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): ALL-TIME
- Green: DRESS CODE
- Blue: ASTRAL
- Purple (hardest): ARCHIVE
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Unmatched.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Wedding Website Sections.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is ___ Plane.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Ending In Vegetables In The Allium Family.
Show all four answers
Unmatched
ALL-TIME, HISTORIC, RECORD, UNPRECEDENTED
Wedding Website Sections
DRESS CODE, REGISTRY, RSVP, TRAVEL
___ Plane
ASTRAL, CARTESIAN, INCLINED, JET
Ending In Vegetables In The Allium Family
ARCHIVE, OCTONION, RAPSCALLION, SLEEK
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): Unmatched
- ALL-TIME
- HISTORIC: Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
- RECORD: An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- UNPRECEDENTED: Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
Green: Wedding Website Sections
- DRESS CODE: A formal specification of acceptable attire for a specific event or location.
- REGISTRY: (countable) A record; an account; a register.
- RSVP: A reply to an invitation.
- TRAVEL: (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
Blue: ___ Plane
- ASTRAL: Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.
- CARTESIAN: Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis ...
- INCLINED: Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
- JET: (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
Purple (hardest): Ending In Vegetables In The Allium Family
- ARCHIVE: A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records,...
- OCTONION: (mathematics) An 8-dimensional nonassociative extension of a quaternion with a real part and 7 imaginary parts (each ...
- RAPSCALLION: (dated) A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
- SLEEK: Having an even, smooth surface; smooth
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