How to Complete Today's Connections and Solve Challenges

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Today’s puzzle in the New York Times’ Connections game is ready to be solved. If you want to keep your perfect streak or just need a little help with that tricky final category, you’re in the right place. Below, you’ll find helpful hints and the full answers, from easier to harder categories, so you can get through the game smoothly.

Category Hints
We’ll go over the clues starting with the easiest category to the most difficult: Yellow, Green, Blue, then Purple.

Yellow Category: Deals with sweet baked treats. Think of desserts like cobbler, crisp, crumble, and tart.
Green Category: Tied to being grumpy or grouchy. Words associated with irritation or a bad mood fit here.
Blue Category: Relates to aquatic animals. Think of creatures that live in water.
Purple Category: Concerns the yellowest fruit and words related to it, especially banana-related terms like “Banana _____.”

Today’s Answers
Here’s how I did:

Yellow: Fruit desserts like cobbler, crisp, crumble, tart.
Green: Words associated with being grumpy or irritable, such as cross, prickly, sore, sour.
Blue and Purple: Correspond to watery animals and yellow fruit words, with the purple category specifically focusing on banana-related words.

If you used any of our clues and want to compare your progress or see full solutions, the answers are listed below.

Yellow Category: Fruit Desserts