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): CHILLING
- Green: PRAYER
- Blue: HERDING
- Purple (hardest): HALLOWEEK
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Responses To "how Are You?".
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Kinds Of Mats.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Akc Dog Breed Groups.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Horror Movies With Last Letter Changed.
Show all four answers
Responses To "how Are You?"
CHILLING, MANAGING, NOT BAD, SAME OLD
Kinds Of Mats
PRAYER, WELCOME, WRESTLING, YOGA
Akc Dog Breed Groups
HERDING, HOUND, SPORTING, TOY
Horror Movies With Last Letter Changed
HALLOWEEK, HOSTED, JAWN, PSYCHS
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): Responses To "how Are You?"
- CHILLING: Causing mild fear.
- MANAGING: management
- NOT BAD: (litotes) Reasonably good; almost good; mediocre.
- SAME OLD
Green: Kinds Of Mats
- PRAYER: (uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
- WELCOME: The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
- WRESTLING: A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holdi...
- YOGA: Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual ins...
Blue: Akc Dog Breed Groups
- HERDING: An act by which individuals are herded.
- HOUND: A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
- SPORTING: (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
- TOY: Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
Purple (hardest): Horror Movies With Last Letter Changed
- HALLOWEEK
- HOSTED: To perform the role of a host.
- JAWN: (slang, chiefly Mid-Atlantic US) Something; a thing; any object, place, or person.
- PSYCHS: (uncountable) Psychology or psychiatry.
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