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): KITTEN
- Green: ANEMONE
- Blue: PEAR
- Purple (hardest): BRANDO
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Kinds Of Heels.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Flowers.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Teardrop-shaped Things.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Liquors With Last Letters Changed.
Show all four answers
Kinds Of Heels
KITTEN, PLATFORM, SPIKE, WEDGE
Flowers
ANEMONE, LOTUS, NARCISSUS, ROSE
Teardrop-shaped Things
PEAR, RAINDROP, SPEEDBAG, UVULA
Liquors With Last Letters Changed
BRANDO, GIG, RUN, WHISKER
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): Kinds Of Heels
- KITTEN: A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months).
- PLATFORM: A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
- SPIKE: A sort of very large nail.
- WEDGE: One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge ...
Green: Flowers
- ANEMONE: A sea anemone.
- LOTUS: A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.
- NARCISSUS: Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flower...
- ROSE: A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
Blue: Teardrop-shaped Things
- PEAR: An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
- RAINDROP: A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.
- SPEEDBAG
- UVULA: (anatomy) the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary...
Purple (hardest): Liquors With Last Letters Changed
- BRANDO
- GIG: Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater)...
- RUN: To move swiftly.
- WHISKER: That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
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