Today’s New -Connections Tip, Reply to February 14, #614

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Today’s Connections puzzle Have a few really loopy categories, I thought. The theme of the yellow category is one of the words that really slides out of use, and the purple group is one of these “sounds like …” categories. Read on for clues and today’s connections Answer.

The Times now has a Connections bot, like the one to Wordle. Go there when playing to receive a numeric score and to get the program to analyze your answers. And players registered in the Times Games section Can now nerd out by following their progressIncluding the number of completed puzzles, victory rates, number of times the neighbor a perfect score and their victory features.

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Tip for today’s connecting groups

Here are four tips for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzles, ranked from the easiest, yellow group to the hard (and sometimes bisar) purple group.

Yellow Group Tip: Coddle or Destruction

Green Group Tip: They make a disturbing noise

Blue Group Tip: Snowing up on someone

Purple Group Tip: Splish-Splash

Answer to today’s connection groups

Yellow Group: Mollycoddle

Green Group: Things a rattlesnake do

Blue Group: Words that are said to an unsuspecting person

Purple group: gay bodies of water bodies

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What are today’s connections answer?

The yellow words in today’s connections

The theme is Mollycoddle. The four answers are baby, humor, pampering and spoiled.

The green words in today’s connections

The theme is things that a rattlesnake does. The four answers are whispers, rattles, sheds and slides.

The blue words in today’s connections

The theme is words that are said to an unsuspecting person. The four answers are boo, gotcha, guess who and surprise.

The purple words in today’s connections

The theme is gay bodies of water. The four answers are bae, creek, see and straight.

Quick tips for connections

#1: Say the clues the words high, pause before and after each. It helps you hear the words in the context of a sentence. Connection editors love to group words together that are used for similar phrasing, such as ____ up.

#2: Don’t go for the obvious grouping. These editors are smart. Once they offered the fungus, Bob, Square and Pants in the same puzzle. None of these words were in the same category. If you want, press the “Shuffle” button to give yourself a different perspective on the words.

#3: Break down all compound words and look for similarities. “Rushmore” was once in a puzzle where the connection was that each word started with the name of a rock band.