Today's Connections has four hidden groups of four. Start with a gentle nudge and only open more if you need it.
Hint 1: One word from each group
Each of these words belongs to a different group.
- Yellow (easiest): SWAY
- Green: COO
- Blue: BOBBLE
- Purple (hardest): COBBLE
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Move Unsteadily.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Bird Onomatopoeia.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is ___head.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Desserts Minus Last Letter.
Show all four answers
Move Unsteadily
SWAY, TODDLE, TOTTER, WOBBLE
Bird Onomatopoeia
COO, GOBBLE, HONK, WARBLE
___head
BOBBLE, HAMMER, JUG, SLEEPY
Desserts Minus Last Letter
COBBLE, PI, TAR, TORT
About this puzzle
- Edited by Wyna Liu
- Groups are listed from easiest (yellow) to hardest (purple).
Connections deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Why each word belongs in its group, with a short dictionary meaning where one exists.
Yellow (easiest): Move Unsteadily
- SWAY: (intransitive) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
- TODDLE: To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.
- TOTTER: To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
- WOBBLE: (intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
Green: Bird Onomatopoeia
- COO: The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
- GOBBLE: To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
- HONK: (transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.
- WARBLE: (transitive) To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
Blue: ___head
- BOBBLE: A wobbling motion.
- HAMMER: A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
- JUG: A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relat...
- SLEEPY: Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
Purple (hardest): Desserts Minus Last Letter
- COBBLE: (transitive) To assemble in an improvised way.
- PI: (mathematics) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean ci...
- TAR: (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organi...
- TORT: (law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which c...
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