How to Complete Today’s Connections and Solve Challenges

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Today’s puzzle in the New York Times’ Connections game presents a new challenge. If you want to keep your streak intact but are stuck on that final tricky category, here are some helpful hints.

Below, you’ll find clues ranging from subtle hints to direct answers. Whether you need a gentle nudge or the full solution, you’re in the right spot.

Category Hints
The hints are organized from the easiest category to the hardest: Yellow, Green, Blue, then Purple.

• The yellow category relates to terms you might use for someone you love.
• The green category involves genres of books or stories you might talk about.
• The blue category focuses on words that are names for groups of birds, specifically in plural.
• The purple category includes surnames of people whose first names are also U.S. state names.

Today’s Answers
Here’s how I did today:

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It was a tough day for me. If you used these clues or our hints, I’d love to hear how you did in the comments.

Answers by Category

• Yellow (Terms of Endearment): Angel, Love, Pumpkin, Sugar
• Green (Fiction Genres): Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
• Blue (Collective Nouns for Birds): Charm, Gaggle, Murder, Parliament
• Purple (People Named After U.S. Cities): Bloom, Butler, Guthrie, Levy

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