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): FLICKER
- Green: SERVE
- Blue: FLASH
- Purple (hardest): FEED
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Hint.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Tennis Shots.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Superheroes, With "the".
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Starting With "fee, Fi, Fo, Fum".
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Hint
FLICKER, SUGGESTION, TRACE, WHIFF
Tennis Shots
SERVE, SLICE, SMASH, VOLLEY
Superheroes, With "the"
FLASH, HULK, PUNISHER, THING
Starting With "fee, Fi, Fo, Fum"
FEED, FIERY, FOMENT, FUMBLE
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): Hint
- FLICKER: (intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
- SUGGESTION: (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
- TRACE: An act of tracing.
- WHIFF: A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
Green: Tennis Shots
- SERVE: (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
- SLICE: A thin, broad piece cut off.
- SMASH: (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- VOLLEY: (sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.
Blue: Superheroes, With "the"
- FLASH: (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- HULK: (nautical) (by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often pu...
- PUNISHER: One who punishes.
- THING: That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
Purple (hardest): Starting With "fee, Fi, Fo, Fum"
- FEED: (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- FIERY: Of or relating to fire.
- FOMENT: (transitive) To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
- FUMBLE: (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
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