Need a tip for today’s Connections on Friday, October 31st? Dividing the sixteen words into four categories based on their common characteristics is not as basic as it seems. Whether you just need a little nudge or a few extra tips, this guide will support you explore today’s Connections topics.
Time to give up? Absolutely not! Let’s support you achieve another Connections victory today.
In this guide:
Here are 16 connection words for today:
| Ghost | Pumpkin | Nod | Bed |
| Anchor | Bear | Mouse | Cherries |
| Chair | Pellets | Slipper | Hat |
| Pipe | Oatmeal | Spinach | Wand |
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 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 basic or tough it is to find the Connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (basic), blue (medium), and purple (hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connection tip for Friday, October 31st
Here are today’s Connections tips:
- Yellow: They are part of the fairy tale.
- Green: Think Disney.
- Blue: They are part of the cartoon.
- Purple: They are part of a video game.
- Bonus tip 1: Each motif represents a “classic”.
- Bonus tip 2: “Bow” and “pipe” belong to different groups.
If you need additional support, click on the spoiler text below to view one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Bear
- Green: Slipper
- Blue: Pipe
- Purple: Cherries
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: Goldilocks
- Green: Cinderella
- Blue: Popeye
- Purple: Ms. Pac-Man
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 Friday, October 31st:
- Yellow: Goldilocks (Chair, Bear, Oatmeal, Bed)
- Green: Cinderella (wand, pumpkin, mouse, slipper)
- Blue: Popeye (pipe, anchor, spinach, hat)
- Purple: Ms. Pac-Man (Ghost, Pellets, Bow, Cherries)
This is one of those Connections puzzles that makes you think, “Oh this is what did they mean” after you just gave your final and fatally wrong guess. At least that’s what happened to me today. Bummer.
Food, clothes, and “Halloween-related” ideas did nothing for me today. I especially regret missing Ms. Pac-Man because I’ve played this classic video game quite a bit, but it’s not something I think of when I see words like “pellets” or “cherries.”
The only (relatively) basic motif for me was Cinderella, which I associate very much with pumpkins and slippers. If today’s Connections was basic for you, hats off!
Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the support 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!
