Starting your Sunday with a game of Connections is a fun, relaxing way to end the week—when the answers are easy to come by that is.
Well, if that's not the case today, Newsweek is here to help so no one has to get frustrated and trigger the "Sunday scaries" too early in the day.
But first, if you're playing the popular mobile game for the first time, or you think a little recap about the concept might inspire some answers, here's a brief explanation on how to play.
How to play Connections
The game separates each group of words into four categories which ultimately have themes linking them in some way.
You select the four words you think belong together and, if they are correct, they will disappear from the screen.
There are 16 words in the game in total, so you do this four times to complete the game.
You can play around with the board while you're figuring everything out, moving the words to try out your connections.
There are also different levels of difficulty going from yellow (the easiest) to green, blue and finally purple.
You will only know a group's color once its words have been correctly connected.
Up to four mistakes are allowed before you ultimately "lose."
Newsweek has put together some hints and answers for today's game, but be careful of spoilers.
Connections #343 Clues for Sunday, May 19
Yellow: Money, money, money—and lots of it.
Green: Ways to turn one whole thing into multiple smaller things.
Blue: Not contemporary.
Purple: Words that sound like other words and need context or spelling to identify which they are.
Connections #343 Answers for Sunday, May 19
Yellow Category: Affluent
Yellow Words: Flush, loaded, rich and wealthy
Green Category: Cut into pieces
Green Words: Chop, cube, dice and mince
Blue Category: Old-fashioned
Blue Words: Square, straight, stuffy and traditional
Purple Category: Fruit homophones
Purple Words: Bury, current, leachy, pair—there
These words can also sound like berry, currant, leachy and pear!
Connections has become extremely popular since The New York Times launched it last June, making it the second-most played game published by the newspaper.
This puts it just behind Wordle, where players have to use clues to find one word a day.
Connections is released at midnight in your local time zone and Newsweek will be right behind it with clues and answers for each new game every day.
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