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Hints for Connections #241
Try to find four words that share one specific connection. The game uses a 16-word board divided into four groups of four, with the categories arranged from easier to trickier. If you spot a pair or trio, test whether a fourth word fits—and whether any other words make the connection less convincing.
- Gentle nudge: One group belongs in the ocean.
- Stronger hint: Look for familiar flat figures, then for actions a boxer might use.
- Closest hint: The last group completes the same word: “Fancy ___.”
Connections #241 answers
Spoilers below. The published answer guide lists these four categories and their words.
- SEA CREATURES: CRAB, RAY, SPONGE, SQUID
- BASIC TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES: CIRCLE, DIAMOND, SQUARE, TRIANGLE
- BOXING MANEUVERS: BOB, CROSS, HOOK, WEAVE
- FANCY ___: FEAST, FREE, PANTS, THAT
Why the “Fancy” group is easy to miss
The final set works through phrase completion: Fancy Feast, fancy-free, fancy pants, and “fancy that.” Several board words also invite other associations, so a tempting connection is not necessarily the intended category. For example, SPONGE and SQUARE/PANTS can evoke SpongeBob, but that is not one of the four published groupings for this puzzle.
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Connections asks players to sort 16 words into four groups of four that share a theme, a format described by Graham Todd, Tim Merino, Sam Earle, and Julian Togelius in their paper on the puzzle: “Missed Connections: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models”. The answer guide for this date is from Try Hard Guides.
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