Need a tip for today’s Connections on Wednesday, October 22? You know you can’t solve all the Connection puzzles every day unless you’re blessed with an IQ of around 200 (maybe more). So don’t feel bad if you need facilitate from time to time.
Fortunately, facilitate is exactly what is offered here. Tips, tricks, topic discoveries, teasers; we have them all and more. Just look below!
In this guide:
Here are 16 connection words for today:
| Fashion | Writer | Pasta | Form |
| Pharaoh | Tailor | Fire | Water |
| Gas | Carpenter | Electric | Mold |
| Phone | Cat | Normal | Army |
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 hard 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 Wednesday, October 22
Here are today’s Connections tips:
- Yellow: There’s a good chance they’re on your monthly bills list.
- Green: This is how you adapt.
- Blue: They are small, ample and can bite.
- Purple: Add a word like “double” before the words in this group.
- Bonus tip 1: Each group contains a three or four letter word.
- Bonus tip 2: The carpenter and the tailor belong to different groups.
If you need additional facilitate, click on the spoiler text below to view one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Phone
- Green: Tailor
- Blue: Fire
- Purple: Normal
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: Tools
- Green: Adapt to your needs
- Blue: Types of ants
- Purple: Copy___
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 Wednesday, October 22:
- Yellow: Utilities (electricity, gas, telephone, water)
- Green: Adapt to your needs (fashion, form, shape, tailor)
- Blue: Types of ants (army, carpenter, fire, pharaoh)
- Purple: Copy___ (Cat, Pasta, Law, Writer)
Damn, I almost fell into the “competition” trap in this Connections puzzle. Well played, NYT! Carpenter, tailor, writer… I wasn’t sure about the fourth member because “pharaoh” seemed an odd fit (though technically it was a profession), but I wondered if some people called electrician “electrician” to shorten the job title.
Ultimately, I gave up on it and put the competition aside. I then matched “electric” with “gas”, which was a much better choice.
The next match was “tailor” and “fashion”, but after solving the yellow and green themes, I had huge problems with the blue and purple because the “copy” solution just didn’t come to mind. It’s good that it finally happened, because I wouldn’t have known this species of ants.
Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the facilitate of our helpful tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a fresh Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
