TIP AND REPLY TO FRIDAY 7th February

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ForbesNew ‘Connections’ Today: Tip and Response to Thursday, February 6By Kris Holt

Hi there, gang! Good Friday. The weekend is just around the corner.

Five years ago this month I went on the best and weirdest trip of my life. My past and partner and I traveled to Japan. We planned to be there for a month, but as soon as we got there things started going wrong (for very obvious reasons since it was February 2020). Museums and schools started to close quickly, and the Tokyo Subway system was much quieter than we expected. In fact, everywhere we went, it was nowhere close to as busy as we expected.

However, I have a lot of very fond memories of that trip, such as the night we spent in a place called Bar Martha in Tokyo. Today it is my favorite bar in the world. It is a listening bar where you cannot speak out loud and photographs are not allowed. The idea is that you enjoy a quiet drink and listen to music on a completely incredible sound system. It was a sublime experience.

A pipe dream for me is to open my own listening beam one day, although the market for such a thing in North America may be more limited. In any case, I love you forever, Bar Martha. I hope to visit you again one day.

Before we begin, I have created a discussion group to Connections and this column On disagreement. You can chat about every game (and other topics) with me and other people. I am always interested in finding out how other people are approaching the game, so be with us! It’s funny.

It is also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare (!) Events that I root.

Today’s New Connections Tips and answers for Friday, February 7th coming right up.

How to Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times Daily word games. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on New Website or game -app.

You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them in four groups of four by finding out the connections between them. The groups can be things like topics you can click on, names for participants in research studies or words prior to a body part.

There is only one solution for each puzzle and you have to be careful when it comes to words that may fit into more than one category. You can mix the words to maybe help you see connections between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to find out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the hardest. The purple group often involves word games.

Choose four words you think go together and press send. If you guess and you’re wrong you lose a life. If you are close to having a correct group, you can see a message that tells you that you are a word away from getting it right, but you still need to find out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s played over. Let’s make sure it doesn’t happen using some tips and if you really fight it is the day’s Connections Answer. As with Wordle And other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have a New All access or play subscription you can access the publication Connections File. This includes every previous game of ConnectionsSo you can go back and play some of the ones you’ve missed.

Apart from the first 60 matches or so, you should be able to find my tips for each grid via Google if you need them! Just Click here And add the date of the game that you need clues or the answers to the search queries.

What are today’s connections tip?

Scroll slowly! Right after the hints of each of the day’s Connections Groups, I reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you what words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are …

• BLUE
• VELVET
• RUN
• Deck
• LEAD
• BALLOON
• Eraser
• MAIN
• BULL
• LAMP
• CROSS
• Wishing
• DIRECT
• Galosh
• EARRING
• Herring

And the hints of the day’s Connections Groups are:

• Yellow Group – Become a boss or Captain
• Green group – (similar) material things
• Blue Group – Aren’t you happy to have a friend like me to help you keep your stripe going?
• Purple Group – be careful! If you can’t see what’s going on here you might get mad

What are today’s connecting groups?

Need a little extra help?

Stay warned: We’re starting to get in on Spoiler territory.

Today’s Connections Groups are …

• Yellow Group – be responsible for
• Green group – things made of rubber
• Blue group – associated with the genius in Aladdin
• Purple group – red ____

What are today’s connections answer?

Spoiler Alert! No longer roll down the page before you are ready to find out the day’s Connections Answer.

This is your last warning!

Today’s Connections The answers are …

• Yellow Group – Be Responsible for (Direct, Head, Lead, Running)
• Green Group – things made of rubber (balloon, eraser, galosh, tire)
• Blue group – associated with the genius in aladdin (blue, earrings, lamp, desires)
• Purple group – red ____ (bull, cross, herring, velvet)

I’m back to win ways after losing a 23-match strip yesterday. However, there is no perfect game today. This is how I managed:

Rip David Lynch. I appreciate the references to the late, big movie rule with Blue Velvet and Eraser Head, paired together online (Direct was also in there). It was fun to see herring there too, considering how often we talk about red herring in this game.

Yellow was light enough to detect. Then I thought that Bull, Balloon (as in 99 of them in the Nena song), Velvet and Herring would go together as a group of things associated with red. I was one away and I swapped Bull to Cross. It was another “one away” mistake. Rats.

I decided to change strategy at that time. My mind pulled a connection between lamp and desires, and it helped me get blues.

At that time I could see that there were four things made of rubber and four that were attached to red. Purples, then Greens got me back to winning ways.

I thought of Bull more about red that makes the animal angry, rather than the energy drink. Having blue velvet on the top line only for velvet going into a group of red things was a delicious little vri.

Robin Williams’ performance as genie in Aladdin is absolutely amazing. I miss that man very much. He was such a gift to humanity.

That’s all that is for that for the day’s Connections tracks and answers. Be sure to check out my blog tomorrow for tips and solution for Saturday’s games if you need them.

PS I will have to go for a double recommendation today. First up is the title track from Blue velvet. Tony Bennett was the first to record the song, but the version used in Lynch’s film is by Bobby Vinton. His recording reached number one on Billboard Hot 100. It’s a beautiful song but it’s one that Lynch manages to hit perfectly in the construction of his surrealist suburbs thriller:

Secondly, here are “99 red balloons” by Nena, a really big 80s song:

Oh, then continue, here’s also the very fun Goldfinger -Version:

Have a nice day! Become hydrated! Call someone you love!

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