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By Billie Schwab Dunn
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Every day Connections refreshes for a brand new puzzle—and today is no different.
It may only have launched in June 2023, but the game is already The New York Times' second-most popular game after the incredibly successful Wordle. While similarly word-based, Connections challenges players to uncover threads connecting a series of words.
The answers for today's puzzle will be revealed at the end of this article, so be careful when scrolling if you want to work it out yourself.
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How To Play 'Connections'
While determining each answer may be difficult, the game itself is easy to play. Each puzzle consists of 16 words, with each group of words separated into four categories, and players need to figure out the common thread between them.
Each of the four categories is labeled with a color, which also signifies their difficulty level. Yellow is the easiest category, followed by green, blue and purple. However, the puzzles are rarely straightforward, using homophones and wordplay, among other techniques, to keep things interesting.
Things might not be as straightforward as they seem, as words can often belong in two categories, to add a layer of difficulty. However, each group must consist of four individual words, with no repeated answers. Groups are more difficult according to their color, with yellow being the easiest, then green, blue, and finally purple being the hardest category to crack.
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Connections' creator Wyna Liu of The New York Times explained the different difficulty levels.
"Some categories might be defined by their use of wordplay—palindromes, homophones, adding or dropping letters and words—rather than the literal meanings of the words on the cards," she said.
"I saw three areas of potential difficulty that could be adjusted: the familiarity of the words, the ambiguity of their categorization and the variety of the wordplay."
'Connections' #355 Clues for Friday, May 31
Newsweek has some hints to help you figure out today's Connections categories.
Yellow: Think of a collection of things.
Green: Blanc, Everest and Kilimanjaro.
Blue: Different elements of a vinyl.
Purple: You do this to someone's hand when you meet them.
'Connections' #355 Answers for Friday, May 31
Yellow Category: CORPUS
Yellow Words: Body, Canon, Oeuvre, Works
Green Category: MOUNT _____
Green Words: Fuji, Hood, Olympus, Whitney
Blue Category: COMPONENTS OF AN LP
Blue Words: Insert, Jacket, Record, Sleeve
Purple Category: THINGS PEOPLE SHAKE
Purple Words: Hands, Maraca, Polaroid, Snowglobe
Did you guess the answers correctly? If so, congratulations. If not, there will be another opportunity to crack the puzzle tomorrow.
Connections is released at midnight in your local time zone. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.
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