Need a tip for today’s Connections on Saturday, December 20? It would be nice if this guide could 100% guarantee you another Connections victory, but even if it doesn’t, you’ll at least have a much better chance of finding the answer. Well, unless you scroll down to the solution to the puzzle, of course – that’s it will be guarantee your victory.
Check out the tips, tricks and tricks below and try again!
In this guide:
Here are 16 connection words for today:
| BOTTOM | PAIL | POWER | INTERFERE |
| CURE | DAMNED | DRUM | DRY |
| AUTUMN | DIE | LOBSTER | MUSIC |
| PRESS | SALT | TIN | WASH |
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owner of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.
For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Let’s take another example: “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are words that usually appear right before the word “Figure”.
Your task is to guess what themes connect different words – but be careful, because in most cases there are misleading connections that are only intended to confuse you! To win the game you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On the fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in the daily Connection puzzle is also assigned a different color to represent how uncomplicated or challenging it is to find the Connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (uncomplicated), blue (medium), and purple (hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connection tip for Saturday, December 20
Here are today’s Connections tips:
- Yellow: Look for storage space.
- Green: It’s all part of the same hygiene process.
- Blue: Look for sources of music.
- Purple: Add a stone.
- Bonus tip 1: Every motif except purple contains a word starting with the letter “D”.
- Bonus tip 2: One of the topics concerns Great Britain.
If you need additional lend a hand, click on the spoiler text below to view one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Tin
- Green: Die
- Blue: Damned
- Purple: Salt
Spoiler alert! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups like?
If you need even more guidance to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connection groups – the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid together.
Here are today’s Connections groups:
- Yellow: Containers
- Green: Laundry services
- Blue: British bands formed in the 1970s with the song “The”
- Purple: Boulder ___
Now that you know the reasoning behind the different connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check out the full answer below.
Spoiler alert! The answer to today’s Connections offer is before us!
What’s today’s answer on Connections?
Here is the answer to today’s Connection puzzle, which will take place on Saturday, December 20:
- Yellow: Containers (bucket, can, drum, can)
- Green: Laundry services (drying, folding, ironing, washing)
- Blue: British bands formed in the 1970s with the song “The” (Clash, Cure, Damned, Fall)
- Purple: Rock ___ (pit, lobster, music, salt)
I could have completed the first motif in record time if it weren’t for the “drum”, which was obviously not intended to be a “container” like a “can” or “can”. Still, it wasn’t the hardest yellow theme I’ve seen in Connections puzzles lately.
I don’t mind the slightly easier theme of today’s puzzle though, as I had enough trouble with the other three. When I saw “cure” and “clash”, I suspected the band’s theme, but I failed to discover the other members of the group. I thought similarly about “bottom” and “rock music”, but “rock lobster” didn’t come to mind.
Even the topic of laundry services was not uncomplicated, because I simply didn’t think about doing laundry for a long time. I finally solved this problem, but especially a word like “press” is not one that I immediately associate with laundry.
Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the lend a hand of our helpful tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a up-to-date Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
