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): CONTENT
- Green: EXPLICIT
- Blue: ADVISORY
- Purple (hardest): PARENT
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Calm.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Adjectives For Mature Content.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Kinds Of Boards.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Ending In Ways To Temporarily Acquire.
Show all four answers
Calm
CONTENT, PEACEFUL, PLACID, SERENE
Adjectives For Mature Content
EXPLICIT, GRAPHIC, STRONG, SUGGESTIVE
Kinds Of Boards
ADVISORY, CHESS, IRONING, MESSAGE
Ending In Ways To Temporarily Acquire
PARENT, PLEASE, SAPPHIRE, SLOAN
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): Calm
- CONTENT: Satisfied, pleased, contented.
- PEACEFUL: Not at war; not disturbed by strife or turmoil.
- PLACID: calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
- SERENE: Calm, peaceful, unruffled.
Green: Adjectives For Mature Content
- EXPLICIT: Very specific, clear, or detailed.
- GRAPHIC: Drawn, pictorial.
- STRONG: (loosely) Possessing power, might, or strength.
- SUGGESTIVE: Tending to suggest or imply.
Blue: Kinds Of Boards
- ADVISORY: Able to give advice.
- CHESS: A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chess...
- IRONING: The act of pressing clothes with an iron, such as a steam iron.
- MESSAGE: A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
Purple (hardest): Ending In Ways To Temporarily Acquire
- PARENT: (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- PLEASE: Used to make a polite request.
- SAPPHIRE: (countable) A clear deep blue variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
- SLOAN: A surname.
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