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): BROWSE
- Green: COVERAGE
- Blue: BARGE
- Purple (hardest): FREEZE
Hint 2: A nudge for each group
A gentle push toward each theme, easiest to hardest.
- A wandering trip through online pages.
- What gets talked about far and wide.
- Usually the one being hauled, not doing the hauling.
- A familiar phrase that starts in the mind and finishes with a word.
Hint 3: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Use The Internet.
Hint 4: Green group theme
The green group is Media Attention.
Hint 5: Blue group theme
The blue group is Things That Are Towed.
Hint 6: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Brain ___.
Show all four answers
Use The Internet
BROWSE, SCROLL, SEARCH, SURF
Media Attention
COVERAGE, EXPOSURE, PRESS, PUBLICITY
Things That Are Towed
BARGE, GLIDER, TRAILER, WATER SKIER
Brain ___
FREEZE, TEASER, TRUST, WAVES
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): Use The Internet
- BROWSE: To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look fo...
- SCROLL: (computing) The act of scrolling
- SEARCH: The act of searching in general.
- SURF: To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.
Green: Media Attention
- COVERAGE: (journalism) The amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.
- EXPOSURE: (uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
- PRESS: An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- PUBLICITY: Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
Blue: Things That Are Towed
- BARGE: (nautical) A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy good...
- GLIDER: Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
- TRAILER: An unpowered wheeled vehicle (not a caravan or camper) that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc...
- WATER SKIER
Purple (hardest): Brain ___
- FREEZE: (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- TEASER: (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, s...
- TRUST: Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- WAVES: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
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