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The 16 words in Connections #246
APOLLO, CANDLES, DROP, ECHO, FANTASTIC, FREEZE, GENIE, LAG, MIME, MONKEY, PARROT, PRINCESS, PRISONER, REFEREE, SAILOR, SAMURAI.
Hints for February 12, 2024
These clues are ordered from yellow, the easiest group, to purple, the trickiest. Try the clues before revealing the category names.
- Yellow: Forget to mute!
- Green: Fashionably bold choices!
- Blue: Magic carpet rides.
- Purple: Title without digits.
Category names
- Yellow: Bad things for a video call to do
- Green: Costumes with striped shirts
- Blue: Seen in “Aladdin”
- Purple: Movies minus numbers
Full Connections #246 answers
Spoilers: The groups and their words are listed below.
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- Bad things for a video call to do: DROP, ECHO, FREEZE, LAG
- Costumes with striped shirts: MIME, PRISONER, REFEREE, SAILOR
- Seen in “Aladdin”: GENIE, MONKEY, PARROT, PRINCESS
- Movies minus numbers: APOLLO, CANDLES, FANTASTIC, SAMURAI
How the purple group works
Add the missing number to each word to form a movie title: Apollo 13, Sixteen Candles, Fantastic Four, and Seven Samurai. The shared connection is that the number has been removed.
How Connections works
Connections presents 16 words for players to sort into four groups of four. The intended answer is unique, even though some words may seem to fit more than one category. Group colors indicate difficulty: yellow is easiest and purple is trickiest. The game releases at midnight in the player’s local time zone. NYT Games Help
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