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): HIDDEN
- Green: DELTA
- Blue: FINDING
- Purple (hardest): FREEZE TAG
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Secluded.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is River Features.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is First Words Of Pixar Films.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Phrases Hiding Greek Letters.
Show all four answers
Secluded
HIDDEN, REMOTE, SECRET, TUCKED AWAY
River Features
DELTA, DRAINAGE BASIN, MOUTH, STREAM BED
First Words Of Pixar Films
FINDING, INSIDE, MONSTERS, TOY
Phrases Hiding Greek Letters
FREEZE TAG, HOME GAME, MODEL TANK, ORAL PHASE
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): Secluded
- HIDDEN: Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
- REMOTE: At a distance; disconnected.
- SECRET: (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- TUCKED AWAY
Green: River Features
- DELTA: A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
- DRAINAGE BASIN: (hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.
- MOUTH: (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- STREAM BED: Alternative form of streambed. [A channel through which a stream flows or used to flow.]
Blue: First Words Of Pixar Films
- FINDING: A result of research or an investigation.
- INSIDE: The interior or inner part.
- MONSTERS: an American syndicated horror anthology television series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci...
- TOY: Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
Purple (hardest): Phrases Hiding Greek Letters
- FREEZE TAG: (playground games) A variant of the playground game tag, in which a tagged player, rather than becoming "it", becomes...
- HOME GAME: (idiomatic, sports) An athletic contest played in a team's own geographic area.
- MODEL TANK
- ORAL PHASE: (psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido a...
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