Today’s ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, December 24 - Forbes

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Happy Christmas Eve, folks!

Today’s Connections hints and answers are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

In Connections, you’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers.

Connections Hints For December 24

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are:

CROWN
SOFT
DICE
SHOULDER
CHOP
CANDLE
ROBE
LIGHT
EYELASH
TORCH
MELLOW
BELLY
MILD
HOCK
DANDELION
TABLET

And the clues for today’s groups are:

Yellow group — not harsh
Green group — a butcher’s bounty from a particular animal
Blue group — elements of the Green Goddess
Purple group — emblems of good fortune, especially when exhaled upon

Connections Groups For December 24

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Today’s groups are...

Yellow group — gentle
Green group — cuts of pork
Blue group — Statue of Liberty features
Purple group — things to blow on for wishes/luck

Connections Answers For December 24

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Today’s Connections answers are...

Yellow group — gentle (LIGHT, MELLOW, MILD, SOFT)
Green group — cuts of pork (BELLY, CHOP, HOCK, SHOULDER)
Blue group — Statue of Liberty features (CROWN, ROBE, TABLET, TORCH)
Purple group — things to blow on for wishes/luck (CANDLE, DANDELION, DICE, EYELASH)

Alas, my winning streak of 15 games in a row is over. There are lots of interconnected red herrings today, I reckon.

My first mistake came when I included CROWN with the greens instead of CHOP, momentarily suspecting that there might be a group of cooking methods (along with DICE). I then completed the green group.

The yellows were easy enough, but then I ran into some major problems. I didn’t grok the blue group at all (and probably never would have) but I probably should have figured out the purples. In any case, I trial-and-errored my way to the end of my streak.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Monday’s game if you need them.

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