I have an explainer here on the difference between Wordle, Strands, and Connections—all are NYT word games, but each one has a different flavor of gameplay and rewards different skills. Connections is best if you like wordplay and references to general knowledge. But you also have to have a high tolerance for being tricked, because this game makes liberal use of words' double meanings, in deliberately devious ways. And if you get stumped, you can always check out our daily hints.
How to play Connections
The game presents you with 16 tiles that each have a word or short phrase on them. On each move, your job is to select four tiles that you think form a group. Groups are usually the same type of thing (like HAIL, RAIN, SLEET, SNOW) but there’s usually at least one grouping that relies on wordplay. For example, one puzzle grouped DOUBT, SHADOW, MOVIE, and VOTE—those are all things you can cast.
You have four mistakes available. When you run out, the game is over, and you’ll get to see the answers you missed.
The game is designed to be tricky. The puzzle designers will often put in a group of five or more words that fit the same category, but obviously only four of them can make up a legal group. Or they'll take four things that could go together, but assign each one to a different category based on a double meaning that each word has.
But a moment later that “Huh?” was replaced with an “Aha!” as HEAT matched up with JAZZ, BUCKS, and NETS to make a set of NBA teams. Elsewhere on the board I saw HAIL was not there as a gesture or greeting, but was the proper partner for the wet-weather words. RACE CAR, which seemed to be an outlier—there were no other vehicles—turned out to be part of a set of palindromes.
How to win at Connections
It’s also strategic to mentally put a name to the thing your four potential matches have in common. The game’s help screen hints that the categories will never be as broad as “names” or “verbs,” so make sure you’ve pinned down something specific. Note that my initial guess was just “weather,” but the real grouping turned out to be “wet weather.” The game will name the theme after you correctly guess the grouping.
I tried this on a Connections puzzle that had a bunch of words that might be cat names, and some religious words whose exact theme was unclear. The rest were a mystery to me. So I started writing down possible groups:
Religious words: altar, reliquary, abbey, temple, shrine (Again, too many!)
???: rocky
Presidential first names: Grover, Calvin, Harry...and, wait, Chester!
All that was left to do was to figure out which of the religious words could fit with high, rocky, and silk. Those three are all (literal or metaphorical) roads, so their partner is Abbey Road. Get it?
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