Some days, we breeze through Connections without any troubles; other days can be a bit tougher. That’s why Newsweek has put together some hints to help you over the line with today’s game.
Launched in July 2023, Connections quickly became the second-most played game on the New York Times app.
How to Play ‘Connections’
The game challenges players to find common threads between a series of words. Players must group them and name the categories.
Each puzzle has 16 words, with each group of words separated into four categories. The uniting themes are from a broad range of categories.
If all four words are correctly placed into each set, those words will be removed from the board. Each incorrect guess counts toward the mistake tally. Players can make up to four mistakes before the game ends.
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If it helps with guessing the answers, players can shuffle and rearrange the board.
To make the game just a bit more complicated, sometimes a word can belong to more than one category—but there is only one correct answer.
The board also has a color-coding system representing levels of difficulty. Yellow represents the easiest and is followed by green, blue and purple. A group’s color will be revealed only once the words in a group have been correctly connected.
The answers for today’s Connections will be revealed at the end of this article, so please scroll down with caution if you want to work them out for yourself.
Connections editor Wyna Liu has been editing puzzles at The New York Times since 2020. She said the best tactic if you found a word that could belong in more than one category was to try working out a different category before making your first guess.
“Doing so might take one of those extra cards out of contention, or at least remove a few cards from the board, making other categories easier to see,” Liu said.
The answers for today’s Connections will be revealed at the end of this article, so please scroll down with caution if you want to work them out for yourself.
‘Connections’ #314 Clues for Saturday, April 20
Newsweek has some hints to help you figure out today’s Connections categories.
Yellow: Senseless talk
Green: Things at a track-and-field competition.
Blue: Dressing up evil.
Purple: Getting all tied up.
‘Connections’ #314 Answers for Saturday, April 20
Yellow Category: BALDERDASH
Yellow Words: BUNK, CROCK, HOGWASH, HORSEFEATHERS
Green Category: TRACK AND FIELD EQUIPMENT
Green Words: BATON, HAMMER, HURDLE, POLE
Blue Category: PARTS OF A DEVIL COSTUME
Blue Words: GOATEE, HORNS, PITCHFORK, TAIL
Purple Category: TYPES OF KNOTS
Purple Words: BEND, BOWLINE, HITCH, SHEEPSHANK
Did you guess the answers correctly? If so, congratulations. If not, don’t worry; there will be another opportunity to crack the puzzle tomorrow.
Connections is released at midnight in your local time zone. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.
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