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): BRANCH OUT
- Green: HOUSE
- Blue: CARNABY STREET
- Purple (hardest): COS LETTUCE
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Widen One's Scope.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Features Of A Kid's Drawing.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Associated With Swinging London In The 1960s.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Starting With Abbreviated Math Functions.
Show all four answers
Widen One's Scope
BRANCH OUT, DIVERSIFY, EXPAND, GROW
Features Of A Kid's Drawing
HOUSE, STICK FIGURE, SUN, TREE
Associated With Swinging London In The 1960s
CARNABY STREET, MINISKIRT, MOD, TWIGGY
Starting With Abbreviated Math Functions
COS LETTUCE, LOG CABIN, SIN CITY, TAN LINE
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): Widen One's Scope
- BRANCH OUT: (intransitive, idiomatic) To expand one's interests or activities in a new direction.
- DIVERSIFY: (transitive, intransitive) To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance an...
- EXPAND: (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- GROW: (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
Green: Features Of A Kid's Drawing
- HOUSE: A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- STICK FIGURE: A simple drawing, usually representing a human.
- SUN: The star that is closest to the Earth.
- TREE: A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, hav...
Blue: Associated With Swinging London In The 1960s
- CARNABY STREET: a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster, Central London.
- MINISKIRT: A short skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level.
- MOD: (video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
- TWIGGY: (of a person) Thin and angular.
Purple (hardest): Starting With Abbreviated Math Functions
- COS LETTUCE: (chiefly UK) Synonym of romaine lettuce, a long-leaved variety of lettuce.
- LOG CABIN: A dwelling made from logs; especially, a small and simple one.
- SIN CITY: (slang) Nickname for Las Vegas: a desert city, the county seat of Clark County, Nevada, United States.
- TAN LINE: the division between skin that has darkened or tanned from exposure to sun and skin that has not been exposed to sun
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