Newsweek has compiled some hints and tips to help you get through Friday’s Connections brainteaser. If you still can’t get it, you can scroll to the bottom and find the answers.
But first, let’s recap on how to play.
How To Play ‘Connections’
When it comes to playing Connections, the rules are simple. Players are given a set of 16 words they must separate into four categories based on common themes. These categories are color-coded and vary in difficulty, with purple considered the hardest category and yellow considered the easiest. The green and blue categories are considered medium difficulty.
For example, in Monday’s puzzle, the purple category was “Words famously pronounced different ways,” and the terms associated with it were “aunt,” “either,” “tomato” and “vase.”
Wyna Liu, a puzzle editor at the NYT who creates the daily Connections games, recently shared her top tips for conquering the puzzle with Newsweek, advising readers to avoid “rage solving.”
“My best piece of advice is to wait as long as you can before guessing. You may see the board and have completely identified the category, seeing five words that could belong in that category,” she said in June. “Don’t try to guess the four words in that category, because even though you know what the fifth member is, you won’t know which of the four it might not be.”
Connections #621 Hints and Clues for Friday, February 21
Below are Newsweek‘s tips to assist you with Friday’s game:
Yellow: How to approach fixing something
Green: Something you might do in a field
Blue: Things used in photo editing
Purple: Ambidextrous
Connections #621 Answers for Friday, February 21
Yellow Category: WAYS OF SOLVING A PROBLEM
Yellow Words: Answer, Fix, Remedy, Solution
Green Category: COLLECT
Green Words: Gather, Harvest, Pick, Reap
Blue Category: PHOTOSHOP TOOLS
Blue Words: Eraser, Eyedropper, Lasso, Magic Wand
Purple Category: OBJECTS THAT MAY BE RIGHT OR LEFT HANDED
Purple Words: Baseball Glove, Guitar, Can Opener, Golf Club.
Congrats if you answered today’s puzzle correctly! But don’t sweat it if you didn’t. You’ll get another chance on Sunday when a new game will be available for you to try.
Connections is released at midnight in your local time zone, so be sure to check back with Newsweek for more tips and answers, as well as the latest news and updates.
Can’t wait for the next Connections game to drop? Other popular word games, like Wordscapes and Spellspire, are fun and challenging too.
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