Another day means another Connections puzzle to solve and if you’re struggling to figure it out, Newsweek is here to help you.
If you’ve never played it before, Connections is the latest New York Times word game and it has taken the internet by storm since its June 2023 launch.
The Times associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu is credited with bringing the popular game to life. It is now the news outlet’s second most-played brainteaser after the hugely popular Wordle, which was created by Josh Wardle.
How to Play ‘Connections’
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Each puzzle consists of 16 words, with each group of words separated into four categories. The uniting themes are from a broad range of categories, like types of plants, popular movie franchises and verbs.
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 but players are only allowed to make up to four mistakes before the game ends.
When players are stumped they can shuffle and rearrange the board to make the process of guessing the connections easier.
The board also has a color-coding system representing levels of difficulty. Yellow represents the easiest, green and blue usually sit in the middle and purple is typically the hardest one to deduce. A group’s color will only be revealed once the words in a group have been correctly connected.
To make the game a little bit more difficult, sometimes a word can belong to more than one category—but there is only one correct answer.
Liu has been editing puzzles at the Times since 2020 and previously offered her advice to those who might be struggling with the game.
“One suggestion that may help save some guesses is if you start selecting cards and notice that there are five or more that belong to that category, try pivoting to a different category before making that first guess,” she said. “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.”
The answers for today’s Connections will be revealed at the end of this article, so scroll down with caution if you want to work them out for yourself.
‘Connections’ #318 Clues for Wednesday, April 24
Yellow: Found at a Mexican restaurant.
Green: Shortened measurement words.
Blue: Different styles of a piece of clothing that covers one’s legs.
Purple: Jack and Jill went up this.
‘Connections’ #318 Answers for Wednesday, April 24
Yellow Category: TACO TOPPINGS
Yellow Words: Cilantro, Lime, Onion, Salsa
Green Category: METRIC PREFIXES
Green Words: Kilo, Mega, Micro, Pico
Blue Category: KINDS OF SKIRTS
Blue Words: Mini, Pencil, Poodle, Wrap
Purple Category: WORDS WITH “HILL”
Purple Words: Capitol, Faith, Foot, Mole
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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