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Hey, folks! Due to a scheduling error, Thursday’s column published much later than usual. Some of you have told me that you enjoy completing Connections over your morning coffee and then reading about how I fared, so apologies for perhaps robbing you of the chance to do that. My mistake.
Today’s Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
In Connections, 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 horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
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 typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.
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.
Connections Hints For November 10
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:
- DILL
- SPEAR
- SECRET
- CLUB
- QUICK
- DEGREE
- SAGE
- AXE
- MACE
- BRIGHT
- NUTMEG
- SHARP
- SWORD
- ANISE
- SMART
- OLD SPICE
And the clues for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — flavorful additions
- Green group — terms for a brainiac
- Blue group — they might help you freshen up
- Purple group — old-timey damage dealers
Connections Groups For November 10
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Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — spices
- Green group — intelligent
- Blue group — deodorants
- Purple group — medieval weapons
Connections Answers For November 10
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 are…
- Yellow group — spices (ANISE, DILL, NUTMEG, SAGE)
- Green group — intelligent (BRIGHT, QUICK, SHARP, SMART)
- Blue group — deodorants (AXE, DEGREE, OLD SPICE, SECRET)
- Purple group — medieval weapons (CLUB, MACE, SPEAR, SWORD)
Hey now, that’s my third perfect game in a row and my fourth straight victory overall. We’re on a roll, gang.
I had no trouble at all with today’s game. The blue group was immediately obvious to me, and that was the key to solving the puzzle, I think. The presence of OLD SPICE told me that there would be a group of deodorants. AXE falls into that, which took it out of play from the purple words. I finished that group next.
I then pulled together the yellow words. The “spices” descriptor isn’t quite accurate since DILL and SAGE are herbs, but I’ll let that slide. That left the green words to tie things up.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Saturday’s game if you need them.
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