again one away. Uh oh. Time to start worrying about my streak.
I moved away from that momentarily to knock out the greens after spotting those. But then I made another error with a gambit of SWALLOW, SCARF, GULP and GOBBLE. Again, one away, but I was now in sudden death territory.
SCARF then seemed like the most likely candidate to leave out. So I swapped out that for WOLF. Annnd it was game over.
I had the right idea for the yellows and blues, but completely forgot about the fact that SWALLOW also refers to a bird. Rats. I probably should have figured out the purple group too. That one wasn’t too complicated, especially since I suspected that BUTTE (hehehe, butt), CHINA and HEARTH would all go in there.
We go again tomorrow.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. We recently had a group of golden things, so I’ve had a few “golden” songs on the brain. “Golden Skans” is a fun, danceable track from Klaxons, a group I enjoyed very much way back when:
Next up is a very loud guitar-driven song from one of my absolute faves, Biffy Clyro. Here’s “That Golden Rule,” for (hopefully) your listening pleasure:
Last but not least is a song that was brought to my attention by ThatShortGirl, a member of our Discord group. I hadn’t heard “Golden Hour” by JVKE until the other day. It’s a cool mix of orchestral piano, almost-rapped verses and a big-time, swooning chorus. I dig it:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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