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Connections quickly became an online sensation after it was released by The New York Times in June 2023—and it remains as popular as ever.
The word puzzle is now the news outlet’s second-most played game after Wordle. Connections challenges players to uncover threads connecting a series of words.
Instructions on how to play the game are below. Clues and the answers for today’s puzzle are toward the end of the article.How to Play ‘Connections’
Connections tasks players with grouping 16 words into four categories based on association. For example, Thursday’s game linked the words « Bookend », « Earbud », « Ski », and « Sock » under the category « Items Sold In Pairs. »
Each of the four categories is labeled with a color, which also signifies the difficulty level. Yellow is the easiest category, followed by green, blue and purple. The puzzles are rarely straightforward, using homophones and wordplay, among other techniques, to keep players challenged.
The familiarity of the words used and how often they pop up in modern life are also difficulty factors, although less common words aren’t only used in the harder categories.
