Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on December 7 for puzzle #910 are slightly harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Today's Connections words are: Gizzard, Greco, Mortise, Hurtle, Dado, Barrel, Heart, Tear, Tongue, Bolt, Dorado, Dovetail, Paso, Mitre, Tripe, and Capitan
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Move at breakneck speed
- 🟩 Green: Organ meats
- 🟦 Blue: Woodworking joint terms
- 🟪 Purple: El ___
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Here's a larger hint: Build a table for the meal pronto.
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #910?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Move at breakneck speed: Barrel, Bolt, Hurtle, Tear
- 🟩 Organ meats: Gizzard, Heart, Tongue, Tripe
- 🟦 Woodworking joint terms: Dado, Dovetail, Mitre, Mortise
- 🟪 El ___: Capitan, Dorado, Greco, Paso
I've been getting into woodworking lately, so when I saw Mortise and Dado, joints where the first thing that came to mind. I looked around and spotted Mitre pretty quickly, though it took me a sec to remember that Dovetail had more than one meaning.
With blue out of the way, Dorado was the clue that caught my eye next. The Road to El Dorado was one of my favorite movies growing up, but I thought maybe I was going down the wrong track if it was that simple. Once I saw Paso and Capitan, I realized I was onto something, and I threw in Greco to solve purple.
Green was easy to parse with all the bits of meat I pick around politely with my fork: Gizzard, Heart, Gonue, and Tripe.
That left the easiest category as today's rote fill with Barrel, Bolt, Hurtle, and Tear.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Norm: Average, mean, par, standard
- 🟩 Mollify: Cool, moderate, settle, temper
- 🟦 Member of a titular group in an animation franchise: Car, incredible, minion, monster
- 🟪 Starting with herpetofauna: Adderall, monitorship, newton, toady
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #909, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
For a moment, I was confused by minions and I spent longer than I should have looking for other Pixar movies since I started today's puzzle with Car, Incredible and Monster. At some point I had to concede that minions were involved.
Moving on, Adderall was my clue to get the purple set started. It stuck out to me so I started breaking it part. Adder with toady nearly directly above got me moving in a repitlian manner. Which is how I got to Newton and monitorship.
I slayed the green monster today by finally nabbing a set before the end with cool, moderate, settle and temper which I was thinking of in relation to mood.
And I ended the day with average, mean, par and standard as the norms.
Connections tips — how to win at Connections
There are two ways to play Connections, get the answers as you solve them or solve for the hardest group, Purple, first.
For either playstyle, the best tip I can give is to not be afraid of the shuffle button, especially if you’ve solved a set but you’re certain it isn’t the Purple group. You can shuffle the grid until your solved quartet is in a somewhat staked off area.
For the purple group, you can expect to see a handful of category types: words missing a letter, homophones, words with specific suffixes or prefixes, and [blank] word (or word [blank]). There are others, but this is a majority of what you’ll see. It can help to look for purple connections through one of those lenses.
If you’re not hunting for purple specifically, then the best advice I have is to look for smaller connections. For example, Riddler and Joker are Batman villains. Once you’ve grouped that duo together it’s easier to find another set.
Finally, watch out for traps. Occasionally, the Connections makers like to throw in a set of words that should seem very obvious to most people. But picking them can give you a strike, something you want to save for when you aren’t really sure between a couple of clues.
The tricky bit is that sometimes the very obvious foursome is actually one of the answers (usually the yellow or green levels).
One way to work around this is to note the four clues you think are an obvious set. Highlight them by selecting the words but don’t hit submit. From there take a second look around the grid to see if anything else stands out to you.
Often these super obvious sets are actually individually spread out between the four groups. So, if you see Wick, Neo, Ted and Mnemonic, you might immediately think of Keanu Reeves movies, but it's a trick. Instead, use the individual words as launching points to discover other connections.
If you're new to the game you should also take a look at our How to play Connections guide.
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