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Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Looking for Thursday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:
Hey, folks! The weekend is right around the corner, and I think most of us will be thankful for that. I hope you have a most excellent weekend, whatever that means to you (as long as everything’s above board, of course). I think you deserve it.
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 Friday, February 21, 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…
- GUITAR
- PICK
- EYEDROPPER
- SOLUTION
- HARVEST
- FIX
- CAN OPENER
- ERASER
- BASEBALL GLOVE
- MAGIC WAND
- ANSWER
- REAP
- GATHER
- GOLF CLUB
- LASSO
- REMEDY
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — resolve an issue
- Green group — accumulate produce
- Blue group — like the healing brush or color sampler
- Purple group —
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 — way of solving a problem
- Green group — collect, as from an orchard
- Blue group — Photoshop tools
- Purple group — objects that may be right- or left-handed
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 — way of solving a problem (ANSWER, FIX, REMEDY, SOLUTION)
- Green group — collect, as from an orchard (GATHER, HARVEST, PICK, REAP)
- Blue group — Photoshop tools (ERASER, EYEDROPPER, LASSO, MAGIC WAND)
- Purple group — objects that may be right- or left-handed (BASEBALL GLOVE, CAN OPENER, GOLF CLUB, GUITAR)
My run of four perfect games has come to an end, but my overall streak now stands at 15 wins. Here’s how I fared:
This one was interesting! Lots of fun words and objects to square away.
I immediately saw that there were a lot of words related to solving a problem: SOLUTION, FIX, ERASER, MAGIC WAND, ANSWER and REMEDY. So I decided to stay well away from those at the outset.
Thankfully, the greens were easy enough to spot. I then realized that GUITAR, BASEBALL GLOVE, MAGIC WAND, GOLF CLUB and LASSO are all important items in certain professions. I felt like I had to go with my gut, and luckily that worked out since I got the yellows.
I was pretty stuck after that, so I tried a guess of MAGIC WAND, GUITAR, GOLF CLUB and LASSO, just to check. But no, I wasn’t even one away from a group. That meant there had to be two purples and two blues among those four. I switched out GUITAR and LASSO for CAN OPENER and EYEDROPPER, and had the same result.
But then CAN OPENER stood out to me. I realized that’s something that comes in left-handed and right-handed versions. And that was the key to me getting the purples.
I would have had very little chance of getting the blues. I don’t use Adobe Photoshop (or know how to use it, to be honest), even though image editing is a useful skill to have in my line of work.
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 Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. After mentioning a Feist song in yesterday’s recommendations, I feel the need to run it back with two more great tracks from her third album, The Reminder. “1234” is probably her biggest hit to date. It’s so lovely:
I really love the version Feist did on Sesame Street too. It always surprises me how this video manages to stir up so many emotions in me:
“I Feel It All” is another great song from The Reminder. It really evokes a sense of time and place for me, from a time in my life where I was really trying to figure things out. (I still am, in truth). It’s one of those songs that makes me feel happy and sad at the same time. It’s super catchy and has a fun video too:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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