Connections It’s one of those games that can either be a breeze to solve, or you need a helping hand.
where it is Newsweek Comes with a list of simple hints to guide you with solving the daily word puzzle. If all else fails, below are the answers.
How to play Connections
Players are tasked with grouping 16 words into four categories based on association. For example, a game combines the words “clear”, “earn”, “make” and “net”, all of which fall under the category “take home as income”.
Each of the four categories is labeled with a color, which also indicates their level of difficulty: starting with yellow, the easiest, then green, blue, and finally the hardest category, purple.
Don’t be fooled though, the puzzles are rarely straightforward, using homophones and wordplay, among other techniques, to keep things interesting.
Unifying themes can come from a wide range of categories – from Halloween costumes to music genres.
If all four words are placed correctly in each set, those words are removed from the board. Each wrong guess counts towards the error count. Up to four mistakes can be made before the game is over.
To make things a little more difficult, a word can sometimes belong to more than one category—but only one correct answer.
Players can shuffle and rearrange the board if they want to try to make the process of guessing connections easier.
Vina Liu is the daily editor Connections, which is published by The New York Times, And she shared along Newsweek in June Some tips on how to solve the game.
“My best piece of advice is to wait as long as possible before you make a guess,” she began. “You can look at a board and completely identify a category by looking at the five words in that category.
“Don’t try to guess the four words in that category, because even though you know what the fifth member is, you don’t know which of the four it might not be,” which ultimately spoils the curve.
By trying your hand at finding another category first, it can eliminate words that might belong to more than one group, ultimately meaning less chance of making a mistake, because “your four guesses go through pretty quickly.”
“Don’t do what I do which is the ‘anger solution,'” she said.
The answers to Tuesday’s puzzle are towards the end of the article, so scroll with caution if you want to solve it yourself.
Connections #450 clues for Tuesday, September 3
Newsweek Today’s diagram has some hints to help you Connections categories
Yellow: To stop someone or something.
green: Ridiculously or unnecessarily.
blue: Money from around the world.
Purple: A word that may precede a word meaning cranium or noggin.
Connections #450 Answers for Tuesday, September 3
Yellow range: Release
Yellow Words: Pardon, pardon, spare, spare
Green range: excessive
Green Words: Beyond, extra, to, over
Blue category: global currencies
Blue words: Won, Real, Pound, Yen
Purple Series: ____ Head
Purple words: Arrow, Block, Four, Copy
Connections Reset daily at midnight in your local time zone, and Newsweek Wednesday will be back with more hints, tips and answers to help you solve the daily puzzle.
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