Connections quickly became one of the The New York Times the most popular games after Wordle.
This can either be a child’s play to solve or a real challenge. Newsweek has put together some handy tips to help you solve Friday’s puzzle.
Below are the instructions for playing the game. The answers to Friday’s puzzle are towards the end of the article, so scroll carefully if you want to solve them yourself.
How to play Connections
Players must group 16 words into four categories based on their association. For example, Wednesday’s puzzle included the words supply, host, plan And throw gathered in the category “Help organize a party”.
Each of the four categories is labeled with a color, which indicates its difficulty level. Yellow is the easiest category, followed by green, blue, and purple. However, the puzzles are rarely simple, using homophones and wordplay, among other techniques, to challenge players. Past categories have ranged from Quentin Tarantino films to geometric terms.
The familiarity of the words used and how often they appear in contemporary life are also factors in difficulty. “Overlap of elements,” where a word can be linked to multiple categories, is another way that Connections tests players.
If stuck, players can press the shuffle button, which will shuffle where the words appear on the screen.
Users have four attempts to correctly guess the four groups. If you fail to get all four connections, the answers and their corresponding difficulty color will be revealed at the end.
Connections #453 Clues for Friday, September 6
Newsweek contains some tips to help you understand the Friday Connection categories.
YELLOW: Different ways of saying the sum of something.
Green: Occurrence.
Blue: Things you can get in your mailbox.
Purple: Things that could mean the word that is the name of what comes after winter.
The New York Times
Connections #453 Answers for Friday, September 6
Yellow Category: Quantity
Yellow words: Amount, number, number, total
Green Category: Incident
Green words: Case, episode, event, affair
Blue Category: Items received by mail
Blue words: Invoice, card, catalog, letter
Purple Category: What “Spring” Might Refer To
Purple words: Bounce, coil, geyser, season
Did you find the answers? If so, congratulations, if not, don’t be discouraged. Practice makes perfect, and the next Connections puzzle will be released on Friday.
Connections is published at midnight in your local time zone, and Newsweek I’ll be back on Saturday with another round of tips and tricks.
