Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on December 24 for puzzle #927 are harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 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: Singe, Munch, Paper, Pollock, Bacon, Champ, Char, Whistler, Bite, Tang, Rapt, Cheese, Hump, Bread, Sole, and Chew.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Slang for money
- 🟩 Green: Masticate
- 🟦 Blue: Fish
- 🟪 Purple: Ways to vocalize musically plus a letter
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: Chew money fish whilst humming.
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #927?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Slang for money: Bacon, bread, cheese, paper
- 🟩 Masticate: Bite, champ, chew, munch
- 🟦 Fish: Char, pollock, sole, tang
- 🟪 Ways to vocalize musically plus a letter: Hump, rapt, singe, whistler
There are a surprising number of hinted at connections in today's puzzle, especially for what the Connection Companion rates a 2 (out of 5).
At various points, I was looking for artists (Munch, Pollock, Whistler), actors (Bacon, Pollock - was thinking of Pollak), and math plus letters.
I got started with Munch and bite which led to champ and chew for masticate.
I only got the yellow because I was looking for sandwich stuff in bacon, bread, cheese and paper. Still works.
I finally clicked on fish at this point with sole and tang. Char finally snapped into focus, and I went with Pollock because the other words weren't fish and I was guessing. Pollock is apparently in the cod family.
Which left ways to vocalize plus a letter, my least favorite kind of purple. Anyway, this one was hump, rapt, singe, and whistler.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Vulnerability: Achilles' heel, downfall, kryptonite, soft spot
- 🟩 Freudian concepts: Fixation, oedipus complex, superego, unconscious
- 🟦 Characters in capes: Darth Vader, dracula, little red hiding hood, superman
- 🟪 Starting with slang for sausage: Bratz, dogma, frankenstein, linklater
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #926, which had a difficulty rating of 1 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
To be honest, I got the blue set first, but as a 1-rated puzzle, I really did think I had the purple. Ahh well.
Anyway, I went Edna Mode and picked the four characters that wear capes: Darth Vader, Dracula, Little Red Riding Hood, and Superman. Though initially I was looking for "bad guys."
I snagged the green set next with Oedipus complex, superego, unconscious and fixation. I wasn't thinking Freud though, my simple process here was a level of fixation in each word.
Moving on, I finally clicked on the sausages wtih bratz, dogma, frankenstein, and linklater.
Which left Achilles' heel, downfall, kryptonite and soft spot to close things out.
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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