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Connections #341 hints for May 17, 2024
The game asks you to sort 16 words into four groups of four based on a shared connection. The consulted guides report that you can make four mistakes. These clues move from the easier yellow group toward the harder purple group. Stop here if you want to keep the category names and answers hidden.
- Yellow: Beneath the facade
- Green: Connect with others
- Blue: Timeless tabletop treasures
- Purple: Craft Brewing Adventures
All 16 words in the May 17 grid
Try sorting these before revealing the solution: BASE, BATTER, CAN, CONTACT, DIRTY, FRUIT, GARDEN, LOW, MESSAGE, PING, PITCHER, PONG, SKULL, TABLECLOTH, TEXT, and VILE.
Full Connections answers for May 17, 2024
Spoilers below: the category names and all four groups are revealed.
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| Color | Category | Answers | Connection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow | CORRUPT | BASE, DIRTY, LOW, VILE | Each can describe something morally or ethically corrupt. |
| Green | REACH OUT TO | CONTACT, MESSAGE, PING, TEXT | Each is a way to initiate communication with someone. |
| Blue | CLASSIC STILL LIFE COMPONENTS | FRUIT, PITCHER, SKULL, TABLECLOTH | These are familiar objects or elements arranged in a still-life scene. |
| Purple | BEER ___ | BATTER, CAN, GARDEN, PONG | Each completes a familiar phrase: beer batter, beer can, beer garden, and beer pong. |
How to approach the trickier connections
Separate the communication verbs
CONTACT, MESSAGE, PING, and TEXT all point to reaching out. Once you spot that set, keep an eye on words that might tempt you into an unrelated group: PING and PONG look like a pair, but PONG belongs with the purple phrase pattern.
Look for a shared word with the purple answers
BATTER, CAN, GARDEN, and PONG each follow “beer.” This is a phrase-completion connection rather than a group of words with the same part of speech or literal meaning.
Read the blue group as a scene
FRUIT, PITCHER, SKULL, and TABLECLOTH make sense together as components of a classic still life. The link is the kind of arrangement they can form, not that the objects are interchangeable.
The May 17, 2024 groups and clues are listed in Tom’s Guide’s archived answer guide and are independently cross-checked against Try Hard Guides’ Connections answers.
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